Masaru Kitsuregawa is Director of the National Institute of Informatics and Professor at the Institute of Industrial Sciences, University of Tokyo. D. from the University of Tokyo in 1983. He has held various positions, including President of the Information Processing Society of Japan (2013-2015) and Chairman of the Committee for Informatics of the Science Council of Japan (2014-2016). He has many research interests, particularly in the field of database engineering. He has received numerous awards, including the ACM SIGMOD E. F. Codd Innovation Award, the IEICE Contribution Award, the IPSJ Contribution Award, the 21st Century Invention Award, the National Commendation for Invention, the Japan Award and the C&C Award. In 2013, he was awarded the medal with the purple ribbon, and in 2016, the title of Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur. He is a member of the ACM, IEEE, IEICE and IPSJ.