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PROFILE

Emiko Okuyama

Mayor of Sendai city

Mayor Okuyama joined the City of Sendai in 1975. In 1993, she became the director of the Women Planning Section of the Living Environment and Cultural Department, Community Affairs Bureau and continued to promote gender equality since. After serving as Assistant Senior Director of the Lifelong Learning Department, Education Bureau (Director of Sendai Mediatheque, Sendai Human and Community Foundation) for two years, she became the Deputy Director General of the Community Affairs Bureau in 2003, and the Superintendent of the Sendai City Board of Education in 2005. She was appointed as the Vice Mayor of Sendai in 2007.

Mayor Okuyama has served as Sendai's Mayor since August, 2009. She currently serves as a member of the Specialist Committee on Monitoring of the Council for Gender Equality.