Noburu Notomi, born in Tokyo in 1965, is Professor of Philosophy, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo. He served as Dean of the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology and Dean of the Faculty of Letters from April 2023 to March 2025. He was awarded the Medal with Purple Ribbon in 2024.

He has received his B.A and M.A in Philosophy from the University of Tokyo, and his Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Cambridge in 1995. He taught at Kyushu University and Keio University before joining the University of Tokyo, and was invited to give lectures in many universities inside and outside Japan.

As the President of the International Plato Society (2007-2010), he organized the IX Symposium Platonicum, at Keio University in 2010. He had given over seventy papers at various international conferences and seminars, including the Special Session of the 2400 Anniversary of Plato’s Academy at XXIII World Congress of Philosophy (FISP, Athens, August 2013). He is currently the Chairman of the Organizing Committee, President of the Philosophical Association of Japan, President of the Neoplatonist Society, and Representative Secretary of Greek Philosophy Seminar, in Japan.