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Dr. Shuzo Nishioka Project Leader of “Japan Low Carbon Society Scenarios toward 2050”, Senior Visiting Researcher, National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Senior Research Advisor, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies(IGES),Japan. PhD.(The University of Tokyo, engineering). Served as Professor of Tokyo Institute of Technology, Keio University, Visiting Researcher of MIT, Executive Director of the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Japan, also as Coordinating Lead Author and Vice Chair of IPCC WGII since 1988. Project leader of “Japan Low Carbon Society Scenarios toward 2050”, which is research project to establish methodology for evaluating middle to long term environmental policy options toward low carbon society in Japan. |
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Dr. Junichi Fujino Ph.D of Engineering. Senior Researcher, Climate Policy Assessment Section, Center for Global Environmental Research (CGER), National InstituteforEnvironmental Studies (NIES), Japan. Visiting Associate Professor, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) Adjunct instructor. Tokyo University of Science 2000 Graduated Tokyo Univ. Energy and Environment system Engineering, Energy, Economics, Environment Model Analysis. 2000－Joining AIM team. 2004－Scenario Team member and Manager, “Low Carbon Japan 2050” |
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Dr. Shuichi Ashina NIES Postdoctoral Fellow, Climate Policy Assessment Section, Center for Global Environmental Research (CGER), National InstituteforEnvironmental Studies (NIES), Japan. Shuichi Ashina is a NIES Postdoctoral Fellow in the Climate Policy Assessment Section, CGER, NIES from the year 2006. His research focuses on the field of Energy-Economy-Environmental system modeling and its application to Low-Carbon Societies. He received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical and system engineering from Tohoku University. |
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Dr. Keisuke Matsuhashi Senior Researcher, Transport and Urban Environment Section, Social and Environmental Systems Division, National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Japan. Keisuke Matsuhashi, a senior researcher of Transport and Urban Environment Section at NIES, is conducting a comprehensive assessment of future transport systems and urban forms by using automobile CO2 emission inventories in city scale, which he has estimated. His research interests include public participation in regional planning Dr. Matsuhashi received his B.E, M.E, and Ph.D. degrees in urban engineering from Tokyo University, Japan. |
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Prof. Toshiya Aramaki Professor, Dpartment of Regional Development Studies, Toyo University, Japan Completed the doctoral course at the School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo in 1996. Served as a research associate, a lecturer, and an associate professor at the University of Tokyo, and has been a professor at Toyo University since April 2008. Engaged in the study of various environmental issues involving human activities, including water management in cities and regions, waste management, heat islands, and mitigation of global warming. Served as visiting associate professor at the Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand from 2004 through 2006 (as a long-term expert of the Japan International Cooperation Agency), then also studied environmental issues in developing countries. |
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Dr. Mikiko Kainuma Project Leader, Climate Policy Project, Center for Global Environmental Research (CGER), National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Japan. Mikiko Kainuma, a project leader of Climate Policy Assessment Project at NIES, is conducting an integrated analysis of climate change mitigation strategies by using AIM model, which she has developed with Kyoto University and several other institutes across Asia. AIM started as a tool to evaluate policy options to mitigate climate change and its impacts, and now extended its function to analyze various environmental issues. Dr. Kainuma received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in applied mathematics and physics from Kyoto University in Kyoto, Japan. She is a Lead Author of IPCC Fourth Assessment Report and UNEP/GEO4. |
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Prof. Lee Der-Horng Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore Professor Lee Der-Horng (李德紘) was graduated with his PhD degree from the University of Illinois in 1996. His expertise includes intelligent transportation systems (ITS), container port operations, aviation management, traffic simulation, sustainable infrastructure planning and development, urban and regional transportation planning, etc. Professor Lee was an Honoree of 2002 TR100 Award (now known as TR35) by MIT's Technology Review. He is an editor of three international referred journals including IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. Professor Lee is active in the international community of transportation research and is frequently consulted by various organizations in the different areas, such as media, industry, finance, think tanks, NGOs, and government, for policy matters and technical projects in the areas of transportation, logistics, urban planning and development, etc. |
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Prof. Fwa Tien Fang Professor, the Department of Civil Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore He received his BEng from the National University of Singapore, MASc from the University of Waterloo, Canada, and PhD from Purdue University, USA. He is currently the Director of the Centre for Transportation Research, National University of Singapore. Professor Fwa is active academically and professionally in transportation engineering and transportation infrastructure management. He is presently a Vice President of the International Society for Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Transport Infrastructure, and a Board Member of the East Asia Society of Transportation Studies. He was also the founding President of the Intelligent Transportation Society (Singapore). |
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Mr. Sunil Dhingra The Energy and Resources Insutitute (TERI), New Delhi, India After receiving master’s degree of Engineering from Delhi College of Engineering in field of Mechanical engineering, Mr. Dhingra has over 18 years of expertise in the areas of biomass utilization, waste-to-energy systems, His main work experience consisted of design, development and dissemination of biomass gasifier for various end use applications and power generation packages (10-500 kWe) for both capative and decentralized applications including rural electrification. He also successfully developed and commercialized biomass gasifier for a variety of applications through technology transfer such as sericulture, textile dyeing, institutional cooking, cardamom curing, rubber drying etc. and for decentralized power generation for remote areas. In addition Mr. Dhingra successfully implemented 6 rural electrification projects through biomass gasifier technology in India. Nearly 400 TERI gasifier systems for a variety of end-uses have been installed throughout and outside the country both under demonstration-cum action research projects supported by Government departments and bilateral agencies and commercially through manufacturers to whom the technology is transferred. |
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Prof. Mizan R. Khan Professor, the Chair of the Department of Environmental Science and Management, North South University, Bangladesh Prof. Mizan R. Khan has a Ph.D in Environmental Policy & Management from the University of Maryland School of Public Policy, USA. He is currently the Chair of the Department of Environmental Science and Management at North South University in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Since the early 1980s he served the Bangladesh Institute of International & Strategic Studies (BIISS), Dhaka, which he left in 2001 as a Research Director. Before joining the current position, he served for over four years as UNDP Environmental Policy Specialist with the Govt. of Bangladesh. In the early 1990s, he worked for some years as a Senior Researcher at the Centre for International Development and Conflict Management (CIDCM) at the UMCP, MD, USA. He was Vice Chair of the LDC Expert Group under the UNFCCC during 2002-2004. Dr. Khan regularly attends climate negotiations as a member of the Bangladesh delegation. Prof. Khan is a widely traveled academic. He has a wide range of publications on environment and security, climate change, Insurance and adaptation, conservation of biodiversity etc. His recent research includes Microinsurance and Adaptation, Community-based Adaptation and Equity in Climate Change Regime. |
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Dasho Paljor J. Dorji Special Advisor to the National Environme Commission, Government of Bhutan Graduated from St. Joseph’s College, Darjeeling and then joined Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, UK (Commissioned 1966), Dasho Dorji has been served the government of Bhutan since 1966. He was appointed Chief Justice of Bhutan in 1985 to 1987 and then Deputy Minister of Ministry of Social Survives. In 1991 he was sent to Geneva and Ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva also was accredited to Austria, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, EU (Brussels) IFAD (Rome) and FAO (Rome). Dasho Dorji had served National Environment Commission as a deputy minister from 1994 to 1998 and currently he is a special advisor to the National Environment Commission. |
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Dr. Masahiro Kawai Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), Japan Mr.Kawai graduated with his B.A. and M.A. degrees in 1971 and 1973, respectively, in Economics from the University of Tokyo's Faculty of Economics. He earned his M.S. degree in Statistics (in 1976) and Ph.D. degree in Economics from Stanford University (in 1978). Mr. Kawai began his career as a Research Fellow at Brookings Institution and then as an Assistant and Associate Professor in the economics department of Johns Hopkins University. Afterwards, he served as an Associate and Full Professor at the Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo. He served as a consultant at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and at the International Monetary Fund, both in Washington, DC. He was also Special Research Advisor at the Institute of Fiscal and Monetary Policy in Japan's Ministry of Finance, and a visiting researcher at the Bank of Japan's Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies and at the Economic Planning Agency's Economic Research Institute. Mr. Kawai also worked as Chief Economist for the World Bank's East Asia and the Pacific Region from 1998 to 2001, and as Deputy Vice Minister of Finance for International Affairs of Japan's Ministry of Finance from 2001 to 2003. Mr. Kawai joined ADBI in January 2007 after serving as Head of ADB's Office of Regional Economic Integration (OREI) and Special Advisor to the ADB President in charge of regional economic cooperation and integration. Mr. Kawai has published a number of books and numerous articles on economic globalization, on regional financial integration and cooperation in East Asia, including lessons from the Asian crisis, and on the international currency system. |
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Mr. Junya Nishikawa Manager, Emission Reductions Projects Development Dept. Industrial Energy Division, Mitsui & Co., Ltd., Japan He graduated from Department of Law at The University of Tokyo in 2001, and joined Mitsui & Co., Ltd.. His career in Mitsui & Co., Ltd. is the following. 2001-2003 Legal Div. 2003-2005 Manager, Legal Div. 2005-2006 Manager, Environmental Business Dept. Business Development Div. 2007-2008 Manager, Environmental Business Dept. Industrial Energy Dept. 2008- Manager, Emission Reductions Projects Development Dept. Industrial Energy Division Experience Member of Panel on Legal Study for National Emissions Trading Scheme, Ministry of the Environment (2008) Publications "Legal Consideration on Emissions Trading (1)-(3) ", NBL, 2005 (Co-Author) "Emission Reductions and Trust" Chuokeizai-sha, Inc., 2008 (Co-Author) |
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Prof. Keijiro Otsuka Professorial fellow at the Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development (FASID) in Tokyo, The professor of economics at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Japan. He received a Ph. D. in economics from the University Chicago in 1979. He was chairman of the board of trustees of IRRI from 2004 to 2007 and is currently president-elect of the International Association of Agricultural Economists, and editorial members of Economic Development and Cultural Change and Environment and Development Economics. He has published eleven books and more than 85 articles in leading journals. He has been working extensively on cluster-based industrial development, the Green Revolution, land tenancy, property rights and natural resource management, and the poverty dynamics in both Asia and Africa. |
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