Mikio Ishiwatari Email & Phone Number

Mikio Ishiwatari is a Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences; Senior Advisor at the Japan International Cooperation Agency; and Board Director at the Japan Water Forum. He has been engaged in the projects of flood risk management (FRM) and water resource management. He led the formulation of the Japanese assistance policies for climate change adaptation and community-based disaster management. Also, he led the preparation and supervision of various JICA projects. He joined the World Bank as a Senior Disaster Risk Management Specialist in 2011, and worked as the focal point for the “Learning from Megadisaster: Lessons from the Great East Japan Earthquake” project in Tokyo. He produced a “Post-project review report on rehabilitation following the Indian Ocean Tsunami from a human security perspective”; and led to produce research paper “Community-based disaster management: lessons learned from JICA projects”. He worked in various positions of water resources management at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport, Japan for 17 years. He formulated and supervised national projects of FRM and highways in Iwami District as Director of the Hamada River and Road Office. He was responsible for research and technology development in water resource management as Senior Deputy Director for River Technology and Information. He worked as an Urban Development Specialist at the Asian Development Bank. He was the editor of “Special Issue: Japanese Experience of Disaster Management, Asian Journal of Environment and Disaster Management”. He has written various articles on water resource management, climate change adaptation, and peacebuilding that were published in journals and publications.

Listed skills include International Development, Capacity Building, International Relations, Policy Analysis, and 14 others.