CONFERENCE CHAIRS
Shinji Kaneko (Chair)
Director, NERPS / Professor, The IDEC Institute, Hiroshima University
Shinji Kaneko is the Executive Vice President for Global Initiatives and a Professor at the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Science at Hiroshima University. He graduated from the School of Engineering at Kyushu University majoring in water engineering (Dr. of Engineering). Immediately after the completion of his doctoral program, he joined the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) in 1999 as a researcher and conducted research on urban climate policy in Asian megacities for three years. He also worked at the Global Change System for Analysis, Research and Training (START) as a Research Fellow for three years from 2005. In 2018, he was appointed as the Director of the Network for Education and Research on Peace and Sustainability (NERPS) at Hiroshima University. He has conducted numerous policy research on natural resources, energy, and the environment in developing countries.
Ayyoob Sharifi (Co-Chair)
Professor, The IDEC Institute and Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University
Ayyoob Sharifi is Professor at the IDEC Institute, Hiroshima University. His research is mainly at the interface of urbanism and climate change mitigation and adaptation. Ayyoob actively contributes to global change research programs such as the Future Earth and has served as a lead author for the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Before joining Hiroshima University, he was the Executive Director of the Global Carbon Project (GCP)-a Future Earth core project. There, he was leading the urban flagship activity of the project that is focused on conducting cutting-edge research for supporting climate change mitigation and adaptation in cities. He holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering (Surveying), a master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning, and a doctorate in Environmental Engineering. He has published extensively on issues related to urban environmental science and is interested in pursuing research at the interface of climate change and urban planning. The ultimate goal of his research is to provide further insights into how to develop sustainable, peaceful, just, and resilient urban communities.
Dahlia Simangan (Co-Chair)
Associate Professor, The IDEC Institute and Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University
Dahlia Simangan is a tenured Associate Professor of International Relations at Hiroshima University. Her research interests in peace and conflict include topics on post-conflict peacebuilding, the relationship between peace and sustainability, and international relations in the Anthropocene. She is the author of International Peacebuilding and Local Involvement: A Liberal Renaissance? (Routledge, 2019) and published her work in leading International Relations and Peace Studies journals. She is Associate Editor of the Review of International Studies, founding Associate Editor of Peace and Sustainability, Assistant Editor of Peacebuilding, and a member of the Planet Politics Institute. She is a former Kanagawa University JSPS Postdoctoral Research Fellow (nominated by the United Nations University-Centre for Policy Research in Tokyo). She obtained her PhD in International, Political and Strategic Studies from the Australian National University in 2017, her MA in International Relations from the International University of Japan in 2010, and her BA in Sociology from the University of the Philippines, Diliman in 2006.
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE (TBC)
Core Members of the Scientific Committee
Akira Hibiki, Professor and Head of Policy Design Lab, Graduate School of Economics and Management, Tohoku University
Vally Koubi, Professor and Senior Scientist, ETH Zürich
Hassan Virji, Member, NERPS Advisory Board; Emeritus Executive Director, START International
Måns Nilsson, Head of Branch: Security Policy and Strategic Studies, Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI)
Anthony Shun Fung Chiu, Professor and Vice President for External Relations and Internationalization, De La Salle University, Philippines
Shobhakar Dhakal, Professor, Faculty of Climate Change and Sustainability, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
Rajib SHAW, Professor, Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University
Members of the Scientific Committee for 2027 (TBC)
Katherine Alfredo, Assistant Professor, University of South Florida, U.S.A.; NERPS Research Fellow, Hiroshima University
Prakash Bhattarai, Executive Director, Centre for Social Change (CSC), Nepal
Glenda Tibe Bonifacio, Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, and Professor in Gender and Women’s Studies, Lakehead University, Canada
Srinjoy Bose, Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales (Sydney), Australia
John Lee Candelaria, Assistant Professor in the International Peace and Co-existence Program at the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, and NERPS Research Fellow, Hiroshima University
Joshua Fisher, Director and Research Scientist, Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict and Complexity (AC4), Columbia Climate School, Columbia University in the City of New York; Specially Appointed Professor for Peace and Sustainability, Hiroshima University
Tobias Ide, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF) / TU Darmstadt, Germany
Dhanasree Jayaram, Assistant Professor, Department of Geopolitics and International Relations (DGIR), and Co-coordinator, Centre for Climate Studies, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Karnataka, India; NERPS Research Fellow, Hiroshima University
Ali Kharrazi, Senior Research Scholar, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Systemic Risk and Resilience (SYRR) Research Group, Austria
Letícia dos Muchangos, Specially Appointed Associate Professor at the IDEC Institute and the Chief Sustainability Officer and Core Member of NERPS, Hiroshima University
Tingjia Wang, Associate Professor (Language & Literacy), International Education Development Program (IEDP), Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, and NERPS Research Fellow, Hiroshima University
Eliseo F. Huesca, Jr., Professor of Politics & Governance and Vice President for Research, Extension, and Production, Davao del Norte State College, Philippines
Leo D. Rayon, Jr., Associate Professor and Director for Social Development and Human Security Studies Center, Davao del Norte State College, Philippines
Charlo Bianci M. Guray, Associate Professor and Director for Planning and Resource Management, Davao del Norte State College, Philippines
Francisco A. Magno, Professor at the Political Science and Development Studies Department, De La Salle University, Philippines
Anil Kumar, Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Delhi Technological University, India; NERPS Research Fellow, Hiroshima University
Jasman Tuyon,Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Business and Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia; NERPS Research Fellow, Hiroshima University
Yvette Baninla, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Queen’s University, Canada; Senior Lecturer, University of Bamenda, Cameroon; Specially Appointed Associate Professor for Peace and Sustainability, Hiroshima University
Somya Joshi, Head of Division, Global Agendas, Climate and Systems, Stockholm Environment Institute, Sweden; Specially Appointed Associate Professor for Peace and Sustainability, Hiroshima University
Heike Schroeder, Professor of Environmental Governance, School of Global Development, University of East Anglia, UK; Specially Appointed Professor for Peace and Sustainability, Hiroshima University
Vladimir Rouvinski, Director, Laboratory of Politics and International Relations and Associate Professor, Department of Political Studies, Icesi University, Columbia; NERPS Associate, Hiroshima University
Serik Orazgaliyev, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy, Co-Chair, SDSN Kazakhstan, Nazarbayev University, Republic of Kazakhstan; NERPS Research Fellow, Hiroshima University
Saori Kashima, Associate Professor, Center for the Planetary Health and Innovation Science, The IDEC Institute, Environmental Health Sciences Laboratory, Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering; NERPS Research Fellow, Hiroshima University
Nzalalemba Serge Kubanza, Senior Lecturer, School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental at University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, focuses on social and environmental injustices in solid waste management
Primitivo III Cabanes Ragandang, Director of the Office of Research Dissemination at Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology, Philippines
Manoj Kumar Soni, Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India
Mahesti Okitasari, Research Fellow and Academic Associate, United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS), Japan
João Filipe Papel, JSPS-UNU Postdoctoral Fellow, United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS), Japan
Michael Magcamit, Lecturer in Global Politics and Leverhulme International Fello at the University of Manchester in the UK; NERPS Research Fellow, Hiroshima University
Giselle Lugo Miole,JSPS-UNU Postdoctoral Fellow, United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS), Japan
Kamrul Hossain, Research Professor and the Director of the Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law (NIEM) at the Arctic Centre, Adjunct Professor of Public International Law at the University of Lapland, Finland
Raymond Andaya, Associate Professor (Specially Appointed), Center for Global Partnership, The IDEC Institute, and Core Member of NERPS, Hiroshima University
Sunil Kr. Sansaniwal, Consultant, Energy Division, NITI Aayog, Government of India; Research Fellow, NERPS, Hiroshima University
SECRETARIAT
Masatoshi Sato (Head of Secretariat)
Senior Assistant to the NERPS Director, Hiroshima University
Masatoshi Sato joined NERPS in February 2021 as Senior Assistant to the NERPS Director after retiring from the Japanese foreign service at the end of March 2020. His main duties include liaising between NERPS and higher education and other institutions working with NERPS.
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