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
Core Members of the Scientific Committee
Vally Koubi, Professor and Senior Scientist, ETH Zürich
Hassan Virji, Member, NERPS Advisory Board; Emeritus Executive Director, START International
Tshilidzi Marwala, Rector of the United Nations University; Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations
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
Norichika Kanie, Professor, Graduate School of Media and Governance, and Co-director, Keio STAR (Sustainable and Transformative Actions for Regeneration), Keio University
Members of the Scientific Committee for 2027
Katherine Alfredo, Associate Professor, University of South Florida| Civil and Environmental Engineering, U.S.A.; NERPS Research Fellow: 2025-2027, Hiroshima University
Prakash Bhattarai, Executive Director, Centre for Social Change (CSC), Nepal; NERPS Research Fellow: 2023-2025, Hiroshima University
Glenda Tibe Bonifacio, Professor and Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Lakehead University, Canada; NERPS Research Fellow: 2022-2024 & 2025-2027, Hiroshima University
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: 2023-2025 & 2025-2027, Hiroshima University
Joshua Fisher, Director, Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict and Complexity (AC4), Columbia University, and Research Scientist, Columbia Climate School, Columbia University in the City of New York; Specially Appointed Professor for Peace and Sustainability: 2025-2027, Hiroshima University
Tobias Ide, Member of the Executive Board and Head of the Research Department Transitional Politics at Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF) and Professor of Peace and Conflict Research at TU Darmstadt, Germany; Specially Appointed Professor for Peace and Sustainability: 2023-2025, Hiroshima University
Dhanasree Jayaram, Senior Assistant Professor, Department of Geopolitics and International Relations, Manipal Institute of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, and Co-coordinator, Centre for Climate Studies, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), India; NERPS Research Fellow: 2024-2026 & 2026-2028, Hiroshima University
Ali Kharrazi, Senior Research Scholar, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Systemic Risk and Resilience (SYRR) Research Group, Austria; Specially Appointed Associate Professor for Peace and Sustainability: 2023-2025, Hiroshima University
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 (Digital Pedagogy), International Education Development Program (IEDP), Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, and NERPS Research Fellow: 2023-2025 & 2025-2027, Hiroshima University
Charlo Bianci M. Guray, Associate Professor and Director, Business and Auxiliary Services Division, Davao del Norte State College, Philippines
Anil Kumar, Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Delhi Technological University, India; NERPS Research Fellow: 2025-2027, Hiroshima University
Jasman Tuyon, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Business and Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia; NERPS Research Fellow: 2025-2026, Hiroshima University
Yvette Baninla, Postdoctoral Researcher, REDI Lab, Department of Geography & Planning, Queen’s University, Canada; Senior Lecturer, University of Bamenda, Cameroon; Specially Appointed Associate Professor for Peace and Sustainability: 2025-2027, Hiroshima University
Somya Joshi, Research Director, Stockholm Environment Institute, and Docent, Stockholm University, Sweden; Specially Appointed Associate Professor for Peace and Sustainability: 2025-2027, Hiroshima University
Heike Schroeder, Professor of Environmental Governance, School of Global Development, University of East Anglia, UK; Specially Appointed Professor for Peace and Sustainability: 2025-2027, Hiroshima University
Serik Orazgaliyev, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy, Nazarbayev University, Co-Chair, Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) Kazakhstan, Republic of Kazakhstan; NERPS Research Fellow: 2025-2027, 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: 2025-2027, Hiroshima University
Nzalalemba Serge Kubanza, Senior Lecturer, School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental at University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Michael Magcamit, Senior Lecturer in Global Politics, The University of Manchester, UK; NERPS Research Fellow: 2025-2027, Hiroshima University
Raymond Andaya, Associate Professor (Specially Appointed), Center for Global Partnership, The IDEC Institute, and Core Member of NERPS, Hiroshima University
Sunil Sansaniwal, Consultant (Energy), NITI AAYOG, Government of India; NERPS Research Fellow: 2025-2027, Hiroshima University
Ghulam Dastgir Khan, Associate Professor, Center for Peaceful and Sustainable Futures (CEPEAS), The IDEC Institute, International Economic Development Program, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Social Innovation Science, Graduate School of Innovation and Practice for Smart Society, Hiroshima University
Nadia Farabi, Department of International Relations, Universitas Diponegoro, Indonesia
Andy Hira, Professor of Political Science, Simon Fraser University, Canada; NERPS Research Fellow: 2026-2028, Hiroshima University
Fazlullah Akhtar, Senior Researcher, Division of Ecology and Natural Resources Management, Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Germany
Michael D. Beevers, Professor of Environmental Studies, Contributing Faculty, Department of International Studies, and John J. and Ann Conser Curley Chair in Global Education, Dickinson College, USA; NERPS Research Fellow: 2026-2028, Hiroshima University
Mari Katayanagi, Professor, International Peace and Co-existence Programme, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University
Rahmatika Dewi, Research Center for Education, Research Organization for Social Sciences and Humanities, National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), Indonesia
Irine Hiraswari Gayatri, Chairman of the Program Organizing Committee, Management of Social Transformations/MOST UNESCO, National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), Indonesia
Leo D. Rayon, Jr., Director for Research Division, Center Director for Social Development and Human Security Studies, Program Chairperson, MA & PhD in English Language Studies and Teaching Programs, Associate Professor V | Institute of Advanced Studies | Davao del Norte State College, Philippines
Gio Lugo Miole, Postdoctoral Research Fellow jointly affiliated with the University of Tokyo and United Nations University under the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
Eliseo F. Huesca, Jr., Vice President for Research, Development, and Extension, Professor of Politics & Governance, Davao del Norte State College, Philippines
Vladimir Rouvinski, Professor, Department of Political Studies, Director, Laboratory of Politics and International Relations (PoInt), Universidad Icesi, Colombia; NERPS Associate: 2025-2027, 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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