WMI Webinar: Establishing a Decentralized & Connected Society for Localizing SDGs in the Face of COVID-19

Speaker Profile

Kazuhiko Takeuchi is President of the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) and a Project Professor at the Institute for Future Initiatives (IFI), the University of Tokyo. He served as Senior Vice-Rector of the United Nations University (UNU) and currently holds a position as Senior Visiting Professor at UNU Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS). He has served, inter alia, as Chair of the Central Environmental Council, Government of Japan, as Vice-President of the Science Council of Japan, as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Sustainability Science (Springer Nature) and as Distinguished Chair, Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies, University of Nairobi.

He received the Ichimura Prize in Science against Global Warming for Distinguished Achievement in 2019, Otto Soemarwoto Award (Indonesia) in 2018, Japan Prize of Agricultural Science in 2017, Ishikawa Award of the City Planning Institute of Japan in 1994, Award of the Association of Rural Planning, Japan in 1994, and Award of the Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture in 1980. He specializes in landscape ecology, environmental studies, and sustainability science. He engages in research and outreach activities on creating eco-friendly environments for a harmonious coexistence of people and nature, especially focusing on Asia and Africa. Recently, he has been working toward establishing a global foundation for developing the field of sustainability science aiming to build a sustainable society.