Professor, The Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University
Adjunct Professor, United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability
Before joining Keio, he worked at the Graduate School of Decision Science and Technology, the Tokyo Institute of Technology, and the Department of Policy Studies, at the University of Kitakyushu. From August 2009 to July 2010, he was Marie Curie Incoming International Fellow of the European Commission and a visiting professor at Sciences Po, Paris.
He serves various committees and steering groups, including co-chair of Future Earth SDG Knowledge Action Network (KAN); a scientific steering group member of the Earth System Governance project; a commissioner of the Earth Commission; a member of the SDGs Promotion Roundtable Meeting, established by the Japanese government under the SDGs Promotion Headquarters; a member of the Expert Study Group for the Promotion of SDGs by Local Governments for Japanese Cabinet Office.
His recent publication includes Norichika Kanie, “SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals)”, CHUKORON-SHINSHA.INC., 2020; Norichika Kanie (eds.), “Governing through Goals: Sustainable Development Goals as Governance Innovation”, MIT Press, 2017; Norichika Kanie, et.al., ‘Rules to Goals: The Emergence of New Governance Strategies for Sustainable Development, in Sustainability Science, Volume 14, Issue 6, 2019, pp.1748-1749. He has been appointed by the UN Secretary-General as a member of fifteen independent scientists to prepare the 2023 Global Sustainable Development Report.
Professor, Department of Architecture and Environment Systems, College of Systems Engineering and Science, Shibaura Institute of Technology
Tarek Katramiz is a Professor at the Department of Architecture and Environment Systems, College of Systems Engineering and Science, Shibaura Institute of Technology. He was previously Project Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Media and Governance at Keio University, and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) postdoctoral fellow at the United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS). His main interest is in the politics of sustainability and development, local community, energy, and environmental policies. His current research projects are looking at how the SDGs potentially influence and stimulate new directions of national development planning and assessing the steering effects of the SDGs on local governments and non-state actors; the contestations and synergies in national implementation of energy and climate goals and other SDGs, with particular focus on SDG10 (inequality) and SDG11 (sustainable cities and communities). He holds a BA in Japanese Studies from Damascus University, MA, and Ph.D. in Media and Governance from Keio University.
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Yasuko Kameyama | Professor, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo |
| Shunsuke Managi | Professor, Department of Urban and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu University |
| Junichi Fujino | Program Director, Center for Sustainability Integration |
| Misuzu Asari | Professor, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, International Center for Research and Education |
| Shun Kawakubo | Professor, Department of Architecture, Faculty of Design and Engineering, Hosei University |
| Atsufumi Yokoi | Professor (Director), Okayama University Global Engagement Office (OUGEO) |
| Tokutaro Hiramoto | Professor, Department of Business Administration and Information, Faculty of Informatics, Kanazawa Institute of Technology |
| Mari Noda | Professor, Department of Contemporary Social Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ibaraki University |
| Masahisa Sato | Professor, Faculty of Environmental Studies, Tokyo City University |
| Mari Kosaka | Associate Professor, Department of Social and Environmental Studies, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Tokai University |
