Kensuke Fukushi
Director, IFI, The University of Tokyo
Kensuke Fukushi is Professor and Vice Director of the Institute for Future Initiatives, The University of Tokyo (UTokyo). He is also an Academic Programme Officer at the United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability. Kensuke is a civil-environmental engineer and holds appointments at the UTokyo Graduate Schools of Engineering and Frontier Sciences, where he organizes the Urban Sustainability Science Laboratory. He is one of the founding faculty members of IR3S and achieved remarkable progress in promoting sustainability science in various academic communities. He serves as an Editorial Advisor of Sustainability Science Journal, the Science Planning Group member of Asian Pacific Network for Global Change Research, and Distinguished External Faculty member of Asian Institute of Technology. He received B.S. and M.S from Tohoku University in Civil Engineering, and Ph.D. from University of Utah in Civil Engineering.