FUMIKO HAYASHI

Mayor of the City of Yokohama

Date of Birth May 5th, 1946 Hometown Tokyo, Japan Education 1965 Graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Aoyama High School Employment History 1965-1976 Toyo Rayon, Co., Ltd. (currently: Toray Industries, Inc.)

Matsushita Electric Industrial, Co., Ltd. (currently: Panasonic Corporation) etc. 1977 Entered Honda Cars Yokohama, Inc. Transferred to Honda Clio Kanagawakita, Inc. 1987 Entered BMW Tokyo Division (currently: BMW Tokyo, Corp.) 1993 Manager, BMW Tokyo, Corp. Shinjuku Branch 1998 Manager, BMW Tokyo, Corp. Central Branch 1999 President, Fahren Tokyo K.K. (currently: Volkswagen Japan Sales K.K.) 2003 President, BMW Tokyo, Corp. 2005 Chairperson and CEO, The Daiei, Inc. 2007 Vice Chairperson, The Daiei, Inc. May 2008 Operating Officer, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. June 2008 President, Tokyo Nissan Auto Sales Co., Ltd. August 2009 Mayor of Yokohama (First term) August 2013 Mayor of Yokohama (Second term) Other Offices Held President, Mayors Association of Designated Cities Member of the Council for Gender Equality, Cabinet Office of Japan Member of the Central Council for Education, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and

Technology of Japan Member of the Council for Cultural Affairs, Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan The Chairperson of Japan Cruise Port Association Awards and Honors 2004 Selected as one of WALL STREET JOURNAL's "The 50 Women to Watch" 2005,06 Selected as one of Forbes Magazine's "World's 100 Most Powerful Women"

Selected as one of FORTUNE Magazine's "50 Most Powerful Women in Business: International" 2005 Selected as the “Business Stateswoman of the Year” by The Harvard Business School Club of

Japan 2006 Selected as 1st Place in the Career Create category in Nikkei Woman Magazine’s “Women of the

Year 2006” 2014 Selected as the “ACCJ 2014 Person of the Year” by The American Chamber of Commerce in

Japan

Masakazu HAMACHI

Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs

New Komeito

Member of the House of Representatives

Proportional Representation Block for Kyushu-Okinawa

(elected twice) Biography May 8, 1970 Born in Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture 1994 Graduated from the School of Law, Waseda University

Joined UBS Securities Japan Co., Ltd. 2006 Passed the Bar examination 2008 Registered as a lawyer 2012 Elected to the House of Representatives for the first time

(46th General Election) 2014 Elected to the House of Representatives for the second

time (47th General Election) 2015 Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs (3rd Abe Reshuffled Cabinet)

Masaaki Kobayashi (Mr.) Vice-Minister for Global Environment Ministry of the Environment, Japan

Personal Information 1954 Born in Nagano Prefecture, Japan Education 1979 Graduated from the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Law Professional Career 2015- Vice-Minister for Global Environment, Ministry of the Environment (MOE) 2014-2015 Director-General for Environmental Policy Bureau, MOE 2012-2014 Director-General for Environmental Management Bureau, MOE 2011-2012 Councillor for Minister's Secretariat, MOE 2011-2011 The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) 2010-2011 The East-West Center in Hawaii, US 2008-2010 Councillor for Minister's Secretariat, MOE 2005-2008 Director for Personnel Division, Minister's Secretariat, MOE 2004-2005 Director for Policy Planning Division, Environmental Policy Bureau, MOE 2003-2004 Director for Policy Planning Division, Environmental Health Department, Environmental Policy Bureau, MOE 2001-2003 Director for Environmental Impact Assessment Division, Environmental Policy Bureau, MOE 2000-2001 Director for Environmental Impact Assessment Division, Environmental Policy Bureau, Environment Agency (EA) 1997-2000 Director for Office of Environmental Impact Assessment Review, Environmental Impact Assessment Division, Environmental Policy Bureau, EA 1996-1997 Senior Policy Coordinator for Personnel Division, Secretary-General’s Secretariat, EA 1979 Joined EA

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       Mr.  Rintaro  Tamaki was  appointed  Deputy  Secretary‐General  of  the OECD  on August  1,  2011. His portfolio includes the strategic direction of OECD policy on Environment, Development, Green Growth, Taxation and Policy Alignment  for Transition  to a Low‐Carbon Economy along with representing  the OECD  externally  on  Financial  Issues.  Prior  to  joining  the  OECD  Mr.  Tamaki,  a  Japanese  national,  was  Vice‐Minister  of  Finance  for International  Affairs at the Ministry of Finance, Government of Japan.  During  his  prominent  35‐year  career,  Mr.  Tamaki  has  worked  on  various  budget,  taxation, international  finance  and  development  issues  in  the  OECD  and  at  the World  Bank  before  being appointed  Finance Minister  at  the  Embassy  of  Japan  in Washington  DC.  He  then  became  Deputy Director‐General before becoming Director‐General and subsequently Vice‐Minister for  International Affairs at the Ministry of Finance.  

 

  

MORI Hideyuki (Mr.) 森 秀行 

President    所長 

Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) 

公益財団法人地球環境戦略研究機関  

Mr. Hideyuki Mori  is  a  graduate  of  the  School  of  Engineering,  Kyoto University. He joined  IGES  in 2003. Prior to  joining  IGES, he served as Environment Specialist at the Asian  Development  Bank,  Senior  Environmental  Coordinator  of  the  United  Nations High Commissioner of Refugees, Director of the Office of Research and Information at the Global Environment  Issues Division of the Environment Agency of Japan  (present Ministry of the Environment), and as Portfolio Manager of the Division of GEF at the United Nations Environment Programme. He was a professor at Keio University  from 2008‐2010. He has served as the President of IGES since 2010.  京都大学大学院工学部工業化学科修士課程修了。1977 年環境庁（現環境省）入庁。

アジア開発銀行環境専門官、国連高等難民弁務官、環境庁企画調整局地球環境部

環境保全対策課研究調査室長、国連環境計画 GEF 担当ポートフォリオマネージャー

などを経て、2003 年に IGES 長期展望・政策統合プロジェクトリーダーに就任。慶応

大学大学院政策・メディア研究科 特別研究教授（2008 年～2010 年）。2010 年 4 月よ

り現職。

主著に「低炭素社会をデザインする」（共著、慶応義塾大学出版会）

Toru Hashimoto

Director Development Cooperation Department

International Affairs Bureau City of Yokohama

Toru Hashimoto is Director of Development Cooperation Department,

the City of Yokohama, and in charge of program Y-PORT (Yokohama Partnership of Resources and Technologies). Y-PORT is public private partnership endeavor to deliver knowledge and cutting-edge technology for urban solutions. For more detail, please refer to http://www.city.yokohama.lg.jp/kokusai/yport/en/. He was instrumental to conclude Memorandum of Understanding between ADB and the City of Yokohama in regards of urban management and solutions. Before joining the City of Yokohama he took managerial positions in World Bank and Asia Development Bank Institute. He was educated in University of Tokyo, Asia Institute of Technology, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology on urban planning, engineering and human settlements. Away from professional career he enjoys composing pop music and performance as a keyboard player.

Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Japan 6 July 2015 

Dr. Bindu N. LOHANI

Dr. Lohani  is currently Distinguished Fellow,  Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Japan and Special Advisor , Y‐Port, Japan. 

Dr.  Lohani  was  Ranking  Vice‐President  of  the  Asian  Development  Bank  (ADB)  for  Knowledge Management  and  Sustainable  Development  until  30  June  2015.  He  was  responsible  for  the  ADB’s Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department (Office of the Chief Economist), Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department, and Office of Information Systems and Technology. 

 Before  the  above  position, Dr.  Lohani was Vice‐President  (Finance  and Administration)  of ADB.   Dr. Lohani served as Chair of  Investment Committee of  the Pension Fund  (more  than $2 billion); Chair of Asset Liability Management Committee; and Chair of Crisis Management Committee. 

In  his  almost  30  years  in  ADB,  he  has  held  several  positions,  including  Director  General  and  Chief Compliance Officer of the Regional and Sustainable Development Department (responsible for sectoral and thematic areas like energy, transport, water, urban development, education, environment, gender and governance, and knowledge management), and Special Advisor to the President on Clean Energy, Climate  Change  and  Environment.  He  had  worked  in  various  capacities,  mostly  infrastructure  and sustainable development. Before  joining ADB, he worked for the Government of Nepal (relating to the infrastructure departments) and was Division Chairman of  the Environmental Engineering Program at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), an independent post‐graduate institution located at Bangkok. 

Dr.  Lohani  holds  a  Bachelor’s  Degree  in  Civil  Engineering,  and  a Master’s  degree  (water  and waste management) and Doctoral degree  in Environmental Engineering. Dr. Lohani has been conferred with several  Honorary  Doctoral  Degrees  including  the  Degree  of  Doctor  of  University  by  the  Griffith University, Australia in recognition of his distinguished contributions to environment. 

He has also completed several management development programs,  including  the Executive Program conducted by the Business School of the University of Chicago, Management Development Program by Cornell University; and programs by Arthur D. Little School of Management, and Corporate Leadership program at Yale University. 

Dr. Lohani  is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) of United States – the highest professional distinction accorded to an engineer – for his work on economic‐cum‐environment approach  to sustainable development. He  is a Diplomate of  the American Academy of Environmental Engineers  (awarded  for  excellence  in  the  practice  of  environmental  engineering)  and  is  a  licensed professional engineer. Dr. Lohani was elected to the rank of AAAS Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Council for world  leadership  in development country planning for  integrated  economic‐cum‐environmental  sustainable  development  through  protection  of natural/social resources.

N. Vijay Jagannathan – Senior Fellow, World Resources Institute and Secretary General, CITYNET. Dr. Jagannathan is leading a number of initiatives on promoting sustainable urbanization in the region, both in his capacity as a senior advisor of a leading think tank on sustainable development and as the head of a network of cities and partner institutions in the Asia Pacific region. Prior to these assignments he worked in the World Bank, Washington DC where his last assignment was as Sector Manager for infrastructure in the East Asia and Pacific region. He was responsible for an annual lending program of about $5 billion in the urban, water, transport and energy sectors. He has been also associated with the APEC-led green growth and green finance initiatives. He has worked in the infrastructure, environment and urban development sectors in his twenty four years in the Bank in over 50 countries around the world. Prior to joining the Bank he was Secretary of the Calcutta Metropolitan Development Authority, and held several other positions in Indian Administrative Service. Vijay is an economist by training, with a PhD from Boston University. His dissertation on the informal markets for the poor was published by Oxford University Press in 1987 and recognized as one of the “Outstanding Academic Books of the Year” by the American Library Association. He has published extensively on water, urban development, agricultural development and environmental issues.

  ALFONSO VEGARA ‐ PRESIDENT ‐ FUNDACIÓN METRÓPOLI  Alfonso Vegara has a PhD in City and Regional Planning  and  degrees  in  Architecture, Economics, and Sociology. He was President of ISOCARP, the International Society of City and Regional Planners, which has members in over 70 countries. He is a Fellow and Trustee of the Eisenhower Fellowships, and since 2005, he  is Honorary  Consul  General  of  Singapore  in Madrid. Alfonso Vegara has been lecturing in urbanism at Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid,  Universidad  de  Navarra,  and Universidad  CEU  San  Pablo.  He  was  also  a Visiting Scholar at the School of Design of the University of Pennsylvania and Advisor of ETH Zurich Polytechnic. 

His ideas and projects have been disseminated through more  than 30 books, and  lectures  in cities,  universities,  and  International Conferences  in  Europe,  the  United  States, 

Latin America, Asia, Australia,  and Africa. His projects have been awarded prizes by United Nations,  the  European  Union,  The  European Council  of  Spatial  Planners,  Architects´ Associations,  Entrepreneurial  Associations, Cities,  and  National  Governments.  Among these awards is the Rey Jaime I Prize, which is given by the King of Spain.  

On  three  occasions  Dr.  Vegara  received  the prestigious  European  Award  of  Planning  for his work in Euskal Hiria, The Basque city region and the design of the eco‐city of Sarriguren in Navarra.  He  is  member  of  the  Jury  of important  international  awards. He has been advisor  to  the Government of Singapore, and various  cities  around  the  world,  including Yokohama,  Mexico  DF,  Bilbao,  Sao  Paulo, Casablanca and Moscow. 

Alfonso  Vegara  is  the  founder  and  Honorary President  of  Fundacion  Metropoli,  an international  center  of  excellence  dedicated to  research,  design,  and  innovation  in  cities around  the  world.  Currently  Fundación Metrópoli  is developing  the “Next Cities Lab” with Microsoft  working  in  different  cities  of the  world  at  the  intersection  between Territory and Technology.  

The  focus  of  Alfonso  Vegara´s  work  is  to promote  the  strategic  value  of  cities  in  a complex  and  interrelated  world.  His  ideas, philosophy  and  projects  on  cities  are presented  in  his  books  “Territorios Inteligentes”  and  Fundación  Metrópoli “Landscape Intelligence” 

 

 

 

 

 

Ma. Carmela D. Locsin Director General Sustainable Development & Climate Change Department

 Ms. Carmela D.  Locsin  is Director General,  Sustainable Development and  Climate  Change  Department  (SDCC)  (formerly  Regional  and Sustainable Development Department),  a  position  she  assumed  in  1 July  2014.  Prior  to  this,  Ms.  Locsin  assumed  various  positions including: Head of the Office of Cofinancing Operations (OCO); Deputy Director  General,  South  Asia  Department;  Deputy  Director  General, RSDD; and Director of OCO.  Prior  to  joining ADB  in 1997, Ms.  Locsin worked at  the  International Finance Corporation, USA and the World Bank for 7 years. Ms. Locsin is a national of the Philippines. She has a Master's degree  in Business Administration  from  Georgetown  University, Washington,  D.C.,  USA and  a  Bachelor's  degree  in  Economics  from  the  University  of  the Philippines.  

             Ma. Carmela D. Locsin Telephone: +63 2 632 5462 Email: mclocsin@adb.org ADB website: http://www.adb.org  

   

Dato’ Maimunah Mohd Sharif Municipal President

Municipal Council Of Seberang Perai, Penang, Malaysia

Dato’ Maimunah Mohd Sharif is the Municipal President of Municipal Council of Seberang Perai (MPSP). She holds a Master of Science in planning studies from University Science Malaysia, Penang and also a degree in Town Planning Studies from University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology , United Kingdom. Her career begins from 1985 to 2003 as Town Planning Officer at Municipal Council Of Penang Island. In 2003 she was promoted as a Director, Department of Planning and Development till November 2009. As a head of Planning and Development Department, she was responsible in preparation of structure plan, local plan, development controls, projects and landscapes. She also headed a team for the planning and implementation of urban renewal projects for Little India and implementation of Penang Gold Bazaar project. In November 2009, she was entrusted to establish George Town World Heritage Incorporated. As General Manager and a founder of George Town World Heritage Incorporated, a state arm company. She has the responsibility to manage the George Town World Heritage Site which was inscribed by UNESCO in July 2008. She was the precursor for the George Town Festival in 2010 and now established as yearly event by the Penang State. With her knowledge and involvement in heritage, she was choosen by the government as one of the expert to represent Malaysia in UNESCO World Heritage Committee Meeting at St. Petersburg, Rusia in June-July 2012. In 16 March 2011, she was appointed as the first female Municipal President of Municipal Council Of Seberang Perai. As a mayor of a local authority, she has to lead and steers MPSP to attain its vision “ To make Seberang Perai cleaner, beautiful, comfortable place to stay, work, investment and tourist attraction by 2018” and in line with the state of Penang’s vision which is “Cleaner, Greener, Safer and Healthier Penang”. She inspired MPSP to produce the first Seberang Perai Tourist Map, Heritage Trail and Coffee Table Book of Seberang Perai. It was a successful project done by in-house team under her guidance.

By promoting Gender Responsive Participatory Budgeting (GRPB), she has developed a gender Committee headed by her as her long term goal to integrate gender perspectives into governance process and GRPB as a tool for mainstreaming gender into budgetary and development policy and planning. She has carried out dialogue budget in 2012 and it was the first MPSP budget tabled by a female President and GRPB program becoming as the yearly program for MPSP. She has presented many papers in seminar, forums and conferences both locally and internationally. For her remarkable contribution to Penang and Seberang Perai, she has been awarded several recognitions by the Penang State Government, Malaysian Government and International Organization such as “Best City Manager” and “Best City” by Europe Business Assembly, Stresa, Italy and “Planner of The Year 2014” by Malaysian Institute Of Planners. In September 2014, she was conferred the award Darjah Setia Pangkuan Negeri (D.S.P.N.) which carry the title of Dato’. With her effort, MPSP has been recognized internationally and being a member in international organization such as CITYNET, WeGO (World e-Government Organization), ICLEI (International Council For Local Environmental Initiatives) and IOPD (International Observatory For Participatory Democracy). As an international recognition, she is voted as in a Regional Executive Committee (REXCOM) of ICLEI in Southeast Asia. She is also voted in to represent Southeast Asia Region in the Global Executive Committee (GEXCOM) of ICLEI.

Dato’ Maimunah Mohd Sharif Municipal President Municipal Council Of Seberang Perai, Penang, Malaysia

HAMANAKA Hironori (Prof.) 浜中 裕徳 Chair of the Board of Directors 理事長 Area: Executives / 理事長・所長

Profile: Professor Hironori Hamanaka is the chair of IGES Board of Directors. When he took up his current position at IGES, he was teaching at Keio University as a Professor, and previously served as the Vice-Minister for Global Environmental Affairs as well as other important positions at the Ministry of the Environment. While serving with the Government of Japan, he devoted his administrative career to intergovernmental negotiations in areas including: the Kyoto Protocol and its implementing rules; major agreements in the field of sustainable development, such as the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation agreed at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002; and the development of national policies to implement international agreements, most notably the Kyoto Protocol. Based on his professional career, he served as a Co-chair of the Compliance Committee under the Kyoto Protocol and the Chair of its Facilitative Branch from 2006 to 2008. He gained a B.A. in Engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1967.

プロフィール: 1967 年東京大学工学部都市工学科卒業。1969 年 4 月厚生省入省、1971 年 7月環境庁創設と共に同庁に出向。その後、外務省出向（経済協力開発機構日本

政府代表部）等を経て、1995 年 7 月同企画調整局地球環境部長、2001 年 1 月

環境省地球環境局長、同年 7 月同地球環境審議官。2004 年 7 月環境省を退職、

慶應義塾大学環境情報学部教授に就任。2015 年 3 月同大学大学院政策・メデ

ィア研究科非常勤講師を退任。2007 年 4 月より IGES 理事長、現在に至る。 35 年以上にわたり、環境省において地球環境政策の分野で活躍。特に、京都

議定書とその実施ルールに関する政府間の交渉、2002 年の持続可能な開発に

関する世界首脳会議で同意されたヨハネスブルグ実施計画などの持続可能な

開発分野の主要な合意、また、国際的な環境合意（特に京都議定書）を実施す

るための国家政策の作成に尽力。2006 年から 2008 年まで京都議定書遵守委

員会共同議長及び同委員会促進部議長。 Education 学歴: B.A. Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokyo, 1967 1967 年 3 月 東京

大学工学部都市工学科卒業

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Nobuya Suzuki Deputy Mayor City of Yokohama

Mr. Nobuya Suzuki was born in 1955, and entered the employment of the City of Yokohama in 1978. Since then, he has been in charge of the projects including housing policy planning of the City and redevelopment of the Yokohama station areas, experiencing urban planning in the midst of close ties with the regional community. Afterwards, he has held the posts of Director-General of Housing and Architecture Bureau before assuming office as Deputy Mayor in April 2012.