Professional mentors (demo)
Professional Mentors
Professional mentors participate in our program from autonomous communities in disadvantaged area, public service, organizations which conduct human resource development programs, universities abroad, and companies with leading-edge technologies. They engage in advising and evaluating our students practicaly in lectures and seminars, career support, and Quolifying Examinations.
Victorino Aquitania | Organization | Regional Director, ICLEI, Local Governments for Sustainability Southeast Asia Secretariat |
Degree | MA in Public Administration | |
Current specialty | Public administration | |
Career | 1992 MA in Public Administration, Baguio Central University 1944 Developer, Local Governments in Bauio City 2002 Regional Director, ICLEI, Local Governments for Sustainability Southeast Asia | |
Publication | “Final Report of Study of on Practice Diffusion and Adoption Process under the Cities for Climate Protection (CCP) Program in the Philippines,” 2008. | |
Message | I have confidence that students of the TAOYAKA Program will become movers and shakers in their respective fields and eventually become “Change Makers” in their own country, if not globally! |
David Eaton | Organization | Professor, Bess Harris Jones Centennial Professor of Natural Resource Policy Studies, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin |
Degree | Ph.D of Environmental and Engineering | |
Current specialty | Consensus formation | |
Career | 1976 Bess Harris Jones Centennial Professor of Natural Resource Policy Studies, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin 1991 Associate Professor, LBJ school of Public affairs, UTNatural Resource Policy Studies, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin-Austin 2009 Visiting Professor, Graduate School for Internaitonal Development and Cooperation, Hiroshima University | |
Message | You have an opportunity to achieve excellence as professionals and scholars, as well as ethical leaders. To create a society of coexistence will require all of your creativity, your courage, your humility and your capacity to choose what is reasonable and responsible. |
Begum Nurjahan | Organization | Managing Director, Grameen Shakti |
Ram Prasad Dhital | Organization | Executive Director, Alternative Energy Promotion Centre (AEPC) Ministry of Environment, Science and Technology Government of Nepal |
Organization | President and CEO, SmartSensys LLC, IL | |
Degree | Ph.D of Engineering | |
Current specialty | Monit | |
Career | 1992 Master of Science in Civil Engineering, Cum Laude 1997 Doctor of Engineering in Civil Engineering (Ph.D), Summa Cum Laude, Yokohama National University, Japan 2010 Master of Business Administration (MBA) 1997 Structure Design and Analysis, Japan Structure Eng. and Computer Corp. 2012 President and CEO, SmartSensys LLC, IL, USA | |
Publication | “Application of Smart 3-D Laser Scanner in Structural Health Monitoring, Proc. Of the World Forum on Smart Materials and Smart Structures Technology, ” (joint authorship), Chongqing and Nanjing, China, May 22-27, 2007 “GPS_based Remote Optical Monitoring System (UAV) for Structural Inspection,” (joint authorship), Proc. Of the 11th International Conference on Structural Safety & Reliability, ICOSSAR 2013, New York, USA, June 16-20, 2013. | |
Message | Asprospective Grobal Leaders, TAOYAKA PROGRAM enriches you knowledge and knowhow to actualize a Co-exisperity society. |
Hassan Virji | Organization | Executive Director, International START Secretariat |
Degree | Ph.D of Meterology | |
Current specialty | Integrated research of crimatic variation risk management | |
Career
| 1979 Ph.D. of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin, Madison. 1973 Assistant Professor, Department of Metrology, University of Nairobi, Kenya. 1979 Research faculty, Center for Climatic Research and the Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin,Madison. 1983 Associate Program Director, Climate Dynamics Proogram, US National Science Foundation. 1992 Exective Director, International START Secretariat. | |
Publication | “Say you want a revolution: Transforming Education and Capacity Building in Response to Grobal Change,” (co-author), Environmental Science & Policy, 28, 48-59, April 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2012.11.011
“Capacity Building to support knowledge systems for resilient development-approaches, actions, and needs, ” (co-author), Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 4, 115-121, Feburary 2012. | |
Message | I hope you become “driving forces” of Taoyaka Progream and be Global Leaders fosters by Taoyaka program. Together we can attain peaceful, and sustainable diverse society! |
Organization | President, Keisoku Research Consultant Co. | |
Degree | Buchelor of Engineering | |
| Current specialty | Metrology | |
| Career | 1977 Hiroshima University, B. of Engineering, School of Engineering 1977 Keisoku Research Consultant Co. | |
Publication | “Measurement and Visualization Techniques of Strain Using Moire Fringes,” (joint authorship) , Journal of JSEM, 12(3), 201-206, 2012. “The application of the frequency-shifted feedback laser optional coordinates measurement system for field measurement of bridges in service,” (joint authorship), paper presented at the 4th International Conference on Structural Health Monitoring on Intelligent Infrastructure, 22-24 July, 2009. | |
Message | I would like to support students’ researches, developing some infrastructured monitoring technology |
Kazuyuki Kawamoto | Organization | Special Adviser, The Chugoku Shimbun Co., Ltd. |
Mamoru Yamada | Organization | Manager, Micron Technology, Inc., Fab15 HR GA |
Organization | President, Vital LEAD Co.LTD | |
| Degree | Ph.D of Engineering | |
| Current profession | Transportation planning, rural planning | |
| Career | 1998 Hiroshima university, M. Graduate school of IDEC 2004 Hiroshima university, Ph.D of Engineering, Graduate school of IDEC 1983 Konoike Instruction Co.LTD 1985 Izutech Coproration 1998 President, Moriyama Regional Planning Research Institution Co.LTD 2005 President, Vital LEAD Co.LTD (renamed from Moriyama Regional Planning Research Institution Co.LTD) | |
Publication | “Public transportation policies in rural area,” The Japanese journal of real estate sciences, 26(4), 96-101, 2013. “Izumo Taisha Shrine Pilgrimage Development : Prosperity through Walking Tour Promotion,” Teansportation & economics, 72(2), 53-57, 2013. | |
Message | My doctoral research which is related to desing for social implementation later became the foundation of my company. Study hard with diversity of perspectives! |
| Organization | Research Producer, Mountaious Region Research Center / Professor, Partner Graduate School of The University of Shimane | |
Current spcialty | Ph.D. of Management | |
Current specialty | Rural Management | |
| Career | 2008 Ph.D. of Management, Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Department of Management studies 1991 Chugoku Comunity Renovation Center Co.LTD 1998-present Research Producer, Mountaious Region Research Center 2009-present Professor, Partner Graduate School of The University of Shimane | |
Publication | “Environmental Conservation and Sustainable Development in the Countryside,” The Japanese Association of Rural Medicine, 61(6), 862-66, May 2013.
“Recent Development of GIS for Planning and Management in Mountainous Region in Shimane,” Journal of the Japanese Society of Imagination, Drainage , 75(10), 893-97, October 2007. | |
Message | Let’s creat sustainable societies from each regions! |
| Organization | Director General, JICA Chugoku International Center | |
| Degree | Master (Environmental Sciences) | |
| Current specialty | Development cooperation, nature conservation cooperation | |
| Career | 1985 The University of Tsukuba, M. of Environmental Sciences, Graduate School ofLive and Environmental Sciences 1985 Enrolled in Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) 2013 Director, JICA Thailand Office 2016 Director General, JICA Chugoku International Center | |
| Message | “Naimono-wa-nai!” (“What we haven’t got we do without!”) This is a slorgan of Ama-cho, Oki Island. One meanig of the slorgan is the wotn does not need what the town does not have. But the other way to read it is that the town has got everything they need. I think this is a key of development cooperation and rural revitalization in Japan. What do you think? |
Shizuya Haru | Organization | Chugoku Bureu of Economy, Trade and Industry |
