Itsuki NAKABAYASHI

Present post: Professor, Graduate School of Urban Environmental Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University.
Academic background: Graduate School of Engineering, Tokyo Metropolitan University.
Majors: Urban disaster reduction and recovery, urban planning

Yoshiteru MUROSAKI

Present post: President, National Research Institute of Fire and Disaster, National Fire Fighters’ Academy, Fire and Disaster Management Agency, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications
Academic background: Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University.
Majors: Architecture, urban disaster reduction, large-scale evacuation science

Takashi OKIMURA

Present post: Professor, Research Center for Urban Safety and Security, Kobe University
Academic background: Graduate School of Engineering, Kobe University.
Major: Ground disaster reduction engineering

Shigeo TATSUKI

Present post: Professor, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Sociology, Doshisha University
Academic background: Graduate School of Social Work, University of Toronto
Major: Sociology (family sociology, citizen society theory, disaster reduction sociology)

Ikuo KOBAYASHI

Present post: Professor, Environmental Cultural Studies, Kobe Yamate University; Co-plan adviser, Machizukuri Company; Manager of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake Restoration Citizens’ Machizukuri Support Network
Academic background: Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka City University
Majors: “Machizukuri”/urban planning; architecture

Haruo HAYASHI

Present post: Professor and Director of Research Center for Disaster Reduction Systems, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University.
Academic background: Graduate School of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Major: Social psychology (human behavior in times of disaster/disaster psychology)

Yasuhiro YAMAMOTO

Present post: Professor, Graduate School of Medicine, Nippon Medical School; Chairman of Japanese Association for Acute Medicine; Chairman of Japan Association for Disaster Medicine.
Academic background: Medical School, Nippon Medical School
Majors: Emergency medicine; disaster medicine; trauma, intoxication

Kimiro MEGURO

Present post: Professor, International Center for Urban Safety Engineering, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo
Academic background: doctoral course, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
Major: Urban earthquake disaster mitigation engineering

Kazuhiro UETA

Present post: Professor at Graduate School of Economics and Global Environmental Science, Kyoto University
Academic background: Graduate School, Osaka University
Major: Environmental economics

Atsushi TANAKA

Present post: Professor at Department of Social Psychology, Toyo University
Academic background: Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo
Major: Disaster Psychology, Collective behavior