Prof Satoru Nishikawa

JICA Senior Advisor / Professor, IRIDeS Tohoku University

Visiting Professor, Disaster Mitigation Research Center (DMRC), Nagoya University

Mr. Satoru Nishikawa is a JICA Senior Advisor / Professor, at IRIDeS Tohoku University and a Visiting Professor at the DMRC at Nagoya University. He is currently a Member of the Science Council of Japan; a Board member, of the Institute of Social Safety Science, and a Business Continuity Advancement Organization.  

He also held senior positions in the Cabinet Office and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of Japan. He also hosted and coordinated the 2005 UN World Conference on Disaster Reduction where HFA was adopted.  

Professor Nishikawa joined the Japanese Government service in 1982 and has held various positions in the Japanese Government, UN, Tokyo Metropolitan Government, and International Organizations.  He was a member of the Advisory Group to the UN SRSG for DRR on the Post-2015 Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and the Global Platform. He was the chair of the WEF Global Agenda Council on Catastrophic Risk. From 2013 to 2015, he served as Vice-President, Japan Water Agency.