Hari Srinivas

Trained as an architect and urban planner, Hari Srinivas is currently Professor of Environmental Policy at Kwansei Gakuin University in Hyogo, Japan.

Before taking up his current post, he worked in the UN System for 18 years as Programme Officer at the United Environment Programme in Osaka; Programme Associate at the United Nations University in Tokyo, and other UN assignments. He was also a faculty member at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Dept. of Social Engineering.

He has a Masters degree in Urban Development and Management (1991) from the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok Thailand, and a Ph.D. (1996) from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan.

Besides global and urban environmental issues, his current interests range from information management and rural development issues to community innovativeness, disaster management and NGO development. He also initiated the Urban Environmental Management Research Initiative (UEMRI).

He is a visiting professor at six universities in Japan and overseas, and also coordinates the Global Development Research Center (GDRC). He has written more than 80 papers, journal articles and books on a variety of topics.