ANDO, Shoichi

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  • position: Adjunct Professor
  • specialty: Urban Disaster Management, Urban Planning, Sustainable Building Policy
  • degree: Doctor (Engineering)
• education and career:
  Graduated Department of Architecture, the University of Tokyo, 1980
  Expert on Urban Disaster Prevention, Japan-Peru Center for Earthquake Engineering and Disaster Mitigation (CISMID)/Lima, 1987
  Director of Development, Urban Planning Bureau, Kitakyushu city, 1991
  Director, Planning Division, Building Research Institute (BRI/MOC), 1996
  Principal Administrator, Environment Bureau, OECD/Paris, 1998
  Director for Land Use Coordination, City Planning Division, MLIT, 2002
  Director, Urban Disaster Prevention Section, Urban Bureau, MLIT, 2004
  Coordinator, Disaster Management Planner, Hyogo Office, UNCRD, 2005
  Professor of the University of Tokyo, Urban Eng. and Director of IISEE, Building Research Institute, 2010-present
  
• current research interests:
  Urban Planning System
  Community Based Disaster Management
  Sustainable Building Policy
  Seismic Building Codes of developing countries