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