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Itaru Yasui |
UN University Rector Hans van Ginkel has announced the appointment of Itaru Yasui, Professor at the Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, as UNU Vice-Rector for Environment and Sustainable Development.
Prof. Yasui, who succeeds Prof. Motoyuki Suzuki, took up his new post on December 1. He will oversee the activities of the UNU Centre’s Environment and Sustainable Development Programme in Tokyo and will coordinate activities in this area carried out by the UNU’s 12 research and training centres and programmes located in Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America and North America.
Prof. Yasui graduated from the Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokyo, in 1968 and received his Doctorate in Engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1973. He was a lecturer at the Institute of Industrial Science from 1975, became Associate Professor in 1979 and full professor in 1990. From 1996–1999 he was Director of the Centre for Collaborative Research of the University of Tokyo.
In 1998-1999, he was a representative to the National Conference for Centres for Industry-University Collaboration and since 2000 he has been head investigator of the Man-Earth Research Project of the Japan Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports and Technology. Prof. Yasui is a member of the Evaluation Committee for Independent Administrative Institutions of the Japan Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
Currently he is on the Board of Trustees of the Japan Association on the Environmental Studies. He is a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society and a member of the Engineering Academy of Japan as well as a number of other academic societies.
Prof. Yasui has published hundreds of papers in academic journals, proceedings of international conferences and university publications. He has also authored or co-authored some 50 books and written more than 120 articles for commercial and other publications.
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