ICHARM Symposium

ICHARM Quick Reports on Floods 2009
ICHARM will hold "ICHARM Quick Reports on Floods 2009" on 10 December 2009.
From 2008 to 2009, a number of devastating ﬂood-related disasters occurred all over the world; in April 2008 inMyanmar by Cyclone “Nargis”, in May 2009 in India and Bangladesh, in August in Taiwan, in September in Philippines
and in July and August in the western part of Japan.
In such circumstances, the International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management (ICHARM) organizes acollection of quick reports on the most serious ﬂoods occurring 2008-2009, inviting top local experts responsible fornational ﬂood research and management.
● Date: 10th December 2009 (Thu.)

9:50-17:00● Venue: ICHARM Auditorium (Tsukuba City, Japan)● Language: EnglishAgenda
9:50 ～ 10:00

Opening Remarks
Prof. Kuniyoshi Takeuchi
Dr. Ryutaro Oishi

10:00 ～ 11:00

Executive, PWRI

Report 1 "Lesson Learned from Typhoon Morakot"
Prof. Liang-Chun Chen

11:00 ～ 12:00

Director, ICHARM

Director, National S&T Center for Disaster Reduction (NCDR), Taipei, China
Professor, Graduate Institute of Building and Planning, National Taiwan University (NTU), Taipei, China

Report 2 "Metro Manila Flash Flood of 26 September 2009:
Causes, Impacts and Lessons Learned"
Dr. Susan Ramos Espinueva

Oﬃcer-In-Charge, Hydro-Meteorology Division, Philippine Atmopsheric,Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA),
Department of Science and Technology (DOST)

Lunch & Break（12:00 〜 13:00）

13:00 ～ 14:00

Report 3 "Report on Damages by Recent Cyclonic Floods (2007-2009) in Bangladesh"Dr. Md Abu Taher Khandakar

14:00 ～ 15:00

Report 4 "Disasters Caused by Cyclone Nargis and Their Underlying Causes"
Dr. Tun Lwin

15:00 ～ 15:20

Chief Engineer, Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB), Bangladesh

Consultant, Myanmar Climate Change Consultancy Service, Myanmar Climate Watch
Former Director-General (Retd.), Department of Meteorology

Report 5 "Water-Related-Disasters in Japan 2009"
Mr. Eiji Otsuki

Director for Water Management Coordination, River Bureau,
Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Japan
Break（15:20 〜 15:40）

15:40 ～ 16:50

Panel Discussion“Intensifying Hydro Meteorology Extremes Management Reports”

16:50 ～ 17:00

Closing Remarks(The presentation titles are subject to change.)Speakers
Prof. Liang-Chun Chen2006

Director, National S&T Center for Disaster Reduction (NCDR), Taipei, China
Professor, Graduate Institute of Building and Planning, National Taiwan University (NTU), Taipei, China

Executive Secretary, Technical Advisory Committee, the Executive Yuan, Taipei, China
Member, Board of Directors, Disaster Management Society, Taipei, China

2001

Member, Board of Directors, Taiwan Institute of Urban Planning, Taipei, China
Member, Board of Directors, Community Empowering Society, Taipei, China

1986

Ph.D. (Engineering), Waseda University, JapanDr. Susan Ramos Espinueva Oﬃcer-In-Charge, Hydro-Meteorology Division, Philippine Atmopsheric,Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA),
Department of Science and Technology (DOST)2006

Ph.D. (Meteorology), University of the Philippines

1983

Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration

Dr. Md Abu Taher Khandakar Chief Engineer, Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB), Bangladesh
2009

Chief Engineer, Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB)
Director General, Bangladesh Haor & Wetland Development Board (BHWDB)

2008

Director General, River Research Institute (RRI)

2005

Ph.D. (Civil Engineering), University of Honolulu, USA

Professional Affiliation: Professional Engineer (PEng), Bangladesh Professional Engineers’ Registration Board

Dr. Tun Lwin

Consultant, Myanmar Climate Change Consultancy Service, Myanmar Climate Watch
Former Director-General, Department of Meteorology and Hydrology, Myanmar, Ministry of Transport (Retd.)

2008

Ph.D. (Physics), Yangon University

2005

Consultant, Myanmar Climate Change Consultancy Service, Myanmar Climate Watch
Chairman, Steering Committee, Regional Integrated Multi-hazard Early Warning System-RIMESPermanent Representative of Myanmar with WMO
Director-General, Department of Meteorology and Hydrology, Myanmar, Ministry of Transport

B.S. and M.S. at Florida States University, in Meteorology

Mr. Eiji Otsuki

Director for Water Management Coordination, River Bureau, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Japan2007

Vice-Mayor, Inabe City, Mie Prefecture

2004

Director, Wakayama River and National Road Office

2000

JICA Expert, Department of Public Works and Highways, the Philippines

1988

Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism

1988

M.A. , Tokyo Institute of Technology

Contact
International Centre for Water Hazard Risk Management under the auspices of UNESCO
Public Works Research Institute (PWRI)
1-6, Minamihara, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki-ken 305-8516, Japan
Tel: +81-(0) 29-879-6809 E-mail: icharm@pwri.go.jp URL: http://www.icharm.pwri.go.jp/