GSID 30th Anniversary Commemorative International Symposium

Development Research and Teaching in the Post-COVID-19 Era:
New Opportunities and Challenges

Speaker Profiles

February 10, 2022 (Thursday) 13:00-18:10
Noyori Conference Hall, Nagoya University

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Speaker Profiles

Dr. Rizal Affandi Lukman
Senior Advisor to the Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs, Indonesia(PhD, GSID 2000)

Dr. Bishwapriya Sanyal
Professor, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Dr. Bishwapriya Sanyal is the Ford International Professor of Urban Development and Planning, and Director of theSpecial Program in Urban and Regional Studies (SPURS)/ Hubert Humphrey program at the Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology. He served as Head of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT from 1994 to 2002 and was
the chair of the entire MIT faculty from 2007 to 2009. His research, teaching and academic leadership reflect his
multidisciplinary education in Architecture (B.A.), Urban Planning (MUP), and International Development Planning(PhD). His research covers such areas as planning organizations and theories of project implementation, history ofplanning ideas, and international planning education. He has received MIT’s prestigious award for teaching – theMacVicar Faculty Award in 2011, Gill-Chin Lim Global Award for his contribution to scholarly research on humanistic
globalization in 2018, and ACSP’s Distinguished Educator 2021 Award.

Dr. Melissa Leach
Director, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex

Dr. Melissa Leach is a social anthropologist and Director of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the Universityof Sussex. She has led numerous interdisciplinary, policy-engaged research programmes in Africa and beyond.
Amongst external roles, she was vice-chair of the Science Committee of Future Earth 2012-2017, lead author of theWorld Social Science Report 2016 on Challenging Inequalities and the UN Women’s World Survey on the Role ofWomen in Economic Development 2014, and is a member of the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food
Systems (IPES-Food). She is currently working on COVID-19 as co-lead of the Social Science in Humanitarian Action
Platform and the Wellcome Trust-funded Pandemic Preparedness Project. She is a Fellow of the British Academy andin 2017 was awarded a CBE for Services to Social Sciences.

Dr. Rizal Affandi Lukman is the Senior Advisor to the Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs, Indonesia and Indonesia
B20 Sherpa appointed by KADIN, Indonesia Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He was the Deputy Minister forInternational Economic Cooperation at the Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs from November 2010 to July 2021. InJanuary 2015, he was appointed by the President of the Republic of Indonesia as Indonesia’s Sherpa in G20 forum until July
2021. He also served as Indonesia’s Senior Official in numerous bilateral cooperation frameworks such as with Japan, China,
South Korea, Russia and Singapore as well as regional and sub-regional cooperation such as APEC, ASEAN, IMT-GT andBIMP-EAGA. He received his bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering from Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), amaster’s degree in International Relations from International University of Japan, and a PhD in International Developmentfrom the Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University in 2000.

Dr. Norbert Palanovics
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Hungary in Japan(PhD, GSID 2008)
Dr. Norbert Palanovics was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Hungary in Japan in 2016. Hecompleted his undergraduate studies in economics and his master’s studies in business studies in Hungary. He then taught
at the Universidad de las Americas-Puebla in Mexico. He completed his doctoral studies at the Graduate School ofInternational Development, Nagoya University in 2004. His PhD dissertation was on Japan’s peacebuilding-based ODA
diplomacy. During his PhD Program, he worked as a Japan correspondent for a Hungarian newspaper and for a Hungarianbusiness weekly. He conducted interviews with prime ministers, business leaders and covered major events. After having
obtained his PhD degree, while continuing his job as a journalist, he set up the Tokyo representative office for Hungary’s
food company, Pick Szeged Co. He introduced Hungary’s Mangalica to consumers in Asia, and as a result, Pick Szeged wasable to expand in Japan and throughout East Asia.

Dr. Sanae ItoProfessor, GSID, Nagoya University
Dr. Sanae Ito is a development studies professor at the Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University.
She has been involved in a number of interdisciplinary and policy-oriented research projects concerning poverty in Asia.
Outside academia, she has worked for Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan International Cooperation Agency,
International Labour Organisation, etc. on short-term assignments. Between 2019 and 2021 she was vice-president ofNagoya University overseeing the university’s responses to human rights and diversity issues.

Dr. Mbuli Charles Boliko
Representative, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)in Madagascar, Comoros, Mauritius and Seychelles (PhD, GSID 1996)

Dr. Mbuli Charles Boliko is the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Representative inMadagascar, Comoros, Mauritius and Seychelles. He was the Director of the FAO Liaison Office in Japan until
September 2020. A national of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, he joined Nagoya University, where he became
one of the first-batch students in the Graduate School of International Development (GSID) in April 1991, obtaining amaster's degree in 1993 and a PhD in 1996. After teaching at GSID for a year, he joined the FAO in Rome as PersonnelOfficer in 1997. He served as Liaison Officer in the FAO Liaison Office with the United Nations in New York, transferredto the Office of the Director-General in Rome as Attaché de Cabinet, and became the Senior Attaché de Cabinet in2008. In 2009, he took up the position of Chief, Recruitment and Staffing Branch in the Human Resources ManagementDivision until his appointment as the Director of the FAO Liaison Office in Japan in August 2013.

Dr. Isamu Okada
Associate Professor, GSID, Nagoya University
Dr. Isamu Okada is a political scientist and an associate professor at the Graduate School of International Development,
Nagoya University. Before his current position, he worked at the Japanese Embassy in the Plurinational State of Bolivia andas a Postdoctoral Research Fellow for the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. He has publications in resource
governance, political participation, and Latin American politics. His latest research looks at policy measures and citizens’
reactions under the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan and Latin American countries. He has extensive fieldwork experience inPeru and Bolivia, among other countries. He has also published research that employs quantitative methods and on-site andonline surveys before and during the pandemic. He has been awarded by the Institute of Developing Economies, Japan
External Trade Organization, Japan Society of Social Science on Latin America, and the Japanese Association of ElectoralStudies.