Speaker
Dr. Brenden Jongman

Senior Disaster Risk Management Specialist, World Bank’s Global
Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR)
He leads the Global Program on Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Resilience. The programaims to scale up the implementation of nature-based solutions across the World Bank’s portfolio.
A Dutch national, Brenden holds a PhD in Water and Climate Risk Management from the Institutefor Environmental Studies in Amsterdam and has published over 40 peer-reviewed articles onresilience and climate change.

Dr. Takami KANNO
Director, Northern branch, Kawasaki Geological Engineering Co.,Ltd.
Participated in various projects as the director of the Hanoi office for nearly 10 years. Hegraduated from Niigata University Faculty of Science in 1987 and graduated from Ehime
University in 1989. In 2010, He received a Ph.D. from the Faculty of Science and Technology,Ehime University. As an Executive Professional Civil Engineer of JSCE, He is mainly engaged indisaster prevention and mitigation of slopes, rivers and erosion control systems in Japan.

Mr. Rikiya Konishi

Forestry Officer, Forest Resilience Team, Forestry Division, FAO
Rikiya Konishi has led an ecosystem-based climate adaptation project, “Enhancing communityresilience to climate change in mountain watersheds”, since 2020.After joining in Forestry
Agency in 2000, he served in various positions in the Forestry Agency of Japan, the Ministryof Environment and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He engaged in natural resource management
projects and programs with JICA, FAO, ITTO, FCPF, UN-REDD, WB, GEF, UNDP, CBD, UNU andOECD. His primary interest as a project manager is mainstreaming F-DRR and agricultural value
chain concepts into developing countries' activities, programs and policies.

Mr. Takahiro Ikenoue Director of Natural Environment Team 2, Forestry and Nature
Conservation Group, Global Environment Department, Japan International Cooperation Agency
He has more than 25 years of experience in management of international cooperation activities
including technical cooperation projects in forestry and nature conservation sector and support
projects for Japanese private companies to develop operation overseas.

Dr. Takahisa Furuichi

Research Specialist, Department of Disaster Prevention,
Meteorology and Hydrology, Forestry and Forest Products Research InstituteTaka is a geomorphologist, conferred a PhD from the Australian National University, currently
investigating geomorphic processes and history in mountainous catchments in northern Vietnamand northern Japan. His research has been consciously contextualized along disaster risk
reduction and environmental issues especially climate change and land degradation, which was
typically demonstrated by his previous field-based studies in Myanmar and Australia. He has
also professional experience in development projects in developing countries as being a JICA
official in his early career.

Ms. Yoko Asada
Chief Analyst, Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting Co.,Ltd.
Yoko Asada is the Chief Analyst for Mitsubishi UFJ Research & Consulting Co., Ltd., a Japanese
think tank. She specializes in international and domestic climate change policy of land andforest sector, forestry and forest industry policy. She provides consulting services to Japanese
government and private entities.

Dr. Jiro Iguchi
Head of India Branch Office, Chief Consultant, PADECO Co., Ltd.
Joined PADECO in 1998 after having Ph.D. (International Development Studies) from Yokohama
National University. Over the past 25 years, he provided consulting service on environmental
management for local governments and international cooperation agencies, including the forest
conservation project in Sikkim, India, biodiversity conservation projects in Borneo, Malaysia, andenvironmental and social considerations in infrastructure development projects.

Mr. Ta Ngoc Tan

Senior officer of Science Technology and International Cooperation Vietnam Disaster Management Authority (VNDMA)
Mr. Ta Ngoc Tan has been graduated from the Water Resources University, Vietnam since 2015
for his Master’s degree on Water Resources Planning. He has strong background in water
resources management and disaster risk reduction focus on science technology andinternational cooperation, especially on the field of physical and mathematic modeling, damsafety, river basin management, rural water sanitation and drought fighting, promoting to build
up many ODA Technical assistant projects and formulate research projects on natural disasterrisk reduction, etc.

Dr. Rex Victor O. Cruz

Professor Emeritus at the University of the Philippines Los Baños(UPLB) IRNR College of Forestry and Natural Resources
He finished MS Forestry at UPLB, and his PhD in Watershed Management at the University ofArizona, USA. Former UPLB Chancellor, former Dean, UPLB College of Forestry and NaturalResources, and former Director of Forestry Development Center, UPLB. An academician of theNational Academy of Science and Technology Philippines. An author of the UN IPCC Assessment
Reports of 1995; 2001; and 2007 and coordinating lead author of the Philippine Climate Change
Assessment Report (PHICCA 1 and PHICCA 2). Former member of the Board of Directors ofthe Asia-Pacific Forestry Network (APFNet 2015-2019).

Dr. Toru InadaDeputy General Manager, Overseas Project Department, Asia Air Survey, Co., Ltd.
Ph.D. in Tropical Forestry, University of Wales, UK. After serving as a volunteer of JOCV inMalawi, a private consultant, and a JICA long-term expert, currently working at Asia Air Survey.
Involved in climate change mitigation and adaptation, forest biomass and carbon stockestimation, REDD plus, and sustainable forest management. Since 2017, involved in the JICA
North Macedonia Eco-DRR project.

Dr. I Wayan Susi Dharmawan

Senior Researcher at the Research Center for Ecology
and Ethnobiology, National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN); Republic of Indonesia
He acquired a Doctor from Bogor Agricultural University in 2012. His latest research areEvaluation of carbon stock dynamic and CO2 emission in burnt peat swamp forest and logged
peat swamp forest in Central Kalimantan. He coordinated all ASEAN Member States for 20132017 in the Project of Capacity building to increase the Forest Resource Assessment (FRA)
capacity and capability. He also joined the activities carried out in the CCROM（Centre for
Climate Risk and Opportunity Management）for LAMAI (Local Appropriate Mitigation ActionsIndonesia) project since 2015 as MRV expert. He is a Project Country Coordinator of FCPF
(Forest Carbon Partnership Facility) and BioCF (Bio Carbon Fund) for 2018-2020.