Program Officer (PO) ONO Yuichi

ONO Yuichi, Ph.D.

Professor and Deputy Director, Practical Research and Collaboration Division,
International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University

1) Profile

Apr 1985 - Mar 1989 Faculty of Education, Utsunomiya University
Apr 1989 - Mar 1993 Graduate School, Faculty of Education, Utsunomiya University
Apr 1989 - Dec 2001 Ph.D., Department of Geography, Kent State University
Jan 1997 - Feb 2000 Part-Time Lecturer, Kent State University
Jan 2002 - Feb 2003 Associate Expert, World Meteorological Organization
Feb 2003 - Feb 2004 Program Officer, United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR)
Jun 2004 - Jun 2007 Program Officer and Officer-in-Charge, Early Warning Program, United Nations International Strategy
for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR)
Jun 2007 - Sep 2009 Program Officer, United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR)
Oct 2009 - Oct 2012 Chief, Disaster Risk Reduction Section, United Nations Economic and Social Commission
for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
Mar 2014 - Mar 2016 Visiting Professor, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University
Nov 2012 - present Professor, International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS), Tohoku University
Apr 2023 - present Deputy Director, International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS), Tohoku University

2) Research Activity

International Policy on Disaster Risk Reduction, Tornado Disasters, Disaster Loss and Damage Statistics, and Climatology

3) Other

1994 Association of American Geographers
Jun 2013 - present Integrated Research on Disaster Risk Subcommittee, Civil Engineering and Architecture Committee,
Science Council of Japan
Apr 2013 Association of Japanese Geographers
May 2013 Japan Association for Wind Engineering
May 2013 Institute of Social Safety Science
Dec 2018 Founder and CEO, World Bosai Forum Foundation
2018-2019 A member of the UNFCCC Executive Committee of the Warsaw International Mechanism
for Loss and Damage