Hironori Hamanaka

Special Research Advisor, IGES / Chair, ICLEI Japan

Hironori Hamanaka is the Special Research Advisor at the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES). He served as the Chair of IGES Board of Directors from April 2007 to June 2017. He is the Chair of ICLEI Japan since July 2005. He was teaching at Keio University as a Professor from 2004 to 2010, and previously served as the Vice-Minister for Global Environmental Affairs as well as other important positions at the Ministry of the Environment.

While serving with the Government of Japan for more than 35 years, he devoted his administrative career to intergovernmental negotiations in areas including the Kyoto Protocol and its implementing rules, and the development of national policies to implement the Protocol. Based on his professional career, he served as a Co-chair of the Compliance Committee under the Kyoto Protocol and the Chair of its Facilitative Branch from 2006 to 2008. He gained a B.A. in Engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1967.

Hideyuki Mori

Executive Director, IGES

Hideyuki Mori is a graduate of the School of Engineering, Kyoto University. He joined IGES in 2003. Prior to joining IGES, he served as Environment Specialist at the Asian Development Bank, Senior Environmental Coordinator of the United Nations High Commissioner of Refugees, Director of the Office of Research and Information at the Global Environment Issues Division of the Environment Agency of Japan (present Ministry of the Environment), and as Portfolio Manager of the Division of GEF at the United Nations Environment Programme. He was a professor at Keio University from 2008-2010. He has served as the Executive Director of IGES since 2010.