Soft Assets in Smart and Resilient City Development

Eiko Wataya currently works as a Project Management Specialist (capacity development) at the Asian Development Bank, Manila, Philippines. Previously, she worked at the World Bank, starting as a lead program coordinator in Tokyo, where she oversaw the development and mangement of the distance learning program protrolio. She then moved to Washington D.C., where she served as a knowledge management and capacity development officer in disaster risk management in East Asia and Pacific Region. Before that she was a country officer for Indonesia at the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (now JICA). She holds M.Sc. in Social Policy and Planning in Developing Countries from the London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK and Ph.D. in Media and Governance from Keio University, Japan. Rajib Shaw is a professor in the Graduate School of Media and Governance at Keio University, Japan. He is also a senior fellow of the Institute of Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) Japan, and the chairperson of the Sustainable Environment and Ecological Development Society (SEEDS) Asia and the Church World Service (CWS) Japan, two Japanese NGOs. He is a co-founder of a Delhi (India)-based social entrepreneur startup, the Resilience Innovation Knowledge Academy (RIKA). Earlier, he was the executive director of the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) and was a professor at Kyoto University. His expertise includes disaster governance, community-based disaster risk management, climate change adaptation, urban risk management, and disaster and environmental education. Professor Shaw was the chair of the United Nations Science Technology Advisory Group (STAG) for disaster risk reduction and currently is the co-chair of the Asia Pacific Science Technology Academic Advisory Group (APSTAAG).