Rajib Shaw is Professor in the Graduate School of Media and Governance in Keio University, Senior Fellow at Institute of Global Environmental Strategies, Chairperson of two Japanese NGOs, co-founder of a Delhi-based social entrepreneur startup Resilience Innovation Knowledge Academy, and Executive Director of the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk. He is Chair of the United Nations Science Technology Advisory Group for Disaster Risk Reduction, Co-Chair of the Asia Science Technology Academic Advisory Group, Editor-in-Chief of the Elsevier's "Progress in Disaster Science" journal, and author of more than 300 academic papers and 45 books, including "Urban Risk Reduction: Asian Perspective" (Elsevier).
