Kanako Iuchi
Kanako Iuchi has specialized in urban and disaster-related planning in international settings since 1994 and currently works in the Finance, Economics, and Urban Development Department of the World Bank. Throughout her planning career, she has worked with bi- and multi-lateral organizations; national, regional and local governments; and communities in more than ten countries in Asia, Europe, and Latin America.
Iuchi has been involved in research and projects on disaster risk management in Bogota, Metropolitan Manila, Istanbul, and Jakarta, as well as recovery planning in Niigata, Japan (Chuetsu earthquake 2004), Muzzafarabad, Pakistan (Kashmir earthquake 2005), New Orleans (Hurricane Katrina 2005), and Tohoku, Japan (Great East Japan Earthquake 2011). Her 2010 dissertation research on post-disaster resettlement focuses on the decisions, planning processes, and outcomes following a magnitude 6.8 earthquake in the Chuetsu region of Japan by looking back five years after the event.
Iuchi earned her PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Master of Regional Planning degree from Cornell University, and a bachelor's from Tsukuba University in Japan. All were in Urban and Regional planning.
