Hirokazu Tatano

Hirokazu Tatano is a chairman and professor of Center for Climate Change Adaptation Strategy in Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University, Japan. Currently, he is serving as a President of International Society of Integrated Disaster Risk Management. He is aslo serving a secretary-general of Global Alliance of Disaster Research Institutes from 2015. He received his Master of Science and PhD in civil engineering from Kyoto University. From 2023, he is a member of Science Council of Japan.

Tatano has done pioneering research on economic consequence analysis, and his major focus has been on economic resilience to natural disasters at the levels of the individual business, market, and regional economy. Another his research focus is methodologies for integrated disaster risk management and governance. From May 2023, he played a key role to establish a disaster risk finance laboratory, in DPRI, Kyoto University.