Committees
Asia Parks Congress Steering Committee
(APC Steering Committee)
The Steering Committee for the Asia Parks Congress is the decision-making body of the Congress and consists of the Ministry of the Environment of Japan, IUCN and the IUCN WCPA (World Commission on Protected Areas) Asia Steering Committee.
Chair
- Yoshitaka Kumagai (WCPA Regional Vice Chair, East Asia and Dean of International Collaboration, Akita International University, Japan）
Committee
- Cristi Nozawa (WCPA Vice-chair for Southeast Asia, and Regional Director at BirdLife International Asia Division)
- Vinod Mathur (WCPA Vice-chair for South Asia, and Dean at the Wildlife Institute of India)
- Scott Perkin (Head, IUCN Regional Biodiversity Conservation Programme, Asia)
- Jamie Kemsey (Protected Areas Regional Communications Network Manager, IUCN Global Protected Areas Programme)
- Toshio Torii (Director, National Park Division, Nature Conservation Bureau, Ministry of the Environment, Japan)
- Keisuke Takahashi (Assistant Director, National Park Division, Nature Conservation Bureau, Ministry of the Environment, Japan)
- Amran Hamzah (Professor at University Technology Malaysia, and Former WCPA Vice-chair for Southeast Asia)
- Peter Shadie (Former Head of theProtected Areas Programme of the IUCN Asia Regional Office)
- Hag Young Heo (Korea National Park Service)
National Coordination Committee
The National coordination committee is a liaison and coordination committee consisting of relevant organizations in Japan including administrative bodies and NGOs.
National Governmental organizations
The Ministry of the Environment (MOE), Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF), Japan Tourism Agency (JTA) and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
Local Governments
Prefectural Governments of Aomori, Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima, Sendai Municipal Government
NGOs
- Keidanren Committee on Nature Conservation (KNCF)
- Japan committee for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN-J)
- Secretariat of the International Partnership for the Satoyama Initiative
- Natural Environmental Coexistence Technology Association (NECTA)
- Japan Wildlife Research Center
- Natural Parks Foundation
- World Wildlife Fund Japan (WWF Japan)
- World Commission on Protected Areas Japan (WCPA-J)
- Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)
- Nagao Natural Environment Foundation
- Japan Ecotourism Society (JES)
- The Nature Conservation Society of Japan (NACS-J)
- Wild Bird Society of Japan
- BirdLife International Asia Division
Other agency
- Global Environment Outreach Centre (GEOC)
National Organizing Committee
The national organizing committee is an advisory committee on the Congress content and consists of Japanese experts.
Chair
- Akio Shimomura (Professor, University of Tokyo)
Vice Chair
- Yoshitaka Kumagai (Professor, Akita International University)
Committees
- Tetsuya Aikoh (Associate Professor, Hokkaido University)
- Munehiro Abe (Executive Director, Natural Parks Foundation)
- Taichi Ito (Professor, University of Tsukuba)
- Makoto Inoue (Professor, University of Tokyo)
- Yurie Kaizu (Professor, Bunkyo University／Director, Japan Ecotourism Society)
- Hisao Shikano (Former Executive Director, National Park Association)
- Kotaro Shibuya (Professor, Iwate Prefectural University)
- Takeharu Shumiya (Division Director, Nature Conservation Society of Japan)
- Yoshihisa Shirayama (Board of Director, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology)
- Susumu Takahashi (Professor, Kyoei University)
- Toshiyuki Tsuchiya (Professor, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology)
- Tatsuo Terasaki (Department Director, Japan Travel Bureau Foundation)
- Toru Nakashizuka (Professor, Tohoku University)
- Naoya Furuta (Senior Project Officer, IUCN Japan Office)
- Tetsuro Hongo (Division Head, Yamanashi Institute of Environmental Science)
- Mitsutaku Makino (Head of Group, Fisheries Research Agency Japan)
- Kiyotatsu Yamamoto (Associate Professor, Iwate University)
- Masahito Yoshida (Professor, University of Tsukuba)
- Tsunao Watanabe (Senior Researcher, Japan Wildlife Research Center)
