Dr. Hiroe Ishihara is an Associate Professor at the Sustainable Society Design Center, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo and current Pew Marine Fellow. Her work focuses on biodiversity and ecosystem assessments, as well as seafood supply chain and common pool resource management. She is currently involved in Values Assessment Report published by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and Grenada National Ecosystem Assessment (Grenada NEA).
From 2003 to 2006, she worked as a Programme Officer in the Environment Unit of the United Nations Development Programme, Yemen Office, in charge of various Global Environment Facility (GEF) funded projects. After that, she moved back to academia to pursue a master’s and PhD degree in the Department of Land Economy at the University of Cambridge. She obtained PhD degree in 2016 by conducting research on terraced paddy fields and irrigation channel management in Japan.
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