We are pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Jun Arima as the new President of IAFOR. He succeeds Ambassador Toshiya Hoshino in this role.
The President is the senior academic officer of the organisation. In this role, Professor Arima is the Honorary Chair of the International Academic Advisory Board, as well as both the Academic Governing Board and its Executive Committee. He also sits on the IAFOR Board of Directors.
Dr Haldane, Chairman and CEO of IAFOR commented, “Jun Arima is one of Japan’s foremost authorities on energy and the environment, with an international reputation. Climate change and the complicated geopolitics of energy impact on human security, are some of the most complex problems facing us today, and I look forward to working with Professor Arima to ensure IAFOR addresses these concerns in its academic programmes and conferences.”
The Reverend Professor Stuart D. B. Picken (1942–2016), Professor Arthur Stockwin, OBE and Professor Jun Arima discuss Japanese security at The European Conference on Economics, Politics and Law 2014.
Jun Arima was formerly Director General of the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), UK from 2011 to 2015 and Special Advisor on Global Environmental Affairs for the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), Japan, from 2011 to 2015. He has previously held various international energy/environment-related positions, including: Head of Division, Country Studies, International Energy Agency (IEA); Director, International Affairs Division, Agency of Natural Resources and Energy, METI; and Deputy Director General for Environmental Affairs at METI’s Industrial Science and Technology Policy and Environment Bureau. In the COP (UN Convention on Climate Change) 14, 15 and 16, he was Japanese Chief Negotiator for AWG-KP.
Professor Arima gives a Keynote Presentation titled "Energy Security and Sustainability in Asia" at APSec2016 in Osaka, Japan.
Since 2015 Jun Arima has been a Professor at the University of Tokyo, Japan, where he teaches Energy Security, International Energy Governance, and Environmental Policies in the Graduate School of Public Policy. (GraSPP). He is also currently a Consulting Fellow at the Japanese Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI). He is also Executive Senior Fellow at the 21st Century Public Policy Institute, Principal Researcher at the International Environmental and Economic Institute (IEEI), Distinguished Senior Policy Fellow, at the Asia Pacific Institute of Research (APIR), Senior Policy Fellow on Energy and Environment, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA), and was a Lead Author of the 6th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC).
