The Future of Community and Mobility Week
Transforming into sustainable region & cities
Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition
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Agenda2025
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2025.05.17[Sat]
10:00 ～ 12:00
(Venue Open 09:30)
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- Theme Weeks Studio
Programme details
The programme, together with the General Sponsors, explores: 'What changes will be brought to industry, the economy, and communities in an era of evolution toward sustainable cities, regions, and mobility?'
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Moderator
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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose
Princesa de Asturias Chair and Professor, London School of Economics
Andrés Rodríguez-Pose holds the Princesa de Asturias Chair and is a Professor of Economic Geography at the London School of Economics (LSE). He currently directs the Cañada Blanch Centre at LSE and has previously served as Head of the Department of Geography and Environment. He also chairs the European Union’s High-Level Group on the Future of Cohesion Policy, which is tasked with shaping the EU’s Cohesion Policy beyond 2027. In addition, Rodríguez-Pose has held prominent positions in regional science, including President and Vice-President of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI), as well as Vice-President and Secretary of the European Regional Science Association.
His research spans regional growth and inequality, fiscal and political decentralisation, institutions, discontent and populism, innovation, migration, and development strategies. Highly influential, his work frequently informs policy decisions, and he regularly advises international organisations and governments. He is also widely cited in academic circles and recognised as one of the leading scholars in urban and regional studies. For three of the last four years, he has been ranked the top scientist globally in this field by the Stanford/Elsevier ranking, which identifies the top 2% of scientists across all disciplines. He has also featured on Clarivate’s Web of Science list of Highly Cited Researchers for the past five years.
Among his many honours, Rodríguez-Pose was awarded the 2018 ERSA Prize in Regional Science, considered the most prestigious accolade in the field. He also holds honorary doctorates from Utrecht University (Netherlands) and Jönköping University (Sweden).
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Claire Charbit
OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development)
Claire CHARBIT is an expert in regional development and Head of the Regional Attractiveness and Integration of Migrants Unit at the OECD. She has developed a standard methodology for analysing multi-level governance, which is used in numerous sectoral and national studies. She is responsible for the ‘Regions in Globalisation’ programme, which offers original statistical analysis tools, the ‘regional attractiveness compass’, and numerous case studies around the world to prepare for demographic, environmental and technological transitions at a sub-national level. Claire Charbit holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Nice-Sophia-Antipolis in France. Before joining the OECD in 2004, she was a professor-researcher at Telecom Paris and Mines Paris. linkedin.com/in/claire-charbit
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Tomohiro Fukuzawa
Chief Executive Officer, SkyDrive Inc.
After graduating from the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Tokyo, he joined Toyota Motor Corporation in 2010, where he was engaged in global procurement. He received the Cost Improvement Award for his improvement activities using the Toyota Production System at many workplaces. He established SkyDrive Inc. in 2018 to promote the development of "zero-emission flying vehicles" and "cargo drones". As a member of the "Public-Private Council for the Air Mobility Revolution" organized by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT), he is working with the government to create new rules for the practical use of flying vehicles. He was awarded "Innovators Under 35 Japan 2020" by MIT Technology Review and was selected as one of the top 20 entrepreneurs in Forbes Japan's "Japan Entrepreneur Ranking 2023".
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Özge Öner
Associate Professor, University of Cambridge
Associate Professor at the Department of Land Economy and Fellow in Economics and Land Economy at Sidney Sussex College. Öner is also an affiliated Research Fellow at the Centre for Entrepreneurship and Spatial Economics (CEnSE) in Jönköping. Öner’s research is rooted in Urban and Regional Economics, and deals with issues related to migration, labour mobility, micro geography of segregation and ethnic enclaves, retail and service geography, urban amenities, as well as the geography of entrepreneurship. She has previously worked on several research projects related to the prosperity of retail and hospitality sectors in urban and rural Sweden, in collaboration with sector organizations such as The Swedish Retail and Wholesale and Council (Handelsrådet) and the R&D Fund of the Swedish Tourism & Hospitality Industry (BFUF), as well as on commissioned reports on the integration of immigrants in Sweden. She has spent part of her PhD studies at the Regional Economics Applications Laboratory (REAL), University of Illinois. Öner is a former recipient of Handelsbanken Wallander post-doctoral scholarship in Sweden, and Young Investigator Award in Italy. She received the Young Research Award 2019 in Sweden for her research on the importance of geography for entrepreneurship. Öner is a member of the editorial board of Spatial Economic Analysis and Geographical Analysis. Previously she was a columnist for the newspaper Swedish Daily (SvD), and currently writes weekly columns at the Turkish Newspaper Oksijen.
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Hiroo Ichikawa
Professor Emeritus, Meiji University
Hiroo Ichikawa has been in his current position since 2018 after serving as Dean of Meiji University Professional Graduate School. He serves as Executive Director at the Mori Memorial Foundation's Institute for Urban Strategy, Chairman at the Institute of Metropolitan Policy, and Chairman at the Japan Institute of Emergency Managers, as well as a Steering Board Member of the Future of Urban Development and Services Committee at the World Economic Forum, among others.
He is an expert in such fields as urban policy, international urban competitiveness, crisis management, and telework, and has published numerous works about Tokyo and large megaropolises. Some of his selected published works include Future Configuration of Tokyo in 2030(2023), A New Evolutionary Theory for Tokyo (2019), City's Écriture (2018), Creative Tokyo Reborn (2017), Tokyo's Unipolar Concentration Will Save Japan (2015), Lesson from Japanese Disaster (2011), and Building Japan's Future (2009).
In addition to working with the Japanese and Tokyo Metropolitan Governments, he has also served several public and private institutions in roles such as President, Chairman, and policy committee member. Presently, he is Chairman of the Japan Emergency Management Association as well as the Japan Telework Society. He graduated from Waseda University with a Bachelor of Architecture and a Master of Urban Planning, and further studied at the University of Waterloo where he was granted a Ph.D. in urban and regional planning. He was born in 1947, in Tokyo, and is a first-class registered architect in Japan.
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The Future of Community and Mobility Week
Transforming into sustainable region & cities
-
2025.05.17[Sat]
10:00～12:00
(Venue Open 09:30)
- Theme Weeks Studio
- * Programme times and content are subject to change. Any changes will be announced on this website and via the ticket booking system.
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The Future of Community and Mobility Week
