Rajib Shaw is a professor in Graduate School of Media and Governance in Keio University, Japan. He is the co-founder of a Delhi (India)-based social entrepreneur startup, Resilience Innovation Knowledge Academy (RIKA), and RIKA Institute (a non-profit wing of RIKA). He is a Distinguished Professor in Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati and Sichuan University in China. He is also a Senior Fellow of Institute of Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) Japan, and the Chairperson of SEEDS Asia and CWS Japan, two Japanese NGOs. Previously, he served as a Professor in the Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies of Kyoto University. His expertise includes community-based disaster risk management, climate change adaptation, urban risk management, and disaster and environmental education. He was the Chair of the United Nations Global Science Technology Advisory Group (STAG), and is current Co-chair of the Asia Science Technology Academic Advisory Group (ASTAAG); and CLA (Coordinating Lead Author) for the IPCC 6th Assessment Report (Asia Chapter). Prof. Shaw was the recipient of the prestigious “Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award (PBSA)” in 2021 for his contribution to the education sector. He is the recipient of the “Norio Okada Implementation Science Award 2022” from International Society for Integrated Disaster Risk Management (IDRIM).