39th Annual Meeting

Norio Yamamoto
 

NORIO YAMAMOTO is executive vice president of the Global Infrastructure Fund (GIF) Research Foundation, Japan. He is a member of the Board of the Overseas Constructors Association of Japan; senior advisor to the Board of the Infrastructure Development Institute, Japan; and visiting fellow of the Institute of the North, Alaska Pacific University, Anchorage, USA. He has been an honorable research fellow at Mitsubishi Research Institute. He joined Mitsubishi Research Institute in 1971 and was engaged in interdisciplinary policy analysis on such topics as the technology transfer of micro electronics and social, economic, and ecological analysis of major infrastructure projects. He was a member of the study task force team on the information society in Japan in 1971. He is a member of the planning committee of the Millennium Project of the American Council of the United Nations University and on the Board of the Millennium Society. He is a founding member of the GIF Research Foundation, Japan, where he has been engaged in policy analysis and promotion of large infrastructure projects, mainly in the developing parts of the world. His projects include water resource development in the Eastern Himalaya, rehabilitation of the Aral Sea water pipeline, the Orinoco-Meta River basin development program, the new Silk Road transportation system development, the Kra canal in Thailand, ocean thermal energy conversion, the North East Asia gas pipeline network, and the development of new nuclear energy systems. He obtained his doctoral degree in engineering from Tohoku University, Japan.