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Masanobu Ishikawa, Kobe University, Japan
Masanobu Ishikawa has been working as an expert of recycling, energy saving, GHG emission reduction and packaging in a couple of councils and committees of Japan Government or local authorities for around 15 years: Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Ministry of Economics Trade and Industry, Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Suginami ward, Bunkyo ward and Chigasaki city.
Masanobu Ishikawa has been Professor at the Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University since 2003. He was vice president of the Packaging Science and Technology, Japan, and editor in chief or Chairman of international seminars. He has been working as an advisor of Japan Containers and Packaging Recycling Association since its foundation in 1996. He was also co-initiator of a two year US-Japan bilateral research project on waste management and GHG emission reduction with Professor Frank Ackerman of Tufts University in 2002-2003, which is supported by The Japan Foundation.
With connection to business, he has been working as a member of Green Board of Seiyu Company that is now a daughter company of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. since its foundation in 2001. He had guided and advised LCA research on fresh foods in 2001, the results ended up a modal change of Unshu-mikan transport by rail. He aslo proposed Intra-Company Eco-Tax to Seiyu Company in 2002 and the system was promptly implemented in the company.
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