Shizuka Hashimoto

Dr. Shizuka Hashimoto is a professor at the Department of Ecosystem Studies, School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, the University of Tokyo. Before he joined the University of Tokyo, he worked for Kyoto University (2009-2015), the National Institute for Environmental Studies (2007-2009), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2005-2008). Trained in the field of rural planning, he has more than ten years of experience in ecosystem service evaluation and its application in landscape planning and acquired extensive experience in modeling, land-change & ecosystem service simulation, and scenario analysis. He published a number of peer-reviewed academic papers and book chapters, contributed to a Japan Satoyama Satoumi Assessment as a Coordinating Lead Author, and served as one of the expert group members for Japan Biodiversity Outlook 2 and Japan Biodiversity Outlook 3. The Ministry of the Environment, Japan, has appointed him as one of the expert group members to help revise the National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan. He has been a member of the Science Council of Japan since 2020. At the international level, he contributed to the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Global Assessment and the Asia-Pacific Regional Assessment as a Lead Author. Since 2018, he has served as one of the Multidisciplinary Expert Panel (MEP) members of IPBES, a co-chair of the IPBES task force on scenarios and models since 2019, and a co-chair of the IPBES MEP from September 2022 to February 2026.