• Professional Career

Dr. Miyamoto Mamoru earned a master’s and doctoral degree in Hydrology from Chuo University in Tokyo and is currently a senior researcher at the International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management (ICHARM) under the auspices of UNESCO. He has been active worldwide, particularly in the area of flood management, taking advantage of his hydrological expertise backed by research achievements in elucidating flood runoff characteristics and improving flood forecasting technology. Besides, he has abundant experience at the forefront of water-related disaster risk reduction in leading international programs and capacity developments to meet national/local stakeholders’ needs through the framework of the International Flood Initiative (IFI), Typhoon Committee, WMO, and so on.

• Selected publications

- Mamoru Miyamoto, Daiki Kakinuma, Tomoki Ushiyama, Abdul Wahid Mohamed Rasmy, Masaki Ya-sukawa, Della Grace Bacaltos, Anthony C. Sales, Toshio Koike, and Masaru Kitsuregawa: Co-design for Enhancing Flood Resilience in Davao City, Philippines, Water, 2022, 14(6), 978.

- Rafael Silva Araújo, Miho Ohara, Mamoru Miyamoto, Kuniyoshi Takeuchi: Flood impact on income inequality in the Itapocu River basin, Brazil, Journal of flood risk management, 2022 v.15 no.3 pp. e12805.

- Anurak Sriariyawat, Bounhome Kimmany, Mamoru Miyamoto, Daiki Kakinuma, Shakti P. C., Supattra Visessri,An Approach to Flood Hazard Mapping for the Chao Phraya River Basin Using Rainfall-Runoff-Inundation Model, Journal of Disaster Research, 2022, Vol.17, No.6, pp. 864-876.

- Daiki Kakinuma, Mamoru Miyamoto, Yosuke Nakamura, Anurak Sriariyawat, Supattra Visessri, Development of an Inundation Model for Creating Industrial Park-Scale Risk Information for Area-BCM, Journal of Disaster Research, 2022, Vol.17, No.6, p. 877-888.

- Malik Rizwan Asghar, Tomoki Ushiyama, Muhammad Riaz, Mamoru Miyamoto: Flood and Inundation Forecasting in the Sparsely Gauged Transboundary Chenab River Basin Using Satellite Rain and Coupling Meteorological and Hydrological Models, Journal of Hydrometeorology, Volume 20 No. 12, December 2019, 2315-2330.

- Mamoru Miyamoto and Kazuhiro Matsumoto: Influence of Rainfall Data with Different Spatial Resolutions on Flood Forecasting Reliability, 13th International Conference on Hydroinformatics, EPiC Series in Engineering, Vol. 3, 1406-1414, 2018.

• Social contributions

- Chairperson, Working Group on Hydrology, WMO/ESCAP Typhoon Committee [February 2021 – present]

- Core member, Coordination Panel on Hydrology, WMO RA-II [July 2022 – present]

- Member of International Scientific Steering Committee (ISSC), Asia-Pacific Typhoon Collaborative Research Center (AP-TCRC) [January 2023 – present]