Friday, October 1st, 2004

TDLC Welcomes New Programs and Capacity Building Coordinator

Hiroichi Kawashima joins the TDLC from the World Bank, Washington

The TDLC is very pleased to announce that Hiroichi Kawashima has joined the team as Programs and Capacity Building Coordinator. Hiroichi, a Japanese national, is a specialist in urban management, strategic development, public-private partnerships, and regulatory issues,with special emphasis on the value of knowledge management. He brings to the TDLC extensive Bank and governmental experience.

Hiroichi was Senior Urban Specialist at the World Bank's East Asia Urban Development Sector Unit where, among other projects, he managed the City Networking and Investment Marketplace Development Initiative in Asia, a new networking approach for linking local capacity building and lending operations through municipal associations in China, India, Indonesia, and Philippines. He began working at the Bank as a coordinator of the City Development Strategies program in East Asia.

Prior to joining the Bank he was Deputy Director of MLIT's Building Disaster Prevention Division and coordinated Japan's bilateral technical assistance programs on building disaster prevention. His experience includes urban development management at Kitakyushu City Government, housing advisory services and lending project preparations for the Government of Indonesia through the Japan International Cooperation Agency.

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