Dr Masahito YOSHIDA

Professor, University of Tsukuba

Dr. Masahito Yoshida is a professor of World Heritage Studies, University of Tsukuba and the Executive-Director of Nature Conservation Society of Japan (NACS-J).  He is also a member of World Commission on Protected Areas (Natural World Heritage and Protected Landscape Specialist Group) and a member of Species Survival Commission (Invasive Alien Species Specialist Group) of IUCN . He has been appointed as a UNESCO Chair-holder of Nature-Culture Linkages in Heritage Conservation since 2017.