Head of Department

Prof. Kyoko Kusakabe
Professor, Department Head, Department of Development and Sustainability
Program: Gender and Development Studies
Email: kyokok@ait.ac.th
Contact: (+66)2-254-6131
Room Number: W251, SERD Building
Area of Expertise
- Gender and Development
- Labor Migration
- Women in the informal economy
- Unpaid work
- Gender issues in fisheries and aquaculture
- Gender assessment of development projects
Prof. Kyoko Kusakabe
Gender, Migration and Work
Faculty Members

Prof. Jayant K. Routray
Emeritus Professor
Program: Regional and Rural Development Planning
Email: routray@ait.ac.th
Contact: (+66)2-254-6431
Room Number: E205, SERD Building
Area of Expertise
- Rural poverty and regional inequality
- Decentralized and sustainable rural-regional development
- Regional planning methods and techniques
- Rural urban relations
- Development impact assessment
- Disaster risk assessment, reduction and management
- Resilience and adaptive capacity to climate related hazards
Prof. Jayant Kumar Routray
Regional Development, DRR & Management

Prof. Rajendra P. Shrestha
Professor
Program: Natural Resources Management
Email: rajendra@ait.ac.th
Contact: (+66)2-254-5602
Room Number: W209, SERD Building
Area of Expertise
- Human dimension of land-use change
- Climate change and land
- Land degradation and land management
- Sustainability
Prof. Rajendra P. Shrestha
Land-climate Change, Ecosystem

Dr. Nophea Sasaki
Professor
Program: Natural Resources Management
Email: nopheas@ait.ac.th
Contact: (+66)2-254-5778
Room Number: E119, SERD Building
Area of Expertise
- REDD+
- Forest carbon monitoring and modeling
- Forest management
- Green technovation for sustainability
- Carbon project development, selective logging, biodiversity
conservation, impact investment in forestry
Prof. Nophea Sasaki
Forest and Carbon Management

Dr. Mokbul Morshed Ahmad
Associate Professor
Program: Regional And Rural Development Planning
Email: morshed@ait.ac.th Contact: (+66)2-254-5664 Room Number: E203, SERD Building Area of Expertise- Regional and Rural Development Planning,
- Community Development,
- NGOs/Civil Society, Adaptation to climate change,
- Human conflicts
Dr. Mokbul Morshed Ahmad
International Development

Dr. Vilas Nitivattananon
Associate Professor
Program: Urban Environmental Management
Email: vilasn@ait.ac.th
Contact: (+66)2-254-5601
Room Number: E103, SERD Building
Area of Expertise
- Systems approach and management for urban sustainability
- Urban competitiveness and resilience
- Climate change and urbanization
- Waste recycling and management
- Strategic water and infrastructure development
- Sustainability and impact assessment
Dr. Vilas Nitivattananon
Urban Infrastructure / Systems

Dr. Indrajit Pal
Assistant Professor
Program: Disaster Preparedness, Mitigation and Management
Email: indrajit-pal@ait.ac.th Contact: (+66)2-254-6428 Room Number: E209, SERD Building Area of Expertise- Disaster Risk Reduction,
- Incident Command System (ICS)
- Risk Governance
- Community-Based Disaster Risk Management
- Risk Perception
- Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk
- Urban Resilience
- Multi-Hazard Risk Assessment
- GIS / RS in disaster risk management
Dr. Indrajit Pal
Risk Governance, Risk Reduction

Dr. Philippe Doneys
Associate Professor
Program: Gender And Development Studies
Email: philippe@ait.ac.th Contact: (+66)2-254-5673 Room Number: W257, SERD Building Area of Expertise- Gender Politics, Empowerment and Human Rights
- Migration and Human Security
- Gender, Health and HIV
Dr. Philippe Doneys
Politics, Human Rights, Migration Policies and Gender

Dr. Joyee S. Chatterjee
Assistant Professor
Program:Gender And Development Studies
Email: joyeec@ait.ac.th Contact: (+66)2-254-5671 Room Number: W253, SERD Building Area of Expertise- Global Health
- Gender & Media
- Development Communication
- Gender & Culture
- Popular Media and Social Change
Dr. Joyee S. Chatterjee
Media, Health, Gender, Culture

Dr. Sohee Minsun Kim
Assistant Professor
Program: Urban Environmental Management
Email: skim@ait.ac.th Contact: (+66)2-254-5619 Room Number: E106, SERD Building Area of Expertise- Urban-rural sustainable land-use planning.
- Community-based ecosystem and resource management.
- Building climate resilience and adaptation strategies into urban planning
Dr. Sohee Minsun Kim
Risk-sensitive Urban Planning

Dr. Thi Phuoc Lai Nguyen
Assistant Professor
Program: Regional and Rural Development Planning
Email: phuoclai@ait.ac.th Contact: (+66)2-254-6670 Room Number: W249, SERD Building Area of Expertise- Rural and environmental sociology
- Coupled human-environment complex systems
- Social dimensions of climate and environmental and technology changes
- STEM education and sustainable development
- Agri-environmental policy
Dr. Thi Phuoc Lai Nguyen
Sociology of the Environment

Dr. Takuji W. Tsusaka
Assistant Professor
Program: Natural Resources Management
Email: takuji@ait.ac.th Contact: (+66)2-254-5585 Room Number: E214, SERD Building Area of Expertise- Agricultural Economics
- Natural Resources Economics
- Poverty Reduction
- Social Capital Formation
- Technology Adoption
- Ex-post Impact Evaluation
- Gender in Smallholder Agriculture
- Survey Methods
- Spatial Econometrics
- Monitoring and Evaluation
- Corporate Management
Dr. Takuji W. Tsusaka
Poverty and Natural Resources
Affiliated / Visiting Faculty

Prof. Jagdish Singh
Visiting Professor
Program: Urban Environmental Management
Email: jagdish@ait.ac.th Contact: (+66)2-254-6133 Room Number: E120, SERD Building Area of Expertise- Urban Infrastructure Modelling
- Architectural Conservation
- Urban Planning
- Environmental Design
- Architecture, Energy and Water Resources
Prof. Jagdish Singh
Urban Infrastructure Modelling

Dr. Julaikha Bente Hossain
Senior Research Specialist and Affiliated faculty
Program: Gender and Development Studies
Email: jbhossain@ait.ac.th
Contact: (+66)2-254-6382
Room Number: E202, SERD Building
Area of Expertise
- Gender, law and legal issues.
Gender, environment and sustainable development.
Women, peace and security.
Dr. Julaikha Bente Hossain
Gender, law and legal issues

Dr. Sylvia Szabo
Assistant Professor
Program: Regional and Rural Development Planning
Email: sylviaszabo@ait.ac.th Contact: (+66)2-254-5696 Room Number: E201, SERD Building Area of Expertise- Climate-sensitive development
- Climate-sensitive development
- Adaptation to climate change
- Poverty alleviation
- Population change
- Public Policy
- Monitoring and evaluation
Dr. Sylvia Szabo
Climate-sensitive development, demography

Parmeshwar D. Udmale, PhD
Research Fellow
Project: UKRI GCRF Living Deltas Hub
Email: udmale@ait.ac.th
Room Number: E127, SERD Building
Area of Expertise
- Water, Agriculture and Climate Change
- Disaster Risk Research (Floods and Droughts)
- Drought Monitoring and Impact Assessment
- Water and Rural Livelihoods
- Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
Dr. Parmeshwar D. Udmale
UKRI GCRF Living Deltas Hub

Dr. Nicolas Faysse
Visiting Assistant Professor
Program: Natural Resources Management
Email: nfaysse@ait.ac.th
Contact: (+66)2-254-5776
Room Number: W211, SERD Building
Area of Expertise
Natural Resources Management
Rural Sociology
Water Resource Management
Agricultural Innovation Systems
Agricultural and Rural Development Policies.
Dr. Nicolas Faysse
Governance of Natural Resources
Research Fellow

Mr. Brighton Nhau
Research Fellow
Project: UKRI GCRF Trade Hub
Email: brighton@ait.ac.th
Room Number: E126, SERD Building
Area of Expertise
- Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning
- Project design and results frameworks
- Livelihoods and food security
- Sustainable development, Gender, Resilience and Climate change
- Agribusiness and Rural Finance
- Public Policy: Agriculture
Mr. Brighton Nhau
UKRI GCRF Trade Hub

Mr. Malay Pramanik
Research Fellow
Project: UKRI GCRF Living Deltas hub
Email: malaypramanik@ait.ac.th
Room Number: E127, SERD Building
Area of Expertise
- Climate Change Impact Analysis
- Ecosystem based Livelihood Analysis
- Ecosystem Modelling & Services Analysis
- Coastal Conservation and Planning
- Climatic Events and Human Health
- Remote Sensing and GIS
Mr. Malay Pramanik
UKRI GCRF Living Deltas hub