Faculty Members

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

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Prof. Kyoko Kusakabe

Gender, Migration and Work

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

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Prof. Jayant Kumar Routray
Regional Development, DRR & Management

Prof. Rajendra P. Shrestha

Professor and SERD Dean

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

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Prof. Rajendra P. Shrestha
Land-climate Change, Ecosystem

Dr. Nophea Sasaki

Associate 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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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. 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

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

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Dr. Takuji W. Tsusaka
Poverty and Natural Resources

Dr. Thi Phouc 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 Phouc Lai Nguyen
Sociology of the Environment

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

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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.

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Dr. Julaikha Bente Hossain
Gender, law and legal issues

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

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

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