2 May 1962 Born in Kyoto
Graduated from Faculty of Law, The University of Tokyo in 1986

Mohammad Nazri Mohammad Yusof was appointed as Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Transport and Infocommunications, Brunei Darussalam on 15th December 2018. His previous designation was as Acting Director of Civil Aviation, Ministry of Transport and Infocommunications from 1 January 2015. Since entering Government service as an Engineer in 1993, Mohammad Nazri has served in the Ministry of Development in various capacities including as Head of Infrastructure and Industry Policy Planning Development Division and Acting Director of Housing Development.

Mohammad Nazri is a Chartered Civil Engineer and an engineering graduate from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), United Kingdom; and holds a Master in Public Administration from Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy National University of Singapore. He is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers United Kingdom; and Corporate Member of the Institution of Surveyors, Engineers and Architects (PUJA) Brunei. He is also a Professional Engineer registered with the Board of Architects, Professional Engineers and Quantity Surveyors of Brunei Darussalam.

Mohammad Nazri is the current Chair of ASEAN Smart Cities Network which is a collaborative platform where cities from the ten (10) ASEAN Member States work towards the common goal of smart and sustainable urban development. Nationally, he is a member of Brunei Darussalam’s Smart City Steering Committee whose role is to develop and monitor the implementation of smart city initiatives in Brunei Darussalam as well as to ensure a continuous coordination and alignment of smart city initiatives to Brunei Darussalam Digital Economy Masterplan 2025.

Personal Record

Area of Studies

Transportation Planning and Policy Development, Urban Planning, Infrastructure Policy Development

Public Services

• Cabinet Office
  Member, Committee on Green Innovation Strategy Development and Driving
  Chair, Committee on Smart City Guidebook
• Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
  Member, Council of Infrastructure Policy, Chair of Road Policy Committee
  Member, Council of National Land Development
  Chair, Committee on Smart City Policy Development
• Ministry of Economy, Industry and Trade
  Member, Council on Industry Policy
  Member, Committee on Autonomous Driving Business

• Chair of the Board, Japan Research Institute of Roads and Streets
• Director of the National Land Policy Research Institute, Japan Center of Country-ology and Engineering

Mr Lim Chze Cheen is the Director of the ASEAN Connectivity Division under the Office of the Secretary-General at the ASEAN Secretariat. He coordinates the development of the Master Plan on ASEAN Connectivity (MPAC) 2025 and its preceding document.

Prior to assuming this position, he was Assistant Director of the Strategic Planning and Coordination Division, which managed the overall reporting of progress of ASEAN Community as well as the development of ASEAN cooperation programmes and projects. He earlier served as Assistant Director handling ASEAN Economic Community coordination, particularly the development and monitoring of the ASEAN Economic Community Blueprint 2015, and Senior Officer handling Trade in Services.

Before joining the ASEAN Secretariat in 2005, Mr Lim was a Senior Research Officer at the Malaysian Institute of Economic Research (MIER), specialising in macroeconomics and industrial studies.

Education

Professional Experience

Hugh graduated from the University of Liverpool in 1987 with a Bachelor of Engineering (First Class) degree on a Singapore Armed Forces (Overseas) Scholarship. He holds a Master of Science (Management of Technology) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States of America, 1998.

Hugh joined the Singapore Armed Forces in 1984, and attained the rank of Brigadier-General on 1 Jul 2005. He has served in a variety of command and staff positions, including Chief Engineer Officer, Commander 6 Division, Commander Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) and Chief of Staff, General Staff.

Prior to joining CLC, Hugh was the CEO of the Building & Construction Authority (BCA). Previously, he held the appointments of Deputy Secretary (Community, Youth and Sports) at the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth, and the Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Law.

He is married with three children, and has a keen interest in technology, sports and photography.

Haji Hairul Mohd Daud bin Haji Abdul Karim, was appointed as the Deputy Permanent Secretary (Infocommunications) at the Ministry of Transport and Infocommunications, Brunei Darussalam in December 2018. He is also the Secretary for Brunei Darussalam’s Smart City Steering Committee.

Haji Hairul Mohd Daud bin Haji Abdul Karim holds a Master of Law (LLM) in IT and Telecommunications from the University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom (2006), and a Bachelor in Engineering (Hons) Electronic and Electrical Engineering from University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (1999). He is also a Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, United Kingdom (MIET).

PROFILE

Vannak Seng received his Post-Master Degree (HMONP) in Architecture and Urban Planning from the National School of Architecture Paris-Malaquais (within the National Fine Arts School) in Paris in 2008. In 2010 he joined the City Hall of Phnom Penh as Chief of the Urbanization Office and was promoted to Deputy Director of the Urban Management Division in 2014. In April 2018 he became Director of Administration of Phnom Penh City Hall directing 12 divisions containing 24 specific offices of the City Hall, coordinating day to day technical and administrative operations between national and local authorities, changing policies by being part of all boards of city hall leadership, monitoring items on board of governor agendas. He also oversees reports budgets, human resources, investment plan, urbanization plan and implementation plan of the city. As a recognized urban planner and architect in Phnom Penh, he was asked to be part of judges for different competitions in architecture and urbanization.

CURRENT WORK

• Director of Administration, Phnom Penh City Hall, since 2018
• Member of Cabinet of Prime Minister Cambodia, Council of Ministers, since 2009
• Registered at Board of Architect of Cambodia since 2012
• Founder and Architect at VA Architecture - Design Workshop, creation Green nursery Agency, since 2008

WORK EXPERIENCE

EDUCATION

• HMONP, Architect, Urbanist,
  National School of Architecture Paris-Malaquais. Paris, France, 2008
• Master Degree – Architecture and Urbanism,
  National School of Architecture Paris-Malaquais, Paris, France, 2007
• Bachelor Degree – Architecture,
  National School of Architecture Paris-Malaquais, Paris, France, 2005
• General Baccalaureate, Secondary Study
  Paris, France, 2002
• General Baccalaureate, Secondary Study
  Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 1998

• Deputy Chief of Luang Prabang City Cabinet (in charge of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Luang Prabang City)
• Coordinator for Luang Prabang to the ASEAN Smart Cities Network
• Coordinator of Laos to the Southeast Asian AIMF Cities Network

Haji Rosli bin Nordin joined the City Hall Kuala Lumpur in 1993 as a City Planning Assistant Officer and later was promoted as a City Planning Officer at the Department of City Planning. He is currently the Senior Deputy Director in the Research and Development Division, Department of City Planning.

He is very much involved in the preparation of development plans at Kuala Lumpur City Hall which include the Kuala Lumpur Smart City Master Plan and Kuala Lumpur Climate Action Plan 2050, since the formulation of development strategies and policies, to engaging the public and ensuring that they are in line with the targeted vision and goals set for Kuala Lumpur.

Haji Rosli graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Urban and Regional Planning from University of Technology of Malaysia in 1997 and Masters Degree from International Islamic University Malaysia in 2008.

CV

• Information Technology Officer II (January 1, 1996 - Present)
• City Information Technology Center (CITC), City Government of Davao
• Assists the Head Office in developing technical operating plans, and short & long range objectives for the organization.
• Conducts project development, proposals, and analysis and submits recommendations to the Head Office.
• Oversees, monitors, and evaluates the projects and programs of CITC and prepares recommendation/reports thereof.
• Represents the office and the City Government in all its ICT undertakings.

Supakorn graduated from the Electrical and Electronic Engineering department, Imperial College, London. In 2001, he joined NECTEC as a research scientist and led various projects involving computer vision, intelligent transportation systems, rural education promotion, and smart city.
Since 2015, he has served the Royal Thai Government’s smart city initiative and led the implementation of smart city in Phuket. He joined depa in 2017 as Vice President of the Smart City Promotion department, in charge of driving smart cities around Thailand. Since April 2019, he has served as Executive Vice President in charge of smart city promotion, IoT and digital innovation, and digital platform promotion.

EXPERIENCE

• depa, Bangkok — Executive Vice President, smart city and digital innovation
  APRIL 2019 - PRESENT
• depa, Bangkok — Vice President, smart city promotion department
  SEPTEMBER 2017 - MARCH 2019
• NECTEC, Pathumthani — Research scientist
  July 2001 - AUGUST 2017
  Computer vision, intelligent transport systems, IT education for marginalised areas, smart city.

EDUCATION

• Imperial College, London — PhD Digital Image Processing
  SEP 1997 - JULY 2001
  Blind image deconvolution.
• University of Dundee, Dundee — MSc in Remote sensing, image processing and applications
  SEP 1996 - AUG 1997
  NDVI study using AVHRR data.
• Imperial College, London — BEng (Hons) Computing, DIC
  SEP 1993 - JUNE 1996
  Gouraud shading.

SELECTED PROJECTS

• City data platform — Phuket, Chiang Mai, and Khon Kaen, 2017-2018
  Provide public services to local residents by connecting local government agencies to a data platform with data analytics.
• Phuket smart city — Phuket, 2015-2017
  Improve public safety through traffic violation detection and cross agency CCTV integration.
• Mae Hong Son IT Valley — Mae Hong Son, 2004-2014
  Promote local vitality in marginalised area through IT education in high schools.
• Nong Khai safer road — Nong Khai, 2014
  Improve road safety through speed violation detection and automatic ticket issuing system.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Nattapon Nimmanphatcharin, Passakon Prathombutr, Supakorn Siddhichai, Non A, and Wichai Preethidtaphat “Smart city initiatives in Thailand: key concepts and methods” Hitachi Review Vol.70, No.1, pp.106-110, Jan 2021
• Chanchai Techawatcharapaikul, Pradit Mittrapiyanuruk, Pakorn Kaewtrakulpong, Supakorn Siddhichai, and Werapon Chiracharit “Improved Radiometric Calibration by Brightness Transfer Function Based Noise & Outlier Removal and Weighted Least Square Minimization”IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Vol.E101-D, No.8, pp.2101-2114, Aug 2018
• Nattachai Watcharapinchai, Supavadee Aramvith, and Supakorn Siddhichai “Automatic vehicle classification using linked visual words” Journal of Electronic Imaging, Jul 2017
• Damitha S. B. Tilakaratna, Ukrit Watchareeruetai, Supakorn Siddhichai, and Nattachai Natcharapinchai “Image analysis algorithms for vehicle color recognition”, Mar 2017
• Ramesh Marikhu, Jednipat Moonrinta, Mongkol Ekpanyapong, and Supakorn Siddhichai “Police Eyes: Real world automated detection of traffic violations”, May 2013
• Adisorn Pasukmoon, Supavadee Aramvith, Thanarat H. Chalidabhongse, and Supakorn Siddhichai “Target modeling for tracking and handoff in a camera network”, Jan 2013

SKILLS

• Project management
• Smart city development
• Intelligent transport systems
• Computer vision

AWARDS

• Thailand national award Mae Hong Son IT Valley 2014
• Thailand research fund award Invention in IT category 2014.
• IT Princess award Embedded system category V-Watch 2013.

Education

Graduated from Doctoral Program in Policy and Planning Sciences, School of System and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba, Japan,
Ph.D. in Policy and Planning Sciences

Professional Experience

Concurrent Post

• Specially Appointed Professor, University of Tsukuba, since 2017
• Guest Professor, Faculty of Economics, Keio University, since 2019

Birth Place

Aizuwakamatsu city, Fukushima Prefecture (Born on September 28th, 1955)

Education

Bachelor of Business Administration, Tohoku University

Career

Hobby

Playing tennis, Reading books

Date of Birth: August 23, 1959

Joined NEC in 2007. After building engineering career in telecommunication sector, reallocated to Spain in 2011 and UK in 2017 to contribute to start-up new business of data driven smart cities in European market. Returned to NEC headquarters at Tokyo and responsible for marketing and business development of NEC’s smart/super city for Europe and Asia-Pacific countries since 2020.

Yasutaka Goto has graduated from the Department of Urban Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokyo in March 1991. Then, he had joined Mitsubishi Estate Co.,Ltd. in April of the same year.
He has worked in wide areas of departments such as, Building development, Property management, Real estate securitization, Human resources, and Corporate planning.
After that, He was appointed General Manager of the Area Brand Management Department in 2017, General Manager of the Area Management Planning Department in 2020, and in his current position from 2021.

Born in 1971 at Yokohama, Japan.

In March 1994, he graduated College of Natural Sciences, University of Tsukuba.
After that he entered the doctoral program in Institute of Geoscience, University of Tsukuba. He obtained a Ph.D. in science in March 1999. The theme of Ph.D. thesis was about CO2 dynamics in forest and grassland soils. His research background is hydrology, especially soil water/carbon cycles and isotope hydrology.

Until March 2009, he continued his research as a staff member of University of Tsukuba (except for the financial year 2003, in which he worked at National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) and studied on water quality in Lake Kasumigaura).

In April 2009, he moved to Hokkaido University. Mainly as a staff member of Soil Science Laboratory, Research Faculty of Agriculture, he studied on the evaluation of greenhouse gas emission from tropical peatland in Indonesia.

In April 2016, he moved to Midori Engineering Laboratory Co., Ltd., an IoT system integrator for field monitoring. As a system engineer, he designed and developed new IoT systems and conducted maintenance works at home and abroad. He was appointed to current position in July 2019.

EDUCATION

• PhD (Sport science)
  Graduate school of Osaka University of Health and Sport Science in 2009
• MSc (Sport science)
  Graduate school of Osaka University of Health and Sport Science in 2002
• Bachelor of Health Science (Physical therapy)
  National Institution for Academic Degrees, Japan in 1996
• Graduated from Division of Physical Therapy,
  College of Medical Technology, Kyoto University in 1991

EXPERIENCE

Awards

• Currently, Executive Managing Director a t Smart City Institute Japan , not for profit organization promoting smart cities in Japan, dedicated in conducting research, policy making, and designing strategic alliance for smart cities.
• Concurrently,
  • Senior Managing Executive Officer at Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting, Ltd
  • Regulatory Reform Promotion Council Member, Japanese Government’s Cabinet Office
  • Industrial Structural Council Member, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI)
  • Advisory Board Member, Digital Architecture Design Center, Information Technology Promotion Agency
  • Invited Researcher at Artificial Intelligence Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
  • Fellow, World Economic Forum The Fourth Industrial Revolution Japan Center
  • Smart City Advisor to local government of Tokyo, Kamakura, Hamamatsu, and Higashi Hiroshima
  • Adjunct Professor at Kyoto University Graduate School of Management
  • Adjunct Professor at Tokai University
  • Senior Visiting Fellow at Global Communication Center (GLOCOM), International University of Japan
  • Visiting Professor at Tallinn University of Technology in Estonia.
• Previously, Executive Officer of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and of its subsidiary, MUFG Bank.
• Earned Master of Business Administration from Georgetown University, Master of Science in Development Finance from University of London SOAS, LL.B in Political Science from Keio University. Also completed Professional Fellow Program at Columbia University.

Rushi Rama leads the G20 Global Smart Cities Alliance (GSCA), a flagship project managed by the World Economic Forum Centre for the Forth Industrial Revolution.
Prior to joining the Forum, Rushi advised the UK Government on its national programme for digital transformation of local public services.
Rushi led the strategy team at the UK’s preeminent institute for smart cities, the Future Cities Catapult. In that capacity Rushi devised smart city strategies for two of the UK’s four capital cities, while leading the Catapult’s thought leadership and global research on smart cities.
Rushi holds a Masters degree in Economics and a Bachelors degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, both from the University of Oxford.

Rachel is the Co-Lead Investigator of the Smart City Practice at Eden Strategy Institute. She is a key contributor to the research and thought leadership behind the Top 50 Smart City Governments 2020/21 ranking and has interviewed mayors and smart city practitioners around the world to uncover insights and learnings for the publication. Rachel is also active in the Future of Mobility space and has co-developed a novel impact quantification toolkit to holistically measure the costs and benefits of a variety of transport modes, including electric vehicles, EVTOLs, and autonomous vehicles. During her time at Eden, Rachel has advised companies and organisations in their energy transition, assessed the impact of grant schemes for small businesses, and identified market opportunities for international businesses in Southeast Asia. Rachel is passionate about using a multidisciplinary approach to tackle global issues, especially in the field of smart cities. Rachel has a BSc. in Environmental Studies from Yale-NUS College.