After engaged in environmental technology transfer and capacity building projects targeted at the Southeast Asian countries in Global Environment Centre Foundation (GEC), Ms. Kataoka joined IGES in 2001. At IGES, she worked for water management related research projects, especially focusing on groundwater management policy and water quality management in Asian countries. After serving the senior coordinator for networking and outreach at Programme Management Office from April 2013 to March 2015, she was assigned as the Deputy Director of Kitakyusyu Urban Centre. In July 2017, she appointed as the Joint Programme Director of City Task Force. She is now engaged in the networking and capacity development related projects and the research on city's sustainable development. Current research focus is localisation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Voluntary Local Review (VLR). She obtained LLM, Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies of Kobe University.
