Mr. Onogawa joined IGES in 2012 as a senior fellow. Before joining IGES, he was the Director of United Nations Center for Regional Development (UNCRD) between 2002 and 2011, and also served for IGES as a trustee member over this period. After graduation from Kyoto University in 1972 reading Environmental Engineering, he joined newly established Environment Agency of Japanese Government (current Ministry of the Environment, MOEJ) and worked for policy development for water quality management, EIA, transport management as well as global environmental issues, and environmental research management of national research institutes in Japan. Over these period he had worked for MOEJ, UNEP (Bangkok), IIASA (Vienna), NIES, Regional Environment Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC, Budapest) in addition to UNCRD.
