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PERSONAL DATA:

Name: Hari Srinivas

Current Address:

Global Development Research Center
1-5-1-1013, Mori Minami Machi,
Higashi-Nada-ku, Kobe 658-0011, Japan
Tel / Fax: +(81-78) 452-8414
Skype: hari-srinivas
Email: hsrinivas@gdrc.org

Current position: Coordinator

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EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

1. Degrees:

Degree	Date of Graduation	Institution
Ph.D.	September, 1996	Department of Social Engineering Tokyo Institute of Technology Tokyo, Japan
Ph.D. thesis: Development of Housing Finance Triangle Linking People's Organizations, NGOs, and Commercial Banks in Developing Countries.
M.Sc. (Urban Planning and Development)	December, 1991	Division of Human Settlements Development, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand
Master's degree thesis: Viability of Urban Informal Credit to Finance Low Income-Housing: A Case Study of Three Squatter Settlements in Bangalore, India
B.Arch.	July, 1987	Department of Architecture, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal, India
Bachelor's degree thesis: Squatter Relocation: Comprehensive Community Development Plan for Relocated Squatters

2. Scholastic Awards and Honours:

1. First Rank with a First class with Distinction in I, II, IV & V years of Architecture, 1982-87.
2. Dr.T.M.A. Pai Prize for Best Out-Going Student in Architecture in 1987
3. Mangalore University Gold Medal in Architecture, 1987.
4. Recipient of Canadian International Development Agency Scholarship for research and study at AIT, Bangkok, 1990-91.
5. Recipient of Japanese Government (MONBUSHO) Scholarship for research and study at Tokyo Institute of Technology, 1993-1996

3. Membership in Professional Organizations:

1. Member of the Council of Architecture, New Delhi, India
2. Member of the International Society of City and Regional Planners, The Hague.
3. Member/Board Representative of Japan Association for Planning Administration

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EMPLOYMENT RECORD:

Other positions and work experiences:

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PUBLICATIONS

Architecture and Conservation

1. "Human Settlements and the Deep Blue Sea" Invited paper presented at the OCEANS'98 Conference, Nice, France 28 September - 1 October 1998 (with Franklin Wayne Poley)
2. "Mediation for Urban Conservation: The Case of Imai-Ch , Japan" Paper presented at the 32th World Congress of ISOCARP at Sydney, Australia, 7-14 September 1995.
3. "The Architecture of India" Kenchiku Sicho-Architectural Forum, Volume 3 Annual Issue. Kyoto: Dept. of Architecture, Kyoto University, 1994
4. "Manual on Appropriate Building Materials and Construction Techniques", Pune, India: Centre for Development Studies and Activities, 1989
5. "Homelessness - an issue", National Association of Students of Architecture Magazine, NASA-1987.

   Urban Development and Management

6. "Planning Practice: Japan" in Derek Lyddon and Adriana Dal Cin (eds.) International Manual of Planning Practice 3rd Edition. The Hague: International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP), 1998. (With Yoshinobu Kumata and Tatsuro Sakano)
7. "Urban Planning in Japan" Bulletin - 33rd Congress Special Issue 1997/2. The Hague: International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP), 1997. (Editorial Team member with Yoshinobu Kumata and Tatsuro Sakano)
8. "Amenity Migration or Why-do-such-highly-qualified-professionals-come-to-a-small-town-like-Manipal" Paper presented at the International ISoCaRP Congress in Jerusalem, Israel, 13-16 October, 1996
9. "The Virtual Planning Lab: Concepts and Prospects" Discussion Paper prepared for the Ogaki Symposium on Revitalization of the Local Economy using Information Technology. September 2-4, 1996, Ogaki Japan. (With Yoshinobu Kumata and Hiroyuki Matsui)
10. "A City is not a City: Reflections on a New Language for Megacities". Paper presented at the Pre-Habitat II Tokyo Conference on The World Cities and the Urban Future, 23 - 25 August, 1995 (with Yoshinobu Kumata, Sachihiko Harashina and Tatsuro Sakano).
11. "Limits to Urban Growth and Urbanization: A case study of Bangkok Problems" Paper presented at the International System Dynamics Conference 29 July-3 August, 1995, Tokyo Japan (with Orasa Suksawang).

    Urban and Environmental Management

12. "The Environmental Primacy of Small Islands: Island Development Policies of Japan" Paper presented at the ISOCARP Congress, Azores-Portugal, September 1998.
13. "Urban Environmental Management: A Partnership Continuum" in Inoguchi et al. (eds.) Eco-Partnerships for Urban Renewal: Cultivating Sustainable Cities. Tokyo: United Nations University, 1998.
14. "Managing information: Urban environments and the internet" in Donald Miller and Gert de Roo (eds) Integrating Environmental Management and Urban Planning. Hampshire: Avebury, 1998.
15. "Coastal Area Management: The need for a continuum of Actors and Actions" Summary of Proceedings. ISOCARP-IAIA Joint Seminar on Coastal Area Management: Integrating environmental objectives into regional planning, 25 - 29 March 1998, Antalya, Turkey
16. "Networking for Urban Environments: The Urban Environmental Management Research Initiative" Paper presented at HSD 20/200: Planning Education, Research and Practice in Asia into the Year 2000. 20th Anniversary Conference of the Human Settlements Development Programme, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand, 10-13 December, 1997.
17. "Information Systems in Urban Environmental Management" Paper presented at the Second International Symposium on Urban Planning and Environment - Strategies and Methods for Improving Environmental Quality in Compact Cities. 11-14 March, 1997, Groningen, The Netherlands.
18. "Community Groups and Planning Action: The Need for Citizen's Participation" Paper presented at the 30th World Congress of ISOCARP at Prague, Czech Republic, 4-10 September, 1994.

    Microfinance and Community Development

19. "Microcredit in Developing Countries: The Facilitative Roles of NGOs"Planning Administration. Vol. 21, No.2, June 1998 pp.33-43.
20. "Microcredit: Small Solutions to Big problems." Invited paper prepared for the regional seminar on Supporting effective and equitable financial services for the urban poor. 1-3 April 1998, UNCHS (Habitat) Bangkok, Thailand.
21. "Information Dissemination of Microfinance Issues: The Virtual Library on Microcredit". Presentation paper at the Meet the Challenge Session II, Microcredit Summit, Washington DC, February 2-4, 1997.
22. "Micro-ODA and Mircocredit: New Directions for Japan's ODA" Paper presented at the International Leaders Symposium '96. 27-29 August, 1996.
23. "The Co-option of Low-Income Borrowers by Informal Credit Suppliers" Third World Planning Review. Vol. 18, No.2, 1996. (with Barbara Igel).
24. "A Continuum of Informality of Credit: What can Informal Lenders Teach Us?" Savings and Development. Vol. XX, No.2, 1996 (with Yoichiro Higuchi).
25. "A Desire to Improve: Lessons in Community Activity for Credit Mobilization" Paper presented at the on-line Seminar on The History of Community Organizing and Community-based Housing, University of Illinois, Spring 1996.
26. "Understanding Urban Squatter Settlement Development Processes: Some Evidence from Bangalore, India" in Stig Toft Madesen (ed), From Wild Pigs to Foreign Trees: South Asian Environments in a State-Society Perspective. Lund, Sweden: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS), 1996.
27. "14 Reasons why the Informal Credit Market has to be supported: Policy Implications for Low-Income Housing Finance" - Paper presented at the XXIII IAHS World Congress 25-29 September, 1995, Singapore.
28. "People-centered Credit Systems in Developing Countries: The Need for Regional Networks" Colloqui - Cornell Journal of Planing and Urban Issues, Spring 1995.
29. "The Continuum of Informality of Credit: Lessons for Formal Sector Lending" Paper presented at the 2nd Symposium: Housing for the Urban Poor, Birmingham, UK, April, 1994.
30. Development Plan for the Upgradation of Inner-city Squatter Settlements. Second Prize entry. Development Plan Competition, Tokyo: Sapla Neer, 1994.
31. "Community Participation in Low-Income Housing and Its Role in Mobilization of Informal Financial Resources" Paper presented at the 29th World Congress of ISOCARP at Glasgow. UK, September, 1993.
32. Towards a Credit Delivery Model for Low-income Housing: Lessons from Urban Informal Credit Markets. HSD Monograph Series No. 35. Bangkok: Asian Institute of Technology (with A.T.M. Nurul Amin and Yoichiro Higuchi).
33. "The Financial Triads: Linkages between Banks, NGOs and People's Organizations" in D. Rajshekar et al., Dependence or Autonomy? Development Paths for Indian NGOs, forthcoming.

    Non-Governmental Organizations

34. "NGOs and the Internet" in Dana Fisher and German Velasquez, (eds.) International Organizations and the Internet: The Role of the United Nations in the Next Century. Tokyo: The United Nations University Press, forthcoming, 1998.
35. "Sustainable Partnerships for the Habitat Agenda: New Roles for Professional NGOs" Paper presented at HABITAT II's NGO Forum, Istanbul, Turkey - 3-14 June 1996.

    Technology Transfer and the Internet

36. "Online Technology and Networking: Some Gender Perspectives" Paper presented at the Regional Conference on Gender and Technology in Asia.4-7 August 1998, Gender and Development Studies, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand
37. "Information Retrieval on the Internet" Background Paper prepared for the UNU Seminars on the Internet. Tokyo: United Nations University, 11-12 and 18-19, November 1997.
38. "Advances in Information Technology - Issues for Development: India Country Report" AusAID Initiated Research Programme. Adelaide: Centre for Telecommunications and Information Networking, University of Adelaide, 1996
39. "Urban Planning and the Internet: Boon or Bane?" Paper presented at the Virtual Planning Laboratory Symposium, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 28 August, 1996.
40. "International Cooperation for Trade and Development: The Japan-South Africa Network (JASANet)" Paper presented at International Conference on Science and Technology in Reconstruction, University of Natal, Petermaritzburg, South Africa, 23-26 September 1996.
41. "Japan and Bilateral Cooperation on the Internet: The JITNet, JVNet and JASANet Initiatives" Paper presented at the Multinational Symposium on Management of Technology and Innovation at Hangzhou, China, 24-26 October 1995.

    Internet/World Wide Web

    Information Depositories
    

42. Virtual Library on Microcredit, 1994
    http://www.gdrc.org/icm/
43. Urban Environmental Management, 1996
    http://www.gdrc.org/uem/
44. The NGO Cafe, 1995
    http://www.soc.titech.ac.jp/ngo/
45. Information Systems for Development, 1997
    http://www.gdrc.org/info-sys/

    Bilateral cooperation networks
    

46. Japan-India Technology Network (JITNet), 1995
    http://sunsite.sut.ac.jp/asia/india/jitnet
47. Japan Venezuela Network (JVNet), 1995
    http://sunsite.sut.ac.jp/venemb/
48. Japan South Africa Network (JASANet), 1995
    http://sunsite.sut.ac.jp/embassy/jasanet/

    Organizational Homepages
    

49. The International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP), 1995
    http://www.isocarp.org/
50. The Japan Association for Planning Administration, 1996
    http://www.soc.titech.ac.jp/japa
51. The Virtual Planning Lab,1996
    http://www.soc.titech.ac.jp/japa/vpl
52. The United Nations University, 1996
    http://www.unu.edu/
53. Global Environment Information Centre, 1996
    http://www.geic.or.jp/

    Programme Homepages
    

54. Creative Development Training Programme for Children, 1995
    http://www.ku.ac.th/social/kids/index.html
55. Small Islands Network (United Nations University), 1995
    http://www.geic.or.jp/island/