Professor Zainab Faruqui Ali, professor and chairperson, Department of Architecture and Chair, Postgraduate Programs in Disaster Management Board, Brac University was invited by Graduate School of Media and Governance at KEIO University, Tokyo, Japan as a Guest Professor to deliver a number of lectures on 9, 10, 16 and 17 December 2019. The topics of the lectures of Prof. Ali were ‘Disaster risk reduction and management in Bangladesh’, ‘Disaster resilience – Brac University story’, ‘Climate change mitigation and architects’ role’, ‘Learning from tradition and contemporary applications’. The course was of a multidisciplinary nature and the student composition consisted of both graduate and undergraduate levels.
Prof. Ali discussed with Prof. Rajib Shaw of KEIO University about possible collaboration projects, and a few programs such as RIKA Bangladesh Chapter and IADRR are already in the process.