Director
, City of Kitakyushu, Japan
Profile / Bio:
Yuichi Arita is a director for the Overseas Environmental Project Department in City of Kitakyushu, Japan. He has three years of experience in "Kitakyushu Asia Center for Low Carbon Society" established in 2010 to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the Asian region by support for technological transfer, training experts, and information dissemination.
He has been in charge of several projects related to energy management, recycling and waste management in collaboration with local governments in Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia and Palau.
Prior to his current position, he had experience working in international fields such as foreign workers and trade promotion as an administrative officer of City of Kitakyushu.