Isobe Ryota is a graduate student of urban planning and architecture at Tohoku University, majoring in Earthquake Disaster Prevention Studies. He was on the Express Train back to Sendai when the Great East Japan Disaster struck. Since then, he has been involved as a researcher of Michinoku Disaster Record Archive Project by Tohoku University, and a architecture ground staff with International NGO Habitat for Humanity, and in other fields related to Disaster Prevention and Recovery. At the 3rd UN WCDRR, he is managing the International Children and Youth Forum as a co-director of the Japan Office.
