Dr. Keita Furukawa is the president of the NPO in Japan for Shore Environment creation that promotes civil science and stakeholder cooperative actions. He is acting as an environmental scientist and has practitioner with over 30 years of experience in coastal and marine-related research, policy formulation, education, and ecosystem conservation and restoration under his belt. His work focuses on integrated coastal management and blue economy, delving on the enclosed sea, seagrass beds, coral reefs, mangrove forests, tidal flats, and estuaries. He is also working as an Affiliated Research Fellow at one of PEMSEA’s Non-Country partners, The Ocean Policy Research Institute of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation; and Affiliate Professor at Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology and Tokushima University in Japan. 

Previously, he was the Technical Session Co-Chair of the East Asian Seas Partnership Council; research coordinator at the National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management of Japan; and visiting research fellow at the Australian Institute for Marine Science.