Professor, San Jose State University, California, United States; Author of Innovation in Public Transport Finance: Property Value Capture (Routledge, 2016)

Dr. Mathur is a professor of urban and regional planning at San Jose State University (SJSU). During 2016-2019, he served as Associate Dean of Research, College of Social Sciences, SJSU, and during 2016-2020, as Director, Certificate in Real Estate Development.  He is the recipient of two university-level awards: Provost's Award for Excellence in Service Learning and Provost's Award for Excellence in Assessment of Learning Activities. 

Dr. Mathur has over two decades of experience in academia, the corporate sector, and consulting. His body of work includes two books and more than 100 journal articles, book-length manuscripts, book chapters, working papers, conference papers/presentations, and consulting projects in and cutting across the fields of public finance, urban & real estate economics, housing, international planning, growth management, land use planning, transportation planning, emergency management, and systems analysis. The US Department of Transportation, the State of California, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, and the Brookings Institution have funded his research. 

He has advised several international, national, regional, and local organizations, such as the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT), the Federal Transit Administration, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, and the City of San Jose.

Source: https://www.sjsu.edu/people/shishir.mathur/ 

Professor, The University of Tokyo

Dr. Kato is a Full Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo.  He is also the Editor-in-Chief of Asian Transport Studies.  His research interests include: Transportation planning and policy, Infrastructure projects in developing regions, International/interregional transportation planning, and Transportation economics and finance.  He is a member of the Editorial Board of Transportation; International Journal of Building, Urban, Interior and Landscape Technology; Urban Rail Transit; PLOS ONE; and many more.