Kiichi Oyasu is Director, Education Cooperation Department, Asia-Pacific Cultural Centre for UNESCO (ACCU) and Specially Appointed Professor at Tokyo Healthcare University.  Prior to assuming the current post, he was a Professor at Centre for Global Partnerships and Education, Okayama University and held the post of Vising Research Fellow.  He worked with UNESCO Bangkok and Dhaka as a programme specialist more than 20 years for promoting Education for All and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD).  His main research areas are literacy, non-formal education, lifelong learning and sustainable community-based learning and development.  He currently works with German Adult Education Association (DVV International) on Sustainability Alliance Project on Adult Education for ESD through Whole Institution Approach.  He holds Ph.D. in Human Science (Osaka University, Japan)