Mr. Hiroshi Saito
Kurita Water and Environment Foundation (KWEF) will grant three full scholarships to pursue a Master’s degree program at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT). The scholarship program will run every year for a period of five years.
One scholarship each will be granted to a student in Water Engineering and Management (WEM), Environmental Engineering and Management (EEM); and Natural Resource Management (NRM).
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) finalizing the scholarship program was signed by KWEF President Mr. Hiroshi Saito, and AIT President Prof. Worsak Kanok-Nukulchai on 9 December 2016. The KWEF President stated that their organization will celebrate its twentieth anniversary in 2017, and that the KWEF Board has decided to focus on research in Asian countries. It is in pursuance of this goal that KWEF has decided to allocate scholarships to AIT students, he added.
AIT President Prof. Worsak expressed his happiness at the scholarship program, and stated that AIT remains committed to promoting sustainable water and environmental practices in the region. He stated that AIT is not a traditional university, and that the Institute was established for international cooperation. AIT’s Vice President for Administration, Prof. Kazuo Yamamoto said the scholarship program will help young scholars in realizing their goal of sustainable societies.
KWEF was represented by their President Mr. Hiroshi Saito; Mr. Takefumi Shimoda, President Kurita-GK Chemical; and Mr. Nopporn Tia, Director, Kurita-GK Chemical. Besides Prof. Worsak and Prof. Yamamoto, AIT was represented by Prof. Sivanappan Kumar, Vice President for Academic Affairs; Mr. Surendra Shrestha, Vice President for Development; Prof. C Visvanathan of EEM; Dr. Sangam Shrestha of WEM; Dr. Nophea Sasaki of NRM; and Mr. Shawn Patrick Kelly and Ms. Sumana Shrestha of Office of External Relations (OEXR).
