Kiyoshi Kobayashi (小林 潔司, Kobayashi Kiyoshi) is the current (2018–19) president of the Japan Society of Civil Engineers,[1] Director of the Management Research Center of the Graduate School of Management and Professor of Engineering, Infrastructure Economics and Management at the Department of Urban Management of Kyoto University.
In 2007 he was included in the Top 50 City Creators and Urban Experts of the Ministry of the Environment of Denmark.
From 1978 to 1986, Kobayashi was a research associate in the Graduate School of Engineering of Kyoto University.
In 1987 he became an associate professor at the Department of Social Systems Engineering at Tottori University, where in 1990 he became a full-time professor.
In 1996 he returned to Kyoto University as a full-time professor at the Graduate School of Engineering.