The International Academic Forum

It also holds more policy-oriented events in collaboration with governments, international organisations, foundations and NGOs, and provides Open Access publications, audiovisual media repositories and an online research archive.

[6] Since 2023 Professor Jun Arima of the University of Tokyo has been the President of IAFOR and Chairman of the International Academic Board.

[7] He succeeded Dr Toshiya Hoshino, former Japanese Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations.

[13] As of 2022, IAFOR has hosted conferences in Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe and Kyoto (Japan), London and Brighton (UK), Barcelona (Spain), Paris (France), Porto (Portugal), New York, Virginia, Rhode Island and Hawaii (USA), Hong Kong (Hong Kong SAR), Singapore, and Dubai (UAE).

Since 2018, Lingnan University, the Asia Pacific Higher Education Research Partnership (APHERP) and IAFOR have co-hosted The IAFOR Conference for Higher Education Research (CHER) at Lingnan University in Hong Kong, which, from 2019, has been held alongside The Asian Conference on the Liberal Arts (ACLA).

In addition to its international academic conferences, IAFOR has collaborated on a number of projects in both the public and private sector.

Other speakers included Richard Lloyd Parry, Asia Editor of The Times, and Yuki Matsuoka, Head of the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) Office in Japan.

[32] It has also produced video projects for several NGOs, including the HOPE International Development Agency, and the Pamulaan Center for Indigenous Peoples Education in the Philippines.

“The Greatest Gift” (2016) is a documentary filmed on location in the Philippines, and made as part of a fundraising effort to create scholarships for the Pamulaan Center.

The documentary concentrates on the ambitions and challenges of the Indigenous Peoples (IP) of the Philippines, and their struggle to achieve equity in education.

The IAFOR Documentary Photography Award has been supported by World Press Photo, British Journal of Photography, Metro Imaging, MediaStorm, Think Tank Photo, London College of Communication (University of the Arts London), RMIT University, The Centre for Documentary Practice, and the Medill School of Journalism.

Dr Joseph Haldane, Chairman and CEO of IAFOR, co-moderates a roundtable session on Innovators and Investors at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
Dr Bernard Charnwut Chan , Executive Council Member of the Government of the Hong Kong SAR, gives the opening remarks at The IAFOR Conference for Higher Education Research (CHER) in Hong Kong.
Matthew Taylor , Chief Executive of the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce), gives a Keynote Presentation at The European Conference on Education (ECE) in Brighton, UK.
The Kansai Resilience Forum closed with a Keynote Presentation by Pritzker Prize winning architect, Tadao Ando (center), who emphasised the link between art, architecture and resilience.
Filipino photojournalist, Ezra Acayan
Speaking at The Asian Conference on Cultural Studies (ACCS) in Tokyo, Japan, Filipino photojournalist Ezra Acayan, Grand Prize Winner of the 2018 IAFOR Documentary Photography Award, [ 33 ] takes questions from the audience during an interview moderated by Professor Donald Hall of the University of Rochester, USA.
Brent E. Huffman receives the 2015 IDFA Honorary Award for "Saving Mes Aynak"
Award-winning documentary filmmaker, Brent E. Huffman (pictured left), receives the 2015 IDFA Honorary Award for " Saving Mes Aynak " from IAFOR Chairman and CEO, Dr Joseph Haldane at The Asian Conference on Media, Communication & Film (MediAsia) in Kobe, Japan.