Oussouby Sacko

Oussouby Sacko is Professor at the Department of Liberal Arts, Faculty of Humanities at Kyoto Seika University, Japan, and was Dean of Faculty from April 2013 until March 2017. Since April 2018 he is President of Kyoto Seika University. He is also affiliate to the Graduate School of Humanities and to the Graduate School of Design (Architecture).
Born in Mali (Bamako), he went to China (Beijing and Nanjing) after graduating high school to pursue his education in the field of Architecture. He got a Bachelor Degree from SouthEast University (Dongnan Daxue), Nanjing China. He moved to Japan afterward and got a Master Degree and a Doctor Degree of Engineering in the field of Architecture and Architecture Planning from the Graduate School of Engineering at Kyoto University, Japan. He has been conducted field researches and worked on housing planning, policy and design in Mali and Japan. Recently, his main interest is on community architecture, community re-design and architecture conservation, restoration in historical cities. He has recently conducted field researches in Japan, China, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Burkina Faso and Niger.
He is member of Ordre des Architectes du Mali (OAM) and member of many scientific associations such as, The Architectural Institute of Japan (AIJ), Architectural Design Association of Nippon (ADAN), The City Planning Institute of Japan (CPIJ), Japan Association For African Studies (JAAS), Society for the Study of Early Modern Kyoto, International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES), ICOMOS-MALI, ICOMOS-ISCARSAH, ICOMOS-ISCEAH and others.