Rohit Jigyasu is a conservation architect and risk management professional from India, currently working at ICCROM as Programme Manager on sustainable urban and built Heritage conservation, disaster and climate risk management & post crisis recovery. Rohit served as UNESCO Chair holder professor at the Institute for Disaster Mitigation of Urban Cultural Heritage at Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan, where he was instrumental in developing and teaching International Training Course on Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage. He was the elected President of ICOMOS-India from 2014-2018 and president of ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Risk Preparedness (ICORP) from 2010-2019. Rohit served as the Elected Member of the Executive Committee of ICOMOS since 2011 and was its Vice President from 2017-2020. Before joining ICCROM, Rohit has been working with several national and international organizations such as UNESCO, UNDRR, Getty Conservation Institute and World Bank for consultancy, research and training on Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage.
He has undertaken post disaster assessments in India, Nepal, Bhutan and Japan. He worked on the updated policy document on climate action for world heritage adopted by UNESCO General Assembly in 2023 and is also the main author of the UNESCO Resource Manual on Managing Disaster Risks for World Heritage and the co-editor of recently published Routledge handbook on cultural heritage and disaster risk management and Routledge book on Good Practices for Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage.