EMPLOYMENT RECORD

•2022-              Professor at Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo
•2019 – 2022  Professor at Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Japan
•2017 – 2018    Visiting Professor at Seoul National University
•2016 – 2019    Professor at Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Tohoku University, Japan
•2012 – 2016     Associate Professor at Graduate School of Human and Socio-Environment Studies, Kanazawa University
•2008 – 2012     Associate Professor,  Economics, Nagoya City University
•2006 – 2008     Professional Officer at UNEP Secretariat CBD
•2004 – 2006     Post-Doctoral Fellow at University of Tokyo, Tokyo Japan
•1997 – 1998     Project Officer at the Regional Environmental Centre for Central and Eastern Europe (REC) Hungary. Honoured as Life Fellow.
•2018-                IPBES external review panel / Asia-Pacific Regional Assessment CLA

EDUCATION

•2000 – 2004    Ph.D. Univ. Freiburg, Germany
•1998 – 1999  M.Sc. in Environment and Development, University of East Anglia
•1994 – 1998    B.Sc. in Rural Dev., Agricultural Faculty, University of Tokyo