Shunsuke Managi is the Distinguished Professor of Technology and Policy & Director of Urban Institute at the Kyushu University, Japan. He has been awarded several national research grants on topics such as urbanization, transportation, energy, climate change, sustainability, and population change.
He is a director for Inclusive Wealth Report 2018 (IWR 2018) and IWR2023, ISC working group member for UN’ The Global Sustainable Development Report 2023, member of UN Network of Economic Statisticians – Round Table on Measuring Capitals for Sustainability, a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a coordinating lead author for the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), a coordinating lead author UNESCO International Science and Evidence based Education Assessment, lead author of Policy Briefs T20 for the Presidency of G20 in 2022 & 2023, an editor of “Economics of Disasters and Climate Change”, “Environmental Economics and Policy Studies” and on the editorial board for nine journals including Journal of Cleaner Production, and is the author of “Technology, Natural Resources and Economic Growth: Improving the Environment for a Greener Future” and editor of “The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Economics in Asia“. He is the co-chair the Scientific Committee of the 2018 World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists. He was the recipient of a JSPS Prize, council member of The Science Council of Japan, and selected in Clarivate World’s Influential Researchers in Highly Cited Researchers 2023.
