Hiroaki Matsuura

About Me

Hiroaki Matsuura, ScD '12, is currently Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of Health Economics and Demography at Shoin University in Japan. He is an economist and demographer who is interested in the intersection between human rights and population health. He is also an editor-in-chief of the Biodemography and Social Biology as well as editorial board member of the Demographic Research, International Journal of Social Welfare and Sociology of Illness and Health, among others. He is currently an elected member of the World Committee of Tourism Ethics of the World Tourism Organization. Between 2017 and 2019, he served as Dean of the Faculty of Tourism, Media and Cultural Studies.

Before joining Shoin, Matsuura was Departmental Lecturer in the Economy of Japan at the University of Oxford’s School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies. In the past ten years, he has contributed to policy-relevant research and worked for five different UN organizations (UNDP, UNFPA, UNU-WIDER, UNWTO, and WFP) and four think tanks (NBER, CGD, Japan Research Institute, and ESRI). He has also served as a member of university evaluation committee at the Japan Institution for Higher Education Evaluation and a board member in various educational organizations, hospitals, and academic societies.

He received his B.A. in Economics from Keio University, M.A. in Social Science from the University of Chicago, M.S. in Project Management from Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, and Sc.D. in Global Health and Population (Economics track) from Harvard University’s School of Public Health.