Hiroaki Matsuura is currently Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Shoin University in Japan, where he also serves as Professor of Health Economics and Demography in the Faculty of Tourism, Media and Cultural Studies. Prior to joining Shoin University, he was Departmental Lecturer at the University of Oxford’s School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies. His research focuses on the role of human rights in population dynamics, health, and sustainability. He is Editor-in-Chief of Biodemography and Social Biology and serves on the editorial boards of Demographic Research, International Journal of Social Welfare, and Sociology of Illness and Health, among others.
He has been a member of the World Health Organization’s Technical Advisory Group on the Economics of Environment, Climate Change and Health, the Technical Advisory Group on Embedding Ethics in Health and Climate Change Policy, and the World Tourism Organization’s World Committee on Tourism Ethics. In addition, he has collaborated with a range of international organizations and think tanks—including the IOM, UNDP, UNFPA, UNU-WIDER, UNWTO, WFP, the World Bank, NBER, the Center for Global Development (CGD), the Japan Research Institute, and the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI)—in various capacities, such as consultant, expert, and visiting fellow. He has also served on the university evaluation committee of the Japan Institution for Higher Education Evaluation and as a board member for various educational organizations, hospitals, and academic societies in Japan.
He holds a B.A. in Economics from Keio University, an M.A. in Social Science from the University of Chicago, an M.S. in Project Management from Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, and an Sc.D. in Global Health and Population (Economics track) from Harvard University’s School of Public Health.