Hiroaki Matsuura is Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Shoin University in Japan, where he is also Professor of Health Economics and Demography in the Faculty of Tourism, Media and Cultural Studies. Previously, he was Departmental Lecturer at the University of Oxford’s School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies. His research examines the role of human rights and distributive justice 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 WHO’s Technical Advisory Groups on the Economics of Environment, Climate Change and Health, and on Embedding Ethics in Health and Climate Change Policy, as well as the UN Tourism’s World Committee on Tourism Ethics. He has also worked with international organizations and think tanks including the IOM, UNDP, UNFPA, UNU-WIDER, UNWTO, WFP, the World Bank, NBER, the Center for Global Development, the Japan Research Institute, and the Economic and Social Research Institute, in roles such as consultant, expert, and visiting fellow. In Japan, he has served on the university evaluation committee of the Japan Institution for Higher Education Evaluation and as a board member for educational organizations, hospitals, and academic societies.
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, and an Sc.D. in Global Health and Population (Economics track) from Harvard University.