Yasuyuki Todo

Professor, Waseda University

Yasuyuki Todo, a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University, has been a Professor at the Graduate School of Economics, Waseda University since 2014, after serving as the Department Head at the Department of International Studies, the University of Tokyo. He is also a Program Director and Faculty Fellow at Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry. His research fields are international economics, development economics, and applied micro-econometrics, currently focusing on the role of social and economic network in economic growth and resilience based on firm- and household-level data from various countries. He has published nearly 70 academic papers in refereed journals including Nature Sustainability, the Journal of Industrial Economics, the Journal of Regional Science, Research Policy, World Development, and Ecological Economics. He is ranked top 0.39% among economists in the world and 0.67% among supply chain researchers based on papers in the recent 5 years, according to ScholarGPS. He is a board member of the Japanese Association for Development Economics and the Japanese Society of International Economics. He has also served a number of policy-advising committees in the national and local governments, including the Committee for Japan’s Future under the Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy of the Cabinet Office, and the Industrial Structure Council of the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Trade, and T20 Japan 2019 under G20.