Professor Hiroaki Matsuura

Hiroaki Matsuura is Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of Health Economics and Demography at Shoin University in Japan. Professor Matsuura’s areas of expertise include health economics, demography, and the roles of human rights and distributive justice in health, economic, and environmental resource allocation. From 2019 to 2023, he was an elected member of the World Committee on Tourism Ethics under the aegis of the United Nations World Tourism Organization. In the past ten years, he has contributed to policy-relevant research in these fields 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). Matsuura is currently editor-in-chief of the academic journal Biodemography and Social Biology as well as associate editor/international advisor for Demographic Research, International Journal of Social Welfare, and Sociology of Health and Illness. Before assuming his current position, he served as Departmental Lecturer in the Economy of Japan at the University of Oxford’s School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies. He holds a B.A. in Economics from Keio University, an M.A. in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago, an M.S. in Project Management from Northwestern University's McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, and a Sc.D. in Global Health and Population (Economics track) from Harvard University's School of Public Health.