Akira Hibiki
Akira Hibiki is the Head of Environmental Economics & Policy Section in Social and Environmental Systems Division at National Institute for Environmental Studies in Japan. He is also an Associate Professor in the graduate school of Decision Science and Technology at Tokyo Institute of Technology, an affiliated fellow of Science and Technology Foresight Center at National Institute of Science and Technology Policy, and a member of the advisory board for the Biomass Nippon (Japan) Strategy of the Japanese Government. His research focuses on economic analysis of environmental policy. Currently he is conducting empirical studies on voluntary approaches, environmental management in the firm, effectiveness of the waste management policy, effects of the trade on the environment, and the effectiveness of the transportation related environmental policy.
Dr. Hibiki has been involved in numerous multi-year research projects including an OECD project on environmental management systems and other empirical studies on the environmental policy funded by Japanese Ministry of the Environment. Currently Dr. Hibiki is involved in a project on waste management policy funded by Japanese Ministry of the Environment and a project on trade and the environment funded by National Institute for Environmental Studies. In collaboration with the University of Illinois at Chicago, he is also working on research to evaluate voluntary environmental policies to reduce green house gases and other pollutants in the United States and Japan.A detailed curriculum vita for Dr. Hibiki can be found here.
Dr. Hibiki can be contacted at hibiki@nies.go.jp.
