Professional experience
1995-2000: The Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund (OECF), Japan (the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) from October, 1999)

2000-2002: Teaching Associate, Departmenet of Environmental Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

2004-2007: Assisntat Fellow (2004-2006) and Post-doctoral Fellow (2006-2007), Research Center for Material Cycles and Waste Management, National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Tsukuba, Japan

2007-current: Associate Professor, Department of International Development Engieerning,
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan


Fields of Study

• Environmental Economics
• Environmental Policy and Planning
• Environmental Statistics and Information
• Regional Science

Professional memberships

• Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
• American Agricultural Economics Association
• Regional Science Association International
• System Dynamics Society
• Japan Society for International Development

self-introduction:
I am an associate professor at the Department of International Development Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. I hold both Ph.D. in Applied Economics and Management (Environmental Economics) and MS in Regional Science from Cornell University, both M.E and Bachelor degrees in Social Engineering from Tokyo Tech.. When I was at Cornell, I received generous financial support from Fulbright Scholarship and the World Bank scholarship. My advisors at Cornell are Profs. Jon Conrad, Nelson Bills, and Douglas Haith. All of them are excellent individuals and I admire them greatly.

I joined the department in April of 2007. Before the appointment, I had been at the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) in Tsukuba, Japan as a post-doctoral fellow from 2006 to 2007 and an assistant fellow from 2004 to 2006.

My research areas include environmental economics and applied economics, covering the topics of water source protection, clean-up of dumped wastes, New Public Management (NPM), and environmental statistics.

I had worked at the Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund (OECF) and consequently the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), a Japanese government's foreign-aid and financial institution, from 1995 to 2000. I had been privileged to work with many wonderful individuals both in Japan and our partner countries such as Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myammer, and the Philippines.

One of my eye-opening experiences was gained at the Conservation International (CI), one of the most influential environmental NGOs when I was an intern there in summer, 1998.

If you happen to want to contact with me for any reason, please feel free to send me an e-mail at nabe <at> ide.titech.ac.jp (please replace <at> by @). I do welcome any inquires from potential applicants for our graduate study at the Department of International Development Engineering.


Postal address
2-12-1-I4-4, O-okayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 152-8550, JAPAN

tel: +81-3-5734-3797
fax: do
e-mail: nabe <at> ide.titech.ac.jp
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Office location
Room 106, Ishikawadai building #4, Ishikawadai area at the O-okayama Campus (please see the map by Tokyo Tech (link).)