Hiroaki Matsuura, ScD '12, is currently Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs of Shoin University. He is also Professor of Health Economics and Demography in the Faculty of Tourism, Media and Cultural Studies, where he served as Dean from 2017 to 2019. His areas of expertise include health economics, demography, and the role of human rights in the allocation of health, economic, and environmental resources. Prior to joining Shoin University, he was a Departmental Lecturer in the Economy of Japan at the University of Oxford's School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies.
He has been a member of the World Health Organization's Technical Advisory Group on the Economics of Environment, Climate Change and Health, the Technical Advisory Group on Embedding Ethics in Health and Climate Change Policy, and the World Tourism Organization's World Committee on Tourism Ethics. He has also served as a consultant to the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Population Fund, and the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research.
He is currently editor-in-chief of Biodemography and Social Biology and associate editor/international advisor of Demographic Research, International Journal of Social Welfare and Sociology of Illness and Health, among others. In addition to his academic background, he has served as a member of the University Evaluation Committee of the Japan Institution for Higher Education Evaluation and as a board member of various educational organisations, hospitals and academic societies in Japan and abroad. 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 Civil and Environmental 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.
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