Curriculum Vitae

(As of April 2025)

Name: Naoto Jinji

Current Position: Professor, Faculty of Economics, Kyoto University

Education:

  B.A. in Sociology, Tohoku University, Sendai-City, Japan, March 1991.

  Diploma in Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, U.K., July 1992.

  M.A. in Sociology, Tohoku University, Sendai-City, Japan, March 1994.

  Ph.D. in Economics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, May 2001.

Professional Experience:

Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Professor, Faculty of Economics, April 2014 – present.

Vice Dean, Faculty of Economics, April 2022 – March 2024.

Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, April 2009 – March 2014.

Keio University, Tokyo, Japan

Visiting Professor, Faculty of Economics, May 2024 – March 2025

Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

Specially Appointed Researcher, Graduate School of International Development, December 2023 – present

Policy Research Institute (PRI), Ministry of Finance, Tokyo, Japan

Visiting Research Fellow, April 2022 – present

Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI), Tokyo, Japan

Faculty Fellow, April 2024 – present

Faculty Fellow, November 2020 – April 2023

Faculty Fellow, April 2018 – March 2020

Faculty Fellow, October 2013 – September 2015

Faculty Fellow, June 2006 – September 2008.

Okayama University, Okayama City, Japan

Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, April 2005 – March 2009.

Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan

     Lecturer, Graduate School of Economics, April 2002 – March 2005.

International Development Center of Japan, Tokyo, Japan

     Economist, Development Studies Division. April 1995 - August 1996, and January 2001 - March 2002.

     Assistant Economist, Planning and Research Division. May 1994 - March 1995.

Awards:

The 14^th Kojima Kiyoshi Prize (September 2019, the Japan Society of International Economics)

Affiliations:

American Economic Association

Canadian Economics Association

Econometric Society

Royal Economic Society

Association of Environmental and Resource Economists

Japanese Economic Association

  Japan Society of International Economics (Vice President, October 2022 - October 2024, President, October 2024 - Present)

  IEFS Japan (International Economics and Finance Society Japan)

Editorial Services:

The International Economy, the Editor-in-Chief (November 2018 – October 2020)

The Developing Economies, the Editorial Board (April 2019 – present)

Referee for:

American Economic Review; American Journal of Agricultural Economics; Bulletin of Economic Research; Canadian Journal of Economics; the Developing Economies; Ecological Economics; Economic Inquiry; Economic Journal; Economic Modelling; Economics Bulletin; Economics Letters; Environment and Development Economics; Environmental and Resource Economics; Environmental Economics and Policy Studies; European Economic Review; European Review of Agricultural Economics; Global Economic Review; Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics; International Economic Journal; International Economic Review; International Journal of Agricultural Resources, Governance and Ecology; Japan and the World Economy; Japanese Economic Review; Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organizations; Journal of Asian Economics; Journal of Environmental Economics and Management; Journal of Environmental Management; Journal of International Economics; Journal of International Trade & Development; Journal of Regulatory Economics; Journal of the Japanese and International Economies; Kyoto Economic Review; Manchester School; Resource and Energy Economics; Review of Development Economics; Review of International Economics; Review of Urban and Regional Development Studies; Southern Economic Journal; the World Economy.

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