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Toshi Arimura

Faculty Fellow, RIETI; Professor of environmental economics and a Director of the Research Institute for Environment Economics and Management, Waseda University

Toshi Arimura is a professor of environmental economics and a Director of the Research Institute for Environment Economics and Management at Waseda University. He was a Professor at Sophia University in Tokyo and was a visiting scholar with George Mason University and Resources for the Future as a recipient of the Abe Fellowship.

His major research area is climate change policy. He is a coeditor of Carbon Pricing in Japan (Springer) which received the commentary award from Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studies (SEEPS) in 2021. Professor Arimura holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Minnesota, a Master degree in environmental science from the University of Tsukuba and BA in history of science from the University of Tokyo. He has served on many　Japanese government committees on environmental issues. He has received several awards such as Ichimura Prize in Science against Global Warming for Excellent Achievement 　or SEEPS Outstanding Publication Award.  He is currently serving as the president of SEEPS.

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