Water is critical for sustaining all aspects of life and it is at the centre of our need to better understand and address the impacts of climate change
Author
Tetsushi Sonobe

Tetsushi Sonobe
His research interests are centred on the empirics of economic development, particularly the roles of industrial clusters, human capital, social capital, management practices and market competition in industrial development in developing Asia and other regions. Before joining ADBI in April 2020, Dean Sonobe served for six years as vice president of the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo and taught economics for 30 years at Tokyo Metropolitan University and GRIPS. Dean Sonobe is a recipient of the Nikkei Book Publication Prize and the Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize, and a founding board member of the Japanese Association for Development Economics.