Kazuyo Matsubae

Professor of Environmental and Energy Economics (Japan)

Professor Matsubae is a professor of Environmental and Energy Economics in the Graduate School of Environmental Studies at Tohoku University in Japan.　She was trained as an econometrician and earned her PhD in economics at Waseda University in Japan. Her current interest is the identification of supply chain risks through resource consumption from a life cycle perspective. She started her professional career at the Department of Metallurgy, Tohoku University, and spent a year as a visiting associate professor at the Sustainable Minerals Institute, at the University of Queensland, Australia. She is a board member of the Socio Economic Metabolism section in the International Society for Industrial Ecology (ISIE-SEM), and is an Expert Adviser of the Waste and Recycling Subcommittee under the Industrial Structure Council for the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan.