Takuji W. Tsusaka, Ph.D
Natural Resources Economist
School of Environment, Resources and Development
takuji (at) ait.ac.th
(+66-2) 524 5585
Areas of Expertise
- Agricultural Economics
- Natural Resources Economics
- Approaches in Poverty Reduction
- Social Capital Formation
- Ex-post Impact Evaluation
- Technology Adoption
- Gender in Smallholder Agriculture
Taku is a natural resource economist serving as the Chair of the Development and Sustainability program (DSP) of Asian Institute of Technology (AIT). He has expertise in poverty reduction, technology adoption, social capital formation, spatial econometrics, impact evaluation, and gender in smallholder agriculture. He was educated in Japan and USA, and has obtained BE in Applied Physics, MA in International Development Studies, and Ph.D. in Development Economics, and been working in the private sector, public sector, and as a freelancer. In the public sector, he has experience with international organizations such as ICRISAT, IRRI, and AIT, where he led or contributed to projects funded by BMGF, USAID, EU, GIZ, IFPRI, World Bank, etc. He is also an honorary associate professor at Kobe University. He has visited over 70 countries, lived in the UK, USA, France, Canada, the Philippines, Thailand, Kenya, and Malawi, and conducted research in the Philippines, India, Thailand, Pakistan, Myanmar, Malawi, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and more. In the rural Philippines, his team found the emergence of social norm and community mechanism as induced by the collective water resource management (See doi: 10.1016/j.jebo.2015.04.022 and doi: 10.3390/w9030202)