Yasuyuki Sawada

Yasuyuki Sawada is a professor at the University of Tokyo. His research focuses on the socio-economic impact assessments of disasters triggered by natural hazards, empirical studies and policy evaluation using micro data, field data, and big data from developing countries, as well as macro-empirical investigations of mechanisms behind the development success of Asian economies.

Yasuyuki is a member of the Science Council of Japan and Vice President (President-Elect) of the Japanese Economic Association. Prior to joining the University of Tokyo, he was the chief economist at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and served as director general of its Research Department (ERCD). He is also the recipient of the IDRiM Society Distinguished Research Award, the Nikkei Book Prize, the Japanese Economic Association Ishikawa Prize, and the Jiro Enjoji Memorial Prize.

Yasuyuki received his PhD in economics from Stanford University.