SATO Jin

Professor and Deputy-Director of the Institute of Advanced Studies on Asia, the University of Tokyo. Sato majors in development studies with a specific focus on the politics of natural resources and foreign aid in the context of Southeast Asia. He served as a visiting professor at the School of Public Policy at Princeton University from 2016-2020 where he taught classes on environmental policy and development in Asia. He was the winner of the Japan Academy Medal in the field of humanities and social sciences in 2013. His current research focuses on information administration in the lower Mekong region. He will be teaching at Columbia University Climate School as a visiting professor from January 2024. Sato holds an MPP from the Kennedy School at Harvard University and a Ph.D in International Relations from the University of Tokyo.