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SONOBE, Tetsushi

Position	Professor Deputy director of the International Cooperation Course of the Public Policy Program
Degree	Ph.D. in Economics, Yale University
Specialty	Development Economics
Current Research Interests	Industrial development, rural development, and climate change adaptation for farmers and businesses in developing economies?

Professional Career

I worked at the Development Bank of Japan as a part-time research assistant from 1984 to 1987, which sparked my interest in economic development policy. After earning a PhD in 1992, I taught courses on economic development and growth at the Tokyo Metropolitan University for 11 years. From 2003 to 2012, I operated the International Development Studies (IDS) Program, which was established jointly by GRIPS and the Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development. In April 2012, I fully joined GRIPS as a full-time professor and took various roles, including chairperson of the doctoral programs committee, executive advisor to the president, founding director of the State Building and Economic Development program and the GRIPS Global Governance program, and vice president. From April 2020 to March 2025, I was the dean and CEO of ADBI, the think tank of the Asian Development Bank. In April 2025, I joined GRIPS again.

Selected publications

Tetsushi Sonobe and Keijiro Otsuka. 2006. Cluster-Based Industrial Development: An East Asian Model, New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Yukichi Mano, Alhassan Iddirisu, Yutaka Yoshino, and Tetsushi Sonobe. 2012. “How Can Micro and Small Enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa Become More productive? ?The Impacts of Experimental Basic Managerial Training”, World Development 40(3): 458-468. ?
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Yuki Higuchi, Edwin Paul Mhede, and Tetsushi Sonobe. 2019. “Short- and Medium-Run Impacts of Management Training: An Experiment in Tanzania”, World Development 114: 220-236.?

Ma, Wanglin, Dil B. Rahut, Tetsushi Sonobe, and Binlei Gong. 2024. “Linking Farmers to Markets: Barriers, Solutions, and Policy Options”, Economic Analysis and Policy 82: 1102-1112.
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Social contributions

2010-2019: Advisor, Quality and Productivity improvement in Africa and Bangladesh,?
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2018-date: Accreditation Body Council member, Asian Productivity Organization (APO)
2020-2025: Advisory Board member, Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Tokyo
2022-2023: Chair, Think7 Japan 2023
2024 ? ? 　: Scientific Council member, Climate COP29 Azerbaijan 2024 ? ?
2024-date: President, Japanese Association for Development Economics (JADE)