Kiyoshi Fujikawa is currently a professor of economics at Aichi Gakuin University, Nagoya, Japan. He has over 30 years of research experience in the field\s of environmental economics, development economics, international economics, and more in Nagoya University and Konan University. He got his PhD in economics at Kobe University in 2000. Besides those universities, he also has served as a visiting researcher at the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) of the Cabinet Office, the Institute of Population and Social Security Research (IPSS), and the Study Group on Economic Evaluation of Culture and Arts in the Agency for Cultural Affairs. He has served as President of the Pan-Pacific Association of Input-Output Studies (PAPAIOS), and as a board member of the Society of Environmental Economic Policy Studies (SEEPS). Outside academia, he has worked for a Statistician in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) in the United Nations.