Faculty Members

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Name	Position	Course subjects
UMEMURA Tetsuo	Professor	Tourism Economics, Project Cycle Management for Economic and Social Development
SOMEYA Masakazu	Professor	Public Financial Management, Development Finance
SHIMIZUTANI satoshi	Professor	Development Economics, International Development Economics (Globalization and Development)
Christian OTCHIA	Associate Professor	Industrial Development, Development Microeconomics
Carlos MENDEZ	Associate Professor	Development Macroeconomics, Quantitative Economic Analysis, Spanish (Institute of Liberal Arts and Science)

Name	Position	Course subjects
OKADA Aya (Retiring in March 2026)	Professor	Industrial Human Resource Development, Development and Business
YAMADA Shoko (Resigning in March 2026)	Professor	Comparative and International Education, African Development Studies
UTSUMI Yuji	Associate Professor	Educational Development Planning and Evaluation, Educational Development Cooperation and Partnership
ASHIDA Akemi	Associate Professor	Education and Social Change,Education in the Era of Globalization

*A new faculty member will be appointed from Academic Year 2026

Name	Position	Course subjects
HIGASHIMURA Takeshi	Professor	Multi-Ethnic Society, International Migration
SHIMADA Yuzuru	Professor	Law and Development, Law and Society in Asia
OKADA Isamu	Professor	Political Institution Theory, Comparative Methods
SEKI Katsunori	Associate Professor	Politics in Developing Countries, Quantitative Social Science

Name	Position	Course subjects
ITO Sanae (Retiring in March 2026)	Professor	International Development and Poverty, Poverty and Social Policy
UEDA Akiko	Associate Professor	Indigenous Development and Capacity Building in Rural Areas, New Horizons of Development Theory and Practice
KANAZAWA Reiko	Associate Professor	Development Sociology

*A new faculty member will be appointed from Academic Year 2026

Name	Position	Course subjects
ISHIKAWA Tomoko	Professor	International Economic Law, Multinational Corporations and International Law
Francis PEDDIE	Associate Professor	International Politics, Global Governance, English (Institute of Liberal Arts and Science)
FUJIKAWA Kentaro	Associate Professor	Peacebuilding, Security Studies

Name	Position	Job responsibilities	Personal website
Sunate KAMPEERAPARB	Associate Professor	Assisting international students

Name	Position	Job responsibilities	Personal website
KABARA Thomas john	Assistant Professor	Assisting Thesis and Paper Writings in English
KONDO Natsuki	Assistant Professor	Overseas and Domestic Field Works

Name	Position	Job responsibilities	Personal website
IGA Tsukasa	Designated Associate Professor	Asian Satellite Campuses Institute Program

* Assistant Professors, International Student Advisor and Asian Satellite Campuses Institute Faculty Member cannot be a supervisor.

Course Title	Credits	Hours	Name／Position
Special Lecture on International Development B (Global Career Development)	2	30	MORITA Hiroko (International Christian University)
Rural Economics	2	30	USAMI Koichi
Project Evaluation	2	30	HAYASHI Kaoru

Name	Hoy Sereivathanak Reasey
Country	Cambodia
Position	Head of Department, Department of Natural Resource Management and Development, Royal University of Phnom Penh
Theme	Natural resource management function of subnational administration level
Period	2025/5/17-2025/6/30
Host Researcher	ASHIDA Akemi, Associate Professor

Name	Kriebaum Ursula
Country	Austria
Position	Professor, Public International Law, University of Vienna
Theme	Burden Sharing in Climate Change and Investment Law: Assessing the Adequacy of Existing Case Law for Sustainable Development
Period	2026/2/9-2026/2/27
Host Researcher	ISHIKAWA Tomoko, Professor

Name	TAMMA Yasuhito
Position	Associate Professor, Institute of Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba
Theme	岐阜県における地域と教育の協働について
Period	April-July, 2025
Host Researcher	Francis PEDDIE, Associate Professor