Shunsuke Managi is the distinguished professor, director of Urban Institute, director of Yunus & Shiiki Social Business Research Center, and chief sustainability officer at the Kyushu University, Japan.

Managi’s research has provided evidence for the value of sustainability measurement focusing on urbanisation, transportation, energy, climate change, and population change. He proposes the inclusive wealth index, which integrates biophysical quantities and monetary values of natural, human, and produced capital. Inclusive wealth comprises the assets that underlie human well-being and going beyond GDP.

He is a director for UN Inclusive Wealth Report 2018 (IWR 2018) and IWR2023 & 2024, a lead author for the IPCC, a coordinating lead author for the IPBES, a coordinating lead author UNESCO Education Assessment, lead author of Policy Briefs T20 for the Presidency of G20 in 2022 & 2023 & task force member of T20 2024 Communiqué, an editor of ‘Economics of Disasters and Climate Change’, ‘Environmental Economics and Policy Studies’, and is the author of ‘Technology, Natural Resources and Economic Growth’, and is the author of ‘Technology, Natural Resources and Economic Growth: Improving the Environment for a Greener Future’ and editor of ‘Encyclopedia of Energy, Natural Resource, and Environmental Economics’ and ‘The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Economics in Asia’. He is the co-chair the Scientific Committee of the 2018 World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists. In 2020 he was elected as a council member of the The Science Council of Japan. He was the recipient of a JSPS Prize.