Name	Asano, Kenji
Current Position	Senior Research Scientist R&D Strategy Manager, Socio-Economic Research
Research Interests	Biomass , Renewable Energy Policy
e-mail	k-asano(at)criepi.denken.or.jp    *'(at)'should be replaced by @
Degree	2006.3 Ph. D (Global Environmental Studies) from Kyoto University
Message	Professional Experiene: Kenji Asano holds a PhD in global environmental studies from Kyoto University and has more than ten years' research experience as an environmental economist working on renewable energy policy evaluation. As a research scientist of the Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry(CRIEPI) since 2007, he has been involved in policy evaluation of Feed-in Tariff and of bioenergy utilization. Between 2002 and 2004 he was a guest researcher at the Danish National Environmental Research Institute, focusing on renewable policies in selected European countries, and between 2006 and 2007 he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Biomass Technology Research Center of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Hiroshima, focusing on cost effectiveness analysis of biofuel from wood residue.

◆Education and Professional Experience

2017.7 - present	Senior Research Scientist
2016.4 - present	Project Leader(Renewable energy policies and liberalized electricity market ), CRIEPI
2015.4 - present	Lecturer (part-time), Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University
2007.7 - 2017.6	Research Scientist, CRIEPI
2006.4 - 2007.6	Post-doctoral fellow Biomass Technology Research Center(BTRC), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology(AIST), http://unit.aist.go.jp/chugoku/
2002.6 - 2004.3	Guest researcher at Danish National Environmental Research Institute

◆SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

●ENGLISH

• Asano, K.(2017)Enactment and Enforcing Processes of the Japanese Feed in Tariff Law: Difficulties for Maximizing Renewable's Diffusion While Minimizing National Burden, Journal of East Asia and International Law (Vol. 10/No.2).
• Asano, K. (2014) Early Promoter of Solar Photovoltaics: Forty Years Development of Policy and Technology in Japan., Moe, E. and P. Midford (eds), Common Challenges, National Responses: The Political Economy of Renewable Energy and Energy Security in Japan, China and Northern Europe, Palgrave Macmillan
• Asano, K. (2013)Costs estimation for renewable electricity policies in Japan, IEEE Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference 2013