Education and Professional Experiences

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

Profile

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.

Degree

2006.3 Ph. D (Global Environmental Studies) from Kyoto University

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