**Yasuhiko Hotta**

Yasuhiko Hotta (DPhil.) is the Director in the Sustainable Consumption and Production Area, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies. Hotta holds a Dphil in International Relations from the University of Sussex (2004). He has been involved in both policy initiatives and research projects in relation to sustainable resource circulation such as the G8's 3R Initiative, Working Group for 3R Policies for Southeast and East Asia at Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA), and the OECD's Working Party for Resource Productivity and Waste. From 2016 to 2021, Hotta served as a theme leader of Theme 3 of the PECoP-Asia research project for SCP in Asia. He is also a part-time lecturer for the Tokyo Institute of Technology. In 2021, Hotta was appointed as the Vice President of Asia Pacific Roundtable on Sustainable Consumption and Production (APRSCP).
