SATO Jin

Visiting Fellow
Research field / main research area
Politics of natural resources in Southeast Asia; comparative foreign aid administration
Related research projects
SATO Jin
Research field / main research area
Politics of natural resources in Southeast Asia; comparative foreign aid administration
Related research projects

Educational Background

Ph.D (International Studies), The University of Tokyo, March 1998
MPP, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, June 1994
BA (Anthropology), The University of Tokyo, March 1992

Career Background

2024 (Jan.)-2024 (June), Visiting Professor, Columbia University Climate School.

2017 (Sep.)-2020 (June), Global Scholar, Princeton University

2017 (April)-present, Special Advisor to the President of the University of Tokyo

2016 (July)-present, Visiting Fellow, JICA Research Institute (JICA Ogata Sadako Research Institute for Peace and Development)

2015 (Feb)-2016 (June), Visiting Professor, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

2014 (Sep)-present, Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo

2013 (Feb)-2013 (June), Visiting Associate Professor, East Asian Studies Department, Princeton University

2009 (Mar)-2014 (Aug), Associate Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo

2000 (Apr)-2009 (Mar), Associate Professor, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo

1999 (May)-2000 (Mar), Research Associate, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo

1998 (Sep)-1999 (Apr) Post-Doctoral Fellow, Agrarian Studies Program, Yale University

Major Publications

Sato, J. and Soyeun, K. (ed.) (2024). The Semantics of Development in Asia: Exploring "Untranslatable" Ideas through Japan. Springer.

Sato, J. (2015). Social Resilience in Post-Tsunami Japan, In: James D. Wright (editor-in-chief), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition, Vol 22. Oxford: Elsevier. pp. 570–575.

Dina, T. and Sato, J. (2015). The Cost of Dividing the Commons: Overlapping Property Systems in Tonle Sap, Cambodia. International Journal of Commons, Vol 9, No.1, pp.261-280, 2015.

Dina, T. and Sato. J. (2014). Is Fishery Access Better for the Poor? Explaining De-Territorialisation of the Tonle Sap, Cambodia (with Thol Dina). Journal of Development Studies, Vol.50, No. 7, pp. 962-976.

Sato, J. (2014) Resource Politics in State-Society Relations: Why certain states are more inclusive than others?. Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol.56, No.3, pp. 746-777.

Sato, J. and Shimomura, Y. (ed.) (2013). The Rise of Asian Donors: Japan’s Impact and the Evolution of Emerging Donors. Routledge.

Sato, J. (ed.) (2013). Governance of Natural Resources. United Nations University Press.

Sato, J., Shiga, H., Kobayashi, T. and Kondoh, H. (2011). ‘Emerging Donors’ from a Recipient Perspective: Institutional Analysis of Foreign Aid in Cambodia. World Development, Vol.39, No.12, pp. 2091-2104.

Sato, J. (2010). Matching Goods and People: Aid and Human Security After the 2004 Tsunami. Development in Practice, Vol.20, No.1, pp. 70-84.

Affiliations

Japan Society for International Development, Japan Association for Asian Studies, Association for Asian Studies

Others

2014 (Jan) Japan Academy Medal by the Japan Academy 2013 (Dec) JSPS-Prize by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 2013 (Nov) Excellent publication award by the Japan Society for International Development on a journal article published in World Development 2013 (Jul.) Daido Life Foundation Award on the Outstanding Contribution to Area Studies 2010 (Sep) - 2010 (Aug) Fulbright Fellowship Award