Aki Yamaguchi

Aki Yamaguchi is a Project Researcher at the Center for Global Commons, Institute for Future Initiatives, University of Tokyo. Her work focuses on economic and social system change to address global environmental issues.

Previously, Aki was a Senior Climate Change and Energy Policy Officer at the British Embassy in Tokyo where she facilitated the delivery of the UK’s Net Zero strategy and promoted clean energy transition through climate diplomacy. Prior to this role, Aki coordinated interdisciplinary environmental science research projects that responded to urgent and critical policy needs under the Agile Initiative at Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford.

During her earlier career, Aki focused on the nexus between environmental policy and development at national and international levels and managed projects at UNESCO, OECD, and UNEP in such areas as water resources management, financing urban water supply and sanitation, sustainable waste management, urban resilience, sustainable consumption and production, and the circular economy.

• A New Systems Thinking Approach to Sustainable Resource Management. Ng, K.S., Hernandez, E.M., and Yamaguchi, A., Elsevier, July 2024.
• Towards Sustainable Municipal Solid Waste Management in Malaysia. Ng, K.S., Yeoh, L., Iacovidou, E., Wan Ab Karim Ghani, W. A., and Yamaguchi, A., University of Oxford and Brunel University London, 2023.
• Guidelines for Performance-Based Contracts between Municipalities and Water Utilities in Eastern Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia (EECCA). Molle, A., Begin, E., Crothers, J., Sivaev, S., Svyatotska, V., Yepes, G., and Yamaguchi, A., OECD, October 2004.