Gaku Ishimura is a natural resource economist who received his undergraduate degree inmarine chemistry from Hokkaido University. He pursued his master studies in marineaffairs (fishery economics and management) at the University of Washington, USA and Ph.D. studies in resource management at the University of British Columbia, Canada.Gaku joined the Iwate University faculty in 2015 where his current researchprogram is focused on using quantitative analysis as a tool on understanding how thesociety utilizes fishery resources, and for building a sustainable fishery system. As PI of Resource Economics, Policy, and Quantitative Management Group, students, researchfellows and he conduct multi-disciplinary studies into the dynamic interactions of societyand fishery resources in a wide variety of settings. He has also long been committed todeveloping sustainability education.

Other Affiliation National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES),

Postdoctoral Fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Economics (NHH)
He completed the Master of Economics course at the University of British Columbia, Faculty of Policy Studies, Kansai Gakuin University. He has a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Washington. His specialities are resource economics, environmental economics, and applied econometrics. He applied economic theory and empirical methods to the behaviour of fishermen such as the Sanriku fishery in Japan and the Alaska Suke and Udara fishery in the United States, the relationship between international trade and fishery resources, and the social of individual allocation management in the Norwegian fishery. He is studying economic analysis such as impact. Received the Best Student Thesis Award from the North American Fisheries Economics Society in 2017.