Recent international project experience:
World Bank Export Development Project II in Tunisia: Consultancy services were provided for the Middle-East and North Africa Region of the World Bank. We designed the firm survey on technical barriers to trade, and produced a report to outline the research strategy for the operation team of the World Bank.
Prof. Tsunehiro Otsuki PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics in University of Maryland in 2001, is Associate Professor in economics in Osaka University. He worked as Research Analyst in the Trade Team, Development Economics Research Group at the World Bank from 2000 to 2004 before he assumed the current position. His research interest includes standards and agricultural trade, and trade facilitation.
In NTM-Impact, Prof. Otsuki, will lead the team and besides the coordination, will lend his considerable expertise, to support methodology development in both WP6 and WP7. Prof. Kimura, will lead on NTM data collection (WP4) and the product case studies (WP6) in Japan. A research assistant will assist in policy data and sector data collection.