Kenji Otsuka is a Senior Research Fellow with the Environment and Natural Resource Studies Group at the Interdisciplinary Studies Center, Institute of Developing Economies (IDE), JETRO in Chiba, Japan. His research interests are in environmental issues, policies and social change in China, as well as multi-stakeholder governance for water, environment and health; and disaster risk reduction in Asia. He received his Master’s in Environmental Science and PhD in Environmental Studies from Tsukuba University. He has been involved in various joint research projects with Chinese counterparts, including both governmental research institutes and NGOs, at the IDE since 1993, and conducted a pilot research project based on community roundtable meetings to promote dialogue among local residents, enterprises and government in Taihu Lake Basin with his counterparts from 2008 to 2011. He also co-organized a joint research project on river and lake basin governance in China with the Wilson Center’s China Environment Forum from 2004 to 2011. He is a co-author of Development of Environmental Policy in Japan and Asian Countries, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2007.