Yukari Takamura is an international and environmental law expert, specializing in legal and governance issues relating to multilateral environmental agreements, as well as climate and energy laws and policies.
Yukari Takamura is a Professor at the Institute for Future Initiatives at the University of Tokyo. After receiving Master of Laws degree (Public International Law) from Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Prof. Takamura was appointed Associate Professor at Shizuoka University. Before joining the University of Tokyo in 2018, she worked as Professor at Ryukoku University, Kyoto, and Professor at Nagoya University, Japan. She also studied at Graduate School of University of Paris II (Panthéon-Assas), France, and was Visiting Researcher at University of London, the United Kingdom.
Prof. Takamura is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Sustainability Science and of the Editorial Advisory Board of Climate Policy. She is a member of Board of Directors of the Japanese Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studies as well as a member of the Board of Executive Directors of the Japanese Society for Environmental Law and Policy Studies.
She serves as member of governmental advisory bodies — Central Environmental Council as President, and Procurement Price Calculation Committee for Feed-in Tariff Scheme for Renewable Energy as Chair, among others. She is also a member of the Advisory Group on Climate Change and Sustainable Development of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Prof. Takamura is also a member of Science Council of Japan and has been its Vice President since October 2020. She received the Minister of the Environment's Environmental Conservation Merit Award in 2018.