• Shibata Akio

    President, Natural Resource Research Institute, Inc. Born in 1951. Graduated from the University of Tokyo Faculty of Agriculture in 1976. Has been a manager at Marubeni Corp., a research fellow at Marubeni Research Institute, and director of the same institute. Established the Natural Resource Research Institute in 2011. Author of Sekiyu 100 doru jidai no seichō senryaku (Growth Strategies for the Era of $100 Oil), Shigen ni nani ga okite iru no ka (What’s Happening to Our Resources?), and other works.

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    Jan 10, 2013