Mr. Katsuhiro Yamaguchi is a Professor at the Graduate School of Public Policy (GraSPP), University of Tokyo. He is in charge of the International Transport Policy Research Unit (ITPU) established under GraSPP. Before coming to the university, he was Director of the Planning and Research Office, Civil Aviation Bureau, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MLIT), Government of Japan, tasked with aviation policy ranging from airport construction planning and financing to strategic issues in both domestic and international air transport including issues related to global warming. He joined the Ministry of Transport (reorganized as MLIT in 2001) in 1983 and has had broad and extensive experience in policy areas in air transport, land transport, freight forwarding and information technology. He is currently on leave from MLIT and was assigned to the current position in October 2005. Mr. Yamaguchi holds a Bachelor of Law from the University of Tokyo (1983) and a Master’s of Business Administration from the University of Michigan (1990). He also has resided in New York and London.