Shinji Onoda is a policy researcher at the Institute for Global Environmental Studies. He holds two masters degree; one in policy studies from Chiba University in Japan and the other in European Spatial Planning and Regional Development from Blekinge Institute of Technology in Sweden. He has participated in SDGs-related international negotiations from the Rio+20 Preparatory Meeting onwards as an NGO member as well as a delegation of the Japanese government. He has served as a member of the SDGs Task Force of Global Compact Network Japan and a secretariat of SDGs Stakeholders’ Meeting hosted by the Ministry of the Environment Japan. Previously, he was a visiting researcher at Berlin Free University and Japan Center for a Sustainable Environment and Society, as well as a part-time lecturer for different universities. His recent books and reports include “Mainstreaming the SDGs in Business” (coauthored 2019), “The Basics of the SDGs” (co-authored 2018), and “SDGs and Business for the Future” (co-authored 2018).
