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Katsushi is a Reader in Economics at ,  at , the UK. He joined the 9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏ of Manchester in Septermber 2004.  

Katsushi serves as a research lead of  and a programme director of . He graduated with BA (Econ) from Univ. of Tokyo in 1990, an MSc from LSE in 1997, and a DPhil (Econ) from Oxford in 2001. Since then Katsushi has taught at Oxford as a post-doctoral fellow at CSAE and Senior Associate Member (SAM) at St. Antony’s College, and at Royal Holloway, 9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏ of London as Lecturer in Economics, before joining Manchester in 2004. He regularly works for , the UN as a consultant to assist its policy-making. 

Katsuhi specialises in applied econometric works on India and other Asian countries (e.g. China, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Nepal). He has published widely on risk, vulnerability and poverty dynamics of households, non-income poverty – in particular child and adult nutrition – and evaluations of anti-poverty programmes in developing countries, such as  in India and microfinance programmes in South Asia.  He is also interested in the role of agriculture in rural areas – broadly defined to include agricultural transformation, productivity improvement and institutions – in reducing poverty and inequality in developing countries and how this contributes to achieving the UN’s  1 and 2.