Dr. Koyu Furusawa is professor of ecological economics at Kokugakuin University in Japan. He received his master's degree and Ph.D. in Agronomics at Kyoto University in Japan. He is greatly concerned about the global environmental issues, especially about the sustainable development from community level to the global level, and takes part in some NGO activities. He is studying interdisciplinary field in wide perspective, such as "ecological space project (a joint study on global equity, equal access to resources and environment)", trade and environment issues, international cooperation on sustainable development (related with Official Development Assistance) and social studies on ecology movements and socio-cultural paradigm and so on. He attended the NGO forum in Rio de Janeiro Brazil, Earth Summit in 1992 and Johannesburg Summit in 2002.
He is chief executive of "JACSES : Japan Center for Sustainable Environment and Society", environmental NGO and also board of director of "JANIC : Japanese NGO center for International Cooperation".