Masahide Horita

Masahide Horita is a Professor at the Graduate School of Engineering and the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences at The University of Tokyo. He specializes in collective decision-making, infrastructure systems management, and safeguard policies for development projects. Horita received his PhD from the London School of Economics in 1999 and worked at Durham Business School before joining the University of Tokyo in 2000. His research focuses on group decision support for international cooperation, conflict management, and problem structuring methods. Horita has contributed significantly to the field through publications such as "Innovations in Collaborative Urban Regeneration" and papers on climate change negotiations and strategic interactions in international natural gas trade. He teaches courses on sustainability science and infrastructure management, including "The Past, Present and Future of Infrastructure in Japan" in the UTSIP program. Horita's expertise spans social infrastructure management, project governance, and environmental and social safeguard policies, making him a key figure in addressing complex societal challenges through interdisciplinary approaches.