Shinichiro Nakamura

is a Japanese economist and industrial ecologist, and Professor Emeritus at Waseda University. He is known for his contributions to industrial ecology, particularly for developing the Waste input-output analysis (WIO) , an extension of Input–output analysis that incorporates physical flows of waste and recycling.

Education and career

Nakamura graduated from the Faculty of Economics at Keio University in 1974 and completed his master's degree there in 1978. He subsequently moved to Germany as a scholar of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and continued his education at the University of Bonn, where he earned a doctorate in economics (Dr. rer. pol.) in 1983.