Member Bio
Kenichi Matsui is an associate professor of sustainable environmental studies at the University of Tsukuba, where he teaches environmental history and ethics. In his research, he has explored issues related to Native water rights, water ethics, biodiversity, and traditional ecological knowledge in Canada and the United States. Since 2010, Matsui has conducted a government-funded research project on traditional knowledge for community-led environmental governance, which investigates the roles traditional knowledge may play in empowering local communities and indigenous peoples in North America and several other countries. After receiving his PhD in history from the University of British Columbia in 2003, he taught Native American history at Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia. At the Rachel Carson Center, he will focus on the ethical and legal implications of traditional knowledge studies.