Kanako Morita is a Professor at the Faculty of Economics, Keio University. Her research interests focus on effective governance and finance for sustainable development, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and biodiversity conservation. She received her PhD and MA from the Tokyo Institute of Technology.
She is serving as a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Seventh Assessment Report WGIII Finance chapter. She was a lead author for the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report WGIII Investment and Finance chapter and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Transformative Change Assessment.