Toru Kitagawa is a Professor of Economics at Brown University. His research and teaching interests include econometrics, causal inference, statistical decision theory, Bayesian analysis, applied microeconomics, empirical macroeconomics, and experimental economics. His research projects centre on how to use data to inform a better public policy. He studies theoretical econometrics and statistics to develop quantitative methods for evidence based policy decision, with applications to a wide range of applied economics including labour, development, and environmental economics. He also collaborates with empirical researchers in the world to conduct lab and field experiments to perform econometric analysis on human behaviours and learn better policies for real-world problems. He has published his works in major peer-reviewed journals in economics including Econometrica, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Econometrics, Quantitative Economics, and Journal of Business Economics and Statistics. He served as a board member of the Review of Economic Studies and an associate editor for Journal of Econometrics, and has been an associate editor of Journal of Business Economics and Statistics, Journal of Econometric Methods, and Japanese Economic Review.