Yusuke Narita is an economist, (social) entrepreneur, and public speaker/writer working across multiple countries and fields. He develops methods that use algorithm, data, and evidence to improve social decision making. He deploys his research output to solve real-world business and policy problems, especially education and child policy issues. He is also active on the media and one of the most widely known academics in Japan. At the intersection of academia, industry, media, and policy, his work won several prizes, including Young Global Leaders by the World Economic Forum, the Prime Minister Prize, MIT Technology Review’s Innovators under 35 Japan, among others. He obtained a Ph.D. from MIT and a bachelor from the University of Tokyo (with the best undergraduate thesis award given to an outstanding thesis once every few years). He is an Assistant Professor at Yale University in the US and the founder of the startup Hanjuku-kaso Inc. in Japan. He was previously a Visiting Assistant Professor at Stanford University, Visiting Associate Professor at Hitotsubashi University, and holds research affiliate positions at MIT, University of Chicago, and University of Tokyo. His books include "Democracy in the 22nd Centry" and "Capitalism in the 22nd Century.”