Mr. Hajime Tanaka became affiliated with the Ocean Policy Research Institute (OPRI) as an Associate Program Officer from October 2018 after he got master degrees of Economics from Waseda University and International Affairs from University of California San Diego. His specialized fields are Macroeconomics, Policy evaluation and Geographical information analysis. Mr. Tanaka is in charge of projects of blue economy, blue finance, and ocean micro plastic debris. He is currently especially working on ocean micro plastic debris and managing some field research in some cities of Kanagawa prefecture in Japan. For blue economy, he is working on the analysis of management of companies of marine product processing industry.