Dr. Kaz Kagohashi is a Visiting Fellow at the Fenner School for Environment and Society, Australian National University (ANU), and an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Global Liberal Studies, Nanzan University, Japan. He also has a concurrent position as a Research Fellow at Nanzan University Institute for Social Ethics and has led the "Social Resilience" research project since 2015. He has also been a Board Member of Global Landcare since 2021.

Kaz received his Ph.D. from Kyoto University in 2012. His thesis was on the theoretical and practical investigation of drought adaptation that occurred in the 1990s in Japan. After doing a post-doc at Nanzan University Institute for Social Ethics and a research fellow at the Graduate School of Economics of Kyoto University, he was a Senior Lecturer at Nanzan University from 2015 to 2018. He has been an Associate Professor at Nanzan University and has taught sustainability studies courses at the Faculty of Global Liberal Studies since 2018. 

Kaz received a Young Achievement Award from the Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studies in 2016 for the published paper "The Effects of International Trade on Water Use" (PLOS ONE, 10(7), 2015), co-authored by Tetsuya Tsurumi and Shunsuke Managi.