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

Kaz received his PhD from Kyoto University in 2012. His thesis examined the theoretical and practical dimensions of drought adaptation in Japan during the 1990s. Following a postdoctoral position at the Nanzan University Institute for Social Ethics and a research fellowship at the Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University, he served as a Senior Lecturer at Nanzan University from 2015 to 2018. Since 2026, he has been a Professor at Nanzan University, teaching sustainability studies courses at the Faculty of Global Liberal Studies. 

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