Takeshi Akiba
Associate Professor, Ritsumeikan University (Japan)
 
Takeshi AKIBA graduated from Meiji University School of Political Science and Economics in 1994. He completed the doctoral course at Meiji University Graduate School of Political Science and Economics (majored in Cooperative Studies) in 1999. His research subject was Microfinance.

Takeshi AKIBA has taught an organization theory of NGOs and NPOs at Ritsumeikan University since 2001. He also currently serves as a researcher of some co-operative research centers, as a NGO consultant, and as a Chairman of Nara City Volunteer Information Center Review Committee. He is a trustee of the Public Resources Foundation and a director of the Kyoto Green Fund.
 
His research interests center on Management and Marketing of NPO/NGO, Cooperatives and Social Enterprises. He is an Editorial Board member of the Japanese Co-operative Societies and an Editor of Journal of the Cooperative Studies.　 He is the co-author of the Consumer Co-operatives Theory in the 21st Century-Type (2006; Japanese and Korean), Civil Activities in a Crisis: the front line of the Social Enterprise in Japan and Korea (2012; Japanese), and Learning Co-operatives(2012: Japanese). His papers has been published in many academic journals and magazines.