Rei Hirayama

About

Rei specializes in development economics, social impact evaluation, and computer science.

While a university student, he worked on gender and agricultural research in Senegal in cooperation with JICA. After field reporting as a journalist in the US 2016 and South Korean presidential elections 2017, and establishing a student organisation for local development activities in Tamba-Sasayama, Hyogo Prefecture, he studied abroad at the University of Western Australia (UWA), B.A. computer science.

In 2019, he joined Social Value Japan and Asian Venture Philanthropy Network (AVPN) out of a desire to “contribute to building an environment in which socially significant businesses and organisations are more appropriately evaluated by investors as well as by the public”. He is responsible for work and research projects related to social impact evaluation and social impact bonds (SIB) in Japan, Asia and the US.

Graduated from the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), MA Development Studies, UK in 2021. He is currently also working for JANPIA (Japan Network for Public Interest Activities) and UK academic institutions as a quantitative evaluator and consultant in the fields on gender and finance.

These are his research blogs in LGBT+ higher Education program:

1. Emerging Mental health and Burnout issues among LGBT+ staff in UK Higher Education

2. Structural minority stress issues among LGBT+ staff in UK Higher Education