Kazushi Takahashi is a Japanese development economist. He is a Professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), and is a director of the Global Governance (G-cube) Program at GRIPS, Japan. Before joining GRIPS, he was an Associate Professor and Professor at Sophia University from 2015 to 2019, a visiting research fellow at the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management of Cornell University from 2010 to 2012, and a research fellow at the Institute of Developing Economies-Japan External Trade Organization (IDE-JETRO) from 2006 to 2015.