Akiko Kamesaka is a Professor at Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo Japan, School of Business Administration. She is also a visiting research fellow at the Economic and Social Research Institute, Cabinet Office, Government of Japan, and a temporary member of the Council on Customs, Tariff, Foreign Exchange and Other Transactions in Japan. She has worked as an accountant at a large accounting firm in Tokyo, and has studied at the University of Tokyo graduate school of economics. She has served as a member of Osaka City Council, Kyoto City Council and several other institutions. Her interests include analysis on well-being, worldview, and investor behavior, and she has many publications in economics and finance. She received the Ibbotson Associates Japan Research Award at the Asia-Pacific Finance Association / Pacific-Basin Financial Management Society / Financial Management Association joint conference for her research on investor behavior in Japan. She currently works on several household panel data sets constructed in Japan and analyses the changes in Japanese people’s subjective well-being. She was invited to speak at a panel on subjective well-being and sustainability at the 4th OECD World Forum, and has presented her work at many other large conferences and meetings.