Tomoyoshi Suzuki is a research fellow at JICA Ogata Research Institute. He is a transport and urban development specialist with the hands-on experience in mainly African countries. His research interest covers transport and urban development, particularly TOD (Transit-oriented development) in developing countries. He received his master degree of city planning & real estate development (with distinction), University of Glasgow, UK as well as his master degree of information science, University of Tohoku, Japan. He is Ph.D. student, school of environment and society, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan.