Isamu Okada is a political scientist and a professor at the Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University. Before his current position, he worked at the Japanese Embassy in the Plurinational State of Bolivia and as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Japan Society for Promotion of Science. His research interests range from resource governance, political participation, Latin American politics, and, most recently, the social impacts of COVID-19. He has publications employing quantitative methods and on-site and online surveys before and during the pandemic, published in World Development, the Journal of Behavioral Public Administration, Frontiers in Psychology, and Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. He has ample fieldwork experience in Bolivia, Peru, and other Latin American countries.