Eiichiro Adachi received his bachelor's degree in mathematical economics from Hitotsubashi University in Japan in 1986. He worked for Mitsubishi Research Institute during 1986-1989 as an industrial analyst.

He is a senior researcher at The Japan Research Institute Limited, which was founded in 1989 and sponsored by companies in the Sumitomo group.

Mr. Adachi is now engaged in social and environmental screening of listed Japanese companies for UBS Global Asset Management and Sumitomo Trust and Banking Co., Ltd. He is also a project manager of research works regarding environmental finance that several ministries entrusted.

He is the co-author of several books such as "Guide to Socially Responsible Investment" (2003, Nihon Keizai Shimbun), "The Illustration of Environmental Problems for Business Enterprise" (2002, TOYO KEIZAI INC),  “The Journal of the Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studies Vol. 7” (2002, TOYO KEIZAI INC), “Values to Value A Global Dialogue on Sustainable Finance” (2003, Greenleaf Publishing) and "Ethical-ecological Investment: Towards Global Sustainable Development" (2001, Iko-Verlag fur Interkulturelle kommunikation).

He was a working group member of the Committee for Promotion of CSR Management by KEIZAI DOYUKAI (Japan Association of Corporate Executives) and is a member of the CSR study meeting by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. He is also a member of the Asia Pacific Roundtable Cleaner Production (APRCP) Board of Trustees.