Masataka YARITA has served as Director for Energy Research Division since April 2024 and as Senior Researcher for oil markets and European oil, gas and climate change issues in Research and Analytics Department of Japan Organization for Metals and Energy Security (JOGMEC) since November 2021. He is jointly appointed as Head for Methane Management Taskforce and Project Director for International Affairs Division, Business Strategy Department.

Previously, he served as a stocks and demand analyst at the International Energy Agency (IEA) and provided analysis on OECD and major non-OECD petroleum inventories for the flagship monthly publication, Oil Market Report. He also contributed the IEA’s five-year oil market forecast providing an analysis on fundamental economic issues, petrochemical sector and global strategic petroleum reserves.

He holds LLM in International Oil and Gas Law and Policy with Distinction from University of Dundee in Scotland and bachelor’s degree of Global Political Economy from Waseda University in Tokyo.