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PROFILE

Motoshige Itoh

Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Faculty of Economics, The University of Tokyo

After graduating from the Faculty of Economics at Tokyo University, Mr. Ito earned a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Rochester. He worked as an associate professor in the Faculty of Economics at Tokyo Metropolitan University and then a professor in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Tokyo before becoming a professor in the Graduate School of Economics at the University of Tokyo in 1996.
Mr. Ito's area of specialty is international economics. He has been a member of the "Economic Strategies Committee" set up by the Obuchi Cabinet and the "IT Strategies Committee" established by the Mori Cabinet. Known as the "Walking Economist", Mr. Ito spends a lot of time at business sites and analyzes and explains economics from the perspective of living economics. He is also a well-known media figure and acts as a commentator on TV Tokyo's "World Business Satellite".

Member of the Ministry of Finance's panel on MOF Policy Evaluation
Member of Ministry of Finance's Council on Customs, Tariff, Foreign Exchange and Other Transactions
President, National Institute for Research Advancement (NIRA)
Member of the Tax Commission
Publications include "Ito Motoshige no Keizai ga Wakaru Kenkyushitsu" ("Motoshige Ito's Economics Seminar" (Nihon Keizai Shimbun, 2005; writer and editor) and "Ito Motoshige's Marketing & Economics" (Nihon Keizai Shimbun, 2006).