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Last updated: April 1, 2020

Yukinobu Kitamura
Academic Title: Professor of Economics

Division: Research Centre for Information and Statistics of Social Science
Fields of Specialization: Applied Econometrics, Macroeconomics, Monetary and Fiscal Policy and Public Economics
Date of Birth: July 13, 1956
Education: 1981 B.A. in Economics, Keio University
1982 M.A. in International Relations, University of Pennsylvania
1989 D.Phil. in Economics, University of Oxford
Doctoral thesis e-theses online service:EthOS, British Library
Personal Background: 1987/01-1998/11 Research Assistant, Institute of Economics and Statistics, University of Oxford
1988/12-1991/08 Economist, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development:OECD
1991/09-present Researcher, Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of Japan
1992/04-1998/03 Part-time lecturer, Institute of Economic Research:IER, Hitotsubashi University
1995/04-present Researcher, Tokyo Cernter for Economic Research
1996/04-1999/03 Guest Associate Professor, Graduate School of Business and Commerce, Keio University
1999/04-2002/10 Associate Professor, IER, Hitotsubashi University
1999/04-2002/10 Associate Professor, Graduate School of Business and Commerce, Keio University
2002/11-2020/03 Professor, IER, Hitotsubashi University
2002/11-present Specially-appointed Professor, Graduate School of Business and Commerce, Keio University
2015/04-2017/03 Director of IER, Hitotsubashi University
2015/01-present Vice Chairperson, The Statistics Commission, Ministry of Internal Affairs
2020/04-present Professor Emeritus, IER, Hitotsubashi University
2020/04-present Professor, Faculty of Economics, Rissho University

2018/10-present Chairperson of the Economic Committee, Science Council of Japan, Cabinet Office
2019/10-present Chairperson of the Statistics Commission of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications
CV PDF (92KB) (as of April 1, 2020)
CV: shortened version PDF (243KB) (as of April 1, 2020)
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With my thesis supervisor, Professor Amartya Sen (left)
He won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998.