39th Annual Meeting

Eisuke Sakakibara
 

EISUKE SAKAKIBARA is a professor at Waseda University. From 1997 to 1999, he was Japan’s vice minister of finance for international affairs. Before that, he held many government positions, including director general of the International Finance Bureau; president of the Institute of Fiscal and Monetary Policy; director of the Treasury Division, Financial Bureau, Ministry of Finance (MOF), and special advisor to the President, Japan Center for International Finance. He has also served as associate professor of economics, Institute for Policy Science, at Saitama University and visiting associate professor of economics, economics department, at Harvard University. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Taylor’s Award from the University of Michigan and the Bintang Mahaputra Utama from the Government of Indonesia. He holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Tokyo University and a doctoral degree in economics from the University of Michigan, USA.