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Shinji Asanuma is Visiting Professor at Asian Public Policy Program and Moderator for Hitotsubashi Executive Program for Macroeconomic Policymakers, hosted by Asian Public Policy Program, School of International and Public Policy of the Hitotsubashi University. He was Professor of Economics at Chiba Institute of Technology from 1996 to 1997, prior to his appointment as Professor, Department of Economics of Hitotsubashi University in 1997, then Director and Professor of the Asian Public Policy Program, Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy of the university between 2000 and 2005. He worked as a country economist of the World Bank in 1964 to 1973, primarily working on East Asian countries. He returned to the World Bank and served as Director of Planning and Budgeting in 1984-87 and, subsequently, as Country Director, Asia I Department in 1987-91，responsible for a number of South-Asian countries He was also an investment banker with Kuhn Loeb & Co. (which later became Lehman Brothers) from 1973 through 1984, working as its Far East Representative in Tokyo, and, he was the head of S.G. Warburg’s Tokyo Office from 1991 through 1996. In these varied capacities, he worked for and with the government of Asian countries for almost forty years, either as a World Bank official or as international financial advisor. A graduate in economics of Hitotsubashi University (1961), his publications include International Development Assistance, Toyo Keizai Shinposha, Tokyo,1974 (in Japanese) and articles on Asian economies and international development assistance. He is a member of the Japanese Government’s ODA Policy Board chaired by the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Contact Address: Shinji
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