16th International Conference on The Future of Asia

Born in 1949 in Tokyo

Education:

University of Tokyo, Bachelor of Law, 1973
Brown University, Ph.D. in Economics, 1982
Wharton School, Certificate of Graduation of Advanced Management Program, 1997

Professional Career:

Professor Taniuchi is a professor in the School of Commerce at Waseda University. His fields of specialization are international finance and macroeconomics.

He has extensive work experience in economic research and policy planning in the Japanese government, holding various positions including director-general of the Cabinet Office's research bureau. He also worked for the World Bank as economist and for APEC as chairman of APEC Economic Committee. In 2004, he left the public service and has since been teaching and doing researches at Waseda University.

Publications:

Professor Taniuchi has authored a number of books in Japanese. His recent publications include "Financial Markets, Banking, and Money", Cengage Learning, Tokyo, 2009, and "Global Imbalances and Asian Economies", Kouyou Shobou, Kyoto, 2008. He recently supervised the translation of a best-selling intermediate macroeconomics textbook; Robert J. Barro "Macroeconomics", Cengage Learning, Tokyo, 2010.

He has also authored many research papers and commentaries in both Japanese and English on economic issues. He often makes speeches to the business community.