Prof. Hiroshi Watanabe
Graduate School
of Commerce and Management
Hitotsubashi University
Tokyo
Curriculum Vitae
Born in 1949. Hiroshi Watanabe holds a Bachelor of Law from Tokyo University as well as a Master of Arts in Economics from Brown University, which he received in 1975.
Hiroshi Watanabe joined the Ministry of Finance (MOF) in 1972, where he spent his early career working on tax issues and international finance and later served as district director of the Hikone Tax Office from 1977 to 1978. Between 1982 and 1989, he acted as deputy director in the Tax Bureau followed by the nomination as chief economist and director-general of the Administration Department at the Japan Centre for International Finance in 1989. In the early 1990s, he held the position as director in the Tax Bureau, and served from 1998 to 2001, as Personal Secretary to the Minister of Finance. In 2001, Hiroshi Watanabe was nominated deputy director-general and in 2003, he was appointed Director-General of the International Bureau of the MOF. He eventually became Vice Minister of Finance for International Affairs of the Japanese Ministry of Finance in 2004. Currently, Hiroshi Watanabe is Professor at the Graduate School of Commerce and Management of the Hitotsubashi University as well as Special Advisor to the President at the Japan Center for International Finance.
Additionally, he is Senior Visiting Fellow at Harvard University.
38th St. Gallen Symposium
Keynote Panel
Facing
up to the Risks of Global Markets
Friday,
16 May 2008, 18:30–20:00
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