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Venue: Room 890, Kravis Hall, Columbia Business School
Featuring: Nobuko Nagase, Professor of Labor Economics and Social Policy, Ochanomizu University; Author, Women’s Career and Family in Japan: Labor Practice, Gender Wage Gap, and Child-Rearing
Moderator: Takatoshi Ito, Professor, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University; Director, Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds, CJEB
Note: The seminar was part of CJEB’s Japanese Management Leadership Program.
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Venue: Room 640, Geffen Hall, Columbia Business School
Featuring: Richard Katz, Editor, Japan Economy Watch; Special Correspondent, Toyo Keizai Inc.
Moderator: Takatoshi Ito, Professor, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University; Director, Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds, CJEB
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Thursday, February 20, 2025 | 7:00 – 8:15 PM (ET)
Friday, February 21, 2025 | 9:00 – 10:15 AM (Japan Time)
Language: English (Japanese interpretation)
Featuring:
Gerald L. Curtis, Burgess Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Columbia University; Chairman, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation; Distinguished Research Fellow, Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research
Mireya Solís, Director, Center for Asia Policy Studies; Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Center for Asia Policy Studies; Philip Knight Chair in Japan Studies, Brookings Institution
Kazuto Suzuki, Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Tokyo; Director, Institute of Geoeconomics
Moderators: Takeo Hoshi, Director, Tokyo College, The University of Tokyo; Takatoshi Ito, Professor, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University; Director, Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds, CJEB
Cosponsor: Tokyo College, The University of Tokyo
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Thursday, February 13, 2025 | 7:00 – 8:15 PM (ET)
Friday, February 14, 2025 | 9:00 – 10:15 AM (Japan Time)
Language: English (Japanese interpretation)
Featuring:
David Weinstein, Director, CJEB; Carl S. Shoup Professor of the Japanese Economy, Columbia University
Keiko Ito, Professor, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Chiba University
Yasuyuki Todo, Professor, Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University
Moderators: Takeo Hoshi, Director, Tokyo College, The University of Tokyo; Takatoshi Ito, Professor, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University; Director, Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds, CJEB
Cosponsor: Tokyo College, The University of Tokyo
Room 490, Geffen Hall, Columbia Business School
Session 4: “Economic Security and New Industrial Policy”
Presenter: Mireya Solís, Philip Knight Chair in Japan Studies, The Brookings Institution
Coauthors: Shiro Armstrong, Shujiro Urata
Discussant: Takeo Hoshi, University of Tokyo
Moderator: Takatoshi Ito, Professor, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University; Director, Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds, CJEB
Conclusion: Takatoshi Ito
Date & Time：Wednesday, November 20, 2024, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Panel Discussion:
Joyce Chang, Chair, Global Research, J.P. Morgan Chase
R. Glenn Hubbard, Dean Emeritus; Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia Business School; former Chairman, President’s Council of Economic Advisers
Takatoshi Ito, Professor, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Moderator:
Merit E. Janow, Dean Emerita, & Professor of Practice, School of International & Public Affairs, Columbia University; Chair of the Board of Directors, Japan Society
Tuesday, November 19, 2024 | 8:00 – 9:00 AM (Japan Time)
Featuring:
Terezie Hesounova Trivell, Director of Private Markets, United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund
Suyi Kim, Ex-Senior Managing Director and Head of Private Equity, CPP Investments
Moderator: Keiko Honda, Adjunct Senior Research Scholar, School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University
Opening Remarks: Takatoshi Ito, Professor, SIPA; Director, Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds, CJEB
Note: This event was held under the Chatham House Rule. A recording of the event will not be made public.
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Date：Friday, 15 November 2024, 10:00-11:00（EDT)
Venue：the Center on Global Energy Policy conference room in New York
Date(s): Friday, 8 November 2024, 8:00-9:15 JST
Venue: Zoom Webinar
Registration: Pre-registration required
Language: Japanese (English interpretation)
Program:
[Panelists] ITO Takatoshi (Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, SIPA and CJEB)
KAWAGUCHI Daiji (Professor, Faculty of Economics and Dean, Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Tokyo)
USUI Emiko (Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University)
[Moderator] Takeo HOSHI (Director, Tokyo College, The University of Tokyo)
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A panel discussion with Asia-Pacific Central Bank Governors
Date & Time: October 22, 2024, 9:00-11:00AM
Perry Warjiyo, Governor, Bank Indonesia
Eli Remolona, Governor, Bangko Sentral ng Philipinas
Rhee Changyong, Governor, Bank of Korea
Moderator: Professor Takatoshi Ito, Columbia SIPA
Other participating SIPA Faculty:
Professor Richard Clarida
Professor Jeffry Frieden
Professor Alan Taylor
Date & Time: October 21, 2024, 3:00-4:20PM
Session 4: Panel discussion on policy implications and solutions
Moderator: Andréa M. Maechler, BIS
Presenters:
Emily Blanchard, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
Mary E. Lovely, PIIE
Yeo Han-Koo, PIIE
Takatoshi Ito, Columbia Business School
Three Challenges Facing the Japanese Economy: Demography, Debts, and Decarbonization
Date & Time: Wednesday, October 9, 2024 | 6:30 – 7:45 PM
Venue: Room 620, Geffen Hall, Columbia Business School
Featuring:
Takatoshi Ito, Professor, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University; Director, Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds, CJEB
Moderator: David E. Weinstein, Director, CJEB; Carl S. Shoup Professor of the Japanese Economy, Columbia University
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Taiyo Yoshimi, Uraku Yoshimoto, Takatoshi Ito, Kiyotaka Sato, Junko Shimizu & Yushi Yoshida
WORKING PAPER 32910
DOI 10.3386/w32910
Issue Date September 2024
Video here (YouTube)
Date(s): Friday, 23 August 2024, 16:00-17:30 JST
Venue: Zoom Webinar
Registration: Pre-registration required
Language: Japanese (English interpretation)
Program:
[Lecture] Takatoshi ITO (Tokyo College Professor, The University of Tokyo; Professor, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University)
Nobuhiro KIYOTAKI (Tokyo College Professor, The University of Tokyo; Professor, Department of Economics, Princeton University)
[Discussion, Q&A] Moderator
Takeo HOSHI (Director, Tokyo College, The University of Tokyo)
Hitotsubashi University, EHL Hospitality Business School and NUS Institute of Real Estate & Urban Studies) as a Keynote speaker.
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Date: July 4-5, 2024
Venue: International House of Japan (Tokyo, Japan)
Day 1 – Thursday, 4 July 12:00 – 13:00
Session 2: Keynote Speech: A Tale of Two Whales, How to build up alternatives at GPIF and the University Fund in Japan
Professor Takatoshi Ito
Media
■ 2025.2.6 Appeared on BBC.
“Is UK economy headed for ‘stagflation’?”（Released On: 06 Feb 2025 Available for over a year）
■ 2025.2.4 Project Syndicate column was published.
“East Asia Braces for Trump 2.0”
■ 2024.12.11 Project Syndicate column was published.
“Trump’s Tariffs Will Backfire”
■ 2024.7.31 Appeared on Bloomberg TV.
“Markets Await BOJ Rate Decision; Samsung Profit Surges | Bloomberg: The Asia Trade”