Director for Economic Outlook, Cabinet Office, And

Kenichi KAWASAKI

Occupation

Director for Economic Outlook, Cabinet Office, and

Special Fellow, Economic and Social Research Institute, Cabinet Office

Education

B. S., Mathematics, School of Science, the University of Tokyo, 1983

Ph.D.in Economics, Graduate School of Economics, OsakaUniversity, 1999

Academic Experience

Visiting Lecturer, Faculty of International Policy and Economics, NishoGakushaUniversity, 1996-2001

Visiting Lecturer, Faculty of Economics, KomazawaUniversity, April-September 1998

Visiting Lecturer, Graduate School of International Policy and Economics, NishoGakushaUniversity, 2001-present

Visiting Associate Professor, GraduateSchool of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo, 2003-2004

Employment Record

Administrator, Policy Division, Minister’s Secretariat, Economic Planning Agency (EPA) of the Japanese Government, April 1983 - March 1984

Economist, Economic Research Institute (ERI), EPA, April 1984 - June 1986

Economist, Planning Division, Planning and Coordination Bureau, National Land Agency of the Japanese Government, July 1986 - December 1987

Economist, General Economics Division, Economics and Statistics Department, OECD, January 1988 - August 1990

Deputy Director, Secretariat of Office of Trade and Investment Ombudsman (OTO), EPA, September 1990 - June 1993

Deputy Director, Coordination Division, Coordination Bureau, EPA, July 1993 - June 1994

Deputy Director, Business Statistics Research Division, Research Bureau, EPA, July 1994 - June 1995

Senior Economist, ERI, EPA, July 1995 - June 1997

Senior Economist, Research Institute for International Investment and Development (RIIID), the Export-Import Bank of Japan (JEXIM), July 1997 - March 1999

Senior Economist, Coordination Division, Coordination Bureau, EPA, April 1999 - December 2000

Senior Assistant for Loan Aid, Loan Aid Division, Economic Cooperation Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), January 2001 - June 2002

Senior Research Fellow, Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), Cabinet Office, July 2002 - October 2003

Director, Office for the Promotion of Regional Revitalization, Cabinet Secretariat, November 2003- February 2005

Director for Economic Outlook, Cabinet Office, March 2005-present

Other Appointments

Consulting Fellow, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI), 2001 - 2005

Special Research Fellow, ESRI, Cabinet Office, 2005 – present

Memberships in Professional Societies

Advisory Board, Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) Consortium, Center for Global Trade Analysis, PurdueUniversity, 1996-1997, 2001- 2005

Program Committee, Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, Center for Global Trade Analysis, PurdueUniversity, 1998 - 2000, 2005 - present

Award

Alan A. Powell Award, June 2005

Publications

Ph.D. Dissertation

“The Economic Effects of Trade Liberalization and Regulatory Reform: An Analysis of Structural Policy Measures by an Economic Model”, Graduate Schoolof Economics, OsakaUniversity, March 1999 (in Japanese)

Refereed Journals

“Weighing up the Effects of APEC: A General Equilibrium Analysis of Trade Liberalization”, Canadian Business Economics, Volume 6, Number 3, pp. 27-41, Canadian Association of Business Economics, September 1998

“The Impact of Japanese Economic Cooperation on Asian Economic Development”, Review of Urban & Regional Development Studies Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 14-32, Blackwell Publishing, March 2004

Books

Best before Date: The Diary of Struggle for Opening the Japanese Market, YOMIURI SINBUNSYA, July 1996 (in Japanese)

The Applications of a Computable General Equilibrium Model: A Simulation Analysis on Trade Liberalization and Regulatory Reform, NIHONHYORONSYA, November 1999 (in Japanese)