世界金融の安定を監視するために～アジアからの教訓 | Leading by Design: Asian Lessons for Monitoring Global Financial Stability

William W. Grimes is Professor of International Relations & Political Science at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. He is the author of Unmaking the Japanese Miracle (Cornell University Press, 2001) and Currency and Contest in East Asia (Cornell University Press, 2009), as well as co-editor (with Ulrike Schaede) of Japan’s Managed Globalization (M.E. Sharpe, 2002). Currency and Contest in East Asia was awarded the 2010 Masayoshi Ohira Prize for outstanding book on the Pacific Basin and received an Honorable Mention in the competition for the Asia Society’s Bernard Schwartz Book Award in 2009. He has also published articles, book chapters, monographs, and commentary on East Asian financial regionalism, the impacts of financial globalization in Japan, Japanese monetary policy making, US-Japan relations, and related topics. Professor Grimes received his B.A. in East Asian Studies from Yale University, his M.P.A. in International Relations from the Princeton University School of International and Public Affairs, and his Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University. He is a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a co-leader of the Task Force on Regional Economic Surveillance.

Akihiko Yoshida was appointed as Director of the International Monetary Fund’s Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (OAP), on December 1, 2022.

Mr. Yoshida had a long and distinguished career in the Japanese government and served in key positions, including Deputy Vice Minister for International Affairs, Deputy Director General of International Bureau (both in the Ministry of Finance), and Deputy Commissioner for International Affairs at the Financial Services Agency. He headed the FX Markets Division, IMF Division, Development Policy Division and Regional Financial Cooperation Division during his time in the Ministry of Finance and oversaw G7, G20 and ASEAN + 3 relations, through which he developed a wide range of human networks in Asia and the Pacific region and beyond. He has an extensive experience in international economic policy issues and represented Japan in different capacities in international fora.

Earlier in his career (2009-2013), Mr. Yoshida worked in the IMF as Advisor to the Director of Asia and the Pacific Department (APD). While at the IMF, he led missions to Pacific Island Countries and was also responsible for drawing up capacity development strategies for the region. In particular, he played an instrumental role in establishing a Technical Assistance Office in Bangkok in 2012, which is now called the IMF Capacity Development Office in Thailand (CDOT).

Born in Tokyo, Japan, Mr. Yoshida holds a LL.B. from the University of Tokyo (1992) and a Master in Public Affairs from Princeton University (1996). He is married with two sons.

William N. Kring is the Executive Director of the Boston University Global Development Policy Center. His research and teaching interests focus on international political economy, global economic governance, international financial institutions and Southern-led financial institutions. He actively conducts policy-oriented research on global economic governance and works regularly with government officials and staff officials of various international financial institutions, particularly regional financial arrangements. He has served as a consultant for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and has been awarded grants by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership, the Academy of Korean Studies and UNCTAD. His work has appeared in World Development, Development and Change, Global Policy, Global Governance and International Relations of the Asia-Pacific. He is a co-leader of the Task Force on Regional Economic Surveillance.

Yoichi Nemoto is a Specially Appointed Professor in the School of International and Public Policy at Hitotsubashi University. Nemoto was director of the ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office from 2012-2016, where he contributed to the work of establishing the macroeconomic surveillance office and building up AMRO’s surveillance capacity and transforming it into an international organization. Nemoto graduated with a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Tokyo and holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy from Harvard University. He is a co-leader of the Task Force on Regional Economic Surveillance.

Junko Shimizu is a Professor of International Finance at Gakushuin. She previously taught at Meikai University and Senshu University. She has written extensively on issues surrounding exchange rates and the management of currency risk. She has published her research in academic journals including Asian Economic Policy Review and Journal of Asian Economics, as well as policy analyses for the Policy Research Institute (財務総合研究所), Ministry of Finance, the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (経済産業研究所) and AMRO. She received her BA and PhD from Hitotsubashi University. She is a member of the Task Force on Regional Economic Surveillance.

Saori N. Katada is Professor of International Relations and the director of the Center for International Studies at University of Southern California. Her book Japan’s New Regional Reality: Geoeconomic Strategy in the Asia-Pacific was published by Columbia University Press in July 2020. She has co-authored two recent books: The BRICS and Collective Financial Statecraft (Oxford University Press, 2017), and Taming Japan’s Deflation: The Debate over Unconventional Monetary Policy (Cornell University Press, 2018). She holds a BA from Hitotsubashi University and a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Political Science). Before joining USC, she served as a researcher at the World Bank in Washington D.C., and as International Program officer at the UNDP in Mexico City.