Professor Koichi Hamada is a world-leading expert on international economics and the Japanese economy. He has had a distinguished career as an internationally renowned economics professor, an economic adviser to the Japanese government and as an economic consultant to the IMF and WTO. He is Special Economic Adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Professor Emeritus of Economics at Yale University and Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Tokyo.
He is credited as one of the key architects of Abenomics, economic policies based upon “three arrows” of monetary easing, fiscal stimulus and structural reform.
Professor Koichi Hamada was a speaker at BGF conferences and officially joins the Shinzo Abe Initiative for Peace and Security Board.