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- Dissertation: Essays on Trade Policy with Supply Chains.
- Committee: Professors Robert W. Staiger (primary advisor, Dartmouth College), L. Kamran Bilir (co-primary advisor), Charles Engel, and Thomas Rutherford.

Ph.D. in Economics, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, May 2011.

- Dissertation: Essays on Production Networks in East Asia: Conditions, Properties, and Implications.
- Committee: Professors Fukunari Kimura (advisor), Colin McKenzie, Toshihiro Okubo, Yoshimasa Shirai (chair), and Shumpei Takemori.

B.A. in Policy Management, Keio University Shonan Fujisawa Campus (SFC), March 2006.

Professor, Faculty of Economics, Keio University, April 2023 - current.

Assistant Professor, School of International Politics, Economics and Communication, Aoyama Gakuin University, April 2017 - March 2019.

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Business Administration, Toyo University, April 2016 - March 2017.

Research Associate, Faculty of Economics, Keio University, April 2008 - March 2011.

Other Professional Appointments

Adjunct Researcher, Institute of Comparative Economic Studies, Hosei University, April 2021 - current.

Adjunct Researcher, Research Institute of Automobile and Parts Industries, Waseda University, October 2017 - current.

Visiting Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, Keio University, April 2020 - March 2023.

Consultant, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA).

ERIA Project, East Asian Production Networks amid the COVID-19 Shock, November 2020 - April 2021.
ERIA Project, Impact of Non-tariff Measures on Trade and Competitiveness in East Asia, October 2019 - April 2020.
ERIA Project, Technology and Job in East Asia, June 2019 - March 2020.
ERIA-UNCTAD NTMs Data Collection Project, February 2016 - December 2016.

Visiting Scholar, Faculty of Economics, Keio University, April 2016 - March 2020.

Short Term Consultant, World Bank-UNCTAD NTMs Data Collection Project, The World Bank, August 2015 - January 2016.

Associate Visiting Scholar, Faculty of Economics, Keio University, June 2015 - March 2016.

Adjunct Lecturer, Keio University Shonan Fujisawa Campus (SFC), April 2009 - March 2011.

- Teaching: Introductory Statistics and Data Analysis, undergraduate (Spring 2009, Spring 2010).

Research/Teaching Assistantship

Research Assistant, Professor Robert Staiger, August 2014 - December 2015.

Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin, August 2012 - May 2014.

- Principles of Microeconomics (Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014).
- Intermediate Microeconomics (Fall 2013).

The JSIE Kojima Kiyoshi Prize for Excellent Paper of 2021, The Japan Society of International Economics (JSIE), October 2021.
- Technical Regulations and Margins of Trade: Evidence from Japanese Manufacturing Firms, KOKUSAI KEIZAI, 71, 2020, pp. 191-222.
Study Abroad Funding, Yoshida Scholarship Foundation (YKK Corporation), 2011 - 2014.
Taro Yamane Scholarship, University of Wisconsin, 2011. [About Professor Taro Yamane (in Japanese)]

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, Purpose of Trade Agreements and Reciprocal Trade Liberalization under the Progress of Cross-border Unbundling of Production (Principal Investigator), April 2019 - March 2023.
JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), IT化と国際化が企業ダイナミクスに与える影響：日中韓の企業の比較分析 (Co-Investigator), April 2019 - March 2023.
Aoyama Gakuin University Research Institute Research Unit, International Trade and Domestic Policies: Interaction among Trade Policy, Government Procurement and Industrial Policy (Co-Investigator), July 2018 - March 2021.
JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Empirical Research on Assessing the Impact of NTMs on International Trade (Co-Investigator), April 2018 - March 2021.
JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up, Revisiting the Role of Trade Policy under the Progress of Cross-border Unbundling of Production (Principal Investigator), August 2016 - March 2018.