Kiminori Matsuyama

is a Japanese economist. He is a professor of economics at Northwestern University and, since December 2018, the chief scientific adviser of .[1] He is also an international senior fellow at the Canon Institute of Global Studies.[2] He was awarded the Nakahara Prize from the in 1996 and was elected a fellow of the in 1999, and a fellow of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory[3] in 2011.
Early Life and Education.
Born on November 19, 1957, Matsuyama grew up in Bunkyō-ku, Tokyo. After graduating from Seishi Elementary School, and then from , he enrolled in Science Division-I of the University of Tokyo, in 1976. Among those in his class in the Division was Makoto Gonokami (physicist and current president of the University of Tokyo). Matsuyama later switched to International Relations. Among those in his class there were Toyohisa Kozuki (current ambassador to Russia), (current ambassador to Singapore, former ambassador to the United Nations and Sweden) and former LDP Diet member . It was through his studies in international relations that he came across economics for the first time. Although he passed the advanced-level of the Japanese government in his senior year, he chose to continue his studies in economics.
After receiving his in International Relations in 1980, he enrolled in the program at the University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Economics, where he studied with Ryūtarō Komiya, , , and Tsuneo Ishikawa, as well as, briefly, with Motoshige Itō,[4] , and Kiyohiko Nishimura.
From October 1982, he also worked as a research assistant for economist Masahiro Okuno, who was then a at the Bank of Japan’s Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies.[5]
Matsuyama enrolled in Harvard University’s doctorate program in September 1983, where he studied under Jeffrey Sachs, , and . Classmates included , Abhijit Banerjee (2019 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences), , , and Alan Krueger. He received a PhD in economics from Harvard in 1987.
Career.
Matsuyama became an assistant professor of economics at Northwestern University in September 1987, associate professor in September 1991, and professor in September 1995. He spent 1991 at the of Stanford University as a National Fellow. He received the Nakahara Prize from the Japanese Economic Association in 1996 and became a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 1999. In addition to teaching at the University of Chicago as a visiting professor in 1993 and at MIT in 2008,[6] he has visited many universities and research institutes around the world and has been invited to deliver plenary lectures and keynote speeches at various international conferences.
In 2014, he became an international senior fellow of the Canon Institute for Global Studies,[7] and in December 2018 he was appointed chief scientific adviser of the 
Research.
Matsuyama’s main fields of research are international trade and macroeconomics.[8] His thesis for a BA in international relations at the University of Tokyo was on foreign direct investment and multinational corporations. He wrote his doctoral dissertation at Harvard University on the intertemporal approach to the current account and the game-theoretic analysis of the political economy of international monetary policy coordination and of trade and industrial policies. After joining the Northwestern faculty, he has worked extensively on such topics as international trade, , , , , and . He is, in his own words, “interested in understanding the mechanisms behind macroeconomic instability, structural transformation, as well as inequality across countries, regions, and households, and how they interact with credit market imperfections and product market innovations.”[9]
References.
[1] Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research, https://www.tkfd.or.jp/en/experts/detail.php?id=303 
[2] Canon Institute for Global Studies, https://www.canon-igs.org/en/fellows/kiminori_matsuyama.html 
[3] Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory, https://saet.uiowa.edu/economic-theory-fellows/
[4] “Special New Year’s Colloquy: Priority Issues for Public Policy Research (Part I),” https://www.tkfd.or.jp/en/research/detail.php?id=668
[5] Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies(IMES), https://www.imes.boj.or.jp/english/index.html 
[6] http://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/~kmatsu/vita.pdf
[7] https://www.canon-igs.org/en/fellows/kiminori_matsuyama.html 
[8] https://www.canon-igs.org/en/fellows/kiminori_matsuyama.html 
[9] https://www.college-de-france.fr/site/en-economics-innovation-lab/Clement-Malgouyres__1.htm