Toshiro Nishizawa
Toshiro Nishizawa is a Professor at the Graduate School of Public Policy, the University of Tokyo since July 2013 after serving at the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC). Early in his career, he spent years working at Japan’s EXIM Bank, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the IMF, and the World Bank. He has been actively engaged in policy dialogue and research activities with his interests in Asian economies, financing for development, Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs), and sovereign debt. He has been a senior visiting fellow at the Policy Research Institute (PRI) of the Ministry of Finance (MOF). Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) invited him as the lead researcher under Joint Policy Research and Dialogue Program for Fiscal Stabilization in Lao PDR (2018-2020). He received “Foreign Minister’s Commendations for FY2022” for his contribution to deepening the cooperative relationship between Japan and Laos. He holds a BA in Latin American studies from the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (1982), a BA in economics from the University of Tokyo (1984), and an MSc in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1988).