Eiichi Tomiura

Eiichi Tomiura is President and Chief Research Officer (CRO) of the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI) in Japan, and a professor at Otsuma Women’s University. Prior to his current position, he was a professor of economics at Hitotsubashi University, Program Director and Faculty Fellow of RIETI, and Dean of the College of Economics at Yokohama National University. He also served at the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI), Government of Japan, until 2000. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992 and his B.A. in Economics from the University of Tokyo in 1984. His research expertise is in empirical international trade, especially offshore outsourcing with firm-level data. His articles have been published in many journals, including the Journal of International Economics, Review of International Economics, and Regional Science and Urban Economics. He has received the Economist Award, Nikkei Prize, and Kojima Kiyoshi Prize in Japan.