is a female Japanese politician, national university president and a researcher of

economics Economics () is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics analyzes ...

. Her academic specialties are national

public finance Public finance is the study of the role of the government in the economy. It is the branch of economics that assesses the government revenue and government expenditure of the public authorities and the adjustment of one or the other to achiev ...

and economic policy. She is a noted lecturer of public finance and is a senior professor at the

National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies The , or GRIPS, is an elite, highly selective research graduate school located in Minato, Tokyo. Funded by the Japanese Government, it has the status of national university. It is also one of Asia's leading think tanks of policy scholars and socia ...

(GRIPS) in Tokyo. Ōta served as the Japanese cabinet minister of economic policy, which is responsible for charging economic policy and public finance. In April 2014, Ōta has been appointed to the position of chairwoman of the board by

Mizuho Financial Group , abbreviated as MHFG, or simply called Mizuho, is a banking holding company headquartered in the Ōtemachi district of Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. The name "" literally means "abundant rice" in Japanese and "harvest" in the figurative sense. Upo ...

, Japan's second-largest financial services group. On 1st September 2022, following the return of the previous President,

Akihiko Tanaka is a Japanese academic specializing in theories of international systems, contemporary international relations in East Asia, Japan-US relations, and Japan-China relations. He is also an author, policy adviser, a media commentator, an administrator ...

, to the

Japan International Cooperation Agency The is a governmental agency that delivers the bulk of Official Development Assistance (ODA) for the government of Japan. It is chartered with assisting economic and social growth in developing countries, and the promotion of international co ...

(JICA), she was appointed as President of the

Career

* 1976: graduates from

Hitotsubashi University is a national university located in Tokyo, Japan. It has campuses in Kunitachi, Kodaira, and Chiyoda. One of the top 9 Designated National University in Japan, Hitotsubashi is a relatively small institution specialized solely in social science ...

* 1993: assistant professor at Osaka University * 1996: professor of economics at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, (GRIPS) in Tokyo * 2002: cabinet office counsellor * 2006–2008: appointed to be Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy under the Abe administration and proceeding Fukuda administration * 2008: returns to GRIPS as a professor * 2009–2011: GRIPS vice president * 2022-: GRIPS President

References

External links

Profile from Prime Minister of Japan official website
* 21st-century Japanese women politicians 1954 births Living people People from Kagoshima Hitotsubashi University alumni Japanese women economists Women government ministers of Japan Academic staff of National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies {{Japan-politician-1950s-stub