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Yorizumi WATANABE
Following several appointments in Japan's
foreign service, specializing in international
trade policy issues, Professor Watanabe has
now brought those skills and experience to
the senior academic post he has filled at
Keio University since 2005.
Prof. Watanabe’s distinguished career has
featured significant engagement in all the
major bilateral and multilateral trade
negotiations in which Japan has been involved in
the past two decades. This included the role
of policy advisor to relevant Ministers, and
postings to Japan's diplomatic missions in
Brussels and Geneva.
He was Deputy Director-General of the
Economic Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Foreign
Affairs of Japan from 2002-2004 and served as
Chief Negotiator for the Japan-Mexico
Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) and the
Working Party on Russia’s
Accession to the WTO. He was Special
Assistant to the Minister for Foreign Affairs of
Japan in 2004. He has been a member of the
Task Force on Japan-India Economic
Partnership, Japan Chamber of Commerce and
Industry since 2006.
Prof. Watanabe completed his BA and MA and
was PhD candidate in International
Relations at Sophia University, Tokyo. He
also studied at the College of Europe in
Bruges under Belgian Government Scholarship.
He is the author of a number of
publications on GATT/ WTO and trade and
economic partnership agreements. His
most recent book on the TPP (Trans-Pacific
Strategic Economic Partnership
Agreement) has been ranked one of the top-ten
best-selling books on economics in
December, 2011 in Tokyo.
Professor Yorizumi WATANABE
Institution: Keio University Yorizumi@sfc.keio.ac.jp
Languages: Japanese, English, French
Areas of expertise:
International political economy, World Trade
Organisation, FTAs (Free Trade
Agreements) and Trade Rules/Negotiations
Biography:
Professor Watanabe (Osaka, 1953) is currently
Professor of International Political
Economy at Keio University, Japan
[Experience]
- Special Assistant on GATT/UNCTAD Issues,
Permanent Mission of Japan to the
International Organizations in Geneva
(1985.3. -1988.3)
- Economic Affairs Officer, Tariff Division,
GATT Secretariat, Geneva (1988.4-1990.4)
- Associate Professor of International
Political Economy, Faculty of Economics, Nanzan
University, Nagoya, Japan (1990.4-1997.8)
- Special Assistant on Trade Policy Issues,
Mission of Japan to the European Union,
Brussels (1995.7-1998.7)
- Professor of International Political
Economy, Faculty of Comparative Culture, Otsuma
Women's University, Tokyo (1997.8-2005.3)
- Deputy Director-General, Economic Affairs
Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tokyo,
Japan (2002.5- 2004.3)
- Chief Negotiator for the Japan-Mexico
Economic Partnership Agreement (2002.5-
2004.3)
- Chief Negotiator, Working Party on Russia’s
Accession to the WTO (2002.5- 2004.3)
- Chief Negotiator, Working Party on Trade
and Competition Policy (2002.5- 2004.3)
- Senior Official for Trade and Investment
(SOMTI), ASEM (2002.5- 2004.3)
- Special Assistant to the Minister for
Foreign Affairs, Tokyo, Japan (2004.4.-2004.11)
- Professor of International Political
Economy, Faculty of Policy Management, Shonan
Fujisawa Campus (SFC), Keio University, Japan
(2005.4 to date)
[Education]
- Department of Philosophy, Sophia
University, Tokyo (Bachelor of Arts) (1972.4-1976.3)
- Department of Economics, College of Europe,
Bruges, Belgium (Certificate of
Advanced European Studies) (1976.9-1978.6)
- Graduate School of International Relations,
Sophia University, Tokyo (Master of Arts in
International Relations in 1981, Candidate
for Ph.D. in 1982)
[Other Professional Activities]
- Member of a semi-governmental task force on
Japan-Korea Free Trade Agreement
(1999.1-2000.3)
- JICA (Japan International Cooperation
Agency) expert to conduct WTO seminars in
Kazakhstan and Latvia (1999. 8-10)
- JETRO (Japan External Trade Organization)
expert to conduct a WTO seminar in
Tehran, Iran (2000.8)
- Member of a research team on WTO New Round
issues at the Institute of International
Policies (IIPS), (Sekai-heiwa kenkyuusho),
Tokyo (2001.8-2003.3)
- Chairman of a task force on Japan-China
Trade Relations and the WTO Rules, Institute
of Japan-China Economic Cooperation, Tokyo
(2001.11-2002.3)
- Member of a committee on Capacity-Building
Cooperation within the WTO System for
developing economies of the APEC, Japan
International Cooperation Agency (JICA),
Tokyo (2000.10- 2002.3)
- Member of the Joint Study Group on the
Japan-Chile Economic Partnership Agreement
(EPA) (2005.1-2005.10)
- Member of the Task Force on Japan-India
Economic Partnership, Japan Chamber of
Commerce and Industry, Tokyo, Japan (2006.7-
present)
- JICA expert to conduct a WTO seminar in
Alger, Algeria (2007.3-4)
[Publications]
1) The GATT and the Uruguay Round (co-author
with Prof. Tamotsu Takase), Toyo
Keizai, Dec. 1993, revised version Jan. 1999
2) Law and Politics of Contemporary Japan,
(co-author with Prof. Masanobu Kato),
Sanseido, July 1994
3) “The United States and the European
Community in the Uruguay Round”,
International Affairs, Japan Institute of
International relations, May 1994
4) “Perspectives of Free Trade Agreement
(FTA) in East Asia and the WTO System”,
Journal of International Economic Laws, Japan
Association of International Economic
Laws, October. 2001
5) WTO Handbook; Issues and Perspectives of
the Doha Development Agenda, JETRO
PRESS, Tokyo, Japan, October 2003
6) FTA-EPA Negotiations, Nihon Keizai Hyoron
Sha, May 2007
7) The GATT/WTO System and Japan, Hokujyu Publications,
October 2007
