Professor Takatoshi Ito recently participated at IMF's conference, High-Level Conference on Economic Linkages between Asia and Latin America - Opportunities, Challenges and Policies on March 3, 2016. He was a panelist for the session: "Assessing the Trans-Pacific Partnership: Key Opportunities and Challenges to Integration between Asia and Latin America". For more information on this conference, please visit the IMF Website below:
Mentioned Faculty
Takatoshi Ito
- Associate Director of Research; Director, Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds
- Center on Japanese Economy and Business
- Professor (by courtesy)
- Finance Division
Takatoshi Ito is one of Japan premier economists. A professor at the prestigious University of Tokyo, he is the author or co-author of several books on the Japanese and global economy. He served in the Japanese government as Deputy Vice Minister for International Finance in the Ministry of Finance and was a member of Japan’s Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy. He has been a senior advisor in the research department of the International Monetary Fund and has taught at Harvard University and the University of Minnesota.