Dr Tomoo Kikuchi is Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, Korea University and Adjunct Senior Fellow at the the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University. Previously, he was Visiting Senior Fellow at RSIS, Senior Research Fellow at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, and Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, National University of Singapore. He held visiting positions at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Keio University Global Research Institute. He grew up in Germany and Japan, studied at universities in Japan, Germany and the UK, and obtained his PhD in Economics from Bielefeld University in Germany. His research areas are International Economics, Economic Growth and Macroeconomics. He has published many articles in leading economics journals such as Journal of Economic Theory and edited many books and journal special issues on trade, finance and investment in Asia. He is Associate Editor of Journal of Asian Economics. He regularly contributes op-eds to newspapers such as The Straits Times and The Nikkei Asian Review. He is frequently consulted by governments in the region.
