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Join Columbia Business School’s Center on Japanese Economy and Business (CJEB) for a discussion on Japanese economic recovery and transformation following the COVID-19 pandemic. This webinar is part of "The Japanese Economy in the COVID-19 Era" series.

What topics will be discussed:

• Policies to contain the pandemic and to stimulate the economy in Japan and the U.S. Is economic recovery a V-shape, U-shape, or W-shape?

• How the two economies could become more efficient in the new normal, taking advantage of what we have learned from various stay-at-home policies

• Whether a trend toward remote work, remote teaching, zoom webinars and other digitalization will continue in the new normal in Japan and the U.S. Remote teaching seems to have great potential, how can it be promoted?

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About the Speakers:

Yasutoshi Nishimura

Minister Nishimura was appointed as the Minister for Economic and Fiscal Policy in the Abe Cabinet in September 2019. He was also appointed as the Minister for Novel Coronavirus Disease Control in March 2020. He is one of very few ministers in the world taking on these two roles simultaneously. In addition, he is also in charge of the TPP and Social Security Reform, which are important policies in the Cabinet. He leads key policy coordination within the Cabinet.

When the Abe Cabinet was formed in December 2012, Mr. Nishimura was appointed as the State-Minister in the Cabinet Office. He took initiative in promoting the three arrows of Abenomics. He also participated in the TPP negotiations with Mr. Michael Froman, then U.S. Trade Representative.

He served as Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2008 to 2009 and contributed to building strong ties with many countries and international organizations. He gave a speech on Japan’s measures for anti-piracy off the coast of Somalia at the UN Security Council in December 2008.

As a member of the Diet, he has been elected to the House of Representatives for six consecutive terms since 2003. He served in many key positions within the Liberal Democratic Party, such as Special Advisor to the President of the LDP, Chief Deputy Secretary-General, and Deputy Chairperson of the Policy Research Council.

Prior to being elected as a Diet member, he started his career in the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (currently Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry) from 1985 to 1998, after graduating from University of Tokyo. He mainly worked in the fields of energy, environment and local industrial policy, including as Director for Environmental Protection and Industrial Location.

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Glenn Hubbard

Glenn Hubbard is dean emeritus, director of the Jerome A. Chazen Institute for Global Business, and Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics at Columbia Business School. Hubbard received his BA and BS degrees summa cum laude from the University of Central Florida and also holds AM and PhD degrees in economics from Harvard University.

In addition to writing more than 100 scholarly articles in economics and finance, Glenn is the author of three popular textbooks, as well as co-author of The Aid Trap: Hard Truths About Ending Poverty, Balance: The Economics of Great Powers From Ancient Rome to Modern America, and Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise: Five Steps to a Better Health Care System. His commentaries appear in Business Week, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Washington Post, Nikkei, and the Daily Yomiuri, as well as on television and radio.

From 2001 until 2003, he was chairman of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers. In the corporate sector, he is on the boards of ADP, BlackRock Fixed Income Funds, and MetLife (where he is chair).

Hubbard is co-chair of the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation; he is a past chair of the Economic Club of New York and a past co-chair of the Study Group on Corporate Boards. Glenn and his family live in New York.

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