Dr Tomoo Kikuchi is Professor at the Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University. He is also an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University and a Salzburg Global Fellow. Previously, he was a faculty member at the National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, and Korea University and held visiting positions at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Keio University Global Research Institute. He grew up in Germany and Japan and studied at universities in Japan, Germany and the UK. He has published papers on topics such as cross-country income convergence, international capital flows, bubbles, and production network in peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of Economic Theory, Theoretical Economics, Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking. He is currently studying how global financial markets influence economic development of countries. He has edited many books and special issues on trade, finance, and investment in Asia and is on the editorial board of Journal of Asian Economics and Malaysian Journal of Economics. He frequently writes for newspapers such as The Straits Times and Nikkei Asia. He obtained his PhD in economics from Bielefeld University in Germany.
