Researchers
Chairperson
Prof. Hidetoshi NISHIMURA
Specially Appointed Prof. Director of Musashino Institute for Global Affairs
Supreme Advisor to the President of Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA)
Graduated from the Faculty of Law, the University of Tokyo and obtained a Master’s Degree in International Development and Economics from Yale University. Joined the Ministry of International Trade and Industry in 1976. Has assumed numerous positions, Vice Governor for International Affairs of Ehime Prefecture, Director-General of the Business Support Department of the Small and Medium Enterprise Agency, Executive Managing Director of the Japan-China Economic Association.Assumed position of founding ERIA Executive Director in 2008 and subsequently was appointed as ERIA’s first President in 2015, and was reappointed as President of ERIA till 2023.Haiku Poet as Gania Nishimura.Editor of The Matsuyama Declaration1999.Representative of Haiku Magazine TEN I.
Chief Researcher
Prof. Mitsuhiro MAEDA, Musashino Institute for Global Affairs
Born in 1962. Graduating from Department of Law, University of Tokyo, Prof. Maeda has stepped up so-called ‘ a Revolving Door Career Path’ between the Government and Academia. In the Government of Japan, he served as Director for International Finance, and Director of Financial Cooperation Division, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. In Academia, he served as Associate Professor of University of Saitama, Visiting Professor of Graduate Institute of Policy Studies (GRIPS), Visiting Fellow of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House, UK), Visiting Fellow of Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS, USA) and Visiting Fellow of University of Cambridge. He is now serving as Professor of Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology (AIIT), President of ERISE (Epistemic Research Institute of Social Ethics), Vice President of the Global Society of Applied Infosocionomics (Glo-SAI), and Visiting Professor of Musashino University.
Research Fellows
Prof. Dr. Fukunari KIMURA, President, Institute of Developing Economies, JETRO
Dr. Venkatachalam ANBUMOZHI, Director of Research and Strategy and Innovations at the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA), Indonesia
Prof. Jun ARIMA, Project Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy (GraSPP), University of Tokyo
Dr. Shigeru KIMURA, Senior Policy Fellow on Energy Affairs, Economic Research Institute of ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA)
Dr. Ichiro KUTANI, Senior Research Director, Institute of Energy Economics of Japan (IEEJ)
Dr. Yoshikazu KOBAYASHI, Executive Analyst, Institute of Energy Economics of Japan (IEEJ)
Mr. Souknilanh KEOLA, Senior Economist at ERIA
Prof. Dr. Masato AMBASHI, Nara Women’s University
Mr. Fusanori IWASAKI, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI)
Mr. Ryosuke FUJIOKA, AEM−METI Economic and Industrial Cooperation Committee (AMEICC) Secretariat
Dr. Keita OIKAWA, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI)
Dr. Yasushi UEKI, Senior Research Fellow of Institute of Developing Economies (IDE), Japan External Trade Organization, Chiba, Japan.
Prof. Dr. Koji FUJIMOTO, Institute of Science Tokyo
Prof. Osuke KOMAZAWA, Nagasaki University
Topics
- Rio de Janeiro G20: Mr. Hidetoshi Nishimura, Director of MIGA, handed this report to Mr. Sherpa (H.E. Amitabh Kant, photo center), former chair of the Group of 20 India, and Mr. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of India to Brazil (H.E. Suresh Reddy, photo right), and held discussions on the contents of the report.
1.Summary ・From November 11 to November 19, the Global South Study Group (MIGA-GSRC) at Musashino University’s Institute for International Studies visited Rio de Janeiro, the host of the Group of 20 Summit, and presented at the seminar the report of the study group conducted from May to September 2024, entitled “Proposals for Policy on Diversity… Read more: Rio de Janeiro G20: Mr. Hidetoshi Nishimura, Director of MIGA, handed this report to Mr. Sherpa (H.E. Amitabh Kant, photo center), former chair of the Group of 20 India, and Mr. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of India to Brazil (H.E. Suresh Reddy, photo right), and held discussions on the contents of the report.
Activity Records
- May-September 2024: workshop (5 sessions in total)
- October 2024: Report MIGA-PP prepared
- November 2024: MIGA-PP announced and adopted at the T20 Summit and the side events of the Group of 20 Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- December 2024: MIGA-PP distributed in the Republic of Cote d’Ivoire
MIGA-PP
MIGA policy package “Path Diversity” for “No One Left Behind”
About the symbol of the Global South Research Caucus
In order to realize the world of “No One Left Behind”, it expresses the creation of a true relationship between all beings through color in the form of connecting the “Ecophony” that envelops human beings and the earth.
I used Penrose tiles and the colors extracted from photographs taken at Buddhist temples in Laos.