{"id":23058,"date":"2025-01-29T17:02:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T08:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/pse\/?p=23058"},"modified":"2025-02-27T12:06:17","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T03:06:17","slug":"%e6%9c%ac%e5%ad%a6%e8%a1%93%e9%99%a2%e3%81%ae%e5%b0%8f%e6%9e%9d%e6%b7%b3%e5%ad%90%e6%95%99%e6%8e%88%e3%82%92%e6%97%a5%e6%9c%ac%e9%8a%80%e8%a1%8c%e6%94%bf%e7%ad%96%e5%af%a9%e8%ad%b0%e5%a7%94%e5%93%a1-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/pse\/news-en\/2025\/01\/29\/23058\/","title":{"rendered":"Waseda Professor Junko Koeda Nominated to Bank of Japan\u2019s Policy Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-20522 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/pse\/assets\/uploads\/2024\/02\/koeda_20240220_Thumbnail-e1713152332704-360x270.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"305\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/pse\/assets\/uploads\/2024\/02\/koeda_20240220_Thumbnail-e1713152332704-360x270.png 360w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/pse\/assets\/uploads\/2024\/02\/koeda_20240220_Thumbnail-e1713152332704.png 596w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 305px) 100vw, 305px\" \/>On January 28, 2025 the Government of Japan submitted a proposal to the Diet nominating Waseda University Faculty of Political Science and Economics Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/faculty-en\/2021\/04\/13\/1309\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Junko Koeda<\/a> to the Bank of Japan\u2019s Policy Board.<br \/>\nIf the Diet officially approves Professor Koeda\u2019s appointment, she would begin her five-year term on March 26, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Koeda specializes in macroeconomics and finance and international finance. She began teaching at Waseda University as an associate professor in September of 2014 and as a professor from April of 2022.<br \/>\nShe has previously served as a staff economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Chief Research Officer at the Ministry of Finance&#8217;s Policy Research Institute and has also worked as a visiting scholar at the Bank of Japan&#8217;s Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies.<br \/>\nProfessor Koeda would be the third person from our University to be appointed to the Bank of Japan&#8217;s Policy Board, following former Professor Yutaka Harada, who served as a member of the board until March 2020, and Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/faculty-en\/2023\/04\/01\/2149\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Masazumi Wakatabe<\/a>, who served as Deputy Governor until March 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 28, 2025 the Government of Japan submitted a proposal to the Diet nominating Waseda University Facu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21646,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[139],"class_list":["post-23058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","tag-general-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/pse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/pse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/pse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/pse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/pse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/pse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23211,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/pse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23058\/revisions\/23211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/pse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/pse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/pse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/pse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}