Hiroko Ōta

Japanese politician

Hiroko Ōta (大田弘子, Ōta Hiroko, born 2 February 1954 in Kagoshima, Kagoshima) is a Japanese politician, national university president and a researcher of economics. Her academic specialties are national public finance and economic policy. She is a noted lecturer of public finance and is a senior professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies(GRIPS) in Tokyo.^[1]

Ōta served as the Japanese cabinet minister of economic policy, which is responsible for charging economic policy and public finance. In April 2014, Ōta has been appointed to the position of chairwoman of the board by Mizuho Financial Group, Japan's second-largest financial services group.^[2]

On 1 September 2022, following the return of the previous President, Akihiko Tanaka, to the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), she was appointed as President of the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies ^[3]

Career

1976: graduates from Hitotsubashi University
1993: assistant professor at Osaka University
1996: professor of economics at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, (GRIPS) in Tokyo
2002: cabinet office counsellor
2006–2008: appointed to be Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy under the Abe administration and proceeding Fukuda administration
2008: returns to GRIPS as a professor
2009–2011: GRIPS vice president
2022-: GRIPS President