Satoshi Shimizutani is an Executive Senior research Fellow at JICA Ogata Research Institute. Prior to the current position, he worked for the Japanese government and conducted economic research at several research institutes. His primary interest is empirical research with a focus on policy evaluation and his papers covered a wide variety of topics and some of them were published in Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Industrial Economics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Journal of Comparative Economics and Industrial and Labor Relations Review. He earned his bachelor of Laws at University of Tokyo and Ph.D in Economics at University of Michigan.