Bio

Chihiro Shimizu, Ph.D., is Professor at Hitotsubashi University. His areas of expertise are index theory and applied econometrics. In addition to being Professor Hitotsubashi University , he was teaching at National University of Singapore, Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia, Nihon University(日本大学) and The University of Tokyo(東京大学). And he is also a Research Affiliate in the Center for Real Estate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 2013 he has participated as a specialist in a project promoted mainly by the IMF, BIS, OECD, United Nations and others related to preparing international commercial property price indices. He has contributed a number of theses to international academic journals(more 50 refereed papers in English) as well as published numerous theses and books(more 200 papers in total). His research is highly regarded in Japan and has received many awards from a number of academic bodies. He was born in 1967 and received his doctorate from the University of Tokyo.