Events

UNEP FI 2003 Global Roundtable

Sustaining Value: A Meeting on Finance and Sustainability

20-21 October, 2003 | Tokyo, Japan

Agenda: Opening Keynote

Sustainability and Social Common Capital

Prof. Hirofumi Uzawa
Prof Emeritus at the University of Tokyo

Hirofumi Uzawa was born in 1928 in Tottori. After graduating from the University of Tokyo majoring in mathematics, he became interested in economics. He worked as Research Associate at Stanford University from 1956 to 1964, and was appointed in 1958 as Lecturer, Assistant Professor, and later Associate Professor of Economics and Statistics at Stanford University. He was Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago from 1964 to 1969 and then returned to the University of Tokyo as Professor of Economics, from which post he retired in 1989.

He is Director of the Research Center of Social Overhead Capital at Doshisha University, Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Tokyo, and a Member of the Japan Academy. He has also served as Senior Advisor in the Research Institute of Capital Formation at the Development Bank of Japan for more than 30 years.

He has been one of the leading economic theorists of the past four decades. His contributions to economics cover virtually every branch of the field. In recent decades he has become particularly well known for applied research in the areas of the economics of environment and social overhead capital.