Eisaku IdeKeio University

Dr. Ide is an expert on Japanese fiscal and financial policy. He has published numerous
books on Japan’s budgetary and monetary policy, including Worlds of Taxation:
The Political Economy of Taxing, Spending and Redistribution since 1945 (co-editor
with Gisela Huerlimann and W. Elliot Brownlee, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), Debt and
Deficits in Industrialized Democracies (co-editor with Gene Park, Routledge, 2015).
He took part in various public committees in the government such as the Professional
Committee of the Tax Commission (Cabinet Office) and Council of Food, Agriculture
and Rural Policies (Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries), etc. He received
Osaragi Jiro Rondan Prize in 2015 and Keio University Award in 2016, etc.