PROFILE

Tomoko Hayashi is Vice-president of the Economic and Social Research Institute, a think tank in the Cabinet Office that provides a vital bridge between theory and policy.
Before the above appointment in June, 2022, she was Director-General for Economic and Fiscal Affairs in the Cabinet Office, serving as Vice Chair of the OECD Economic Policy Committee, and as Director-General for Gender Equality Bureau in the Cabinet Office.
She joined the government as an economist in 1987. She has held various positions of macroeconomic policy-making, including Director for Macroeconomic Policy Coordination with the Bank of Japan.
In the academic field, she has taught the Japanese economy at the Graduate School on Public Policy of the University of Tokyo since 2010. Her major publications include Macroeconomic Policy Frameworks (2003), Inflation Target and Monetary Policy (2006) (with Takatoshi Ito), and Global Financial and Economic Crisis (2010) (with Kazuo Ueda et al). She is a board member of the Japan Association of Business Cycle Studies and a member of the Japanese Economic Association.
She holds MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science and graduated from the University of Tokyo.