Chihiro Shimizu
Biography: Chihiro Shimizu, Ph.D., is Professor of the Hitotsubashi University, Member of Statistics Commission in Japan and research affiliate of Center of Real Estate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in US. His areas of expertise are Index Theory, Real Estate Economics, Applied Econometrics and Machine Learning. Before joining Hitotsubashi University, Dr. Shimizu was Professor at The University of Tokyo, Nihon University and Reitaku University and Visiting Professor, University of British Columbia, University of Hongkong and National University of Singapore. He has served as an advisor for various research councils at the Ministry of Finance, Financial Service Agency(FSA), Cabinet Office, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism in Japan. From 2013 to 2015 he participated as a specialist in a project promoted mainly by the Eurostat, IMF, OECD, and others related to preparing international commercial real estate price indices. He has contributed a number of theses to international academic journals as well as published numerous theses and books in Japan. His research has received many awards from a number of academic bodies. He was born in 1967 and received his doctorate from the University of Tokyo.
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