People
Faculty
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Ulrike Schaede
Director of JFIT; Professor of Japanese Business, School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego
Ulrike Schaede is Professor of Japanese Business at UC San Diego’s School of Global Policy and Strategy. She is the Director of the Japan Forum for Innovation and Technology (JFIT), and in charge of the school’s International Management track in the MIA degree. Her research focuses on Japanese business and economy, in particular strategy, management, corporate culture and innovation.
She is the author of The Business Reinvention of Japan (2020, 再興 THE KAISHA Nikkei 2022) and Japan Re-Emerges (2024, シン日本の経営：悲観バイアスを排す). She holds a Ph.D. in Japan Studies and Economics from Marburg University, Germany, and has been a visiting professor at various prestigious U.S. and Japanese universities, think tanks, and research institutes. Schaede has spent over nine years of research in Tokyo, and is fluent in Japanese. She is an independent director of Marubeni Corporation, and a Non-Resident Fellow at RIETI. She also serves as an advisor to the National Bureau of Asian Research in Seattle, and the IGPI Group and the Mitsubishi Research Institute in Tokyo.
For more information, please visit Ulrike Schaede’s personal website.
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Shinnosuke Kikuchi
Assistant Professor of Economics
Shinnosuke Kikuchi is an assistant professor at UC San Diego’s School of Global Policy and Strategy. His research focuses on international economics, macroeconomics and political economy, and many of his current projects examine the interplay between technology, globalization and labor markets. Prior to coming to UC San Diego, he worked at McKinsey & Company. Kikuchi holds a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and he received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics from the University of Tokyo. His research and interviews have been featured in national and international media outlets, including VoxEU and Nikkei.
For more information, please visit Shinnosuke Kikuchi’s personal website.
