Hiroyuki Odagiri

Hiroyuki Odagiri is a Commissioner within the Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC), Tokyo. Hiroyuki Odagiri studied at Kyoto University (B.A.), Osaka University (M.A.) and Northwestern University (Ph.D.) and taught economics at Oberlin College (USA), University of Tsukuba (Japan), Hitotsubashi University (Japan), and Seijo University (Japan) before joining the JFTC. He also has an ample research experience abroad, serving as a senior research fellow at the International Institute of Management (IIM) of Science Centre Berlin (Germany) during 1982-1983 and the Centre for Business Strategy of London Business School (UK) during 1988-1990. During 2001-2004, he also directed research at the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP), a research institute of Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.