Shirai, Sayuri

Professor at the Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University. Her research focuses on macroeconomics, monetary policy, and climate and sustainable finance. She previously served as a Policy Board Member of the Bank of Japan. She is currently engaged in policy-oriented research in collaboration with international organizations, including the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), covering monetary policy, fiscal policy, financial markets, and climate-related finance. She actively contributes to policy dialogue with central banks and policymakers, participates in international conferences and panel discussions, and disseminates her insights through global media.For details, please check official homepage (htttp://www,sayurishirai.jp/)

Please see personal homepage URL http://sss.sayurishirai.jp for details. Prof. Shirai is is currently a professor of Keio University. She also served as a senior advisor to EOS at Federated Hermes located in UK. She is also a non-executive board member of a Japanese listed food company until 2022. She holds Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University. She was also visiting scholar to Asian Development Bank Institute in 2016-2020. She was a Member of the Policy Board of the Bank of Japan (BOJ) in 2011-2016, who is responsible for making monetary policy decisions. She taught at Sciences Po in Paris in 2007–2008 and was an economist at the IMF in 1993-1998. She is the author of numerous books and papers on a variety of subjects including central bank digital currency (CBDC), monetary policy, and global finance. She frequently comments on Japan’s economy and monetary policy at various international and domestic media sources. She is a contributing writer to Japan Times and London-based centralbanking.com. She also provides professional comments to Nikkei Newspaper Digital various news articles as Think! expert.

She regularly contributes columns and commentary on economic, financial, and climate-related issues to platforms such as World Economic Review IMPACT, Surfvote, Nikkei Think!, and The Japan Times. Further information is available on her official website.

Her research focuses on macroeconomics and monetary policy, with a growing emphasis on climate finance and sustainable finance. She analyzes central bank policy frameworks, inflation dynamics, interactions between monetary and fiscal policy, and structural changes in government bond and financial markets, with particular attention to the linkages between the Japanese economy and the global economy. She also conducts research on climate-related financial risks, climate disclosure frameworks, transition finance, and adaptation investment, with a focus on policy design and institutional development in Asia. Her work is closely connected to policy engagement through collaborations with international organizations such as the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), as well as central banks and policymakers across countries. She emphasizes policy-oriented and evidence-based analysis, and actively contributes to international media, conferences, and panel discussions.

Economic policy / International Finance Monetary Policy　Macroeconomic policy