RIETI EBPM Symposium

Is an Evidence-based Policymaking Approach Necessary for Good Policymaking?

Information

  • Time and Date: 14:00-16:40, Friday, September 8, 2023
  • Languages: Japanese
  • Venue: IINO Hall & CONFERENCE CENTER+Online (Live Stream)
    2-1-1 Uchisaiwai-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
  • Admission: Free
  • Host: Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI)
  • Contact: Mr. MIYAZAWA, Conference Section, RIETI

Program

14:00‐14:05 Opening Remarks

MORIKAWA Masayuki (President; Chief Research Officer (CRO), RIETI / Specially Appointed Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University)

14:05‐14:10 Special Remarks

SHICHIJO Koji (Councillor, Cabinet Secretariat (Deputy Secretary General, Secretariat of the Headquarters for Administrative Reform, Cabinet Secretariat))

14:10‐14:50 Keynote Speech "Is Evidence Necessary for Policymaking?"

SUGITANI Kazuya (Lecturer, Faculty of Policy Studies, Iwate Prefectural University)

14:50‐15:30 Panel Disscussion1 "Is an Evidence- based Policymaking Approach Necessary for Good Policymaking?"

Panelists (In alphabetical order)

SUGITANI Kazuya (Lecturer, Faculty of Policy Studies, Iwate Prefectural University)

TAKAHASHI Yuta (Manager for Data Strategy, Policy Division, Policy Bureau, City of Yokohama / Vice President, PolicyGarage, NPO)

UCHIYAMA Yu (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Department of Advanced Social and International Studies, The University of Tokyo)

YAMAGUCHI Kazuo (Visiting Fellow, RIETI / Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago)

Moderator

OHTAKE Fumio (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Specially Appointed Professor, Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research (CiDER), Osaka University)

15:30‐15:40 Break

15:40‐16:30 Panel Disscussion2 "Toward Further Development of EBPM"

Panelists (In alphabetical order)

FUKUMOTO Takuya (Director, Business Process Re-engineering Division, METI・Director, EBPM Promotion Office, METI)

KAWAGUCHI Daiji (Program Director and Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Graduate School of Economics, University of Tokyo / Graduate School of Public Policy)

NAKAMURO Makiko (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University)

SHISHIDO George (Professor, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, The University of Tokyo)

Moderator

HIRAI Mayuko (Research Coordinator, RIETI)

16:30‐16:40 Wrap-up

OHTAKE Fumio (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Specially Appointed Professor, Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research (CiDER), Osaka University)

*Agenda is subject to change