Past BBL Seminars Reports and Summaries
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January 30, 2025
Perspectives of EBPM from Social Impact Assessment: Focusing on the Why and What
- Speaker: IMATA Katsuji (President, The Social Impact Management Initiative (SIMI) / Vice Chair, Japan Evaluation Society (JES) / Co-CEO, Blue Marble Japan, Inc.)
- Commentator: HASHIMOTO Keita (Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Kobe Gakuin University)
- Moderator: SABURI Masataka (Senior Fellow, RIETI / Special Advisor to the Minister, METI)
Japanese
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January 27, 2025
Weaponised Economics and Restoring Economics in the Global Order
- Speaker: Shiro ARMSTRONG (Non-Resident Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University; Director, Australia-Japan Research Centre; Director, East Asian Bureau of Economic Research)
- Commentator: TAMURA Hideyasu (Principal Director, International Economic Affairs Department / Deputy Director-General for Trade Policy, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)
- Moderator: TOMIURA Eiichi (President and Chief Research Officer (CRO) and Chief EBPM Officer, RIETI)
- Presentation (Dr. Armstrong) [PDF:480KB]
- Video (Presentation) (YouTube)
- Video (Comment and Q&A) (YouTube)
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January 17, 2025
Strategic Scenario Analysis for Economic Security: Enhancing Corporate Resilience through Tabletop Exercises (TTXs)
- Speaker: Benjamin JENSEN (Senior Fellow, Futures Lab, International Security Program, CSIS)
- Commentator & Moderator: AIKAWA Yuta (Director, Office of Research and Planning, Economic Security Policy Division, Trade and Economic Security Bureau, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry)
- Presentation (Dr. Jensen) [PDF:3.6MB]
- Video (Presentation) (YouTube)
- Video (Comment and Q&A) (YouTube)
English / Japanese (with simultaneous interpretation)
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January 16, 2025
Uncertainty and Japan’s Economy
- Speaker: MORIKAWA Masayuki (Distinguished Senior Fellow (specially appointed), RIETI / Specially Appointed Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University / President, Economic Research Institute, Japan Society for the Promotion of Machine Industry)
- Commentator: INOUE Seiichiro (Deputy Director-General, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI)
- Moderator: SENGA Tatsuro (Fellow (Specially Appointed),RIETI / Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, Keio University)
Japanese
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December 18, 2024
The Unexpected Consequences of GenAI for Globalization
- Speaker: Richard BALDWIN (Non-Resident Fellow, RIETI / Professor of International Economics, IMD Lausanne)
- Commentator: IMAZATO Kazuyuki (Director, Human Resource Policy Division, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI)
- Moderator: TOMIURA Eiichi (President and Chief Research Officer (CRO) and Chief EBPM Officer, RIETI)
- Presentation (Dr. Baldwin) [PDF:4.1MB]
- Comment (Mr. IMAZATO) [PDF:470KB]
- Video (Presentation) (YouTube)
- Video (Comment and Q&A) (YouTube)
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December 13, 2024
DX Series
Business Transformation: Implementing AI in society
- Speaker: MOURI Masataka (General Manager, AI Creative Div., AI Business Division, CyberAgent Inc.)
- Commentator: WATANABE Takuya (Director, Software and Information Service Industry Strategy Office, IT Industry Division, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau, METI)
- Moderator: KIDO Fuyuko (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Project Researcher, Research Organization of Information and Systems (ROIS) / Visiting Researcher, National Institute of Informatics (NII))
Japanese
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December 11, 2024
Security of Energy Transitions
- Speaker: SADAMORI Keisuke (Director, Energy Markets and Security, IEA (International Energy Agency))
- Commentator: KIHARA Shinichi (Director General for International Policy on Carbon Neutrality, METI)
- Moderator: IKEYAMA Shigetoshi (Vice Chairman, RIETI)
Japanese
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December 9, 2024
Female Students Entering the Sciences: What is Japan’s Strategy? An exhaustive survey of all prefectures and analysis
- Speaker: YOKOYAMA Hiromi (Professor, Deputy director, Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, The University of Tokyo)
- Commentator: OSUMI Noriko (Vice President for Public Relations and Promotion of Diversity Director, Tohoku University Library, Professor Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University)
- Moderator: YAMAGUCHI Kazuo (Visiting Fellow, RIETI / Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago)
Japanese
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December 6, 2024
Foreign and Security Policy of the Trump 2.0 and Japan's Strategy
- Speaker: WATANABE Tsuneo (Senior Fellow, The Sasakawa Peace Foundation)
- Commentator: FUJII Ryosuke (Director, Americas Division, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)
- Moderator: IKEYAMA Shigetoshi (Vice Chairman, RIETI)
Japanese
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November 29, 2024
World Economic Outlook “Global Prospects and Policies: Policy pivot, rising threats”
- Speaker: YOSHIDA Akihiko (Director, Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, International Monetary Fund (IMF))
- Commentator: NAKAJIMA Atsushi (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Director, Economic and Social Research Institute of Northeast Asia (ERINA-UNP), University of Niigata Prefecture)
- Moderator: MORII Kazunari (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Director, Policy Planning and Research Office, Trade Policy Bureau, METI)
Japanese