Chihiro Shimizu

Chihiro Shimizu, Ph.D., is professor of Hitotsubashi University, expert advisor of Statistics Commission in Japan, and research affiliate of Center of Real Estate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in US. His areas of expertise are Index Theory, Real Estate Economics, Applied Econometrics and Machine Learning.

Before joining Hitotsubashi University, Dr. Shimizu was a professor at The University of Tokyo, Nihon University, Reitaku University and a visiting professor of National University of Singapore, University of British Columbia and University of Hong Kong. He has served as an advisor for various research councils at the Ministry of Finance, Financial Service Agency (FSA), Cabinet Office, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism in Japan.

From 2013 to 2015 he participated as a specialist in a project promoted mainly by the IMF, OECD, and others related to preparing international commercial real estate price indices. He has contributed a number of theses to international academic journals( 50 or more) as well as published numerous theses and books in Japan. His research has received many awards from a number of academic bodies. He was born in 1967 and received his doctorate from the University of Tokyo.