Hiroko Ōta

Hiroko Ōta (大田 弘子, Ōta Hiroko, born 2 February 1954 in Kagoshima, Kagoshima) is a female Japanese politician and a researcher of economics. Her academic specialties are national public finance and economic policy. She is a noted lecturer of public finance and is a professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo.[1]

Hiroko Ōta

Ōta served as the Japanese cabinet minister of economic policy, which is responsible for charging economic policy and public finance. In April 2014, Ōta has been appointed to the position of chairwoman of the board by Mizuho Financial Group, Japan's second-largest financial services group.[2]

Career
  • 1976: graduates from Hitotsubashi University
  • 1993: assistant professor at Osaka University
  • 1996: professor of economics at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo
  • 2002: cabinet office counsellor
  • 2006–2008: appointed to be Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy under the Abe administration and proceeding Fukuda administration
  • 2008: returns to GRIPS as a professor
  • 2009–2011: GRIPS vice president

References
  1. http://www.grips.ac.jp/list/en/facultyinfo/ota_hiroko/
  2. https://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/22/mizuho-fin-management-idUST9N0N605C20140422
Political offices
Preceded by
Kaoru Yosano		 Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy of Japan
2006–2008		 Succeeded by
Kaoru Yosano


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