Dear SSJ-Friends,

We are pleased to invite you to the next GRIPS Forum at the National
Graduate Institute for Policy Studies on April 11.

*Please register at Registration Form

by April 8 (Fri)17：00.

*If you can’t open the registration form, please send an email to
gripsforum@grips.ac.jp with your name,
affiliation, job title, phone number or email address without changing the
title.

*If you are arriving by a private car, please let us know the car
information

(type, color, and number) in advance so that we can register it for campus
entry permission.

Date: Monday, 11 April, 2016
Time: 16:40-18:10

Venue: GRIPS　Sokairou Hall, 1st Floor

Speaker: Dr. Kenichi Kawasaki, Professor of GRIPS, Senior Fellow of GRIPS
ALLIANCE, Co-chair of the Global EPAs Research Consortium

Theme: Economic Impacts of TPP/EPAs

Language: Japanese (English simultaneous interpretation provided)

The TPP agreement has been signed following the conclusion of negotiations.
The impacts of structural reforms measures including TPP/EPAs will be
achieved over medium-term and contributing to sustainable growth. This
lecture discusses the relative significance of EPAs quantitatively
estimating the economic impacts of EPAs by economic model simulations.

Speakers’ Profile:

Dr. Kawasaki is currently a professor of National Graduate Institute for
Policy Studies (GRIPS), a senior fellow of GRIPS ALLIANCE and a co-chair of
the Global EPAs Research Consortium. Meanwhile, he has been a consulting
fellow of the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI) and
an adjunct fellow of the Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA).
Dr. Kawasaki spent more than two decades in the Japanese government (Cabinet
Office) including the secondment to the Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development (OECD). He holds a PhD in Economics from Osaka
University and a BS in Mathematics from the University of Tokyo.

*** GRIPS Forum ***

Since its establishment in 1997, the National Graduate Institute for Policy
Studies (GRIPS), as the only graduate school in Japan specializing in policy
research, has promoted education and research on a wide range of policy
issues.

Utilizing our vast policy network, this Forum invites leaders from various
fields including government, academia and business, as well as staff from
our own faculty, to deliver lectures on current policy concerns.

The Forum welcomes attendance of GRIPS faculty and students as well as
participants from outside the university. Simultaneous interpretation will
be available (Japanese/English).

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For registration and inquiries, please contact: Ms. Oshikawa
gripsforum@grips.ac.jp

http://www.grips.ac.jp/