TAKAGI, Mr. Soichiro

Soichiro Takagi

General Manager of Research Division

Tuesday, September 12th
14:45 - 16:00 | Session IV: Technology Update | Session Speaker

Soichiro Takagi is the General Manager of Research Division, Associate Professor, and Executive Research Fellow at Center for Global Communications (GLOCOM) at International University of Japan. He also serves as a Visiting Researcher at The University of Tokyo. Through his career, he also served as an Asia Program Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School, visiting researcher at SFC research institute at KEIO University, and a visiting associate professor at The University of Tokyo, etc. His major field is information economics, focusing on the relationship between information technology and the economy. He has examined a variety of topics including offshore outsourcing, cloud computing, open data, sharing economy, digital currency, and Blockchain. He is directing the Blockchain Economic Research Lab at GLOCOM.