A curriculum vitae of Professor TRAN VAN THO (as of April 1,
2006)
Born in Vietnam Vietnamese nationality, permanent resident in
Japan Current positions: Professor of Economics, Waseda University
(Tokyo) Chairman, Vietnam Asia-Pacific Economic Center (VAPEC),
Hanoi
Professor Tran Van Tho, born in Vietnam, came to Japan in 1968
on a
Japanese government scholarship. He graduated from Hitotsubashi
University in Tokyo in 1973 and received his Ph.D (Doctor of
Economics) in 1993 from the same university. He is currently a
professor of economics at the School of Social Sciences of Waseda
University. His former positions include Senior Economist at the
Japan Center for Economic Research (Tokyo), Professor of Economics
at Obirin University (Tokyo), Visiting Professor at Hanoi National
University, and Visiting Professor at National University of Ho Chi
Minh City, and University of Danang. Besides academic and
educational activities, Professor Tran Van Tho has been actively
involved in consultations to both the Vietnamese and Japanese
governments. He has served many years as a specialist member on the
Economic Council of Japan, an advisory organ of the Japanese Prime
Minister, as an advisor to a number of Japanese government-related
agencies such as the Research Institute of International Investment
and Development of the Japan Export Import Bank of Japan, and the
Research Institute of Finance and Development of the Japan Bank for
International Cooperation (JBIC). Since 1998, Professor Tran Van
Tho became a member of the Policy Council of the Japan Forum on
International Relations, a policy-oriented research organization,
and served as the leader of the task force for the 19th Policy
Recommendation of the Policy Council (with the topic Economic
Globalization and Options for Asia) of this Forum. This Policy
Recommendation was presented to Prime Minister Mori Yoshiro in May
2000.
In Vietnam, Professor Tran Van Tho served as a member in the
Advisory Group on Economic and Administrative Reforms of Prime
Minister Vo Van Kiet (1993-1997) and currently collaborating with
the Policy Research Group of Prime Minister Phan Van Khai. In
education, he has served as Visiting Professor at the Hanoi
National University, National University at Ho Chi Minh City, and
University of Danang. In 1991, he initiated the idea for the
Hanoi-based Vietnam Asia-Pacific Economic Center (VAPEC) and raised
funds in Japan to materialize this idea. In 1993, VAPEC was set up
in Hanoi and in Ho Chi Minh City and later (1995) in Danang. A main
founder of VAPEC, Professor Tran Van Tho is currently the Chairman
of this institution.
Professor Tran Van Tho has written extensively on the economic
development of Japan, Vietnam and other Asian countries, and on the
economic relations between Japan and Asian countries. Major books
he has published include:
1.Industrial Development and Multinational Corporations: The
Dynamics of Asian Pacific Region, Toyou Keizai Shinposha, 1992 (in
Japanese). (The book received the Asia Pacific Prize in 1993)
2.Development of the Vietnamese Economy, Nihon Keizai Shinbun,
1996 (in Japanese).
3. Vietnamese Industrialization in the Era of Asia and the
Pacific, Saigon Times, VAPEC and Ho Chi Minh Publishers, 1997 (in
Vietnamese).
4. Asian Economy and Japan (joint publication with Harada Yutaka
and C. H. Kwan), Nihon Hyoronsha, 2001 (in Japanese).
In addition, Professor Tran Van Tho also served as editor of
several books in English, Vietnamese and Japanese.
Professor Tran Van Tho has also published articles and has
been
interviewed in widely circulated journals and newspapers in
Vietnamese, Japanese, and English. He is currently a regular
columnist and contributor to influential journals in Vietnam such
as Thoi bao kinh te Saigon, Tuoi Tre, Thanh Nien and Tia Sang.
Regarding papers in English, his article on Look East was published
in the April 1995 issue of Look Japan. He also served as a
columnist for the Nikkei Weeky from 1995 to 1996. Among his most
recent articles written in English, one appeared in the Japan Times
on July 14, 2000 which discussed the Asian Monetary Fund (AMF) and
other issues on the stabilization of the Asian economy, another
entitled AFTA in the Dynamic Perspective of Asian Trade: Towards a
Closer Cooperation among ASEAN+3 Countries, published in The
Journal of the Korean Economy, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Spring 2002), and the
most recent paper entitled The Pattern of Trade Specialization and
Economic Integration in East Asia: Problems of Late Comers, written
for The International Collaboration Projects 2005 of the Economic
and Social Research Institute of the Japanese Government (March
2006). . Addresses: School of Social Sciences, Waseda University
(Tokyo) 1-6-1 Nishi-Waseda Shinjuku-ku Tokyo 169-8050 Tel and Fax
(direct) 81-3-3204-8225 E-mail [email protected]
