Yukiko Fukagawa is currently a Professor at, School of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University. After an undergraduate program at Waseda, she studied at Yale University for an MA in International Development Economics, and finished a Ph.D program at Waseda Graduate School of Business Studies. Her major interest lies in economic development in East Asia, especially Korea. She worked for Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) and Long-Term Credit Bank Research Institute (LTCBR) before joining the faculty of Aoyama Gakuin University and the University of Tokyo, before coming back to Waseda in 2006. She engaged in many consultation and advisory activities for the government, such as the Committee for Foreign Exchange in the Ministry of Finance, the Committee for Industrial Structure in the Ministry of Economy and Industry, etc.
She served as the Chairman of the Economic Section in the “Japan-Korea Joint Study for the New Era” project opened in 2013. Her recent publication includes Economic Development in East Asia (2017), co-edited with Fumiyasu Mieno, Minerva publication, Japan’s Future International Cooperation (2015), Nihon Hyoronsha, Chatham House (2018) “Beyond 'Abenomics': Japan’s integration catch-up and prospects for Japan-UK cooperation” (forthcoming).