Kazuo Ueda | |
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植田 和男 うえだ かずお | |
![]() Kazuo Ueda in 2023 | |
32nd Governor of the Bank of Japan | |
Assumed office 9 April 2023 | |
Prime Minister | Fumio Kishida |
Preceded by | Haruhiko Kuroda |
Personal details | |
Born | Makinohara, Japan | September 20, 1951
Education | University of Tokyo (BS) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MS, PhD) |
Kazuo Ueda (植田 和男, うえだ かずお, September 20, 1951) is a Japanese economist who has been serving as the 32nd Governor of the Bank of Japan (BOJ) since April 2023.
He is a professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo (UTokyo) and also worked briefly as a professor at Kyoritsu Women’s University after his retirement from UTokyo in 2017. He was the dean of the Faculty of Economics at UTokyo and president of the Japanese Economic Association.