Kumiharu Shigehara (born 5 February 1939) is a Japanese economist, who was a central banker and an international civil servant. He is the author of The Bank of Japan, the OECD, and Beyond: Reflections from a lifetimes' work (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), and the editor of The Limits of Surveillance and Financial Market Failure: Lessons from the Euro-Area Crisis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). Shigehara is currently president of the International Economic Policy Studies Association in Paris, and is also a columnist at the Japan Times.
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