Charles Horioka

Charles Yuji Horioka is a Japanese-American economist residing in Japan. Horioka received his B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University and is currently Research Professor at the Center for Computational Social Science and Research Fellow at the Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan. He is concurrently Distinguished Research Professor and Director at the Asian Growth Research Institute and Invited Professor and Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University. Previously, he taught at Stanford, Columbia, Kyoto, and Osaka Universities and the University of the Philippines, Diliman, where he was Vea Family Professor of Technology and Evolutionary Economics Centennial. He served as President of the Society of Economics of the Household (SEHO) 2021–23, President of the Japanese Economic Association 2023–24, and President of the International Association for Research on Income and Wealth (IARIW) 2024–26. He served as co-editor of the International Economic Review for 15 years and is currently co-editor of the Review of Economics of the Household and associate editor or editorial advisor of many economics journals. He is also a Research Associate and Co-director of the Japan Project of the National Bureau of Economic Research.