Akihiko Suzuki is fellow, chief researcher at Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting. He graduated from the School of Political Science and Economics at Waseda University in 1981 and joined the Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan in the same year. He graduated from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1987. In 1999, he became a senior researcher at Sanwa Research Institute (now Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting). In 2009, he was appointed deputy director-general (economic and fiscal analysis) in the Minister's Secretariat at the Cabinet Office. He became general manager of the research department in 2011, and assumed his current position in January 2018. His publications include Things More Important than Ending Deflation and Preventing a Strong Yen (Japanese).
