Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia
Koji Fujimoto
Special Advisor to the President on Healthcare Policy
Mr Koji Fujimoto worked as an official of the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry of the Japanese Government for about 35 years since 1987 including a career in the Cabinet Secretariat in late years. He has strong knowledge in various policy fields such as ICT, international economy, and healthcare. He is one of the key officials who contributed to establishing the Healthcare Industry Division in METI in 2011 that added new aspects of the approach to the Japanese Government to maintain and enhance the Japanese medical system in a way introducing industry development methods, especially in the field of customer/patient-centric preventive healthcare that hopefully reduce the future demand for invasive medical treatments.
Expertise
- Healthcare
- ICT
- Trade and International Economics
Education
| 1995 | M.A. in Public Policy |
| 1987 | B.A. in Mechanical Engineering |
Experience
| 2019 | Professor |
| 2012-2019 | Cabinet Secretariat (Healthcare Policy Office) |
| 2008-2011 | Director, Healthcare Industries Division (reformed from Service Industries Division in 2011) |
| 2003-2005 | Director, Medical and Assistive Device Industries Office |
| 1987-2001 | METI divisions in charge of international economies policy, information technology policy, and science and technology research and development policy etc. mostly as a deputy director |
