Dr. Ryota Nakatani is an Economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Prior to joining the IMF, Dr. Nakatani was a Deputy Director in the Research and Statistics Department of the Bank of Japan (BOJ). During his 15-year career as an economist at the IMF and the BOJ, Dr. Nakatani has abundant experience as a main desk economist and a chief economist; his responsibilities include making economic forecasts of more than 20 countries and simulation analyses using about 1,000 economic and financial variables as a leader of the BOJ’s main macroeconomic model team.

In his role as an economist, Dr. Nakatani was responsible for analyzing the economies and financial markets of a number of countries, including China, Russia, United Kingdom, New Zealand, Turkey, Poland, Malaysia, South Africa, Vietnam, Singapore, Romania, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Hungary, Bulgaria, Papua New Guinea, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Baltic countries, and Middle Eastern and North African countries. He led the BOJ’s main macroeconomic model (the Quarterly Japanese Economic Model) team to create economic forecasts and perform various simulation analyses for the Japanese economy.

He has published articles in peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journals in the fields of electronic engineering, environmental science, agriculture, sociology, political science, public administration, finance, business, economics, and management.

Dr. Nakatani earned his Ph.D. in economics and a M.A. in international economics from the University of California and a M.P.P. and a B.A. in economics from Hitotsubashi University.