Seki Shin’ichi

Senior researcher at the Japan Research Institute, where his research specialties are the Chinese economy and finance, particularly China’s excess liability problem, its structural adjustment, and its macroeconomic trends. Graduated from the Waseda University in 2004 and went on to earn his master’s degree in economics from the same school in 2006. Holds a PhD in international development. Worked for the Nomura Securities Financial & Economic Research Center before becoming a researcher at the Japan Research Institute in 2008. Assumed his current position in 2019. Publications include Chūgoku keizai seichō no wana: Kin’yū kiki to baransushīto fukyō (The Trap of Chinese Economic Growth: Financial Crisis and Balance-Sheet Recession).