Professor Shigeru Ishikawa
Professor Shigeru Ishikawa was awarded an Honorary Fellowship from SOAS in recognition of his work as leading specialist on Asia. He was a Visiting Professor at SOAS in 1980.
Professor Ishikawa has enjoyed a distinguished academic career and is the author of many books including National Income and Capital Formation in Mainland China, and Economic Development in Asian Perspective. He has also contributed to a number of international economics journals and served on many editorial boards, among them SOAS' The China Quarterly. He is Professor Emeritus, Hitotsubashi University and Aoyama-Gakuin University. Since 1998, he has been Member of The Japan Academy.
Professor Ishikawa has participated in many high-level workshops, symposia and conferences involving amongst others the International Labour Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Bank. In 1985 to 91, he worked as a vice-chairman of a World Bank's aid program for Chinese University Development to draw out a nation-wide plan for modernizing Economics Department's core curriculum. In 1995 to 2002, he acted as leader of a Japanese academic group advising the Vietnamese government's Five Year Planning, and thereby awarded the Order of Friendship.
