Director
Center on Japanese Economy and Business
R.D. Calkins Professor of International Business Emeritus
Columbia Business School

Hugh Patrick is the director of the Center on Japanese Economy and Business at Columbia Business School, co-director of Columbia’s Center on Japanese Economy and Business, and R.D. Calkins Professor of International Business Emeritus.  He joined the Columbia faculty in 1984 after some years as Professor of Economics and Director of the Economic Growth Center at Yale University.  He completed his B.A. at Yale University in 1951, earned M.A. degrees in Japanese Studies (1955) and Economics (1957) and the Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Michigan in 1960.  He has been a visiting professor at Hitotsubashi University, University of Tokyo and University of Bombay. Professor Patrick has been awarded Guggenheim and Fulbright fellowships and the Ohira Prize.  His professional publications include sixteen books and some sixty articles and essays.  His most recent book, co-authored and co-edited with Takatoshi Ito and David Weinstein, is Reviving Japan’s Economy: Problems and Prescriptions (MIT Press, September 2005).  He is on the Board of Directors of the United States National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation, and the U.S. Asia Pacific Council.  He succeeded Dr. Saburo Okita and served as chairman of the International Steering Committee for the conference series on Pacific Trade and Development (PAFTAD) between 1985-2005, having served on the Committee since PAFTAD’s inception in 1968.