Press Release - Dr. Robert A. Feldman
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Robert A.
Feldman joins the Japan-US Friendship Commission and US-Japan Conference on
Cultural and Educational Interchange (CULCON) as a new member.
Robert Feldman is a Managing Director, Morgan Stanley who joined the firm in February 1998 as the chief
economist for Japan. In 2003, he also became
Co-Director of Japan Research. He continues to
focus on the outlook for the Japanese economy and on interest rate movements.
Dr. Feldman has published three books:
Japanese
Financial Markets: Deficits, Dilemmas, and Deregulation (MIT Press, 1986),
Nihon no Suijaku ("The Weakening of Japan,” Toyo Keizai 1996, in
Japanese) and
Nihon no Saiki ("Starting Over,” Toyo Keizai 2001, in
Japanese).
Dr. Feldman was the chief economist for Japan at Salomon Brothers from 1990 to 1997.
He worked for the International Monetary Fund from 1983 through 1989, in the Asian,
European, and Research Departments.
Dr. Feldman holds a Ph.D. in economics
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and B.A.s in economics and in
Japanese studies from Yale. Between college and graduate school, he worked at both the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York and at Chase
Manhattan Bank. Dr. Feldman first came to
Japan as an exchange student and also studied at the Nomura Research Institute
and the Bank of Japan.
