Kazuo Ueda

Kazuo Ueda
植田 和男
Kazuo Ueda in 2025
32nd Governor of the Bank of Japan
Assumed office
9 April 2023
Prime MinisterFumio Kishida
Shigeru Ishiba
Sanae Takaichi
Preceded byHaruhiko Kuroda
Personal details
Born (1951-09-20) September 20, 1951
Makinohara, Japan
EducationUniversity of Tokyo (BS)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MS, PhD)
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Kazuo Ueda (Japanese: 植田 和男, Hepburn: Ueda Kazuo; born September 20, 1951) is a Japanese economist who has been serving as the 32nd Governor of the Bank of Japan (BOJ) since April 2023.

He is a professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo (UTokyo) and also worked briefly as a professor at Kyoritsu Women’s University after his retirement from UTokyo in 2017. He was the dean of the Faculty of Economics at UTokyo and president of the Japanese Economic Association.