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Date: March 30, 1999
Special Adviser to Japan's Minister of Finance Will Speak on U.S.-Japan Relations
PRINCETON, N.J. -- Takatoshi Kato, special adviser to Japan's minister of finance, will deliver the John L. Weinberg/Goldman Sachs & Co. Lecture on "U. S. -- Japan Relations in Critical Waters" at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Tuesday, April 13, at 4:30 p.m. in Robertson Hall, Bowl One.
Kato, who earned a master of public affairs degree from the Woodrow Wilson School in 1968, graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1964, after majoring in law. Following graduation, he joined the Japanese Ministry of Finance and spent two years in the securities bureau of the Business Finance Section before attending the Woodrow Wilson School.
From 1969 until 1990, Kato served as a staff economist for the economics department of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris, executive director for Japan at the Asian Development Bank in Manila, and director-general of Kobe Customs. In 1990 he returned to the Ministry of Finance as its deputy director-general of the International Finance Bureau, and was later named deputy vice minister of finance for international affairs, senior deputy director-general of the International Finance Bureau, director-general of the International Finance Bureau, and vice minister for international affairs. He has served in his current position as special adviser to the minister of finance since 1997.