Ayumi Yasutomi
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Ayumi Yasutomi (安冨 歩, Yasutomi Ayumi; born March 22, 1963) is a Japanese economist and politician.[1][2] She is a professor at the Institute of Advanced Studies on Asia at the University of Tokyo.[3] Yasutomi came out as a transgender woman in 2014.[4]
Yasutomi graduated from Kyoto University in 1991 with a degree in economics and continued to graduate with a PhD in 1997 on the financial history of Manchuria.[3]
Career
Yasutomi's first tenured post was as a Visiting Research Associate at the London School of Economics, 1996–7.[3] In 1997 Yasutomi was employed as assistant professor at Nagoya University until moving to the University of Tokyo in 2000.[3] In 2009, Yasutomi was promoted to Professor, after holding several assistant professor roles within the university.[3]
She is a specialist in the economics of Manchuria, whose research received a Nikkei Economics Culture Award.[5] Other research interests include the socio-ecology of East Asia, theoretical economics, population dynamics, harassment theory, Peter Drucker and the thoughts of Confucius.[6]
