Member
Takehiko Nagumo
Representative Director, Smart City Institute Japan
Senior Managing Executive Officer, Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting Co., Ltd. (MURC)
Urban Development
Geopolitical Trends
• Bachelor of Laws from Keio University
• MBA from McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University
• Certificate in International Business Diplomacy at Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
• Master of Science in Development Finance from SOAS, University of London
• Professional Fellow Program at Columbia University
• Distinguished Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Media and Governance, and Project Professor, Graduate School of System Design and Management, Keio University
• Adjunct Professor, Graduate School of Management, Kyoto University
• Visiting Professor at Nagoya University
• Member of governmental committees, including the Committee on Well-Being Indicators for Vision for a Digital Garden City Nation (Digital Agency) and the Council for Promotion of Regulatory Reform (Cabinet Office); Advisor to regional and local governments such as Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Shibuya-ku, Yokohama, Kamakura, Aizuwakamatsu , Kakogawa, and Hamamatsu, as well as to various private sector entities in related policy areas.
Recent Publications and Seminars
[Seminars]
• Leaders Forum, Asian-Pacific City Summit, hosted by Fukuoka City and the UN-Habitat Regional Office for Asia and Pacific-Fukuoka, 2022
• Barcelona Super City, 2022–2024
• Super City/Smart City KANSAI, 2022-2024
• Asia Smart City Conference, 2022-2024
• Local Government Fair (Jichitai Sogo Fair), 2022-2024
• SMARTCITY x TOKYO, 2024
• Taiwan Smart City Summit, 2024
• UN-Habitat World Urban Forum, 2024
• Saudi Arabia Cityscape Global, 2024
• RMIT Vietnam Smart City Conference, 2024
[Publications]
• Current Status and Challenges of Smart City Policy in Japan, Policy Legal Affairs Facilitator, Daiichi Hoki, Vol. 73, January 30, 2022
• Smart Cities Based on the Nordic National Model: Perspectives and Systems, The Journal of Public Health Practice, Vol. 86, April 2022
• Designing Smart City Policy Based on Well-Being, Local Finance, Gyosei, No. 831, September 2023
• Regional Well-Being Indicators in the Vision for a Digital Garden City Nation, SDGs White Paper 2023–2024, Impress NextPublishing, pp. 148–153
• Smart City Policies to Enhance Citizens’ Well-Being, Environmental Information Science, Center for Environmental Information Science, Vol. 53-3, October 2024
Topics of Specialty
• Policy design for urban development based on well-being
• Digital government and smart city policies, both in Japan and overseas
• Strategic management, strategic alliances, and enterprise risk management
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