Tatsuya Terazawa

Tatsuya Terazawa

Tatsuya Terazawa

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
The Institute of Energy Economics, Japan
Event(s): SIEW Summit

Mr. Terazawa was appointed as Chairman and CEO of the Institute of Energy Economics, Japan (IEEJ) in July 2021.

Before joining IEEJ, he supported the then Minister Yasutoshi NISHIMURA as the Senior Advisor of the Cabinet Office between January and June 2021 to assist the Government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic and the formulation of the Growth Strategy including the Japanese “Green New Deal”.

Earlier, he served at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) of Japan where he held leading positions including the Vice-Minister for International Affairs.

Through June, 2011 to December, 2012, Mr. Terazawa served as the Executive Secretary to the then Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda. During this period, he assisted the Prime Minister on the Government’s multiple challenges to deal with the aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake.

Mr. Terazawa has been the Senior Specially Appointed Professor at the Tokyo University of Science, teaching international negotiations since January 2020. He is a graduate of the University of Tokyo’s Faculty of Law. He also studied at Harvard University in the United States, where he earned MBA in 1990. He was born in January, 1961 in Osaka, Japan.