Recommendation of Guidelines to seek Candidates for "The 7th GPIF Finance Awards"
August 31st, 2026
Recommendation of Guidelines to seek Candidates
for "The 7th GPIF Finance Awards"
With regard to "The 7th GPIF Finance Awards", we will seek recommendation of candidates in accordance with following procedures.
Candidates
The candidates must be researchers in Japan who conducted excellent study that contributes to sophisticate pension fund management(in general this includes those who work at universities and research institutes and practitioners who conduct academic research),or researchers outside Japan who conducted the above study, and have enrolled in Japanese educational institutions or Japanese research institutes as teachers, students, or researchers.
Recommendation
The candidates can be recommended by themselves or by others.
Selection
The selection committee of academic advisors will select the winner.
(Member of selection committee)
| Tatsuyoshi Okimoto | Professor, Faculty of Economics, Keio University |
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| Yasuyuki Kato | Professor, Business School, Kyoto University of Advanced Science |
| Josh Lerner | The Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School |
| Yoko Shirasu | Professor, Faculty of Economics, Aoyama Gakuin University |
| Shinichi Fukuda | Professor, Faculty of Economics, Musashino University |
| Toshiaki Watanabe | Professor (Dean of the Faculty and Graduate School), Graduate School of S, Hitotsubashi University |
Schedule
| August 31st, 2026 - October 30th, 2026 | Application |
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| December,2026 - February,2027 | Announcement (website) |
| March,2027 | Ceremony and Lecture |

