Faculty Information｜School of Management - Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University

BARAI Munim Kumar

Professor

Specialization Areas	Finance, Financial Markets and Institutions, FDI, Trade and Macroeconomics
Main class	Financial Market and Institutions, Finance

APU is a place where one can develop a wider outlook to understand the world better. That is also the need of the hour.

CORTEZ Michael A.

Professor

Specialization Areas	Accounting, Business administration, Environmental policy and social systems, Tourism studies
Main class	Cost Accounting, Financial AccountingI

KAWAZOE Satoshi

Professor

Specialization Areas	Finance
Main class	Legal Strategy in Business, Finance

Cross border relations will probably intensify further even if there is backlash against globalization. I look forward to exploring our future with students at this culturally diverse university.

NAKAJIMA Katsushi

Associate Professor

Specialization Areas	Money and Finance, Economic theory
Main class	Finance

Your future is what you make it. Good Luck!

OTAKE Toshitsugu

Professor

Specialization Areas	Risk Management. Commerce, Industrial Engineering
Main class	Financial Engineering and Risk Management, Investment and Securities Analysis, Operations Research

Message to undergraduate students: Recently, a knowledge of mathematics and statistics is increasingly required even in the liberal arts subjects. Statistics is especially indispensable in the business field. I invite you to develop your ability to use MATLAB and SPSS data analysis tools and learn how to apply them to financial and risk management scenarios. Message to graduate school students: My research interest is in quantitative risk management and my research centers on risk management techniques of financial institutions such as banks, insurance companies, securities firms, and non-banks. I’m also investigating the construction of mathematical-statistics risk models, and the risk management role of a credit information bureau.

OZAWA Tomoyuki

Associate Professor

Specialization Areas	Business administration, Accounting
Main class	Special Lecture in Accounting, Accounting II

Study for Your Own Comfortable Life

PARDO Phillip Dean

Professor

Specialization Areas	Taxation, Transfer Pricing, Virtuous Management, Codes of Conduct, Resilience, Audit and Governance, International Business Transactions
Main class	Accounting I, Accounting II

Message to undergraduate students: My role as an Accounting teacher is to help students understand the purpose, theories, methods and practical applications of the Language of Business in an active classroom. Message to graduate school students: Communication, management and verification are the goals of accounting. Humanity and business have long relied on the information generated by the language of accounting to make sense of their activities.

QU ChengCheng

Assistant Professor

Specialization Areas	Financial market microstructure
Main class	Statistics, Finance

SATO Hiroto

Associate Professor

Specialization Areas	Accounting
Main class	Business Data Analytics, Accounting I

SUZUKI Yasushi

Professor

Specialization Areas	Political Economy, Islamic Economics, Institutions
Main class	Financial Market and Institutions

YAMAKAWA Tetsufumi

Professor

Specialization Areas	Economic Policy, Theoretical Economics, Finance
Main class	Corporate Finance, Investment Strategy

YANG Jeongwoo

Associate Professor

Specialization Areas	Business Administration, Accounting, Internal Audit, Internal Control, Corporate Governance
Main class	Accounting I, Auditing

How you live today determines how you live tomorrow. The most important thing is to find out your own answers to the meaningful questions including the reason why you study today and what today means for realizing your dreams in the future.

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