School of Entrepreneurship & Business
Enterprise Fellowship Scheme: Members Bio
Prof Toshio Obi
[Senior Enterprise Fellow]
Director at the Institute of e-government and Professor, Graduate School of Global Information & Telecommunication Studies, Waseda University, Japan, Professor Obi researches in the fields of e-Government, International ICT policy, CIO, ITU-related issues and IT industry comparisons between Japan, America and Europe.
The position he currently holds at international and national organizations include Chairman ,E-government Promotion Council, Government of Japan; Member, ITU CoE Management Committee in Asia and Pacific; Director, APEC e-Government Research Center; Director ITU-Waseda ICT Center, Director, JICA-Net Distance Learning Project, and Overseer of the APEC Project on HRD for e-Government; a member of the International Advisory Board of the Encyclopedia of Digital Government. He has acted in the position of International Advisory Council to NECTEC and the d-Government Practice Group of The World Bank. Within Japan, he has been Advisor to Communication and Information Network Association of Japan (CIAJ), Chairman, Broadband/Ubiquitous Committee, The Telecommunication Association (TTA), and the Project Director, Research and Policy Institute, Liberal Democratic Party of Japan. He has been an Editorial Member of Journal[I Way]; Advisory Member of AIESEC Japan Committee, President, International Academy of CIO, Japan; Board member of CICC and Chair, Broadband Committee of the Telecommunication Association of Japan.
Professor Obi graduated from Faculty of Economics and the Graduate School of Economics, Keio University. He used to be Executive assistant to the Minister of Labor, Government of Japan, followed by an Economist, UNDP and Research Associate, Center for Japanese Economy and Business at Columbia University. He has published widely in many publications including [Global e-governance] (IOS Press,2006) and [CIO] (Tokyo University Press, 2007).