Nobuo Yamamura (Associated Fellow)September 2024 - August 2025

15 September 2024

Nobuo Yamamura is a professor at Takushoku University in Tokyo, specializing in financial systems and sustainable finance. With a background in the theory of money and banking history, he researched banking business at the Free University Berlin and comparative financial systems and supervision at the Financial Services Agency of the Japanese Government. He has been considering how to adapt the financial system for humane living in the aging society (financial gerontology) and now also against the climate change in the Anthropocene era. His interdisciplinary approach integrates insights from critical economics, social systems theory, behavioral economics, business studies, pedagogy, and law. He has been a member of the governing board for the Tokyo branch of the Japan Scientists' Association and currently serves as a board member of the Innovation Fusion Society of Japan. Beyond research, he has practical experience supervising a local nursing home, the university library, a students' flat and collective housings, and reforestation projects in San Paulo.

Prof. Yamamura is associated with the Centre via the CSS.