Hidenori Fuke

Hidenori FUKE is Professor of Info-Communications Industry at Faculty of Global Media Studies, Komazawa University in Tokyo, Japan. He has been a member of the board of directors of the International Telecommunications Society since 1998 and contributed to its activities as the chair of, and currently as a member of, the Conference and Seminars Committee. He has previous experience in regulatory matters as a senior executive at Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation and has done extensive research on the info-communications industry and regulatory policy in the industry as a member of the board of directors at InfoCom Research, Inc, a member of ITS and Professor at Kansai University in Osaka.

He received his B.A. in Economics from Tokyo University, and M.Litt. from Glasgow University in Scotland where he was sent for two years of post graduate study by NTT. He also received a Ph.D. in International Public Policy from Osaka University in 2004. His major areas of specialization include the economic analysis of the telecommunications industry and regulatory policy. His current research focuses on changes in the structure of the info-communications industry brought about by the wide deployment of cellular and broadband internet and their policy implications. He has written many papers and books in this area in both Japanese and English.