Hajime Tomura is a professor at the Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University. He specializes in macroeconomics, monetary theory, and payment systems. Prior to joining Waseda University, he worked at the Bank of Canada and taught at Hokkaido University and the University of Tokyo, and was an expert member of the Japanese government's Financial System Council for 2014-19. He received a PhD in Economics from the University of London and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Tokyo.