Fukunari Kimura was appointed as President of IDE-JETRO on April 1st 2024. He is Senior Research Fellow for Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA).

He was born in Tokyo in 1958. He received his Bachelor of Laws from the Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo in 1982. He then received Master of Science and PhD titles from the Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1990 and 1991, respectively.  

He worked for the Department of Economics, State University of New York at Albany as Assistant Professor in 1991-1994, and in the Faculty of Economics of Keio University as Associate Professor in 1994-2000.  In particular, he has recently been active in writing academic/semi-academic books and articles on international production networks and economic integration in East Asia.