KATO Hisakazu, a Japanese national, is the professor of the School of Political Science and Economics, Meiji University since 2005. He graduated from Keio University in 1981 and completed graduate school of University of Tsukuba in 1988. He received PhD in economics from Chuo University in 2000. After he had served the Senior Researcher of Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry and Senior Research Fellow of National Institute of Population and Social Security, he works at Meiji University. He is also Commissioner of Specific Personal Information Protection Commission from 2015 and a member of Fiscal System Council from 2015. His major concern of research fields are a forecast of demographic trends, an analysis of the finance of social security, and fiscal policy using econometric method.