Heather A. Montgomery is a Professor at International Christian University (ICU) in Tokyo, Japan where she teaches courses in the college of liberal arts and the graduate school of public policy, while pursuing her research interest in financial markets and institutions. Before joining ICU, she worked as an economist with JP Morgan Securities in Tokyo, where she was responsible for the analysis and forecasting of the Japanese macroeconomy and monetary and fiscal policy. She also has five years of experience with the Asian Development Bank Institute directing policy-oriented empirical research on the financial sector in developing countries in Asia and organizing and conducting regional training for practitioners and policymakers on the financial sector, including microfinance. Heather A. Montgomery holds B.A. (Johns Hopkins University) and Ph.D. (University of Michigan) degrees in economics with a specialization in macroeconomics and international economics and has also studied at the Johns Hopkins University School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Bologna, Italy, and the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies in Yokohama, Japan. While completing her Ph.D. dissertation research on the role of regulatory capital and bank credit in the macroeconomy of Japan, she held visiting positions at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington DC, as well as the Bank of Japan, Ministry of Finance, and Ministry Economy, Trade and Industry in Tokyo.
