Satoru Takahashi has won the Jiro Enjoji Memorial Prize, along with Taisuke Nakata of the University of Tokyo.

This prize was established in 2006 in memory of Jiro Enjoji (1907-1994), an influential former president of Nikkei, Inc., the Japanese company whose holdings include the Financial Times and the Japanese business newspaper, Nihon Keizai Shimbun.  The prize is given out every three years to outstanding mid-career economists and each winner receives a gift of one million yen.

Professor Takahashi joined the NUS Economics Department in 2012, was promoted to a full professorship in 2016, and currently serves as the Head of Department.  He is a specialist in game theory, mainly working on repeated games and incomplete information games. Recently, he and his coauthors investigated how to provide partial and asymmetric information to different players in a game in order to incentivize them to achieve desirable outcomes.

JQ, December 1, 2021