State Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries TAKINAMI Hirofumi

Name	TAKINAMI Hirofumi
Date of Birth	October 20, 1971
Place of Birth	Fukui Prefecture
Education	－The University of Tokyo, Faculty of Law(LLB), 1994 －The University of Chicago, Harris Graduate School of Public Policy (MPP), 1998 －Waseda University, Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies (PhD), 2021

CURRICULUM VITAE
April 1994	Joined Ministry of Finance (MOF)
April 2008	Director, Personnel Planning Office, MOF
July 2009	Visiting Fellow, Stanford University
July 2011	Director, Public Relations Office, MOF
July 2013	Elected to the House of Councillors (HC)
October 2018 - September 2019	Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry
July 2019	Re-elected to the HC (2nd Term)
October 2023 - November 2024	Chair of the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, HC
November 2024	State Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries