Takatoshi Ito (伊藤 隆敏 Itō Takatoshi, born 1950) is a Japanese economist and professor of The University of Tokyo. He graduated from the Faculty of Economics, Hitotsubashi University in 1973 and from the Graduate School of Economics in the same institute in 1975. He earned a Ph.D from Harvard University in 1979. He served as Deputy Vice Minister of Finance for International Affairs[1] from 1999 to 2001.
A renowned expert in the Asian Financial Crisis of the 90's, his current research focuses on international monetary policy for which he advocates increased regional integration to prevent similar crises in the future.