Dr. Takeshi Inagami born in 1944 took office from the 1st October 2007 as President of the Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training (JILPT: Independent Administrative Agency) after resigning from Professor of Faculty of Business Administration of Hosei University.
  His academic career began from the nomination as Research Associate of Sociology Department of the University of Tokyo in 1969. After moving to Faculty of Sociology of Hosei University, he was promoted to Professor in 1983. Then, nearly after a decade, he moved to the University of Tokyo as Professor of Sociology. Moreover, he was assigned to Dean of Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology and the Faculty of Letters of the University of Tokyo from 2003-2005. He has been Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo from 2005.
  Other than the presidency of JILPT, at the moment, he has committed to such public activities as Chairman of Pension Committee of Social Security Council of Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, and also Chair of Special Committee of Industrial Relations of Japan Productivity Center.

   Among his recent books and articles, the following ones are included:
  Takeshi Inagami, “Managers and Corporate Governance Reform in Japan: Restoring Self-Confidence or Shareholder Revolution?”, D. Hugh Whittaker and Simon Deakin eds., Corporate Governance and Managerial Reform in Japan, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009, pp.163-191.
  Takeshi Inagami, “Japanese Flexicurity and The Community Firm”, Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal, forthcoming,.
 Takeshi inagami and RIALS eds., CSR in Labor: The Present Situation and Agenda of Employer-Employee Communication, Tokyo: NTT Press, 2007. (In Japanese)
  Takeshi Inagami, Post-industrialization and Corporate Society, Kyoto: Minerva Book Publisher, 2005. (In Japanese)
  Takeshi Inagami and D. Hugh Whittaker, The New Community Firm: Employment, Governance and Managerial Reform in Japan, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
  Takeshi Inagami and Junjiro Mori eds., Corporate Governance and Employee, Tokyo: Toyo Keizai Shinposha, 2004. (In Japanese)
  Takeshi Inagami, Corporate Group Management and Employee Transfer Practices, Tokyo: The University of Tokyo Press, 2003. (In Japanese)