Ulrike Schaede is Professor of Japanese Business at the University of California San Diego. She teaches at the School of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS), and is the Director of the Japan Forum for Innovation and Technology (JFIT). Her research focuses on Japanese business strategies, management and employment practices, corporate culture, financial markets, manufacturing and innovation. Her book The Business Reinvention of Japan: How to Make Sense of the New Japan (Stanford University Press, 2020) won the 2021 Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize and has been translated into Japanese as 再興 THE KAISHA: 日本のビジ ネス・リインベンション (Nikkei 2022). Her most recent book, Japan Re-Emerges (in Japanese: シン日本の経営：悲観バイアスを排す was published in 2024.

Schaede holds a PhD in Japan Studies and Economics from Marburg University, Germany, and has been invited to visiting professor positions at UC Berkeley, Harvard Business School, Stanford University in the U.S., as well as Hitotsubashi University and the research institutes of The Bank of Japan, The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, the Ministry of Finance, and the Development Bank of Japan. Schaede has spent over nine years of research in Tokyo, and is fluent in Japanese. She is an advisory board member of the National Bureau of Asian Research in Seattle, and the IGPI Group in Tokyo.