Dr. Nishiyama is a professor of Graduate School of Business and Finance at Waseda University, teaching Accounting, Corporate Finance and Financial Analysis. Before joining Waseda University as a faculty member in 2002, he had been working as a CPA at Tohmatsu & Co., which is a member firm of Deloitte & Co. and as an independent financial consultant. He performed various kinds of projects, such as auditing, IPO consulting, M&A consulting, management control system consulting and training for managers in a lot of Japanese listed companies. Also He have been an outside directors or audit & supervisory board member of several listed companies in Japan
He holds a BA in Economics from Waseda University, an MBA from the Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania and Doctor of Philosophy from Waseda University.