Richard C. Koo (Japanese: リチャード・クー, IPA: [ɾitɕaːdo kɯː]; Chinese: 辜朝明; pinyin: Gū Cháomíng; born 1954) is a Taiwanese economist living in Japan specializing in balance sheet recessions.

[4] Koo lived in Tokyo for 13 years in his youth, and later attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he received a B.A.

[1] He then proceeded to Johns Hopkins University for graduate school, where he received a M.A.

[1] Upon graduation from Johns Hopkins University, Koo worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as an economist from 1981 to 1984.

[1] He then joined Nomura Holdings in 1984 as its first expatriate researcher and a senior economist from 1984 to 1997.