Guest Speaker: Shino Watanabe (Professor at the Faculty of Global Studies, Sophia University inTokyo, Japan.)

Short bio:

Dr. Shino Watanabe is Professor at the Faculty of Global Studies, Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan. Her main research interests are Chinese foreign policy including China’s economic statecraft and Belt and Road Initiative, international development finance, and international relations of East Asia. She currently serves as Advisor to Institute for International Socio-Economic Studies (IISE) in Tokyo and Senior Visiting Non-Resident Fellow at Cambodia Development Resource Institute in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. She also served as RIPS (Research Institute for Peace and Security)-CGP (Center for Global Partnership) Security Studies Fellow of the Japan Foundation (2004-2006), Research Fellow at the Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA) (2008-2010), Associate Professor at Saitama University (2010-2014), Associate Professor at Sophia University (2014-2017) and Visiting Scholar (Fulbright Scholar) at the Sigur Center for Asian Studies, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University (2021-2022). She received her B.A. in Economics from the University of Tokyo in Japan, M.A. in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School, Tufts University, and her Ph.D. in Foreign Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics, University of Virginia in the United States. She also studied at the School of International Studies, Peking University (2007-2008) in Beijing, China.