大阪大学大学院国際公共政策研究科IAFOR研究センター
THE IAFOR RESEARCH CENTRE
THE RESEARCH CENTRE TEAM
The People Behind the IAFOR Reseach Centre
The work of the Research Centre is overseen by Professor Toshiya Hoshino in the university, with OSIPP's Professor Satoh as Director of Research and the official liaison. The representative of IAFOR is Joseph Haldane.
Organisational Structure & People
Toshiya Hoshino
Executive Director
Dr Toshiya Hoshino is recently completed a multi-year term as Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations. Previous to his role at the UN, Professor Hoshino was on the faculty at the Osaka School of International Public Policy (Osaka University), serving as Dean from 2011 to 2014.
Toshiya Hoshino
Professor Toshiya Hoshino had recently returned to OSIPP following his appointment as Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations in New York.
Previous to his role at the UN, Professor Hoshino was on the faculty at the Osaka School of International Public Policy (Osaka University), serving as Dean from 2011 to 2014, before being appointed Vice-President (International) of the University from 2014 to 2016.
From August 2006 to August 2008, he served as a Minister-Counselor in charge of political affairs at the Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations (UN). At the UN, he was a principal advisor to the Chair of the UN Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) when Japan assumed its chairmanship. He graduated from Sophia University, Japan, completed a Master’s at the University of Tokyo, and received his Doctorate (PhD) from Osaka University.
His previous positions have included: Senior Research Fellow at the Japan Institute of International Affairs; Guest Scholar at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University; Fellow at Stanford Japan Center, Stanford University; Visiting Fellow, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University; and Special Assistant (Political Affairs) at the Embassy of Japan to the United States.
He is a specialist in UN peace and security policies (conflict prevention, peacemaking, peacekeeping and peacebuilding), human security and humanitarian issues, security in the Asia-Pacific region and Japan-US relations.
Haruko Satoh
Research Director
Haruko Satoh is Specially Appointed Professor at the Osaka School of International Public Policy, where she teaches Japan’s relations with Asia and identity in international relations. She was previously part of the MEXT Reinventing Japan project on “Peace and Human Security in Asia (PAHSA)” with six Southeast Asian and four Japanese universities.
Haruko Satoh
In the past she has worked at the Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA), Chatham House, and Gaiko Forum. Her interests are primarily in state theory, Japanese nationalism and identity politics. Recent publications include: “China in Japan’s Nation-state Identity” in James DJ Brown & Jeff Kingston (eds) Japan’s Foreign Relations in Asia (Routledge, 2018); “Japan’s ‘Postmodern’ Possibility with China: A View from Kansai” in Lam Peng Er (ed), China-Japan Relations in the 21st Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017); “Rethinking Security in Japan: In Search of a Post-‘Postwar’ Narrative” in Jain & Lam (Eds.), Japan’s Strategic Challenges in a Changing Regional Environment (World Scientific, 2012); “Through the Looking-glass: China’s Rise as Seen from Japan”, (co-authored with Toshiya Hoshino), Journal of Asian Public Policy, 5(2), 181–198, (July 2012); “Post- 3.11 Japan: A Matter of Restoring Trust?”, ISPI Analysis No. 83 (December 2011); “Legitimacy Deficit in Japan: The Road to True Popular Sovereignty” in Kane, Loy & Patapan (Eds.), Political Legitimacy in Asia: New Leadership Challenges (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), “Japan: Re-engaging with China Meaningfully” in Tang, Li & Acharya (eds), Living with China: Regional States and China through Crises and Turning Points, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).
Joseph Haldane
Admininstrative Director
Joseph Haldane is the Chairman and CEO of IAFOR. He is responsible for devising strategy, setting policies, forging institutional partnerships, implementing projects, and overseeing the organisation’s business and academic operations, including research, publications and events.
Joseph Haldane
Dr Haldane holds a PhD from the University of London in 19th-century French Studies, and has had full-time faculty positions at the University of Paris XII Paris-Est Créteil (France), Sciences Po Paris (France), and Nagoya University of Commerce and Business (Japan), as well as visiting positions at the French Press Institute in the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas (France), The School of Journalism at Sciences Po Paris (France), and the School of Journalism at Moscow State University (Russia).
Dr Haldane’s current research concentrates on post-war and contemporary politics and international affairs, and since 2015 he has been a Guest Professor at The Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP) at Osaka University, where he teaches on the postgraduate Global Governance Course, and Co-Director of the OSIPP-IAFOR Research Centre, an interdisciplinary think tank situated within Osaka University.
A Member of the World Economic Forum’s Expert Network for Global Governance, Dr Haldane is also a Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Philology at the University of Belgrade (Serbia), a Visiting Professor at the School of Business at Doshisha University (Japan), and a Member of the International Advisory Council of the Department of Educational Foundations at the College of Education of the University of Hawaii at Manoa (USA).
From 2012 to 2014, Dr Haldane served as Treasurer of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (Chubu Region) and he is currently a Trustee of the HOPE International Development Agency (Japan). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society in 2012, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2015.
Nick Potts
Publications Officer
For the past 12 years, Nick has been involved in various projects at Osaka University. In addition, he's also the Publications Manager at Japan's International Academic Forum, overseeing the organisation's academic journals. Prior to Japan, Nick worked in Singapore for a United Kingdom-based organisation specialising in international educational, exams, arts and cultural opportunities.
Virgil Hawkins
Co-Director
Virgil Hawkins holds a PhD in International Public Policy from the Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP), Osaka University, where he currently serves as professor. He is also a research associate with the University of the Free State, South Africa.
Virgil Hawkins
Before joining OSIPP, Virgil Hawkins was an assistant professor at the Global Collaboration Center, Osaka University (2007-2010), and has also served with the Association of Medical Doctors of Asia (AMDA) in Cambodia (technical advisor, 2002-2004), and in Zambia (country director, 2004-2007).
Virgil Hawkins is also a co-founder of the Southern African Centre for Collaboration on Peace and Security (SACCPS). His prime research interest is in the media coverage of conflict (and the lack thereof), most notably in Africa. His most recent book is Communication and Peace: Mapping an Emerging Field, edited with Julia Hoffmann (Routledge, 2015).
Fellows / Interns
Brian Aycock
Fellow
Brian, from the United States, is a graduate student at the University of London’s School of Advanced Study conducting research in Japan.
Brian Aycock
His undergraduate work was done in the United States before beginning postgraduate studies in economics at the University of Glasgow.
Brian served in the US military during multiple overseas operations, then joined the Peace Corps to work on economic development in sub-Saharan Africa. Most recently Brian has been managing the refugee employment department of a resettlement agency, assisting refugees as they arrive in the United States. His current research interests are in international law, particularly refugee and human rights law, and he is conducting research into Japan’s position on, and participation in, the associated international instruments.
Yumi Ishikawa
Fellow
Yumi Ishikawa is a PhD student at Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP). Her main interest is in public health.
Yumi Ishikawa
Yumi Ishikawa completed her Master’s at OSIPP and MSc in Global Health at King's College London and has research experience working at the World Health Organization (WHO) Headquarters (2017) and the WHO country office in Cambodia as a UN Volunteer (2019-2020).
Nguyen Anh Tuyet
Fellow
Nguyen Anh Tuyet has a PhD from Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP), Osaka University. Her research interests are public health, inequality, aging population, Asian studies, and applied econometrics.
Nguyen Anh Tuyet
Nguyen Anh Tuyet has written on several papers, with her recent publications (“Socio-economic-related health inequality in non-communicable diseases among older people in Viet Nam.” Le DD, Leon-Gonzalez R, Giang TL, Nguyen AT (2020), in Ageing & Society; and “Factors associated with regional disparity in utilization of healthcare services among Vietnamese older people,” Nguyen.AT, Giang.Tl (2020), in the Journal of Population and Social Studies. Before that, Nguyen worked in the Risk Management Department at a local bank in Vietnam for eight years as a senior credit assessment. This position, at a dynamic financial institution, gave her valuable practical experience about large corporate issues as well as the domestic economic industry in Vietnam and developing countries.
Carmina Yu Untalan
Fellow
Carmina Untalan is from the Philippines. She was recently awarded her PhD at Osaka School of International Public Policy OSIPP, Osaka University.
Carmina Yu Untalan
Carmina research is about the role of colonial interactions and identity-making in constructing and maintaining hegemonic powers at present. She tries to argue that American hegemony in East Asia is sustained via Japan's and the Philippine's perennial identification with the United States.
Shawn Thacker
Research Intern
Shawn Thacker graduated with distinction in his major from Yale University in 2023. Awarded the prize for best capstone project in his major of Global Affairs, Shawn helped create a model to quantify the global medical oxygen shortage and create policy proposals for the Global Fund to strategically invest in oxygen systems. Growing up between Kathmandu, Nepal, and Iowa City, Iowa, Shawn has always been interested in questions lying at the intersection of development and security. With experience in economic development research at Yale, international investment arbitration and transitional justice at the Constitutional Court of Colombia, and security policy at a think tank in Seoul, Shawn hopes to learn more about Japan’s evolving position in regional security while pursuing a postgraduate fellowship. In his free time, Shawn enjoys learning new languages and practicing making latte art.
Anoma Phichai van der Veere
Fellow
Anoma Phichai van der Veere is a Researcher at LeidenAsiaCentre, The Netherlands. He was recently awarded his PhD in international public policy at OSIPP, Osaka University, Japan.
Anoma Phichai van der Veere
Anoma's main fields of interest are public policy, governance, education, human rights, and interdisciplinary and methodologically eclectic research. Focusing on media representations through discourse and content analyses, he worked on developments in Japan in relation to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Anoma earned a bachelor in Japanese Studies and a Research MA (cum laude) in Asian Studies at Leiden University.
He has lectured and written on several issues, with his most recent publications ranging from discourses on overseas North Korean forced labour (‘Slaves to the System’ and Awareness of North Korean Forced Labour." A.P. van der Veere and M.C.H. Boonen, in People for Profit: North Korean Forced Labour on a Global Scale (ed. R.E. Breuker & I.B.L.H. van Gardingen), 2018), aging and technology in Japan ("Presenting Domestic Care Technology and Elderly Care in Japanese Newspapers." Aging Japan: Leading the way into the Future, LeidenAsiaCentre, 2018), and media representation of female athlete in Japanese print media ("Wrestling with Gender: Coverage of the Olympic Games in Japanese Media." Yearbook of Women's History 38, 2019).
His upcoming publications focus on disability and sport in Japan, and the utopian uses of technology discourses in public policy and the media. He is currently writing a book on the history of sports for disabled persons in Japan, a product of the “Road to Tokyo 2020” project at LeidenAsiaCentre.
Yow Shuning
Research Intern
Yow Shuning is an undergraduate student at Osaka University, Japan. She majors in International Public Policy at the Department of Law. She writes on a range of topics such as LGBTQ rights and immigration policies in Southeast Asia, with a focus on Singapore.
Advisory Board (Senior Research Fellows)
John C. Beck
Senior Fellow
A Harvard PhD, John has been a professor/dean/board member in a number of top business / public policy programs on three continents. He is author of hundreds of articles and ten books (in eleven languages) including three best-selling award-winners.
John C. Beck
Dr Beck is President of the North Star Leadership Group, Senior Research Fellow at University of Southern California’s Annenberg Center for the Digital Future, Senior Advisor and Chief Innovation Officer at Arizona State University, and is also Senior Advisor to Cambodia's Minister of Public Works and Transportation. He also served as the Dean of Globis University – the first non-Japanese to lead a bilingual university in Japan – and as a Professor and Senior Advisor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore. He was formerly Director of International Research at Accenture and a Senior Advisor at Monitor Group for a couple of decades.
John earned his BA in East Asian Studies and Sociology summa cum laude from Harvard University, and was the first graduate of Harvard’s integrative PhD program in Organizational Behavior. He has taught at Harvard, UCLA, USC, Thunderbird, Ivey, IMD (Switzerland), IPADE (Mexico) and ESMT (Germany). He was the originator of The Economist’s Business Professor of the Year award. Dr Beck has advised several presidents and prime ministers during his career.
John has hundreds of articles and ten books including the award-winning and business best-sellers: Good vs Good, The Attention Economy and The Kids are Alright. His books have been translated into eleven languages. He has appeared on CNN, CBS Evening News, BBC, Fox News and National Public Radio. He is quoted and cited in The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The Financial Times, The New York Times, The Atlantic and other leading papers and magazines. Currently he is working on building video games to replace entire MBA programs
Fan LI
Senior Fellow
Fan Li is an International Advisor at the LePing Social Entrepreneur Foundation, and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR), China.
Fan LI
Fan Li is an International Advisor at the LePing Social Entrepreneur Foundation, and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR), China.
Fan founded Global Links Initiative with Robin Rowland in 2003, a nonprofit organisation headquartered first in Tokyo and then in Shanghai that fostered practical links among social entrepreneurs around the world. In 2004, GLI first brought the concept of social entrepreneurship to China.
Fan was a founding member of the China-US Strategic Philanthropy Partnership (CUSP), a leading network that promotes research, exchange and collaboration between the philanthropic sectors of China and the United States, she worked with CUSP from 2010 to 2016. Fan connected and advised partnership building between two leading social enterprises in Japan and China from 2009 to 2012, which resulted in the first China-Japan social joint venture in sustainable farming.
Fan is co-editor-in-chief of the Chinese version of Stanford Social Innovation Review. She is also editor of the groundbreaking book, A New Horizon: 10 Stories of Social Entrepreneurs in China (HongKong, 2010). Her translation of Kazuyoshi Fujita’s book, Radish Revolution, was one of the best sellers of the SanLian Publishing House in 2013. She currently serves as International Advisor for the LePing Foundation in Beijing. Fan’s work as Senior Fellow at the IAFOR Research Centre leads efforts to grow the East Asia Social Innovation Initiative, a cutting-edge network for research, dialogue and knowledge sharing on social innovation in East Asia.
Lam Peng Er
Senior Fellow
Dr Lam Peng Er is a Senior Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore.
Lam Peng Er
Dr Lam Peng Er, a political scientist, obtained his PhD from Columbia University. His research interests are Japan's peace-building diplomacy, Sino-Japanese relations, Japan-Southeast Asia relations, and Japanese domestic politics. His publications have appeared in international journals such as the Pacific Affairs, Asian Survey, Asian Affairs, Japan Forum and Government and Opposition: An International Journal of Comparative Politics. Lam's latest single-authored book is Japan's Peace Building Diplomacy in Asia: Searching for an Active Political Role (New York and London: Routledge, 2009). Other books include: Japan’s Relations with Southeast Asia: The Fukuda Doctrine and Beyond (London and New York: Routledge, 2013) edited, Japan's Relations with China: Facing a Rising Power (New York and London: Routledge, 2006) edited and Green Politics in Japan (London: Routledge, 1999). He is an executive editor of the International Relations of the Asia-Pacific (A Journal of the Japan Association of International Relations published by Oxford University Press) and Asian Journal of Peacebuilding (Journal of the Institute for Peace and Unification Studies, Seoul National University).
Georges Depeyrot
Senior Fellow
Professor Georges Depeyrot is a monetary historian at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris.
Georges Depeyrot
Professor Georges Depeyrot began his scientific career in the 1970s studying coin finds and joined the CNRS in 1982. After some years he joined the Center for Historical Research in the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) and is now a professor at the École Normale Supérieure. After his habilitation (1992), he specialised in international cooperative programs that aim to reconsider monetary history in a global approach. He has directed many cooperative programs linking several European countries, including those situated at the continent’s outer borders (Georgia, Armenia, Russia, and Morocco). Professor Depeyrot is the author or co-author of more than one hundred volumes, and is the founding director of the Moneta publishing house, the most important collection of books on the topic of money. Professor Depeyrot is a member of the board of trustees of the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique.
Ljiljana Markovic
Senior Fellow
Professor Ljiljana Markovic is Dean, Chairperson of the Doctoral Studies Program and Full Professor in Japanese Studies at the University of Belgrade, Serbia.
Ljiljana Markovic
Dr Ljiljana Markovic holds the positions of Chairperson of the Association of Japanologists of Serbia, Member of the University of Belgrade Council, Chairperson of the University of Belgrade SYLFF Committee, Member of the Republic of Serbia, Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Bilingual Education Board, and Member of the Republic of Serbia, Ministry of Culture, Committee on Books Procurement for Public Libraries. She has previously served as Vice Dean for Financial Affairs, Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade (2008–2016). In 2010 she received the Gaimu Daijin Sho Award from the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan, and in 2011 she received the Dositej Obradovic Award for Pedagogical Achievement. She is the author of a large number of publications in the fields of Japanese studies and economics.
Gary E. Swanson
Senior Fellow
Gary E. Swanson is the former Mildred S. Hansen Endowed Chair and Distinguished Journalist-in-Residence at the University of Northern Colorado, USA.
Gary E. Swanson
From 2005-2007 Professor Swanson was a Fulbright scholar to China and lectured at Tsinghua University and the Communication University of China. In summer 2008 he was Commentator for China Central Television International (CCTV-9) and their live coverage of the Beijing Olympic Games. Swanson repeated his assignment covering the London Olympics for CCTV-4 in the summer of 2012.
Previously, he was professor and director of television for nine years at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University where he taught mostly graduate broadcast students. He has been an educator for 26 years; 20 years spent teaching at the university level. Swanson is an internationally recognised and highly acclaimed documentary producer, director, editor, photojournalist, consultant and educator. He has given keynote speeches, presented workshops and lectured at embassies, conferences, festivals, and universities throughout China, South Africa, India, Papua New Guinea, Japan, The Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Singapore, Greece, Germany, Jordan, Spain, Portugal, Peru, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Professor Swanson has compiled a distinguished professional broadcast career spanning 13 years: From 1978 to 1991, and worked for the National Broadcasting Company where he was honoured with national EMMYs for producing and editing: The Silent Shame, a prime-time investigative documentary; Military Medicine, a two-part investigative series on NBC News; and Hotel Crime, an investigative news magazine piece. Swanson was an editor for "breaking news and features" for NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, the Today Show, Sunrise, Sunday Today, NBC Overnight, A Closer Look, Monitor, and other prime time news magazines. Swanson covered "breaking news" in 26 states and Canada for the network including trips and campaigns of presidents Ronald Reagan, George Bush, and Bill Clinton. Swanson was the Fulbright distinguished lecturer and consultant in television news to the government of Portugal in 1989. In 1992, he covered the XXV Olympics in Barcelona, Spain for NBC News as field producer and cameraman. Swanson has earned more than 75 awards for broadcast excellence and photojournalism including three national EMMYs, the duPont Columbia Award, two CINE 'Golden Eagles,' 16 TELLYs, the Monte Carlo International Award, the Hamburg International Media Festival's Globe Award, the Videographer Award, The Communicator Award, the Ohio State Award, the CINDY Award, the 2011 Communitas Outstanding Professor and Educator award, the 2013 Professor of the Year award, and many others. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana with a Bachelor's degree in Education in 1974, and a Master's degree in Journalism in 1993.
James W. McNally
Senior Fellow
Dr James W. McNally is the Director of the NACDA Program on Aging, a data archive containing over 1,500 studies related to health and the aging lifecourse.
James W. McNally
Dr James W. McNally currently does methodological research on the improvement and enhancement of secondary research data and has been cited as an expert authority on data imputation.
Dr McNally has directed the NACDA Program on Aging since 1998 and has seen the archive significantly increase its holdings with a growing collection of seminal studies on the aging lifecourse, health, retirement and international aspects of aging. He has spent much of his career addressing methodological issues with a specific focus on specialised application of incomplete or deficient data and the enhancement of secondary data for research applications. Dr McNally has also worked extensively on issues related to international aging and changing perspectives on the role of family support in the later stages of the aging lifecourse.
Philip Sugai
Senior Fellow
Philip Sugai
Dr Sugai is a Professor of Marketing within Doshisha University's Graduate School of Business where he currently teaches Marketing, eMarketing, Marketing Research, and Sustainable & Responsible Marketing. Dr Sugai also served as a Visiting Professor for Stanford University from 2015 to 2017, where he taught Innovation in Japan at the Stanford Overseas campus in Kyoto.
Prior to joining the Doshisha University faculty, Dr Sugai taught at the International University of Japan in Niigata where he also served as Dean and Associate Dean of the IUJ Business School for six years.
Dr Sugai is the author of two books, The Value Plan and The Six Immutable Laws of Mobile Business (John Wiley & Sons) and has published case studies with Ivey Business School Publishing on KITKAT Japan, AGL, Hatsune Miku and Walt Disney Internet Group.
He received his Doctorate degree from Waseda University and his MBA in Marketing and Operations Management from New York University’s Stern School of Business. He has worked as a marketing executive at American Express, Muze, Inc., and Lightningcast, Inc., and currently serves as a marketing advisor and marketing strategy consultant to companies both in Japan and globally.
