Education and Professional Experience

• Apr 2013 -
  Present

  Fellow, Government and Law Division, Security Studies Department,
  National Institute for Defense Studies

• Jun 2015 -
  Jul 2015

  Visiting Fellow, The Royal United Services Institute

• Jan 2012 -
  Mar 2013

  Economic Development Researcher, Global Health Policy Division,
  International Cooperation Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

• 2011

  MA in Conflict, Security and Development, Department of War Studies, King's College London

• 2010

  LLM in major of Political Science, Graduate School of Law, Keio University

• 2008

  BA in Policy Management, Keio University

Selected Publications

Research Articles (non-refereed)

• "Post-Conflict Security Sector Reform, and the Roles of the Military and the Police: The Case of Sierra Leone"

  NIDS Journal of Defense and Security, No. 16 (December 2015), pp. 37 - 59.

• "Japan-UK Co-operation on Peace and Stability in Africa"

  Jonathan Eyal, Michito Tsuruoka and Edward Schwarck eds., Partners for Global Security: New Directions for the UK-Japan Defence and Security Relationship, Whitehall Report 3-15 (London: Royal United Services Institute, 2015), pp. 45-58.

Conference Presentations

• "Liberal International Order and Africa: The Case for Japan-Europe Partnership"

  New Multilateralism in Global Economy, ECFR Warsaw, 26 February 2019.

• "Coup-proofing and Security Sector Reform: Reconciling an Ideal with Reality"

  4th Global International Studies Conference (Frankfurt, Germany), August 2014.

Others

• "African Security Challenges: A Case for Increased Japan-Europe Cooperation"

  Europe's World, Friends of Europe, 22 January 2018.