Akiko Yamanaka
Special Advisor to the President of Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East AsiaFormer Parliamentary Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs
Prof. Akiko Yamanaka serves as Special Advisor to the President of ERIA( the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia). She served as an Elected Member of the Parliament and Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan as well as Special Ambassador for Peacebuilding and Special Ambassador for Awareness of the World Tsunami as well as the President of International Tsunami Disaster Prevention Society.
She pursued her academic career as a Visiting Professor of the Graduate School of Hokkaido University, United Nations University as well as Bi-Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University. She pursued her studies at St. Antony’s College of University of Oxford in UK and Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies of Harvard University, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and Brookings Institute in Washington DC in USA as well as Chatham House in UK. Her professional fields are Political Science such as Human Security, Preventive Diplomacy and Intercultural Studies.
She has published many books such as “Think, or Sink: Preventive State Theory”, “The 23 Most Fabulous Women in the World” and “Reaching for Balance” etc.