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Shihoko Goto is a Senior Fellow at the Mansfield Foundation and a member of the Mansfield Foundation’s U.S.-Japan Network for the Future. She was the Director of the Indo-Pacific Program at the Wilson Center, Washington, DC. She was responsible for research and programming on the world’s most populous and dynamic region for a think-tank which was chartered by the US Congress in 1968. She specializes in trade and economic interests across the Indo-Pacific, and is also focused on geopolitical developments in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. Shihoko is a columnist for the Diplomat magazine and contributing editor to the Globalist.
Currently, she is an executive board member of the Japan-America Society of Washington, DC and a member of the Global Taiwan Institute’s US-Taiwan Task Force. Prior to joining the Wilson Center, she was a financial journalist covering the international political economy with a focus on Asian markets. As a correspondent for Dow Jones News Service and United Press International based in Tokyo and Washington, she has reported extensively on policies impacting the global financial system as well as international trade. She was also formerly a donor country relations officer at the World Bank.
She has received the Freeman Foundation’s Jefferson journalism fellowship at the East-West Center as well as the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation’s journalism fellowship for the Salzburg Global Seminar. She received an MA in international political theory from the Graduate School of Political Science, Waseda University, and BA in Modern History from Trinity College, University of Oxford.