Prof. Dr. Taniguchi Tomohiko
, Professor at Keio University and Special Adviser to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
(retd.)
Dr. Taniguchi Tomohiko is a Professor at Keio University Graduate School of
System Design and Management, reading international political economy and
Japanese diplomacy. He was the Special Adviser to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Between February 2013 and March 2014, he was Councillor at Prime Minister's
Office. After spending 20 years with Nikkei Business, he joined the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs as Deputy Press Secretary and Deputy Director General for Public Diplomacy. In
1999 the Foreign Press Association in London elected him President, the first from “the East of
Suez.” During his journalistic career, he spent sabbaticals at Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton
University, as a Fulbright Visiting Fellow, at the Shanghai Institute for International Studies, and at
the Brookings Institution as a paid, “CNAPS” fellow. He also served as the Executive Adviser to the
Chairman of the Central Japan Railway Company, KASAI, Yoshiyuki, while holding visiting
professorships at Keio SDM and Meiji University School of Global Japanese Studies. He has
authored and co-authored more than 10 books on international affairs.
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