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Akihiko Tanaka

Akihiko Tanaka
田中 明彦
President of the Japan International Cooperation Agency[1]
Assumed office
1 April 2022
Preceded byShinichi Kitaoka
Personal details
Born (1954-08-07) August 7, 1954 (age 70)
Shiki, Saitama, Japan
Nationality Japanese
Alma materUniversity of Tokyo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Akihiko Tanaka (田中 明彦, Tanaka Akihiko, born 7 August 1954) is a Japanese academic, author, policy adviser and media commentator and the current president of Japan International Cooperation Agency since 1 April 2022, succeeding Shinichi Kitaoka. He is specializing in theories of international systems, contemporary international relations in East Asia, Japan–United States relations and China–Japan relations. He was also the president of the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies.[2]

Tanaka was a professor of international politics at The University of Tokyo's Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia from 1990 to 2012 and from 2015 to 2017, and served a previous term as president of JICA from 2012 to 2015. He served in various advisory panels commissioned by the Japanese government.

  1. ^ "TANAKA Akihiko becomes JICA's new president | News | News & Features | JICA". www.jica.go.jp. Retrieved 2023-06-28.
  2. ^ "President's Desk | National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)". until March 2022.

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