Speakers

Prof Christopher W Hughes is Professor of International Politics and Japanese Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. He was formerly at Warwick Pro-Vice-Chancellor/Vice-President (Education), Chair of the Faculty of Social Sciences, and Head of Department in PAIS. His academic journey includes roles as a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow; Research Fellow, University of Hiroshima; Visiting Associate Professor and Asahi Shimbun Visiting Chair of Mass Media and Politics, Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo; Visiting Professor at Waseda University; Visiting Professor at the Free University of Berlin; Edwin O. Reischauer Visiting Professor of Japanese Studies at the Department of Government, Harvard University; Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Nissan Institute, University of Oxford; and NTUC Visiting Professor of International Economic Relations at Nanyang Technological University. He is also a Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute and has held associate fellow status at Chatham House and at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
 
Prof Hughes is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He holds degrees from the Universities of Oxford (BA); Rochester, New York (MA); and Sheffield (MA and PhD). He is co-editor of The Pacific Review, one of the leading journals focusing on the international politics of the Asia Pacific. He has authored over 60 refereed journal articles and book chapters, and five monographs. His latest monograph is Japan as a Global Military Power: New Capabilities, Alliance Integration, Bilateralism-Plus (Cambridge University Press, 2022).