Kenji Kushida
Kenji Kushida is Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Asia Program directing Japan programming, and he leads the Japan-Silicon Valley Innovation Initiative @ Carnegie (J-SV). He is also International Research Fellow at the Canon Institute for Global Studies (CIGS), and has served as Senior Advisor to global advisory firm Macro Advisory Partners, and was previously a Research Scholar at the Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC) at Stanford University, where he created and led the Stanford Silicon Valley-New Japan Project (SV-NJ). He was also a nonresident senior fellow at the Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research (TKFD) and lecturer at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University where he taught classes on the Silicon Valley economic ecosystem, technology policy, and Japan’s political economy.
Kushida holds a PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, an MA in East Asian studies and BAs in economics and East Asian studies, all from Stanford University.