Professional Affiliation

Associate Professor of International Relations and Economics, University of Tsukuba

Expert Bio

Dr. Aki Tonami is an Associate Professor in International Relations and Economics at University of Tsukuba. She’s also a Senior Research Fellow at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, University of Copenhagen. Having worked as Research Advisor for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, Dr. Tonami is a specialist in foreign policy and development in Asia, with research interests in economic diplomacy and governance of the Polar Regions. She has a PhD in Global Environmental Studies (2008) and a MA in Economics (2004) from Kyoto University, and a BSc in Commerce from Santa Clara University. Her recent publications include ‘The rise of Asia and Arctic legal order-making: political-economic settings’ (in Shibata et al eds, Emerging Legal Orders in the Arctic: The Role of Non-Arctic States, Routledge, 2019), and ‘Asian Foreign Policy in a Changing Arctic: The Diplomacy of Economy and Science at New Frontiers’ (Palgrave Mcmillan, 2016).