Yasushi Watanabe

He has served on the Executive Board of the Japanese Association for American Studies, the Advisory Panel on Public Diplomacy of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Advisory Panel (Chairperson) on NHK World. He has also served as an editorial member of Gaiko (Diplomacy) magazine, a book reviewer for Asahi Shimbun and Yomiuri Shimbun, a member of the board of directors (program director) at the International House of Japan, and a Co-Chair of the Japan Advisory Council of the Salzburg Global Seminar, among many others. He is a member of Harvard Club of Japan. He serves on the editorial boards of Anthem Studies in Soft Power and Public Diplomacy andPlace Branding and Public Diplomacy. He has been selected to the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) by the U.S. Department of State in 2018.

During the 2003-04 academic years, he was a recipient of an Abe Fellowship, which he held at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. He was awarded a prestigious Japan Academy Medal in 2005. He served as a Fellow at Downing College, Cambridge in 2007, a Visiting Professor at Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Science-Po) in 2013 and a Japan Scholar at the Wilson Center in 2018. He was a visiting scholar at the School of International Studies at Peking University in 2017 and at College of Europe in 2018.