Shihoko Goto

Shihoko Goto is the Director for Geoeconomics and Indo-Pacific Enterprise and Deputy Director for the Asia Program at the Wilson Center. Her research focuses on the economics and politics of Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea, as well as U.S. policy in Northeast Asia. A columnist for The Diplomat magazine and contributing editor to The Globalist, she was previously was a donor country relations officer for the World Bank. She is a board member of the Japan-America Society of Washington DC, and a member of the task for US-Taiwan Relations in the 21st Century. She received a BA in Modern History from Trinity College, University of Oxford and an MA in Political Theory from Waseda University.