Kristi Govella

Dr. Kristi Govella (クリスティ・ゴヴェラ) is Associate Professor of Japanese Politics and International Relations in the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies and the School of Global and Area Studies at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Antony’s College. She specializes in the intersection of economics, security, and governance, with a particular focus on the Indo-Pacific region and Japan. Her research has examined topics such as economic statecraft, government-business relations, regional institutional architecture, military alliances, and the governance of the global commons. Dr. Govella has published numerous articles, book chapters, and opinion pieces, and she is the co-editor of two books, Linking Trade and Security: Evolving Institutions and Strategies in Asia, Europe, and the United States (2013) and Responding to a Resurgent Russia: Russian Policy and Responses from the European Union and the United States (2012). She also serves as an Adjunct Fellow at the East-West Center and Pacific Forum and as Editor of the peer-reviewed journal Asia Policy. Prior to joining the University of Oxford, Dr. Govella was Assistant Professor of Asian Studies and Director of the Center for Indo-Pacific Affairs at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of the Asia Program at The German Marshall Fund of the United States, Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University, and Associate Professor at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies. She has also been a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Tokyo and Waseda University. She holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley and a B.A. in Political Science and Japanese from the University of Washington, Seattle.