Professional Affiliation

National Executive Director, Australian Institute of International Affairs; Visiting Fellow, Australian National University

Expert Bio

Bryce Wakefield is executive director of the Australian Institute of International Affairs and a visiting fellow at the Australian National University. He is a former assistant professor of modern Japanese politics at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies. He was program associate for Northeast Asia and the Pacific from January 2009 to May 2012. In this role, he researched, conceptualized, developed, and oversaw conferences; edited publications; and kept current on developments throughout the region. He earned his Ph.D. in political studies from the University of Auckland and his master's degree from Osaka University's School of International Public Policy. Before starting work at the Woodrow Wilson Center, Bryce lectured in comparative politics and conducted a course on diplomacy at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has also taught classes on a variety of subjects related to political science and Japanese studies and organized events for the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs (Auckland). Bryce lived, worked and studied in Japan for six years. He is a New Zealand citizen and has traveled throughout Europe and Asia. He can speak, read and write Japanese and German, and is learning Dutch.

Education

Ph.D., Political Studies with a focus on international relations and Japanese foreign policy, The University of Auckland; Master in International Public Policy, Osaka School of International Public Policy, Osaka University; B.A. Political Studies, The University of Auckland

Major Publications

• China and the Persian Gulf, co-editor with Susan L. Levenstein (Woodrow Wilson Center, 2011)
• Looking Forward: U.S.-Japan Economic Partnership in the Post-Lehman World, editor (Report of the Japan-U.S. Joint Public Policy Forum, Tokyo, December 8-9, 2010, Woodrow Wilson Center, 2011)
• "Greater China? Migration and Chinese Transnational Communities" editor (Asia Program Special Report 145, Woodrow Wilson Center, January 2011)
• "Green Tigers: The Politics and Policy of Climate Change in Northeast Asia" editor (Asia Program Special Report 144, Woodrow Wilson Center, August 2010)
• The U.S.-Japan Partnership Toward a World Free of Nuclear Weapons, editor (Report of the Japan-U.S. Joint Public Policy Forum, Akasaka, Tokyo, October 21-22, 2009, Woodrow Wilson Center, 2010)
• "Taiwan and the Global Economic Storm," editor (Asia Program Special Report 143, Woodrow Wilson Center, October 2009)
• With Asano Masahiko "Political Market Orientation in Japan" in Jennifer Lees- Marshment (ed.), Global Political Marketing (Routledge, 2009)
• "Principle versus Patronage: The Lees-Marshment method and Political Marketing in Japan" in Jennifer Lees-Marshment, Political Marketing: Principles and Applications (Routledge, 2009)
• With Matthew Penney, "Right Angles: Examining accounts of Japanese neo-nationalism" Pacific Affairs, Vol. 81, No 4 (Winter 2008/2009)