Gerald Curtis

GERALD L. CURTIS is Burgess Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, Senior Fellow at the Tokyo Foundation, and former Director of Columbia’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute. He is the author of The Logic of Japanese Politics and numerous other books and articles published in both English and Japanese on Japanese politics, government, and foreign policy and U.S.-Japan relations. He currently divides his time between Columbia University and Tokyo where he is active as a columnist, speaker, and writer on Japanese domestic affairs and international relations. Professor Curtis has held appointments at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, London; the College de France, Paris; the Lee Kwan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore; and in Tokyo at Keio and Tokyo University, the Research Institute for Economy, Trade and Industry, the Graduate Research Institute for Policy Studies, and the International Institute of Economic Studies.

He is the recipient of numerous prizes and honors including the Chunichi Shimbun Special Achievement Award, the Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize, the Japan Foundation Award, the Marshal Green Award of the Japan-America Society of Washington, DC, and the Eagle on the World award of the Japan Chamber of Commerce in New York.  He was decorated by the Emperor of Japan with the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star, one of the highest honors awarded by the Japanese government. Professor Curtis is a member of the Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the board of directors of the US-Japan Foundation. His most recent book, Seiji and Sanma, a memoir of his 45 year history with Japan, was released recently in Japan.