Shihoko Goto
Director, Indo-Pacific Program
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Shihoko Goto is director of the Indo-Pacific Program at the Wilson Center. She specializes in trade and economic interests across the Indo-Pacific, and is also focused on geopolitical developments in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. She is also a columnist for The Diplomat magazine and contributing editor to The Globalist. She is currently an executive board member of the Japan-America Society of Washington DC, and a member of the Global Taiwan Institute’s US-Taiwan Task Force. Prior to joining the Wilson Center, she was a financial journalist covering the international political economy with a focus on Asian markets. As a correspondent for Dow Jones News Service and United Press International based in Tokyo and Washington, she has reported extensively on policies impacting the global financial system as well as international trade. She was also formerly a donor country relations officer at the World Bank. Previously, she was a member of the Mansfield Foundation’s US-Japan Network for the Future, and she has received the Freeman Foundation’s Jefferson journalism fellowship at the East-West Center as well as the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation’s journalism fellowship for the Salzburg Global Seminar. She received an MA in international political theory from the Graduate School of Political Science, Waseda University, Japan, and a BA in Modern History, from Trinity College, University of Oxford, UK.
Education:
MA in International Political Theory, Graduate School of Political Science, Waseda University, Japan.
BA in Modern History, University of Oxford, UK.
Insight & Analysis by Shihoko Goto
- Past event
- US Elections
Washington’s New Pivot: US Election Results and Implications for the Indo-Pacific
- Podcast
- Democracy
Political Shockwaves: Navigating Japan's Uncertain Future
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- Past event
- Geoeconomics
US-Japan Relations and Prospects for Multilateral Economic Cooperation
- Video
- Critical Minerals
Taiwan's Role in the US-China Competition for Critical Minerals
- Video
- Global Alliances & Partnerships
2024 Quad Leaders' Summit
- Publication
- Geoeconomics
Countering Economic Coercion and Safeguarding the Indo-Pacific's Economic Security
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- Lucas Myers and
- Shihoko Goto
- Video
- Geoeconomics