Saori N. Katada

Saori N. Katada is Professor of International Relations at University of Southern California, and the Director of the Center for International Studies. She served as the vice president of International Studies Association and on the editorial team of Review of International Political Economy.

Her single-authored book Japan's New Regional Reality: Geoeconomic Strategy in the Asia-Pacific was published by Columbia University Press in 2020, and its Japanese version was published from Nikkei Press in 2022.  Her other single authored book Banking on Stability: Japan and the Cross-Pacific Dynamics of International Financial Crisis Management (University of Michigan Press, 2001) received the Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Book Award.  She is a co-author of two recent books The BRICS and Collective Financial Statecraft (Oxford University Press, 2017), and Taming Japan's Deflation: The Debate over Unconventional Monetary Policy (Cornell University Press, 2018).  She has also published six edited and co-edited books, two books in Japanese and numerous articles on the subjects of trade, financial and monetary cooperation in East Asia as well as Japanese foreign aid.  

For her research on regionalism, she was awarded Asia Studies Fellow at the East-West Center in Washington, Japan Foundation Research Grant and National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship.  She has her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Political Science), and B.A. from Hitotsubashi University (Tokyo).  Before joining USC, she served as a researcher at the World Bank in Washington D.C., and as International Program officer at the UNDP in Mexico City.