Yuka Koshino Author & Editor

Yuka Koshino is a Research Fellow for Security and Technology Policy at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), conducting independent research on security in the Indo-Pacific region and the impact of emerging technologies on security from defence and geo-economic perspectives. She was previously affiliated with the Asia-Pacific Initiative in Tokyo as the inaugural Matsumoto-Samata Fellow (2020–21). She previously served as a research associate with the Japan Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. She holds a Master's in Asian Studies from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and a BA in law from Keio University, where she completed an academic year at the University of California, Berkeley.

Robert Ward holds the Japan Chair at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), conducting independent research and writing extensively on strategic issues related to Japan. He is also the IISS Director of Geo-economics and Strategy, focusing on a range of issues including global economic governance, rules and standards setting, and how economic coercion affects policy at a national and corporate level. Prior to joining the IISS, he was Editorial Director at the Economist Intelligence Unit. Robert lived and worked in Japan from 1989 to 1996, latterly holding a position in Japan’s largest credit-rating agency, the Japan Bond Research Institute. Robert holds bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Cambridge.