Dr. John Nilsson-Wright (formerly Swenson-Wright) is a Senior University Lecturer in Modern Japanese Studies and a Darwin College, Cambridge fellow. He has a BA from Christ Church, Oxford, an MA from SAIS, Johns Hopkins, and a DPhil. from St. Antony’s, Oxford. His publications include Unequal Allies. United States Security and Alliance Policy Towards Japan, 1945-1960 (Stanford, 2005), The Politics and International Relations of Modern Korea (Routledge, 2016),. He is also Head of the Asia Program at Chatham House (The Royal Institute of International Affairs) and comments regularly for the international media on the international relations of East Asia, with particular reference to Japan and the Korean peninsula. He is a member of the World Economic Forum (WEF)’s Global Agenda Council (GAC) on Korea, Europe editor of Global Asia, and the UK-Japan 21st Century Group director.