Prof. Yasushi Watanabe is a Professor of American Studies and Public Diplomacy at the Keio University Graduate School of Media and Governance. Earning a PhD in social anthropology from Harvard University in 1997, he has served as an associate at the Harvard University Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; a senior associate at Oxford University; a fellow at Cambridge University Downing College; a Japan Scholar at the Wilson Center; visiting professor at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po); visiting scholar at the College of Europe; and visiting scholar at Peking University. He is the author numerous publications, including Bunka to gaiko: Paburikku dipuromashi no jidai (Culture and Diplomacy: The Age of Public Diplomacy) (Chuko Shinsho, 2011); “Bunka” o toraenaosu: Karuchuraru sekyuriti no hasso (Rethinking Culture: On the Concept of Cultural Security) (Iwanami Shoten, 2015). He is the recipient of the Suntory Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities, the Shimizu Hiroshi Award of the Japanese Association for American Studies, the Keio University Prize, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Prize, and the Japan Academy Medal. He has served as chairperson of the NHK International Broadcasting Program Council and on the Advisory Committee of the Japan Foundation, et al.