This month, APLN is delighted to welcome Michiru Nishida, professor at the School of Global Humanities and Social Sciences, Nagasaki University, as our new Senior Research Adviser.

Professor Nishida specialises in arms control, disarmament, and non-proliferation. Author of “Nuclear Transparency: Practices of US-USSR/Russia and NPT as well as their Potential Applicability to China” and co-author of “NPT: The Global Governance of Nuclear Weapons.” He has worked for many years in the field of arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation as a diplomat and as a Special Advisor for Arms Control, Disarmament and Non-Proliferation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan. He holds an M.A. in International Policy Studies with a certificate on nonproliferation from Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, and Ph.D. in Laws from Hitotsubashi University.

In his new role, Professor Nishida will support APLN’s work on strategic risks in the Asia-Pacific. APLN team welcomes Professor Nishida and we are looking forward to working with him!