Saori KATADA

Bio

Saori N. Katada is Professor of International Relations at University of Southern California. She was 2022 Fondation France-Japon/Banque de France Fellow at l’École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Her book Japan’s New Regional Reality: Geoeconomic Strategy in the Asia-Pacific was published from Columbia University Press in 2020, whose Japanese version was published from Nikkei Business Publications in 2022. She has co-authored 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 her Ph.D. is from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Political Science), and her 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.