SAYA KIBA

Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Kobe City University of Foreign Studies

Saya KIBA is an Associate Professor at Kobe City University of Foreign Studies. Her major fields of interest are Southeast Asian studies, civil-military relations, security sector governance, and defense cooperation. She has experience as a practitioner, working in the Embassy of Japan in the Philippines and the Embassy of Japan in Thailand. She also served as a staff to Diet member/ former Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara from 2010 to 2012. Her recent works include a co-edited book, Pathways for Irregular Forces in Southeast Asia: Mitigating Violence with Non-state Armed Groups (Routledge, 2022).

She is a member of the Expert Panel for the 50th Year of ASEAN-Japan Friendship and Cooperation of Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Expert Panel on Ministry of Defense Capacity Building.