KEI KOGA

Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University

Kei Koga is Associate Professor/ Head of Division at the Public Policy and Global Affairs Programme, School of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Concurrently, he is a Nonresident Fellow at The National Bureau of Asia Research (NBR), the United States, and a member of RIPS Research Committee, the Research Institute for Peace and Security (RIPS), Japan. His research focuses on International Security, International/Regional Institutions (particularly ASEAN), and East Asian/Indo-Pacific security.

Previously, he was Japan Scholar at the Wilson Center in 2022; visiting fellow at Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in 2017; a Japan-U.S. Partnership Fellow at the RIPS, Tokyo, in 2012-2014; Postdoctoral Fellow in the International Studies Program, The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, in 2012-2013; a Vasey Fellow at the Pacific Forum CSIS in 2009–2010. His recent publication includes "Tactical hedging as coalition-building signal: The evolution of Quad and AUKUS in the Indo-Pacific" (British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 2024) and "Managing Great Power Politics: ASEAN, Institutional Strategy, and the South China Sea" (Palgrave Mcmillan, 2022).

He received his Ph.D. in International Relations at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.