Kristi Govella

Associate Professor of Japanese Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford; Senior Adviser and Japan Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies [CSIS]

Dr. Kristi Govella is Associate Professor of Japanese Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford and Senior Adviser and Japan Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Dr. Govella specializes in the intersection of economics, security, and governance, with a focus on the Indo-Pacific region and Japan. Her research has examined topics such as economic security, military alliances, regional institutional architecture, non-traditional security, and the governance of the maritime, outer space, and cyber domains.

Prior to joining the University of Oxford, Dr. Govella was Assistant Professor of Asian Studies and Inaugural Director of the Center for Indo-Pacific Affairs at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of the Asia Program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University, and Associate Professor at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies. She has also been a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Tokyo and Waseda University. She holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley and a B.A. in Political Science and Japanese from the University of Washington, Seattle.