Akiko Fukushima is a nonresident senior fellow at the Indo-Pacific Security Initiative within the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. She is also a senior fellow at the Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research and a member of the International Advisory Board of the Hague Journal of Diplomacy.

Over the course of her career, she served several roles including as professor at the School of Global Studies and Collaboration at Aoyama Gakuin University and as director of policy studies at the National Institute for Research Advancement. She has also been on the Japanese government committees on foreign, defense, and security policies, including the prime minister’s Panel on National Security Strategy and Defense from 2013 to 2014. Her publications include Japanese Foreign Policy: The Emerging Logic of Multilateralism (MacMilan,1999) and “Multilateralism Recalibrated,” in Postwar Japan (CSIS, 2017). She has contributed chapters to edited volumes including “A New Logic of Multilateralism on Demand,” in The Palgrave Handbook of Diplomatic Reform and Innovation (Palgrave, 2023). She has also contributed articles to journals including “Reshaping the United Nations with Concept of Human Security Version 2.0,” published in Strategic Analysis (October 2020); “From the Asia-Pacific to the Indo-Pacific: Its Motives, Aims and Future,” published with the Canadian Global Affairs Institute (2021); and “COVID-19: Implications for the Indo-Pacific,” published with the Australian Strategic Policy Institute(2023).

She holds a doctoral degree from Osaka University and MA from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.