Kenji Kushida, PhD

Kenji Kushida is Senior Fellow at the Asia Program in the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) directing Japan research and programming themed “Innovative Japan, Global Japan” and he leads the Japan-Silicon Valley Innovation Initiative@Carnegie. He is also International Research Fellow at the Canon Institute for Global Studies (CIGS), and has served as Senior Advisor to global advisory firm Macro Advisory Partners, and was previously a Research Scholar at the Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC) at Stanford University, where he created and led the Stanford Silicon Valley-New Japan Project (SV-NJ). He was also a nonresident senior fellow at the Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research (TKFD) and lecturer at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University where he taught classes on the Silicon Valley economic ecosystem, technology policy, and Japan’s political economy.
He holds a PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, an MA in East Asian studies and BAs in economics and East Asian studies, all from Stanford University.

Kushida’s research streams include Information Technology innovation, Silicon Valley’s economic ecosystem, technology policy, Japan’s political economic transformation since the 1990s, and the Fukushima nuclear disaster. He has published several books and numerous articles in each of these streams, including the series “Innovative Japan, Global Japan” “Startup Japan” and “Silicon Valley Revisited” from Carnegie and journal articles “The Politics of Commoditization in Global ICT Industries,” “Cloud Computing: From Scarcity to Abundance,” and others. His latest business book in Japanese is “The Algorithmic Revolution Disruption: a Silicon Valley Vantage on IoT, Fintech, Cloud, and AI” (Asahi Shimbun Shuppan 2016).

He has appeared in media including The New York Times, Washington Post, Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Nikkei Business, NHK, PBS NewsHour, NPR, and others, and he advises companies and government.

He is a fellow of the US-Japan Leadership Program, alumni of the Trilateral Commission David Rockefeller Fellow, G1 Next Generation Leaders, and Mansfield Foundation Network for the Future. He is a board member of G1 Silicon Valley, and previously served as trustee for the Japan ICU Foundation.
 

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