Kota Watanabe
Visiting Scholar at Einaudi Center for International Studies
Tokyo, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKota Watanabe is a political scientist and Visiting Scholar at NYU Wagner with 10 years' experience bridging diplomacy and academia on Myanmar and wider Southeast Asia. A former Japanese diplomat who served in Yangon and on the Myanmar desk in Tokyo, he combines on-the-ground fluency in Burmese with qualitative expertise in the political economy of civil wars, humanitarian care, and transnational organized crime. His PhD from SOAS and a JSPS Overseas Research Fellowship underpin research that informs policy and humanitarian practitioners, while his work on paramilitaries and organized crime has fed rapid evidence reviews for SOC ACE. Based in Tokyo but active in US and international networks, he also consults on GIS applications, bringing geographic tools to conflict and humanitarian analysis.
9 years of coding experience
Australian National UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Political Science and Government, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Political Science and Government at SOAS University of LondonMaster of Arts - MA Peace and conflict studies, Master of Arts - MA Peace and conflict studies at Coventry UniversityBachelor of Social Sciences Political Sciences, Bachelor of Social Sciences Political Sciences at Hitotsubashi University
Japanese, English, Myanmar
Github Skills (7)
git10
github10
patch9
subversion8
react5
typescript4
nextjs4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kota-wtnb/iagw2018
Dec 2017 - Jun 2019
卒展サイト
Contributions:14 commits, 13 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 5 months
reactnextjstypescript
watkot/tmu_crosswordrally
Jun 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:30 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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