Saori N. Katada is Professor of International Relations at University of Southern California, and the Director of the Center for International Studies. She served as the vice president of International Studies Association and on the editorial team of Review of International Political Economy.
Her book Japan’s New Regional Reality: Geoeconomic Strategy in the Asia-Pacific was published by Columbia University Press in 2020, and its Japanese version was published from Nikkei Press in 2022. Her other book Banking on Stability: Japan and the Cross-Pacific Dynamics of International Financial Crisis Management (University of Michigan Press, 2001) received the Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Book Award.
She is a co-author of two recent books The BRICS and Collective Financial Statecraft (Oxford University Press, 2017), and Taming Japan’s Deflation: The Debate over Unconventional Monetary Policy (Cornell University Press, 2018). She has also published six edited and co-edited books, two books in Japanese, and numerous articles on the subjects of trade, financial and monetary cooperation in East Asia, as well as Japanese foreign aid. Saori N. Katada is a Nonresident Fellow at the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR).