Director, Strategic Communications Education and Research Unit (SCERU) and Professor of International Security,
the Graduate School of Public Policy(GraSPP), the University of Tokyo
Dr. Chiyuki Aoi is Professor of International Security at the Graduate School of Public Policy(GraSPP), the University of Tokyo, where she directs Strategic Communications Education and Research Unit (SCERU) established with support from the European Union.
She also serves as a member of the Editorial Board of Defence Strategic Communications, the official journal of NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence (Riga). She is also a lecturer at the Postgraduate Certificate Programme for Strategic Communications practitioners, organized by the Sympodium Institute for Strategic Communications (London/Riga).
In August 2018, she was elected a member of the Council on Security and Defense Capabilities by the Shinzo Abe Cabinet.
Previous to her current position, from 2008 to 2009, she was Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, and from 2019 to 2020 Visiting Professor there. She gained more than five years of professional experience at two United Nations agencies, namely, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (Geneva), and the United Nations University (Tokyo).
Aoi obtained B.A. at Sophia University(Japan), M.S. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology(U.S.), and PhD at Columbia University (U.S.).
Her publications include: “The Indo-Pacific, Geopolitics, and Strategic Communications: Construction of ‘the Indo-pacific’,“ Defence Strategic Communications Vol.14 (2024); “Unmapping the Indo-Pacific: A Strategic Communications Perspective,” Defence Strategic Communications Vol. 12 (2023); Review Article, “Change through Resonance in Classical Ballet,” Defence Strategic Communications, vol. 15 (Spring 2025); Strategic Communications (in Japanese), Nikkei BP (2022), among others.