Shihoko Goto

Shihoko Goto is the Vice President of Programs and Director of the Asia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI).

Goto comes to FPRI from the Congressionally chartered Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington DC, where she served as the Director of the Indo-Pacific Program, leading research and programming on US interests in the world’s most dynamic region. Goto’s research focuses on geoeconomic interests across the Indo-Pacific, particularly on economic relations between the United States and Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. 

She is also an Associate Fellow at Chatham House, and the Senior Fellow for Indo-Pacific Affairs at the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation. In addition, she is an executive board member of the Japan-America Society of Washington, D.C.

Goto started her career as a financial journalist with Dow Jones Newswires covering international political economy. She also spent time at the World Bank as a donor country relations officer. 

She received an MA in International Political Theory from the Graduate School of Political Science, Waseda University, Japan, and a BA in Modern History from Trinity College, University of Oxford.