Shihoko Goto

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

Prior to joining FPRI, Shihoko was the Director of the Indo-Pacific Program at the Congressionally chartered Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington DC. Her research focuses on geoeconomic interests across the Indo-Pacific, particularly economic relations between the United States and Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. 

She is also an Associate Fellow at Chatham House, and a Fellow of the Japan Institute for International Affairs’ Center for Global Outreach. In addition, Shihoko is the Senior Fellow for Indo-Pacific Affairs at the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation and an executive board member of the Japan-America Society of Washington DC. 

She started her career as a financial journalist with Dow Jones Newswires covering the 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.