Graduate, Christ Church and St Antony's College, University of Oxford; studies at SAIS, Johns Hopkins; DPhil in International Relations, St Antony's College, University of Oxford. Senior Consulting Fellow, Asia Programme, Chatham House; concurrently, Senior Lecturer in Japanese Politics and International Relations, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (FAMES), University of Cambridge. Official Fellow, Darwin College, Cambridge. Author: Unequal Allies? United States Security and Alliance Policy Towards Japan, 1945-1960 (2005); A Personal Account of the Secret US-Japan Okinawa Reversion Negotiations (2002). Edited translation of memoirs of Wakaizumi Kei, The Best Course Available. Expertise: international relations of East Asia; diplomatic history.