Shihoko Goto is the Vice President of Programs and Director of the Asia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI). Prior to her role at FPRI, she served as the Director of the Indo-Pacific Program at the Wilson Center, leading research and programming on U.S. 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 a 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, D.C.

Goto started her career as a financial journalist with Dow Jones Newswires covering international political economy. She has received numerous journalism fellowships including the Freeman Foundation’s Jefferson journalism fellowship at the East-West Center and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation’s journalism fellowship for the Salzburg Global Seminar.

She continues to contribute regularly to numerous U.S. and Asian publications, including as a columnist for The Diplomat. She received an M.A. in International Political Theory from the Graduate School of Political Science, Waseda University, Japan, and a B.A. in Modern History from Trinity College, University of Oxford. 

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