Michiru Nishida

Michiru Nishida is professor at the School of Global Humanities and Social Sciences, deputy director of the Research Center for Global Risk, and concurrent professor at the Research Center for Nuclear Abolition (RECNA), Nagasaki University. He is also a member and Senior Research Adviser of the Asia-Pacific Leadership Network (APLN). He specializes in nuclear arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation. Author of "Nuclear Transparency: Practices of the US-USSR/Russia and the NPT and Their Potential Applicability to China." He worked for many years in the field of arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation as a diplomat and as Special Adviser for Arms Control, Disarmament and Non-Proliferation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan. He holds an M.A. in International Policy Studies with a Certificate in Non-Proliferation Studies from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey and a Ph.D. in Law from Hitotsubashi University.