ONN Welcomes Professor Michiru Nishida to ONN Advisory Council

ONN welcomes Professor Michiru Nishida to the ONN Advisory Council. A leading expert in nuclear arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation, Professor Nishida brings decades of experience as a scholar and former Japanese diplomat, strengthening ONN’s engagement with Asia-Pacific perspectives on nuclear risk reduction.

Open Nuclear Network (ONN) is pleased to welcome Professor Michiru Nishida as the newest member of our Advisory Council. A leading expert in nuclear arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation, Professor Nishida brings to ONN decades of experience spanning academia, diplomacy, and policy advisory roles at the national and international levels.

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.

Professor Nishida’s expertise and insight will greatly enrich the Council’s deliberations and further strengthen ONN’s work at the intersection of rigorous analysis, inclusive dialogue and practical nuclear risk reduction.