Haruko Satoh is a specially appointed professor at the Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP), Osaka University. She is also the director of international collaboration at the ESG-Integration Research & Education Center at OSIPP and guest lecturer at the Value Research Center, Doshisha University School of Business. Haruko currently runs the “Peace and Human Security in Asia: Toward a Meaningful Japan-Korea Partnership” project, supported by the Korea Foundation. She has worked at the Japan Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, and Gaiko Forum. Haruko studied at Mount Holyoke College, US, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies – Bologna Center, and University of Cambridge, UK. Her interests are in state theory, Japanese nationalism and identity politics. Haruko spends her precious spare time reading spy novels, spinning records (i.e. DJ-ing) and enjoying good red wine.