Dr. Terada is a Professor of international relations at Doshisha University, Kyoto. Before taking up his current position in April 2012, he was an Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore (1999-2006) and associate and full Professor at Waseda University (2006-2011). He also served as a Visiting Professor at the University of Warwick (2011-2012) and a Japan Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington D.C. (2012). His areas of specialty include international political economy in Asia and the Pacific, as well as theoretical and empirical studies of Asian regionalism and domestic and international politics regarding FTAs. His articles have been published in major international academic journals, including The Pacific Review, Journal of Politics, Australian Journal of International Affairs, and Asia Pacific Economic Papers. His latest work is East Asia and the Asia-Pacific: Competing Regional Integrations (in Japanese, University of Tokyo Press 2013). He has regularly consulted on national and international affairs for the governments of Japan, Australia, and Singapore. He is the recipient of the 2005 J.G. Crawford Award. He received his Ph.D. from Australian National University.