Kent E. Calder

Dr. Kent E. Calder was the Dean and Vice Dean for Education and Academic Affairs of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Dr. Calder, who also directs the Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies at Johns Hopkins SAIS, previously served as the school’s Dean and Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs and International Research Cooperation and as Director of Asia Programs. Prior to his work at SAIS, he served as special advisor to the U.S. Ambassador to Japan, Japan Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), professor at Princeton University, lecturer on government at Harvard, and as the first executive director of Harvard University’s Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. A specialist in East Asian political economy, Dr. Calder lived and researched in Japan for eleven years and across East Asia for four years. In 2014, he was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon. Dr. Calder’s recent publications include: Global Political Cities: Actors and Arenas of Influence in International Affairs (Brookings, 2021); Super Continent: The Logic of Eurasian Integration (Stanford, 2019); Circles of Compensation: Economic Growth and the Globalization of Japan (Stanford, 2018); Singapore: Smart City, Smart State (Brookings, 2017); Asia in Washington (Brookings, 2014); and The New Continentalism: Energy and Twenty-First Century Eurasian Geopolitics (Yale, 2012). Dr. Calder received his Ph.D. from Harvard University, where he worked under the direction of Edwin O. Reischauer.