Nakabayashi Mieko

Prof. Nakabayashi Mieko is a professor of Political Science at the Center for International Education, Waseda University. She served as an elected member of Japan’s House of Representatives (2009-2012). Before being elected, she had held various public positions such as Commissioner of the Fiscal System Council at the Ministry of Finance, a member of International Committee of the Council for Science and Technology at the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, a member of the Radioactive Nuclear Waste Subcommittee at the Agency for National Resources and Energy in the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, and a visiting scholar at the Legislative Council and the Research Bureau of the House of Representatives. She also served as a professional staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Budget (1993-2002). Prof. Nakabayashi was named Distinguished Fellow of the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation in 2018. She received her Master’s degree in Political Science from Washington State University and her Ph.D. in International Public Policy from Osaka University.