Director, Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies; and Director of Japan Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), assume the position of SAIS Vice Dean for Academic on June 30, 2018.

Kent Calder is currently Director of the Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies at SAIS/Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C. Before arriving at SAIS in 2003, he taught for twenty years at Princeton University, and Lecturer on Government at Harvard University. Calder, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations since  1990, served as Special Advisor to    the U.S. Ambassador to Japan (1997-2001), Japan Chair at the Center   for Strategic and  International  Studies  (1989-1993  and  1996);  and  as the first Executive Director of Harvard University’s Program on U.S.- Japan Relations (1979-1980). Calder received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1979, where he worked under the director of Edwin O. Reischauer. He is the author of thirteen books on East Asian political economy, energy geopolitics, Japanese politics, and US-Japan relations, including most recently Circles of Compensation: Economic Growth and the Globalization of Japan ( Stanford University Press , August 2017 ),  Calder was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon in 2014, for his contribution to Japan-US relations, and to the academic study of Japan.