معرفی
Midori Akamine serves as an Adjunct Fellow at the East West Center within the Politics & International Relations program. She concurrently holds the diplomatic position of British Honorary Consul in Hawaiʻi, facilitating high-level engagement between UK government officials and Hawaiʻi leadership to strengthen bilateral relations across cultural, economic, and environmental domains.
Her academic background includes a political science degree from the University of California, San Diego and a Juris Doctor (JD) from the University of California, Los Angeles. During her research tenure at the University of Tokyo Faculty of Law, School of Comparative Law and Politics, she conducted fieldwork in the Ogasawara Islands focusing on fisheries law and resource management systems.
Her research integrates legal frameworks with environmental policy, specializing in marine security governance. She has pioneered programs for remote marine protected areas, developed counter-strategies against illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing (IUU), and contributed to international legal instruments governing areas beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ). Her work bridges geopolitical analysis with practical policy implementation across island nations and oceanic regions.
Through her dual roles in academic research and diplomatic service, Akamine leverages cross-cultural expertise to address transnational challenges in ocean governance, demonstrating how environmental security forms the foundation for stable geopolitical systems in the Pacific and beyond.
