Susan Hubbard, Senior Associate, JCIE / USA

Susan Hubbard is a senior associate in the New York office of the Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE), where she focuses primarily on global health and human security issues. Prior to joining JCIE's New York office, she was program director for East Asia at the Center for International Conflict Resolution at Columbia University, where, among other activities, she ran a dialogue and capacity-building project with representatives from youth, women's, and political organizations representing 12 ethnic groups from Burma. She has also previously worked in JCIE's headquarters in Tokyo and with the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership, and she served as a Brian Kane Fellow with the Kiyosato Education Experiment Project (KEEP) in Yamanashi, Japan. She received her bachelor's degree in political science and Asian Studies from Northwestern University and her master of international affairs degree in international development from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. She is a board member of the American Committee for KEEP and a member of the editorial board of the journal Global Health Governance.

• "Human Security Approaches for Disaster Recovery and Resilience (with Masamine Jimba, Tomoko Suzuki, & others)," Japan Medical Association Journal (2011)


• "A New Framework for US–Japan Development Cooperation" (with Erie Sase) [pdf 416kb], An Enhanced Agenda for US–Japan Partnership—Working Papers (2011)


• Doing Well by Doing Good: Innovative Corporate Responses to Communicable Diseases (2010)


• Building Resilience: Human Security Approaches to AIDS in Africa and Asia (2008)


• Human Security in the United Nations (2004)


• “Levi Strauss Donor Advised Fund in Japan,” Corporate-NGO Partnership in Asia Pacific (1999)


• “Conference Report,” Emerging Civil Society in the Asia Pacific Community (1995)