Experts
Motoi Koike
Program Officer
Profile
Motoi KOIKE has a multidisciplinary background spanning education, international development, and academic collaboration. He began his career in academic administration at a private university in Japan, working on accreditation, policy formulation, and faculty/staff development. In 2013, he was selected for the Global Internship Program sponsored by Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and dispatched to Open University Malaysia, where he gained practical experience in distance higher education. From 2017, he engaged in technical cooperation in higher education at the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), serving as an expert in projects in Egypt and Vietnam. He contributed to establishing and managing a new faculty, implementing liberal arts education across the university, designing and delivering faculty and staff development programs, and collaborating on international accreditation processes.
He earned a Master’s degree in Higher and Professional Education from the UCL Institute of Education (UK), and completed an executive program on university leadership and the entrepreneurial university at the Maastricht School of Management (Netherlands). He also completed program assessor training under the ASEAN University Network–Quality Assurance (AUN-QA) framework. In 2023, he was awarded the Lauder-Kobayashi Scholarship by the Aspen Institute Japan and participated in the Socrates Seminar.
Expertise
Asia Leaders Fellowship (ALF)