Experts
Kenichi Doi
Senior Research Fellow
Profile
Senior Research Fellow of the China Group at the Institute of Geoeconomics (IOG). Doi specializes in China and the world (geoeconomic issues, such as development finance and emerging technologies), and global governance in the social development sectors, including education and health. He graduated from the University of Kitakyushu with a B.A. in International Relations (Contemporary China Studies) and a Master of Public Policy from the University of Tokyo. Doi joined the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in 2008, where he worked on the implementation of the Japanese government’s foreign aid to China at the JICA Beijing Office and conducted financial investments in economic and social infrastructure and research on China’s development cooperation with the Global South at the Africa Department. In 2018, he began his doctoral studies in the Department of Education Economics at Peking University in China, where he received his PhD in Public Policy in 2022. Doi served as a senior researcher and advisor at Diinsider Co., Ltd, a China-based international development consultancy, and as an adjunct researcher at the Center for the Study of International Cooperation in Education, Waseda University, before being appointed to his current position in August 2024.
Expertise
Contemporary China / Global South / Development Finance / Human Capital Development / Global Governance / Internationalization of Education and Knowledge
Publications
[Books]
・Dai, K., Doi, K., & Oladipo, O. (Forthcoming). The motivation and research experiences of international doctoral students in China: Navigating the PhD journey. Routledge.
[Book Chapters]
・Sato, J., & Kim, S (2024), The semantics of development: exploring ‘untranslatable’ ideas through Japan. Springer Nature.,
担当分：'Ōnā shippu: A vestige of Japan's ambition to lead international aid' 〔分担執筆〕
・城山英明編著：グローバル保健ガバナンス，東文堂出版，担当部分：第8章「中国における保健ガバナンス改革と国際的展開」，2020.8.〔分担執筆〕
・张宏明、安春英編著：非洲发展报告-大国对非政策动向与中非关系的国际环境，社会科学文献出版社出版，担当部分：第8章「东京非洲发展国际会议与日本对非经济合作政策的演变」，2014.8.
[Reports]
・城山英明編著：WHO 検証・改革の動向把握及び我が国の戦略的・効果的な介入に資する総合的研究報告書 (pp. 151-159).
厚生労働科学研究特別事業. 担当部分：「中国のグローバル保健ガバナンスへの参画と国際社会への含意に関する研究」2022.4 〔分担執筆〕
[Journal Articles]
・Doi, K., Ikeda, A., Murakami, Y., & Kuroda, K. (2024). Towards complete development finance data: Quantifying China's international education co-operation and presence in Global South. Development Policy Review. (SSCI Journal).
・Doi, K. (2023). Global education governance ‘with Chinese characteristics’: Multilateralism in the ‘New Era’. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education. (SSCI Journal).
・土居健市. (2021). “日本特色”的对非教育合作及其对中国的借鉴——东京非洲发展国际会议回顾与展望. 清华大学教育研究, 42(03), 104-117+145. (CSSCI Journal).