Shihoko Goto
Deputy Director for Geoeconomics with the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Asia Program and Senior Editor at The Globalist
[Washington D.C., United States]
Shihoko Goto is responsible for research, programming and publications on Japan, South Korea and Taiwan at the Woodrow Wilson Center.
Prior to joining the Wilson Center, she spent over ten years as a journalist. Her focus was on writing about the international political economy, with an emphasis on Asian markets.
As a correspondent for Dow Jones News Service and United Press International, she reported extensively on U.S. government policies impacting the global financial system and international trade.
Ms. Goto was also an external affairs officer at the World Bank, promoting the agency’s activities in Japan and Western Europe. Her work has been published in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and by the BBC, among others.
She has been a recipient of the Freeman Foundation’s Jefferson Fellowship and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation’s journalism fellowship for the Salzburg Global Seminar.
Follow her at @gotoeastasia
