Akiyoshi Yonezawa

Professor and Vice-Director, International Strategy Office, Tohoku University, Japan

 

Dr. Akiyoshi Yonezawa is Professor and Vice-Director of International Strategy Office, and a Special Advisor for the President, at Tohoku University, Japan. With a background in sociology, he mainly conducts research on comparative higher education policy –especially focusing on world-class universities, internationalization, and public-private relationships in higher education. He established his expertise in higher education policy and management through working experience at Nagoya University, OECD, Hiroshima University, and the University of Tokyo. He is a board member at the Japan Association for Higher Education Research, at the Japan Comparative Education Society, and Japan Society for Educational Sociology. In addition, he is a national delegation of the Group of National Experts on Higher Education for OECD. He is also actively contributing to international research publications, e.g., as an editorial advisory board member of Higher Education and International Higher Education. He is a member of the editorial board of Higher Education Quarterly and a member of the Higher Education Editorial Advisory Board.

Major edited publications: Yonezawa, A. Kitamura, Y., Yamamoto, B. and Tokunaga, T. (Eds.) (2018). Japanese Education in a Global Age: Sociological Reflections and Future Directions. Springer. Jung, J., Horta, H., Yonezawa, A. (Eds.). (2017). Researching Higher Education in Asia.

Dordrecht: Springer.