Kristi Govella is an Associate Professor in the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies and the School of Global and Area Studies at the University of Oxford, where she is also a Fellow of St. Antony’s College. She specializes in the intersection of economics, security, and governance, with a particular focus on the Indo-Pacific region and Japan. Her research has examined topics such as economic statecraft, government-business relations, regional institutional architecture, military alliances, and the governance of the global commons. She also serves as an Adjunct Fellow at the East-West Center and Pacific Forum and as Editor of the journal Asia Policy. Prior to joining the University of Oxford, Dr. Govella was Assistant Professor of Asian Studies and Director of the Center for Indo-Pacific Affairs at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of the Asia Program at The German Marshall Fund of the United States, Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University, and Associate Professor at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley.