Gerald L. Curtis ’65

Gerald Curtis attended the Inter-University Center in 1964-65. He received his Ph.D. degree from Columbia University in 1968 and taught at Columbia for 47 years. He is currently Director of the Japan Research Program at Columbia's Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Chairman of the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation, and Distinguished Fellow at the Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research. He has written extensively and in both English and Japanese about Japanese politics, foreign policy, and US-Japan relations. He is the recipient of numerous awards and prizes, including the Japan Foundation Award and the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star. He has held appointments at Chatham House, London; the college de France, Paris; the Lee Kwan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore, and at Tokyo, Keio, Waseda universities and the Graduate Research Institute for Policy Studies.