Profile

Professor, Osaka School of International Public Policy, Osaka University, Japan. Until July 2020 for three years, Dr. Hoshino served as an Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations in New York in charge of socio-economic and budgetary affairs. His previous positions have included: Vice-President (Global Engagement) of Osaka University; Minister-Counsellor in charge of political affairs at the Permanent Mission of Japan to the UN; Senior Research Fellow at the Japan Institute of International Affairs; Guest Scholar at Columbia University; Visiting Fellow, Princeton University; and Special Assistant (Political Affairs) at the Embassy of Japan to the United States. He graduated from Sophia University, Japan, completed a Master's at the University of Tokyo, and received his PhD from Osaka University.

Former Positions

• Ambassador/Deputy Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations, August 2017 to August 2020
  Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations
• Executive Vice-President for International Affairs, August 2015 to July 2016
  Osaka University
• Vice-President for International Affairs, April 2014 to August 2015
  Osaka University
• Dean of Osaka School of International Public Policy/Advisor to the President on International Affairs, April 2011 to March 2014
  Osaka University
• Faculty Director of Inamori Foundation Endowed Course at OSIPP "Global Public Ethics and Social Innovation", April 2011 to March 2014
  Osaka University
• Minister-Counsellor, August 2006 to August 2008
  Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations,
• Guest Scholar, July 2007-May 2008
  School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
• Professor, July 2003 to July 2006
  Osaka School of International Public Policy, Osaka University
• Research Fellow, November 2003 to July 2006
  Stanford Japan Center-Research, Stanford Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
• Adjunct Fellow, April 1998 to July 2006
  The Japan Institute of International Affairs
• Associate Professor, April 1998 to July 2003
  Osaka School of International Public Policy, Osaka University
• Special Research Fellow, April 2000 to March 2002
  the Hiroshima Peace Institute, Hiroshima City University
• Senior Research Fellow, May 1991 to March 1998
  The Japan Institute of International Affairs
• Visiting Fellow, 1992 to 1993
  The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
• Special Assistant for Political Affairs, April 1988 to March 1991
  The Embassy of Japan, Washington, D.C.

Field of Research Interests

United Nations multilateral diplomacy, global issues, human security, ESG, sustainable development and peacebuilding

Degrees

• Ph.D. (Osaka School of International Public Policy, Osaka University), February 2003
• M.A. (Graduate Division of International and Interdisciplinary Studies, the University of Tokyo), March 1986
• B.A., (Faculty of Foreign Language and Studies, Sophia University), March 1984