Shiro Armstrong is an economist and Associate Professor at the Crawford School of Public Policy. He is Director of the Australia-Japan Research Centre, Editor of the East Asia Forum, Director of the East Asian Bureau of Economic Research and Research Associate at the Center on Japanese Economy and Business at the Columbia Business School.

Shiro is a Visiting Scholar at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI) and in a Visiting Associate Professor at Keio University.

See Reimagining the Japan Relationship report, launched 22 November 2021.

Latest papers:

• Drysdale P. and S. Armstrong (2021) ‘RCEP: a strategic opportunity for multilateralism’, China Economic Journal, DOI: 10.1080/17538963.2021.1937092

• Armstrong, Shiro, Rebecca Sta Maria and Tetsuya Watanabe, 2021 Towards an Asia-Pacific Digital Economy Governance Regime, April.

• Armstrong S. 2021 ‘Economic diplomacy and economic security under Abe’, Asian Economic Policy Review, 16 (2).

PhD students

• Yuma Osaki
• Stewart Nixon
• Rebecca Mendelsohn
• Daulet Taimagambet
• Khresna Satriyo
• Sam Hardwick
• Barli Suryanta (completed)
• Paul Hubbard (completed)
• Adam Triggs (completed)
• Buavanh Vilavong (completed)
• Jiao Wang (completed)
• Luke Hurst (completed)
• Ben Ascione (completed)