SAKANASHI Sachi

Senior Research Fellow, Director of JIME Center, IEEJ

Expertise

Contemporary Iranian politics

SAKANASHI Sachi is Manager of Research Group as well as Assistant Director of the JIME Center, Institute of Energy Economics, Japan. The fields of her research interest are contemporary Iranian politics, the energy industry of Iran, and Japan-Iran relations. She has worked for two years from 2000 to 2002 as a Cultural Attaché at the Japanese Embassy in Tehran. She was a visiting fellow at the Gulf Research Center, then based in Dubai, in 2008. Sakanashi obtained her master’s degree in International Relations from the University of Tokyo.

2024	Director of JIME Center, IEEJ
2019	Assistant Director, JIME Center, IEEJ
2017	Acting Director, JIME Center, IEEJ
2015	Manager, Research Group, JIME Center, IEEJ
2008	Visiting Researcher, Gulf Research Center
2005	Researcher, JIME Center, IEEJ
2000	Cultural Attaché, Embassy of Japan in Iran
1997	M.A. in Advanced Social and International Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan