SAKANASHI Sachi

Senior Research Fellow, Assistant Director, 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.

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
Publications
  • "Japan Strives to Keep Importing Iranian Oil Despite US Sanctions," Atlantic Council, 2019.1.14
Other Major Professional Career
  • Japan Association for Middle East Studies
  • The Japan Association of International Relations