Dr. Satoru Nagao is an associate professor at the Institute for International Strategy of Tokyo International University. He is also a Fellow (Non-Resident) at Hudson Institute. Dr. Nagao’s primary research area is U.S-.Japan-India security cooperation. He was awarded his Ph.D. by Gakushuin University in 2011 for his thesis, “India’s Military Strategy,” the first such research thesis on this topic in Japan. Dr. Nagao holds numerous other research positions, including, senior research fellow at the Japan Forum for Strategic Studies, specially-appointed research fellow at the Japan Forum on International Relations, research fellow at the Institute for Future Engineering (strategy, defense policy), Research Committee of Research Institute for Peace and Security etc.