Dr. Kristi Govella is the Director of the Center for Indo-Pacific Affairs and an Assistant Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Beginning in October 2024, she will be an Associate Professor at the University of Oxford. Dr. Govella specializes in the intersection of economics, security, and governance in international relations, with a focus on the Indo-Pacific region and Japan. She has written numerous articles, book chapters, and opinion pieces and co-edited two books on topics such as economic statecraft, trade, investment, government-business relations, regional institutional architecture, military alliances, and the governance of the global commons. She also serves as an Adjunct Fellow at Pacific Forum and the East-West Center and as Editor of the journal Asia Policy. Dr. Govella was previously Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of the Asia Program at The German Marshall Fund of the United States, a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University, and an Associate Professor at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies. She holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley and a B.A. in Political Science and Japanese from the University of Washington.