Join Paul Madden CMG for this lecture "A diplomatic career that began in Japan", as part of our Professor Fumiko Yonezawa Memorial Lecture Series. 

Speaker biography

Paul Madden CMG was British ambassador to Japan (2017-21), Australia (2011-15) and Singapore (2007-11) and also served in Washington. He is now a senior adviser to a number of multinational companies and consultancies, speaks and writes about Indo Pacific and Trade issues, and is a Visiting Professor of International Relations at Keio University Tokyo. He is a Trustee of the UK/Japan 21st Century Group, the leading bilateral dialogue, and a senior advisor to the Japan Studies Centre at the University of East Anglia. He is a Trustee on the Board of the University of London, and the board of the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation. He chairs the Cook Society  which promotes UK/Australia relations. He lived in the Indo Pacific region for over 20 years in total and speaks fluent Japanese. During his posting in Tokyo, the UK signed a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement with Japan, its first post Brexit trade deal.

He has a Masters in Economic Geography from Cambridge, an MBA from Durham, studied Japanese at London University’s School of Oriental and African Studies, and is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He has written books, plays and poetry. His latest book, Sankyu Japan, was published in 2022.

Professor Fumiko Yonezawa Memorial Lecture Series

This lecture is the 6th event of the Prof Fumiko Yonezawa Memorial Lecture Series, being organised in commemoration of Prof Fumiko Yonezawa, who was the first Japanese student studied at Keele from 1963 to 1964, and later achieved significant accomplishments as a theoretical physicist and became the first female president of the Physical Society of Japan and a laureate of the L'Oreal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science for her pioneering theory and computer simulations on amorphous semiconductors and liquid metals in 2005.

This lecture series is supported by the Yonezawa family.

No reservations are required, and anyone can participate.

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