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Meiko Kotani

  • Instructor, Stanford e-Japan
  • Instructor, Stanford-Hiroshima Collaboration Project on Entrepreneurship
  • Instructor, SPICE/Waseda Intensive Course on Sustainable Business and Social Innovation

Biography

Meiko Kotani is the instructor for the Stanford e-Japan Program, Stanford-Hiroshima Collaboration Project on Entrepreneurship (SHCPE), and SPICE/Waseda Intensive Course on Sustainable Business and Social Innovation for the Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE). 

Prior to joining SPICE, she worked as Program Coordinator for the Japan Program at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC) where she managed projects and events related to research and education on contemporary Japanese issues. She also has experience working in the international public sectors including NTT PHI Laboratories where she worked as Program Manager to promote basic research on quantum theory of open-dissipative systems and its application to information processing.

Meiko received a BA in international relations from University of Oregon, and MA in international relations and diplomacy from Schiller International University in Paris. She was born in Japan and lived in China, Oman, Pakistan, France, and Russia before coming to the U.S.

In The News

Rushan Ajizu on the Waseda University campus
Blogs

Cultivating Social Innovation: A Transformative Journey with SPICE

The experience of an undergraduate student at Waseda University participating in the SPICE-Waseda intensive course.
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Tamaki Hoshi in front of Okuma Auditorium, Waseda University
Blogs

Reflecting Inward, Failing Forward and Innovating Onward

Graduate student Tamaki Hoshi shares reflections on the SPICE-Waseda joint course.
cover link Reflecting Inward, Failing Forward and Innovating Onward
Akylai Imanalieva at Okuma Garden at Waseda University
Blogs

Reflections on the SPICE/Waseda Intensive Course

SPICE and the School of Social Sciences at Waseda University offered an intensive course in March 2023.
cover link Reflections on the SPICE/Waseda Intensive Course