Nanae Baldauff is Partners across the Globe Fellow at the NATO Defense College (Rome, Italy), the first Japanese national to be selected for this position. She is Associate Research Fellow at UNU Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS), Bruges, Belgium, and Senior Researcher at Keio Research Institute at SFC, Japan. She has a Ph.D. in political science (Ghent University, Belgium) and holds a master’s degree in European governance (University of Luxembourg). She serves as Director for NATO and EU of the International Security Industry Council of Japan. Nanae is a recipient of the Japan Foundation fellowship. Her area of interest is foreign and defense policy (Japan, Indo-Pacific, and Europe), security communities, defense industry cooperation, and security in and from space.