Hiroko Miyakoshi

MA, Public Policy (Education Policy), National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies
BA, Political Science, Waseda University

At the age of four, I moved to the United States due to my father's job transfer, and grew up in an environment where I spoke English at school and Japanese at home. My vivid memories from childhood are likely due to the experience of immersing in a foreign culture at a young age. I still remember the first English word I learned (it was “milk”) and the face of my first American friend. After returning to Japan for a few years, my father’s next assignment took me to the Netherlands, where I spent my impressionable high school years. And since coming back to Japan as a “returnee” university student, my base has been Japan. However, I have always been engaged in multilingual and multicultural environments. After working in investment banking, TV broadcasting, starting my own company, and then supporting students to study abroad, I pursued a career change by enrolling in graduate school in my late 40s.  Since then, I have been committed in the academic world.

I taught several classes at Rikkyo University's College of Economics where in some classes students had discussions on the latest economic trends, and in other classes, presented their own social business ideas in English. I also served as a faculty member for the Business Leadership Program at the College of Business. And outside of the university framework, I manage programs and give workshops at “i.school”, an independent innovation education institution that support university and high school students to acquire skills for ideation.

I have recently been appointed as a faculty member at GlobE, and have started my duties in September 2025. Drawing on my background working in various global environments, I hope to support students so that their experiences at GlobE will be useful when they leave university and enter the real world as workforce.

Based on my own experience, I believe that future “talented” individuals will be required to have flexible and innovative thinking, as well as global mindset on top of expertise in a certain field. I will do my utmost to support you all so that you can become global leaders, and not merely “global jinzai” (global human resource) . And as a learner myself, I would like to continue learning together with you all. Learning is a lifelong process. Let's together explore the vast unknown world!