Akihiko Tanaka

Akihiko Tanaka (田中 明彦, Tanaka Akihiko, born 7 August 1954) is the current president of Japan International Cooperation Agency since 1 April 2022, succeeding Shinichi Kitaoka. He is a Japanese academic, specializing in theories of international systems, contemporary international relations in East Asia, Japan-US relations, and Japan-China relations. He is also an author, policy adviser, a media commentator, an administrator, and was president of the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies.

Tanaka was a professor of international politics at The University of Tokyo's Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia from 1990 to 2012 and from 2015 to 2017, and served a previous term as president of JICA from 2012 to 2015. He served in various advisory panels commissioned by the Japanese government.