Koichi Iwasawa started his career at the TBS Washington Bureau, later he served as a Public Relations and Cultural Attaché at the Japanese Embassy in Syria, Field Delegate in charge of Western Equatoria State at the South Sudan Representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross, and Director of Communications at the Japan Institute of International Affairs. He is a communications expert with digital and global public relations experience from domestic and foreign firms（USA, Sweden） and has worked in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Africa in multiple languages.
He has assumed Director of the Board of Japan Society for Corporate Communication Studies, Visiting Faculty (Media and PR Essentials) at Hirosaki University (Aomori Prefecture, Japan), Visiting Faculty (Intercultural Understanding) at Professional University of Information and Business Management for Innovation (Tokyo, Japan), Local Activation Entrepreneur (Atsuma Town, Hokkaido), Social Media Strategic Advisor for School of Medicine at Hirosaki University , Kagoshima Prefecture PR Strategic Advisor, “The Ninja City” (Iga City, Mie Prefecture, Japan) PR Strategic Advisor, Fujisawa City (Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan) PR Advisor, Daito City (Osaka Prefecture, Japan) PR Advisor, Tokyo International Film Festival Supervisor, Meltwater PR Advisor, Mentor of Sci-Fi Prototyping Design, a member of Digital Journalist Education Institute (D-JEDI), and Advisor for Hiroshima Business Forum for Global Peace Tokyo Session.
He holds a Certificate in AI Essentials for Business from Harvard Business School Online, master’s degree in international Peace and Conflict Resolution from American University and a Master’s degree in Journalism from Waseda University. He is a certified guide (English) and PR planner (PRSJ certified). He can work in Japanese, English and French. He has conducted numerous seminars and trainings across Japan. He is a member of the Japan Society for Corporate Communication Studies, the Japan Association for Media, Journalism and Communication Studies and the Peace Studies Association of Japan. He is the Chairperson for the JSCCS supported study on “Communications under the Armed Conflicts”, and “Communications leveraged by Scientific Fiction”. And He is an author of Sci-Fi novels.
