Daniel Sneider in Korea

Daniel Sneider, a lecturer in international policy and East Asian Studies at Stanford University, has focused his research on Japan, Korea and U.S. foreign policy in Northeast Asia. The son of a diplomat, he spent much of his childhood in Asia and witnessed his father’s negotiations for the return of Okinawa to Japanese sovereignty during his college years. A former foreign correspondent who has covered Japan, India and the former Soviet Union, Dan is a frequent contributor to several major U.S. periodicals. In addition to serving as national/foreign editor at The Mercury News, he also wrote a twice-weekly column for the San Jose-based newspaper that was syndicated nationally on the Knight Ridder Tribune wire service and addressed international issues and national security from a West Coast perspective.

• Lecturer and associate faculty member, Center for East Asian Studies and affiliate of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University

• Former associate director for research, and director, the Divided Memories and Reconciliation project and the Nationalism and Regionalism project, Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University

• Former national/foreign editor, The Mercury News; former syndicated columnist, Knight Ridder; Moscow bureau chief, 1990-1994 and Tokyo correspondent, 1985-1990, The Christian Science Monitor

• Contributor, Toyo Keizai, East Asia Forum, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, Slate, The National Interest, International Economy and The Christian Science Monitor

• BA, East Asian history, 1973, Columbia University

• MPA, public administration, 1985, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University