About Keiko Yokoyama
Keiko Yokoyama, Ph.D, is an academic, environmentalist, and humanitarian. She served as Executive Director of Ecofortitude, an international environmental NGO, from 2017 to 2022. Before that, she had worked for 25 years at universities in Europe, Japan and the US. She was Associate Professor of Higher Education at the Research Institute for Higher Education, Hiroshima University, Japan. She held visiting fellowships in a number of institutions, including the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and University of Oslo. She received Ph.D in higher education policy from Institute of Education, University of London (current UCL) in 2003.
     Dr. Keiko Yokoyama has conducted a range of research projects in the sociology of higher education (higher education policy and governance) and environment, which have been funded by international and national bodies. She has published many books and journal articles in the field of higher education and articles for general readers. Her single-author books include Reasoning Higher Education Change: Agency, Structure and Culture (Peter Lang 2013) and Government, Policy and Ideology: Higher Education’s Changing Boundaries in Two Island Kingdoms - Japan and England (University Press of America 2010). 


                                      
  
Fields:           Sociology of education (higher education)
                       Higher education policy and governance
                       Policy sociology                   
                       Environmental sociology
Current research interests (2024):
                      multi-disciplinary approaches and
                      partnerships on climate change and 
                      biodiversity loss
Known for:   Internationalisation/globalisation of
                       higher education
                      Neoliberal hegemony
                      ‘Peer reflexive governance’
                      Rise of risk centred governance
                      Entrepreneurialism
                      Graduate generational poverty      
Influences:    Burton Clark, Anthony Giddens
Languages:   English, French, Japanese,
                       German (basic)
Alma mater: UCL, Institute of Education
                          (Ph.D in higher education policy)
SDG-related activities:  Climate change mitigation (e.g.,
                            seagrass restoration),
                           Biodiversity conservation (e.g., rewilding)
Present residence: Tokyo Metropolitan Area, Japan
Past residences: 
                      France, Ireland, Norway, Sweden,
                      the United Kingdom, the United States