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Graduate Studies and Career Development - A Global Perspective

What are the merits and challenges of studying abroad at graduate schools, and how does this help the goal of international career development? As an alumnus of Tohoku University, the speaker offers insights on graduate studies and career development, based on his experience of having studied and worked in English, French, and Russian language settings in the United States, Japan, the Russian Federation and Switzerland.

Lecturer: Kazushige Kobayashi
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Doctoral Candidate, Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.

Date: July 7 (Thursday)
Time: 1:00pm ~ 2:30pm
Language: Japanese (Questions can be asked in English during the Q&A)
Venue: 4th Floor Large Conference Room, Faculty of Economics Building
Kawauchi South Campus
Directions: https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/map/en/?f=KW_C16

Lecturer:
Kazushige Kobayashi is an alumnus of Tohoku University who holds a Masters degree in 365体育|365体育投注@ from the Graduate Institute in Geneva. He has studied at the University of California at Davis/ UC Washington D.C. Center and Russian Foreign Ministry's Moscow State Institute of International Relations, and continues his doctoral studies at the Graduate Institute.

Kobayashi has worked for the International Rescue Committee in Washington, D.C., Columbia University's Institute for the Study of Human Rights in New York, the Mitsubishi 365体育|365体育投注@ Institute's Strategic Consulting Division in Tokyo, the Russian 365体育|365体育投注@ Council in Moscow, and the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding in Geneva. He specializes in Eurasian politics and Russian foreign policy and has given a series of lectures at universities and expert talks on radio programs.

Host: The Graduate Admission PR Committee, Graduate School of Economics and Management, in cooperation with the NPO Seminar Group

For further details (in Japanese):
http://www.econ.tohoku.ac.jp/econ/pdf/20160707CareerSeminar.pdf
https://www.facebook.com/events/1006994169396254/