Dr Annette Bradford

Annette Bradford is Education and Policy Advisor at the Yokosuka Council on Asia-Pacific Studies (YCAPS). She recently completed a fellowship with the Japan Foundation Indo-Pacific Partnership Program, researching the implementation of education and training capacity-building activities in the maritime domain.

Annette’s research interests focus on education policy and the language and cultural elements of international cooperation. She has published extensively about the internationalization of higher education and English-medium instruction in universities. Shealso advises universities on the implementation of English-medium degree programs and has participated in monitoring and evaluation projects for various higher education programs and capacity-building projects relating to English-medium instruction, teacher training, and adult education.

Annette previously held positions as an associate professor at Meiji University in Tokyo, lecturer at Georgetown University in Washington DC, and as Council on Foreign Relations-Hitachi International Affairs Fellow in Japan. Annette received her doctorate in Education Administration and Policy Studies from The George Washington University (USA) and her masters in Linguistics from the University of Surrey (UK).