Vania De la Vega Shiota

Master’s in sciences for Economic Development and International Cooperation from Hiroshima University; Bachelor’s Degree in International Relations from the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Since June 2017, Academic Secretary of the University Program of Studies on Asia and Africa of the UNAM; and since 2009, Lecturer in the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of the same University. Editorial reviewer in academic editions inside and outside UNAM. She has coordinated the Diplomat in Studies on Asia during its nine editions, as well as Seminars and Colloquiums on Japanese Studies She has published in books and journals that address the topic of bilateral relations between Mexico and Japan. In 2018 she was awarded with the Distinction for the Teaching Excellence from the Anahuac University Mexico. President of the Mexican Association of Japan’s Alumni (2021-2023). From 2018 2022, member of the Governing Council of the Mexican-Japanese Lyceum. She was Technical Secretary of the University Seminar on Asian Studies of the UNAM from 2015 to 2017; Scholarship holder of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of the Government of Japan to carry out postgraduate studies from 2010 to 2012, and Guest of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the same government in 2015.

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