Yumiko T. Shimabukuro
Dr. Yumiko Shimabukuro is an award-winning author and lecturer at the School of International and Public Affairs, specializing in social policy and global leadership development. She is the founding director of the Urban & Social Policy concentration of the Executive MPA and a core faculty member of the Picker Center for Executive Education. Dr. Shimabukuro also serves as co-founder of the Japanese Management Leadership Program at the Center on Japanese Economy and Business at Columbia Business School. Her publications include Misery Beneath the Miracle in East Asia (with AJ Lukauskas, Cornell University Press 2024) and Dream Rut: Navigating Your Path Forward, the Grand Prize winner of the 2024 Chanticleer International Book Award for Short Book & Story. Dr. Shimabukuro is a recipient of the Harvard University Teaching Excellence Award and the SIPA Outstanding Teaching Award. She received an MIA in International Economic Policy from Columbia and a PhD in Political Economy from MIT.