Giorgio Shani PhD (London) is Professor of Politics and International Relations  at International Christian University (ICU), Japan.  He served as Chair of the Department of Politics and International Studies and Director of the ICU Rotary Peace Center from 2017 to 2021. From 2016 to 2017, he was Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for International Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He has also served as  President of the Asia-Pacific region and Chair of the Global Development Section of the International Studies Association (ISA).

His main research interests focus on Religion and Nationalism;  Human Security; and "Post-Western" International Relations Theory with reference to South Asia and Japan. He is author of Sikh Nationalism and Identity in a Global Age (Routledge 2008) and  Religion, Identity and Human Security (Routledge 2014);  co-author of Sikh Nationalism (Cambridge University Press 2022); and co-editor of Protecting Human Security in a Post 9/11 World (Palgrave 2007), Religion and Nationalism in Asia (Routledge 2019) and Rethinking Peace (Rowman and Littlefield 2019).