Takashi Terada is Professor of International Relations in the Faculty of Law, Department of Political Science at Doshisha University.  He received his Ph.D from Australian National University in 1999.

Before taking up his current position, he was an assistant professor at National University of Singapore (1999-2006), associate professor at Waseda University (2006-2008) and Professor of International Relations at Waseda university (2008-2012). He is the recipient of the 2005 J.G. Crawford Award.