About the author
Sir David Warren is an associate fellow with the Asia-Pacific Programme at Chatham House. He was British ambassador to Japan from 2008 to 2012, having served twice before in the British embassy in Tokyo during his career with the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO).
He was also head of the FCO’s China Hong Kong department from 1998 to 2000, and a member of the FCO’s board of management (as director of human resources) from 2004 to 2007. He retired from the FCO in January 2013. He is now an honorary professor in the East Asian Studies Department of Sheffield University, and chair of the council of the University of Kent.
He was chairman of the Japan Society, the leading independent body in the UK dedicated to UK–Japanese cultural, educational and business contacts, from 2012 to 2018, and is also a member of the advisory board of Migration Matters, the campaigning group highlighting the benefits of legal migration, and a director of Aberdeen Japan Investment Trust.