Nikolay Murashkin is a scholar of contemporary Japanese foreign policy and international relations in Asia Pacific. Nikolay is working for ANU as  senior lecturer for SDSC and the BAPA dual degree program, run with Ritsumeikan University in Osaka. Nikolay's research outputs were published in his 2020 monograph ‘Japan and the New Silk Road’, peer-reviewed journals, such as the Australian Journal of International Affairs and others, policy papers, and edited volumes.

Ph.D. (Cambridge), Master's (Sciences Po Paris), Specialist (BA equiv., Hons, St. Petersburg)

Nikolay's research interests include Japan’s economic statecraft, development cooperation, modernisation, knowledge production and knowledge-sharing, as well as international political economy of connectivity infrastructure and finance.