Dr. Ai Kihara-Hunt is Professor at the Graduate Program on Human Security, Director of the Research Center for Sustainable Peace, and Director of International Law Training and Research Hub at the University of Tokyo. She also serves as Secretary of the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS). Her main area of research is UN Peace Operations, in particular the UN Police, accountability and human rights. She teaches International Human Rights Law, International Humanitarian Law, International Criminal Law, human security and peacebuilding. Between 1998 and 2016, she worked in Nepal, East Timor/Timor-Leste, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and Japan with the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN-OHCHR), UN Peace Operations (UNTAET, UNAMET) and other UN offices, as well as in academia. Her publications include: Holding UNPOL to Account: Individual Criminal Accountability of United Nations Police Personnel (Brill, 2017).