Nikolay Murashkin is a scholar of contemporary Japanese foreign policy and international relations in Asia Pacific. Nikolay is working for ANU as lecturer for the BAPA program, jointly run with Ritsumeikan University in Osaka. He is also a visiting fellow at the JICA Ogata Sadako Research Institute for Peace and Development, where he has previously worked as research fellow. 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, and edited volumes.