Education

March 1981	B.A, Department of English, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Tsuda College
April-June 1995	Diploma, Department of Peace and Conflict, Uppsala University, Sweden
July-August 1997	Peace Research, International Summer School, Oslo University, Norway（Acquisition of Credits)

Career

March 1981	Joined National Institute for Research Advancement (NIRA)
August 1995	Visiting Researcher, European Institute of Japanese Studies (EIJS), Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden
August 1997	Senior Researcher
April 2011-present	Research Coordinator and Senior Researcher

Memberships of academic societies/ Lectureships

Peace Studies Association of Japan
Japanese Political Science Association
Japan Association for African Studies
Japan Association of UN Studies
Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS)
Lecturer (part-time), Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University

Major Publications

• Hirai, T., "Searching for Peace: The Work of Northern European Think Tanks," NIRA Review, NIRA, Spring 1995
• Hirai, T., "A New Method of Conflict Management in the Post-Cold War Era—Preventive Diplomacy," in Akira Kato, (ed.), Conflicts in the Post-Post Cold War World, Nansosha, 1998 (in Japanese)
• Hirai, T., "NGOs and the Local Community―Based on Research at Dara-e-Nool," in NIRA, K. Mushakoji and Y. Endo, (eds.), Afghanistan—the Challenge of Rebuilding and Reconstruction, Nihon Keizai Hyoronsha, 2004 (in Japanese)
• Hirai, T., "The New Preventive Diplomacy and Human Security: The Case of Malawi's Democratization," in K. Mochizuki, (ed.), The Scope of Human Security: Agendas in Africa, Institute of Developing Economies, JETRO, 2006 (in Japanese)

Awards, etc.

Honorable Mention, The Second Yomiuri Rondan New Face Award（1996）, for" Lessons from the Gulf War and Preventive Diplomacy," in K. Murata et al., Changing U.S.-Japan Security Policy, Yomiuri Shinbunsha, 1997

Research Fellow Scholarship (Short-term) (1997), Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development (FASID)