Taro Komatsu is a professor in the Department of Education within the Faculty of Human Sciences at Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan, where he teaches education and international development. During 2018-2021, he assumed the role of Director of the university-wide Center for Global Education and Discovery that offers some 100 undergraduate courses and manages overseas exchange programs, study tours, service learning and internships. His research focuses on democratic citizenship education, education policy and administration in developing nations and post-conflict societies, and the role of education in affecting social cohesion and peace. He previously worked as an education specialist for the UNESCO Paris and Sarajevo offices, the UN Mission in Kosovo, and the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in Pakistan and Afghanistan. He has contributed research articles to international journals including Comparative Education Review, Comparative Education, Education Policy Analysis Archives, Research in Comparative and International Education, and International Review of Education. Komatsu holds an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and a Ph.D. in education policy and administration from the University of Minnesota.