Nicholas Szechenyi is Deputy Director of the Japan Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS,) where he is also a Senior Fellow. His research focuses on U.S.-Japan relations and U.S.–East Asia relations. In 2009, he was selected as an inaugural fellow of the U.S.-Japan Network for the Future program established by the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation. Prior to joining CSIS in 2005, he was a news producer for Fuji Television in Washington, DC, where he covered U.S. policy in Asia and domestic politics.

Recent publications include Working Toward a Free and Open Indo-Pacific (with Yuichi Hosoya), Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, October 2019; and Asianism and Universalism: The Evolution of Norms and Power in Modern Asia (editor), Center for Strategic and International Studies, February 2019. From 2007 to 2015, Szechenyi co-authored a review of U.S.-Japan relations in Comparative Connections, an electronic journal on East Asian bilateral relations. He holds a Master of Arts in international economics and Japan studies from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a Bachelor of Arts in Asian studies from Connecticut College.