Ken Haig, Ph.D., is Senior Director of Government Affairs at Microsoft, leading the company’s public policy engagement in Japan since early 2025. Previously, he led energy and environmental policy-related work at Amazon Web Services, Oracle, and Opower across the Asia-Pacific region. Before joining the private sector, he was a U.S.-based academic teaching and researching comparative politics and public policy. He holds a B.A. from Harvard University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and has academic affiliations at Keio University and Hokkaido University in Japan (where he has been based since 2012).