Douglas Bell Email & Phone Number

Vienna, Va, Us

National Language Service Corps

My responsibilities include conducting Japanese language and cultural training for government organizations such as DoD and for non-profit organizations such as Youth for Understanding, USA.

• Education Coordinator and Japanese language and culture teacher with Youth for Understanding, USA (June 2014-17)• Culture and language consultant for U.S. Army and Marine Corps (May 2014, 2015, 2016)• Interpreter for Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi’s advance security team (1999)• Translated Takeo Kikkawa, Sengo Nihon no Seifu-Kigyo Kankei; published as "The Government-Business Relationship in Postwar Japan," The Journal of Pacific Asia, Vol. 3, 1996, pp. 117-128

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Researched and wrote quick-turnaround and stand-back analyses on tactical and strategic topics for senior government officials, including the Secretary of State, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the President of the United States. Two Exceptional Performance Awards• First in the company to analyze democratic political networks using over 50,000 Twitter tweets compiled from open source data scraped from the Internet • As team leader, anticipated customer needs, drove team production, and mentored colleagues• Wrote center-wide exemplars said to “stretch policymakers’ thinking”

Recruited 500+ applicants/year for the JET Program and MEXT scholarships via oral presentations, email, press releases, advertisements, career fairs, and academic contacts• Conducted interviews, organized educational workshops, maintained databases, resolved problems and addressed concerns of JET and MEXT scholarship applicants • Organized cultural events, wrote speeches for Consuls, wrote Japanese language column for newsletter, and gave presentations about Japan to schools and the general public• Developed an outreach strategy that expanded the JET Program’s pool of applicants beyond the standard Japanese language and teaching departments• Initiated and implemented an online interview sign-up process that saved hours of administration • Created an online FAQ that one applicant called “the most useful source of information on JET” on the Internet at the time (it was still being used on the Consulate website seven years later)

Abd, Political Science

Ministry Of Education Scholarship Fellow, Japanese Politics

Activities and Societies: Japanese calligraphy

Master Of Arts (Ma), Political Science

Activities and Societies: Member, American Political Science Association

Japanese

Activities and Societies: Shorinji Kenpo, Guitar-Mandolin Orchestra

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Economics (Statistics Minor)