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In her teaching career, Aoki has taught on a broad range of topics related to public management, from international and interdisciplinary perspectives.

Public management is a multi-disciplinary field encompassing organizational and human resource management in the public sector and the governance of public service delivery.

Aoki currently teaches at the Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Tokyo, and formerly taught at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and in the Department of Political Science at the National University of Singapore. Besides teaching in academic degree programs, she has delivered lectures for numerous executive education programs and civil service trainings. 

The topics she has covered in her teaching include the following:

  • civil service reform
  • work motivation
  • decision making
  • leadership
  • change management
  • human resource management
  • performance management
  • ethics and values
  • gender representation
  • decentralization
  • local innovation and diffusion
  • policy process
  • agenda setting and social media
  • politics – administrative relations
  • administrative traditions
  • market-oriented reforms
  • disaster risk governance
  • adaptive governance
  • collaborative governance
  • participatory governance
  • open innovation / design thinking
  • rationality and policy analysis
  • tame versus wicked problems
  • globalization of policy processes
  • technology and governance
  • AI in the public sector

Most of Aoki’s teaching in the past decade has taken place in international settings where students and participants (many of whom are civil and public servants) come from a variety of cultural and administrative backgrounds. Attuned to their differences, she aspires to promote in her students what she calls “administrative intelligence,” defined as the ability to understand how public administration works in other countries and as the ability to objectively assess from a comparative perspective how public administration in one’s own country or community works.

Aoki continues to seek opportunities to work with global clients; please contact her to request a lecture.