Anoma P. van der Veere is a Researcher of Modern Asia at the Leiden Asia Centre. He is currently based in Japan as a foreign news correspondent for Dutch and international media.
He regularly appears as an expert commentator on television, in newspapers, and via online media formats, including the NOS, Nieuwsuur, Trouw and The Japan Times. His research on human rights at LAC also featured on, among others, Vice, Al Jazeera, ABC Four Corners, and at the EU Commission.
Additionally, he was a MEXT Scholar based at Osaka University, Japan, where he obtained his PhD at the IAFOR Research Center at the Osaka School of International Public Policy. Several of his publications from that time are listed below.
Notable was his role as the principal investigator in the Road to Tokyo 2020 research project, funded by the Leiden Asia Centre in cooperation with the NOC*NSF under the umbrella of The Game Changer Project, about local policymaking in disability sports in Tokyo in the run-up to the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
In addition to his academic activities, Van der Veere is also responsible for the creation of several videos on the Leiden Asia Centre’s social media channels, including the ‘Meet the Researchers’ series.
