Niharika Chibber Joe
Director of Programs
joen@mansfieldfdn.org
Niharika Chibber Joe is director of programs at the Maureen
and Mike Mansfield Foundation. She is responsible for overseeing
the Foundation’s programs and directing the Foundation’s
policy dialogues, projects on U.S.-Asia relations as well as
the Mansfield Internship Program. Niharika also has primary
responsibility for the Foundation’s India-related programming
and the Corporate Affiliates Program. Until recently, she served
as Associate Director of the congressionally mandated Mansfield
Fellowship Program
Niharika has over a decade of experience as a program manager
and language specialist with government agencies, the public
policy community, NGOs, and international businesses in the
United States, Japan and India. She has worked as a Japanese
language specialist and researcher for Maruti-Suzuki, Thompson
Press, Nippon Denso, Mitsubishi and Mitsui among others in
India, and the Okazaki Institute and Koransha in Japan.
Niharika has been a participant in international conferences
and young leader fora in the United States, Japan and China.
She has been a regular contributor to the Japan Automotive
Digest, a Virginia-based weekly newsletter on the worldwide
operations of the Japanese auto industry, and she also serves
on the application review and interview committee for the Japan
Exchange and Teaching Programme (JET) in the United States.
Niharika holds an M.A. in International Economics and Japan
Studies from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced
International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C. and a B.A.
magna cum laude and an M.A. in Japanese Language and Literature
from the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India.
She is fluent in English, Japanese, Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi and
Bengali. She also speaks Nepalese and Korean.
