Hana Anderson is an Associate in The Asia Group’s Japan practice, where she supports clients with analysis on foreign and defense policy, emerging technologies, digital services, and life sciences.
Prior to joining The Asia Group, Hana held roles across government, think tanks, and industry. As a government affairs intern at Tokyo Electron’s Washington D.C. Office, she tracked U.S.-Japan relations, semiconductor export controls, and trade policy. She also conducted a long-term research project on semiconductor promotion strategies under the second Trump administration. In Japan, she interned at the National Diet in the office of Liberal Democratic Party Rep. Akihisa Nagashima, focusing on economic security, defense, and technology issues.
As a James C. Gaither Junior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, she published on Japan’s missile strike capabilities, Japan-China relations, and the AI ecosystems of Japan and South Korea. Additionally, she was a Policy Research Fellow at the Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies at Johns Hopkins SAIS and interned at the U.S. Consulate in Osaka during the 2019 G20 Summit and upper house elections.
Hana received her MA in Asian Studies (MASIA) from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in 2025, where she focused on the U.S.-Japan alliance and Chinese foreign policy. She was awarded a Boren Fellowship to study Mandarin Chinese at National Taiwan University in Taipei, Taiwan for an academic year. Hana received her Bachelor of Arts from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. She majored in political science and Chinese, and conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Taiwan and studied abroad in Shanghai, China. In her free time, Hana enjoys cross country skiing and cooking with friends.