Devin T. Stewart

Former Senior Fellow, Senior Program Director, and CNL Staff Adviser, Carnegie Council

It is with a heavy heart that we announce Devin Stewart passed away in March 2021.

Stewart had been living in Tokyo. He had become Opinion Editor at the Japan Times after working in recent months with the Eurasia Group Foundation and the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

We will always be grateful to Devin for his many contributions to life at Carnegie Council, including his leadership of the Global Ethics Fellows, Centennial Symposia, Thought Leaders Forum, Asia Dialogues, and Carnegie New Leaders program. This list of accomplishments does not begin to register Devin’s impact on the countless people around the world who benefitted from his insight, empathy, joy, and humor.

In his honor please donate to this worthy rescue charity, Magnificat Rescue.

Featured Work

JUN 24, 2016 Podcast

Islam and Pluralism in Indonesia

"It's going on 20 years that Indonesia has been engaged in a very important experiment, which is to create a democracy in a Muslim-majority place," explains ...

JUN 22, 2016 Podcast

Move Over, Black Swan: Here Comes the Gray Rhino

Black swans are unforeseeable, but gray rhinos are the looming threats right in front of our noses that we choose to ignore, says policy analyst ...

Detail from book cover

JUN 13, 2016 Podcast

"We Love Death as You Love Life": Britain's Suburban Terrorists

What drives people in the UK to become terrorists or jihadist fighters? Pantucci's years of research into this problem has implications for all Western countries.  ...

Ourania Sophia Yancopoulos. CREDIT: Amanda Ghanooni

MAY 16, 2016 Article

Gender Imbalance in the UN Leadership

"Despite the UN's repeated commitment to 50/50 gender parity, the UN has never been even close to this goal," writes Ourania Yancopoulos in this follow-up interview ...

MAY 9, 2016 Podcast

A Filmmaker's Experience on Leaving Japan

Documentary filmmaker and TV journalist Kyoko Gasha discusses her film "Mothers' Way, Daughters' Choice," which is about Japanese women (like she herself) who remade their ...

Tokyo Rainbow Pride 2012. CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/decayoftheangel/7129004075">Lauren Anderson</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/">(CC)</a>

MAY 3, 2016 Podcast

Gender Identity in Japan

Sonja Pei-fen Dale teaches at Tokyo's Hitotsubashi University, where she specializes in LGBT gender issues and identities in Japan. In this fascinating conversation about gender ...

A family in Enoshima, Japan. CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/eelssej_/2429612782">J3SSL33</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/">(CC)</a>

APR 28, 2016 Podcast

Political and Cultural Challenges to Gender Parity in Japan

In the Global Gender Gap Report, Japan usually ranks around 100 out of 140 countries, says Mari Miura, a specialist on gender in Japan. The main reasons ...

APR 26, 2016 Podcast

Feminism: The New "F-word" in Japan?

Senior Fellow Devin Stewart speaks with Natsumi Ikoma, the Center for Gender Studies director, International Christian University, Japan, about the state of feminism in Japanese ...

Devin Stewart (on left) and Michael Ignatieff (center) with student leaders and activists at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.

APR 21, 2016 Article

In Search of a Global Ethic

Research in 25 cities in eight countries on five continents shows that norms across cultures may not be so different after all.

MAR 11, 2016 Podcast

Gender and Sexuality in Japan

Senior Fellow Devin Stewart speaks with sociologist James Farrer (Sophia University, Tokyo) about the changing norms around gender, sexual rights, dating, and marriage in Japan. ...