Nancy Snow (Ph.D., International Relations, American University) is a Tokyo-based speaker, writer, and advisor on nation image management (public diplomacy) and global communications. In 2022 she was appointed Visiting Distinguished Professor and Advisor, Schwarzman Scholars Program, Tsinghua University. From 2016 to 2022 she was Pax Mundi ("Distinguished") Professor of Public Diplomacy at Kyoto University of Foreign Studies. She is also an Emeritus Professor of Communications at California State University, Fullerton, a proud Titan for life. Snow is the author, editor, and co-editor of 15 books, including "The SAGE Handbook of Propaganda" and "Japan's Information War." Other works include two editions of the "Routledge Handbook of Public Diplomacy," "Propaganda, Inc." and "Information War." Dr. Snow was an Abe Fellow/Visiting Research Professor at Keio University's Institute of Journalism, Media & Communication Studies.

Snow has held several adjunct professor positions, including at the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism where she was a principal faculty involved in the establishment of the Center on Public Diplomacy. She has taught public diplomacy and marketing foreign policy as a senior adjunct faculty at the Interdisciplinary (IDC) Center Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy, and Strategy in Herzliya, Israel. Snow is a former Presidential Management Fellow (PMF) in the Clinton administration where she served at both the United States Information Agency and the U.S. Department of State. Dr. Snow held a visiting professor appointment at Syracuse University’s Newhouse and Maxwell Schools where she worked with public relations and international relations faculty to expand a dual degree master in public diplomacy. Her visiting faculty appointments besides Keio University include Tsinghua University; Sophia University; and the Universiti Teknologi MARA. Snow is a three-time recipient of a Fulbright award (Germany, Japan, Greece).