Yusuke Ishikawa is Research Fellow and Digital Communications Officer at the Institute of Geoeconomics, International House of Japan. He also serves as External Contributor for Transparency International's Anti-Corruption Helpdesk and as Part-time Lecturer in European affairs at Saitama Gakuen University. His research focuses on CEE politics (particularly Hungarian politics), democratic backsliding, and anti-corruption.

He is the co-author of A Dangerous Confluence: The Intertwined Crises of Disinformation and Democracies (Institute of Geoeconomics, 2024) and contributor to a chapter titled "NGOs, Advocacy, and Anti-Corruption" (In Routledge Handbook of Anti-Corruption Research and Practice, 2025). His commentaries and interviews have also appeared on Foresight, Japan Times, NHK, Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), Expresso, and more.

Yusuke received his BA in Political Science from Meiji University, Japan, MA in Corruption and Governance (with Distinction) from the University of Sussex, UK, and another MA in Political Science from Central European University, Hungary and Austria.