Mostafa Khalili is a Ph.D. student in global studies at the Graduate School of Global Studies at Doshisha University, Japan. He is also a Ph.D. student in the advanced doctoral programme in global resource management (GRM). He has conducted many scientific field studies n Japan and in some developing countries, such as Laos, Kenya, Thailand, Iran, and Turkey, focusing on human resource management. In April 2018, he was awarded a JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientists, the most competitive research fellowship in Japan.