Akira Watanabe (chess player)

Akira Watanabe
Watanabe in 2008
CountryJapan
Born (1972-03-01) March 1, 1972
Tokyo, Japan
TitleFIDE Master (1997)
FIDE rating2284 (September 2014)
Peak rating2388 (January 2000)

Akira Watanabe (渡辺 暁, Watanabe Akira; born March 1, 1972) is a Japanese political scientist, chess player with the title of FIDE Master. In 2020, he was an associate professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology. He was born in Tokyo and his research focuses on Mexican politics and Latin American culture and politics.