Bryan Corder

The HAB program provides you with the foundation to tackle any challenge you'll face. I'm a case in point: following my time at Xavier, I became a specialist in Japan working with politicians from both the US and Japan, and now trade nuclear fuel for a Japanese trading company.
I was a double major in HAB and International Politics, often weaving the two together in my studies by taking a class like Thucydides in Greek at the same time I studied Ancient Political Thought. Four years later, I had little doubt I'd be able to take the challenge of moving to Japan to teach English and learn the Japanese language from scratch. Just a few short years later, I found myself fluent enough to study international relations in Japanese in Kyoto.
Following grad school, I worked for a politician in Tokyo during the 2009 general election, and returned to Washington, DC soon after to run a Legislative Exchange Program bringing Japanese leaders together with Members of the U.S. Congress together to discuss issues such as trade relations and U.S. force posture strategy in the Asia-Pacific region.
When the triple calamity hit Japan in 2011, my focus turned to energy policy here in the U.S. and Japan. I transitioned to a new position at a Japanese trading company in the nuclear fuel trading division in 2012, and for nearly 3 years have been buying and selling fuel while analyzing all of the socio-political factors impacting supply and demand. I have presented on the nuclear situation in Japan at the World Nuclear Association's plenary sessions in London and Singapore, at an industry conference in Atlanta, and at the U.S. Department of Energy.
Life has taken me far away from Italia est insula, but the lessons I've learned and the tools I acquired in the HAB program continue to provide ample returns. You'll agree the challenge of figuring out the Greek grammar of the Roman historian Tacitus will make trading Uranium or whatever you end up doing seem like a piece of cake, though you may be disappointed when you realize the Greek tragedies are spoilers for every movie and remake of a movie you'll ever see.