Didi Han is Associate Professor at the Centre for Multicultural Collaborative Learning, Saitama University, Japan. She received her PhD in Urban Studies/Human Geography from the London School of Economics and Political Science and her MA in Communication Studies from Simon Fraser University. A multilingual scholar working across Korean, Japanese, Chinese, and English, she maintains active research collaborations with scholars at institutions across East Asia, and is actively engaged in international academic networks in the fields of urban studies and commons research. Alongside her scholarly work, she has pursued the translation and commoning of ideas through numerous translation projects across English, Korean, and Japanese.

Didi Han is a scholar whose work traverses urban political ecology, commons studies, feminism, cultural studies, communication, philosophy, and anthropology. Through a distinctive methodology that combines extensive ethnographic fieldwork in East Asian cities with genealogical historical archiving, she contributes to expanding the horizons of critical urban theory beyond its predominantly Western framings.