Mr. Furukawa is a fellow at RISTEX in the Japan Science and Technology Agency. There, he is in charge of projects on science, diplomacy, and security. He is also a member of the Council of Asian Transnational Threat Research, and a lecturer for the UN Security Council Resolution 1540 Committee Regional Workshop. He holds a bachelor`s degree in economics from Keio University, and a master’s of public administration from John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.