Suzuki Kazuto

Prof. Suzuki Kazuto is a professor at the Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Tokyo, Japan, and Director of the Institute of Geoeconomics at the International House of Japan. He currently serves many advisory committees of the government of Japan, inter alia, the National Space Policy Committee of the Cabinet Office, the Government of Japan, and the President of Japan Association of International Security and Trade. Previously, he worked as an assistant researcher at the Fondation pour la recherche stratégique in Paris, France, an Associate Professor at the University of Tsukuba (2000-2008), and a professor of International Politics at Hokkaido University until 2020. Prof. Suzuki also served as an expert in the Panel of Experts for the Iranian Sanction Committee under the United Nations Security Council (2013-2015). His research focuses on the conjunction of science and technology and international relations; subjects including space policy, non-proliferation, export control, and sanctions. His recent work includes Space and International Politics (Iwanami Shoten, 2011, awarded Suntory Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities), Policy Logics and Institutions of European Space Collaboration (Routledge, 2003), and others. Prof. Suzuki graduated from the Department of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University, and received his Ph.D. from Sussex European Institute, University of Sussex, England.