生成AIを巡る地経学：2025年末の現在地

Group Head, Emerging Technologies,
Director of Management

Makoto Shiono holds a B.A. in Political Science from the Faculty of Law at Keio University and a Master of Laws (LLM) from Washington University (St. Louis) School of Law. He served as a member of the planning committee of the Intellectual Property Strategy Headquarters, Cabinet Office; the Working Group on Key and Strategic Areas, National Standards Strategy Subcommittee, Cabinet Office; and the Working Group of the Green Innovation Project Subcommittee of the Industrial Structure Council. He also participated in drafting the Ethics Guidelines (2017) as a member of the Ethics Committee of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence. [Concurrent Positions] Co-Managing Director & CLO, IGPI Group Director & Managing Director, Industrial Growth Platform, Inc. (IGPI) Member, Startup Investment Committee, Japan Bank for International Cooperation(JBIC) Executive Officer, JBIC IG Partners

Visiting Senior Research Fellow

SAITOU Kousuke is a professor at the Faculty of Global Studies, Sophia University, Japan. He received his Ph.D. in International Political Economy from the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan. Prior to joining Sophia University to teach international security studies, he was an associate professor at Yokohama National University, Japan. [Concurrent Position] Professor, Faculty of Global Studies, Sophia University

Research Fellow

Kota Umeda is a research fellow at the Institute of Geoeconomics at the International House of Japan. From 2015 to 2025, he worked at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), where he focused on researching U.S. space policy, coordinating with other space agencies, and developing JAXA's cybersecurity policy and incident response strategies. From 2019 to 2022, Mr. Umeda served as JAXA's liaison officer in Washington, D.C., collaborating with the U.S. government, industry leaders, and various stakeholders to promote Japan-U.S. space cooperation. Prior to his career in the space sector, Mr. Umeda spent five years at the Japan Ministry of Defense, where he researched military activities surrounding Japan and contributed to the formulation of arms control and disarmament policies. He holds a Master of Laws from Kyoto University and a Bachelor's degree in Policy Studies from Kwansei Gakuin University.