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While you wouldn’t know it from the recent U.…

Director & Group Head, Economic Security
Kazuto Suzuki

The drama following U.S. President Donald Tru…

Visiting Research Fellow
Andrew Capistrano

Concerns over a potential Taiwan contingency …

Senior Research Fellow
Hirohito Ogi

Late last year, the Trump administration rele…

Visiting Senior Research Fellow
Kousuke Saito

Late last year, the Trump administration rele…

Group Head, International Security Order / Visiting Senior Research Fellow
Kuniharu Kakihara

Last month’s U.S.-Israeli strike on Iran, and…

Program Coordination Manager
Akihiko Sasaki

Long before Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi dre…

Research Fellow
Rintaro Inoue

[Author: Yuichi Yoshida, LEAP Fellow]] With …

Following her victory at the polls on Sunday,…

Visiting Senior Fellow
Naoko Eto

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi entered office …

Senior Research Fellow
Hitoshi Suzuki

Kazuto Suzuki
Director & Group Head, Economic Security,
Kazuto Suzuki is Professor of Science and Technology Policy at the Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from the Department of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University, and received his Ph.D. from Sussex European Institute, University of Sussex, England. He has worked for the Fondation pour la recherche stratégique in Paris, France as an assistant researcher, as an Associate Professor at the University of Tsukuba from 2000 to 2008, and served as Professor of International Politics at Hokkaido University until 2020. He also spent one year at the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University from 2012 to 2013 as a visiting researcher. He served as an expert in the Panel of Experts for Iranian Sanction Committee under the United Nations Security Council from 2013 to July 2015. He has been the President of the Japan Association of International Security and Trade. [Concurrent Position] Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy, The University of Tokyo
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