Kazuto Suzuki

Kazuto Suzuki is a Professor at the Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Tokyo and serves as Director of the Institute of Geoeconomics at the International House of Japan. He is an active advisor to the Government of Japan, contributing to multiple high-level bodies, including the National Space Policy Committee of the Cabinet Office, and currently serves as President of the Japan Association of International Security and Trade.

Suzuki’s research lies at the intersection of science and technology and international relations, with particular focus on space policy, non-proliferation, export controls, and economic sanctions. He is the author of numerous publications, including Space and International Politics (2011, in Japanese), which received the Suntory Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities, and Policy Logics and Institutions of European Space Collaboration (2003).

Suzuki has held research and academic appointments internationally, including as Assistant Researcher at the Fondation pour la recherche stratégique in Paris and as Associate Professor at the University of Tsukuba (2000-2008). He later served as Professor of International Politics at Hokkaido University until 2020. From 2013 to July 2015, he was a member of the Panel of Experts supporting the United Nations Security Council’s Iran Sanctions Committee.

He holds a Ph.D. from the Sussex European Institute at the University of Sussex, and completed his undergraduate studies in International Relations at Ritsumeikan University.