Dr. Kazuto Suzuki

Dr. Kazuto Suzuki is Associate Professor of International Political Economy at Public Policy School of Hokkaido University in Japan. He graduated from the Department of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University, and received Ph.D. from Sussex European Institute, University of Sussex, England.

He has worked for the University of Tsukuba from 2000 to 2008, and moved to Hokkaido University Public Policy School. His research is focused on European integration and transformation of national policies with a perspective on security, technology and economy. He has conducted research from international political economy perspective in space policy, together with export control policy, science and technology policy and policies on market regulation. He has published a number of articles and books, both in Japanese and English, including Policy Logics and Institutions of European Space Collaboration; "Administrative Reforms and Policy Logics of Japanese Space Policy", Space Policy (Vol. 22 no. 1, 2005); "Transforming Japan's Space Policy-making", Space Policy (Vol. 23, no. 2, 2007); "Space policy of the European Union", The Path and Vector of European Integration; Space: Japan's New Security Agenda; "Basic Law for Space Activities: A New Space Policy for Japan for the 21st Century", Yearbook on Space Policy 2006/2007; "Japanese Steps toward Regional and Global Confidence Building", Collective Security in Space: Asian Perspectives; and "Space and Security: Japanese Perspective", Penser les Ailes Françaises (No.16, 2008).

As an expert of space policy, he has been working as an advisor for the Space Development Committee of Liberal Democratic Party of Japan and the Society of Japanese Aerospace Companies, and Senior Policy Researcher for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). He also has been closely involved in the development of Japanese space decision-making process including the establishment of the Basic Law for Space Activities of 2008 and Mid-term Plan for Space Activities of 2009.