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. 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). He has also served as President of the Japan Association of International Security and Trade. His research focuses on the conjunction of science and technology and international relations, including space policy, non-proliferation, export control, and sanctions. His recent works include 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 at Ritsumeikan University and received his Ph.D. from the Sussex European Institute at the University of Sussex, England.