Curriculum Vitae 

 Dr. Makoto (Mac) Yokozawa

CV (in Japanese) as of Dec 30, 2023



  (Short Introduction)

Until March 2020, Dr. Yokozawa was the head professor of the Market and Organisation Informatics Systems Laboratory at the Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University. which is a Joint Research Unit with a private IT services company, Nomura Research Institute, Ltd. 

He has been leading in many study groups for regulatory and policy issues in Japanese government and private sector associations, including broadband policy, spectrum management, Internet governance, personal data protection, digital trade, innovation and Information Society and Economy policies. 

He has been leading multilateral discussions for digital socio-economy policies, including those in OECD, APEC, UNCTAD, ITU and WTO, as well as bilateral dialogues with US, EU, Korea, Taiwan, India and China.

(Full Bio)

Name :   Makoto Yokozawa, Ph. D.

Title and Positions : 

       Former Professor of MOIS Joint Research Unit, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University

        Senior Consultant, Nomura Research Institute, Ltd. 

Office Address: 134 Godo-cho, Yokohama, 240-0005 JAPAN

       Voice Mail & Fax : (Japan) +81-50-5806-2501 (US)  +1-650-653-2501

       E-mail :  m-yokozawa@i.kyoto-u.ac.jp

 

Educational Background:

1983 Received BS. from Dept. of Nuclear Engineering, Univ. of Tokyo.

1985 Received MS. from Graduate School of Engineering, Univ. of Tokyo.

1988 Received PhD. from Graduate School of Engineering, Univ. of Tokyo.

 

Professional Carrier:

1988 Employed by Nomura Research Institute, Ltd.

1998 Visiting Associate Professor at Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University.

2000 Senior Consultant at IT Research Div., Nomura Research Institute.

2008 Professor of MOIS Laboratory (Collaborative Research Unit), Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University (concurrent)

2014 Visiting Professor at Tokyo University of Science (concurrent)

2016 Fellow at TSC (Technology Strategy Center), NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization) (concurrent)

2021 Senior Research Fellow, Director of Strategic and International Studies, CFIEC (Center for International Economic Cooperation).

2022 Board Director and Senior Research Fellow, CFIEC (Center for International Economic Collaboration) 

2023 Digital Transformation Taskforce Co-chair, Business 20 (India)

 

Personal Details :

Dr. Yokozawa was educated at the University of Tokyo in Japan, where he obtained a degree of B.A. in 1983 and M.A. in 1985 respectively. And he received his Ph.D. in 1988 in Engineering from the University of Tokyo. His thesis entitled “A Study on the Vector Monte Carlo Method for Neutron Transport Analysis” was a computer simulation study, and awarded the “Encourage Award” from the Atomic Energy Society of Japan.

He worked for NRI (Nomura Research Institute, Ltd.) from 1988 to 2021, and he is the lead author of the world’s first book about the Ubiquitous Network Society published in 2000 and "The Silicon Vally Model" in 1998.

In recent years, Dr. Yokozawa has been continuously advising governmental committees and discussions including those for the u-Japan strategy of Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC), Information Economy initiatives of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), and the e-Japan evaluation research committee of the Cabinet Secretariat (CAS). As a business representative, he is actively leading discussions in ICT-related committees of Japanese business association, Keidanren. He joined an ITU workshops, as an expert of Ubiquitous Network Society, and is the co-chair at OECD’s BIAC/CDEP (Business and Industry Advisory Committee / Committee for Digital Economy Policies). Recent expansion of his research includes the Internet Governance and Enhanced Cooperation, in which he has been involved as one of the participants representing private sector at the Working Group for Enhanced Cooperation of 2014-2016 under the United Nations. 

At the Graduate School of Informatics of Kyoto University, he had a laboratory whose name was Marketing and Organizational Informatics, where 30 students in total and faculty members were working in the area of business informatics including ICT policies.

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