Kyoko Yoshinaga is a Project Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Media and Governance at Keio University in Japan. She is also a Visiting Researcher at the Institute for Future Initiatives at the University of Tokyo. Her research focus has been comparative law and policy on Information Communication Technologies (ICT) and cybersecurity. In recent years, she has been working on the legal and ethical issues related to AI. At the Georgetown Tech Institute, she founded the AI Governance Series in winter 2020 in collaboration with Tech Institute Faculty Advisor Professor Anupam Chander and the then Yale ISP’s Executive Director and Assistant Professor Nikolas Guggenberger of University of Houston Law Center and has been organizing a series of webinars ever since. Prior to her current position, she spent many years as a researcher at Mitsubishi Research Institute (2003-2023) specializing in ICT and cybersecurity, supporting Japanese government ministries in policy and rulemaking within these fields. More recently, she took on responsibility for compliance and risk management in the AI development division. This experience enables her to approach AI governance from both the policy-making and AI development perspectives.

Kyoko has been serving as an Expert at the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI), hosted by the OECD, since January 2023. She is actively engaged in the Future of Work Working Group and the AI Safety Project, while also co-leading a project on co-generated work within the Data Governance Working Group. In Japan, she contributed to the development of “AI Guidelines for Business” as a member of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry’s Expert Committee. She also serves as an external expert on the AI Ethics Board of several leading AI companies, including SoftBank. Since October 2023, she has been involved in Japan’s national project “Moonshot R&D Program-Goal 1” promoted by Japan Science and Technology Agency, especially focusing on the E³LSI (Ethical, Economic, Environmental, Legal and Social Issues) of “Cybernetic Avatars”.

She is the co-author of the book “Responsible AI and Rules” (KINZAI, 2024) and has been invited to numerous international conferences to present on Japan’s approach to AI and robotics from a comparative law and policy perspective. Her comments were also quoted by Bloomberg in an article on the Hiroshima AI Process (May 2023). From 2010 to 2011, Kyoko was a Visiting Fellow at the Yale Law School’s Information Society Project (Yale ISP). Kyoko received an LL.M. from the University of Tokyo and an LL.B. from Sophia University.

Contact: ky263@georgetown.edu