Makiko Matsuo

Makiko Matsuo is currently serving as Project Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Public Policy, the University of Tokyo, where she engages in teaching and research on topics within Science, Technology, and Innovation Governance. At the Policy Alternative Research Institute, she belongs to both the Technology Governance Policy Research Unit and the Complex Risk Governance Policy Research Unit. She received her Master of International Studies from the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, the University of Tokyo, in 2005, and her Doctor of Philosophy in March 2016. Her areas of concern are interdisciplinary in nature and covers such issues as Risk Governance, Risk Regulation, Global Health Issues, Food Safety, Interface Issues between Science and Politics, Technology Assessment (TA), International Standards Setting Process, International Harmonization, Codex Alimentarius Commission, and Sustainability.