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Speaker Sessions

The 'New Space' Era: Competition and Technological Innovation

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Komei Isozaki

Senior Manager, Deloitte Tohmatsu Space & Security
Komei Isozaki is a Senior Manager of Deloitte Tohmatsu Space & Security and a Japan Chair fellow at Hudson Institute. He is an expert in Japanese defense policy, space security, and biological and chemical weapons conventions. His research areas include space and defense strategy with a focus on the Asia-Pacific region. He has a deep knowledge of intelligence operations and foreign policy of the Tokugawa Shogunate in the early modern times. From 2018 to 2022, Mr. Isozaki was senior director for business integration and partner coordination of the Tokyo Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, in which role he protected and implemented the supply rights of the IOC TOP partners, managed the budget for test events, and was responsible for financial operations during the Games. From 2016 to 2018, he was director for the Biological and Chemical Weapon Conventions Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan. Mr. Isozaki was a visiting fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies from 2005 to 2006 and from 2012 to 2014.He previously served in the Ministry of Defense of Japan for 30 years. His posts included work on space policy, cyber policy, strategic dialogue, intelligence, and peacekeeping operations. He was a policy advisor to the Commander of the Northern Army in 2010-2012.Mr. Isozaki received his MA in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and his BA in laws from Keio University.