Assistant Secretary, United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs
After working in the Defence Policy Bureau, Defence Policy Division, International Policy Division and Japan-US Defence Cooperation Division of the Ministry of Defence (2010-2015) and a secondment to the Non-Proliferation, Science and Nuclear Energy Division, Disarmament, Non-Proliferation and Science Department, General Foreign Policy Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2013-2015), she worked at the independent think tank Asia Pacific Initiative in the security field as as a research fellow in the field of security at the Asia-Pacific Initiative, an independent think tank. She then received a Fulbright scholarship to study at the Georgetown University School of Diplomacy in the USA (2017-2019), during which time she worked at the UN Department for Disarmament Affairs (2018) In April 2020, she became a researcher at the Future Engineering Institute; from April 2021, she holds her current position. She specialises in security theory, international relations, science, technology and security, disarmament and non-proliferation.