Dr. SUZUKI Tatsujiro serves as the President of the Japanese non-governmental organisation Peace Depot. He was the Vice Director and a Professor of the Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition (RECNA) at Nagasaki University. Before joining RECNA, he was Vice Chairman of the Japan Atomic Energy Commission (JAEC) in the Cabinet Office (2010-2014). Prior to that, he was an Associate Vice President of the Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry in Japan (1996-2009) and Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of Public Policy and the University of Tokyo (2005-2009) and an Associate Director of the International Program on Enhanced Nuclear Power Safety at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (1988-1993). He is a member of the Advisory Board of Parliament's Special Committee on Nuclear Energy since June 2017. He is a member of the Executive Committee and Council of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs (2007-2009; 2014 to the present).
