Prof. Satoru MORI
Keio UniversityProfessor Satoru MORI teaches Contemporary International Politics at the Faculty of Law and is the Deputy Director of the Keio Center for Strategy at Keio University. He is currently undertaking research on U.S. strategy in Asia particularly on U.S.-China relations and the Japan-U.S. alliance, and U.S. defense innovation and its implications for U.S. allies. Professor Mori currently chairs the security policy project at the Japan Institute for International Affairs and the Japan-US alliance project at the Nakasone Peace Institute, among other projects. He was a senior fellow of the National Security Secretariat of the Cabinet Secretariat of the Japanese government (2016-2019). He is a member of the Ministry of Defense’s New Defense Policy Roundtable since 2020. He was among the experts called upon by the National Security Secretariat during the hearings in 2022 on the revision of Japan’s strategic documents. He is a former Japanese Foreign Ministry official and holds a Ph.D. degree from the University of Tokyo, LL.M. degrees from Columbia University Law School and Kyoto University, and a LL.B. degree from Kyoto University.