Kyoko Yoshinaga

Project Associate Professor of the Graduate School of Media & Governance, Keio University /
Affiliate Scholar, Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law & Policy

Kyoko Yoshinaga is a Project Associate Professor at Keio University’s Graduate School of Media & Governance and an Affiliate Scholar at Georgetown Law's Institute for Technology Law & Policy. Her expertise lies in the governance, policy, law, and ethics of emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, and she conducts her research from international and comparative perspectives. She also holds appointments as a Visiting Associate Professor at the National Institute of Informatics and a Visiting Researcher at the University of Tokyo’s Institute for Future Initiatives.

During her nearly two decades at the Mitsubishi Research Institute, she supported Japanese government ministries on ICT, media, and cybersecurity policy and rulemaking, and later oversaw compliance and risk management in the institute’s AI development division—experience that allows her to approach AI governance from both regulatory and implementation standpoints. She was the first Japanese member to serve as a Visiting Fellow at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project and as a Non-Resident Fellow at the Georgetown Tech Institute. She has been quoted in media outlets including Bloomberg, The Transformer, the Mainichi Shimbun, and Nippon TV’s news every.

Prof. Yoshinaga plays an active role in Japan’s national AI governance landscape. She serves on JST's Moonshot Program 1 (E³LSI of Cybernetic Avatars), METI’s Committee on AI Guidelines for Business, the Digital Agency’s Advanced AI Utilization Advisory Board, and several corporate AI ethics boards. Internationally, she is an Expert with the OECD-hosted Global Partnership on AI (GPAI) and has been engaged in discussions related to the G7 Hiroshima AI Process.

She has authored numerous policy papers on digital technologies and has also written commentaries and analyses on AI governance for professional and business audiences, including work examining Japan’s AI policy approach and the EU AI Act. She is also a co-author of "Responsible AI and Rules" (KINZAI), a book written for a general audience. In addition to her academic research, she leads multi-stakeholder initiatives that bring together policymakers, industry leaders, and scholars to advance responsible AI governance in Japan and globally.