TETSUSHI YOSHIKAWA

Deputy Director-General, National center of Incident readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity (NISC)
Cabinet Secretariat, Government of Japan

In October 2021, Tetsushi Yoshikawa assumed the position of Deputy Director-General, NISC. Between August 2018 and September 2021, he was in charge of Cybersecurity as Counsellor of NISC, and prepared the new Cybersecurity Strategy decided by the Cabinet in September 2021. Prior to that, he was responsible for renewable energy policy and evidence-based policy making at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI). He joined METI (Former MITI) in 1991, and before his professional career, he received an M.E. degree in civil engineering from Kyoto University.

[EDUCATION]

April 1985 - March 1989	Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan Bachelor in Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
April 1989 - March 1991	Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan Master in Civil Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering

[EMPLOYMENT]

April 1991 - Present	Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Tokyo, Japan
October 2021 - Present	Deputy Director-General, NISC, Cabinet Secretariat
August 2018 - September 2021	Counsellor, NISC, Cabinet Secretariat
July 2017 - August 2018	Counsellor, Research and Statistics Department, Minister’s Secretariat
July 2015 - July 2017	Director, Energy Conservation and Renewable Energy Department, Agency for Natural Resources and Energy
December 2012 - July 2015	Counsellor, Assistant Chief Cabinet Secretary
January 2012 - December 2012	Counsellor, National Policy Unit, Cabinet Secretariat
July 2010 - January 2012	Director, Office for Energy Supply and Demand Policy, Electricity Transmission and Distribution
June 2007 - July 2010	Counsellor, Embassy of Japan in Korea, Ministry of Foreign Affairs