Ikuo Misumi

Professor,
School of Information and Telecommunication Engineering

Starting as an officer at the then Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI;　currently the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, METI), Dr. Misumi has long　served in the Government of Japan, especially in the fields of security export control and cybersecurity policy. Most recently, he has served in the National center of Incident readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity (NISC) since 2012 and was in charge of a number of important tasks, including the thorough revision of the “Management Standards for Information Security Measures for the Central Government Computer Systems,” the establishment of the Basic Act on Cybersecurity of 2014 and its amendment in 2016, and the formation of the Cybersecurity Strategy (2015).

Since 2016 to 2018, he served as Deputy Director-General and oversees the entire staff and operations of the NISC. Since August 2018 he serves as Deputy Director - General for Cybersecurity and Information Technology, Minister’s Secretariat, METI / Councillor, NISC, Cabinet Secretariat / Deputy Government Chief Information Officer, National Strategy Office of Information and Communications Technology, Cabinet Secretariat, Government of Japan. In July 2020, he left the Government of Japan.

In the early stage of his career, he engaged in the international negotiation for the preparation of the Wassenaar Arangement on Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-Use Goods and Technologies as a government expert in the mid 90s. Prior to joining the NISC, he was the Director of Security Export License in METI (2009-2012). In this position, he contributed to making Japan’s export control systems more effective and efficient by developing innovative approaches, such as reengineering the licensing processes and introducing an examination system with advanced DBs and achieved the reformation of these systems.

He received his master’s degree in 1987 and Ph.D. in Engineering (Precision Machinery Engineering) in 2004 from the University of Tokyo. Also he has a master’s degree in Management awarded from the Claremont Graduate School (CA,USA) in 1995.