Kyoko Yoshinaga

Kyoko Yoshinaga is a Project Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University, and a Non-Resident Fellow at Georgetown Law’s Institute for Technology Law & Policy. Her research centers on comparative law and policy in information and communication technologies (ICT), cybersecurity, and, more recently, the legal and ethical dimensions of artificial intelligence (AI).

From 2003 to 2023, she was a researcher at the Mitsubishi Research Institute, where she supported Japanese government ministries in policymaking and regulatory design related to ICT and cybersecurity. In her later years there, she led compliance and risk management efforts in the AI development division—experience that allows her to approach AI governance from both regulatory and implementation standpoints.

She also holds appointments as Visiting Associate Professor at the National Institute of Informatics and Visiting Researcher at the Institute for Future Initiatives, University of Tokyo. She served on METI’s Committee on the “AI Guidelines for Business” and sits on several corporate AI ethics boards. Since 2023, she has been contributing to Japan’s national “Moonshot R&D Program – Goal 1,” led by the Japan Science and Technology Agency, focusing on the E³LSI (Ethical, Economic, Environmental, Legal, and Social Issues) of AI agents known as “Cybernetic Avatars.”

Internationally, she has served as an Expert at the OECD-hosted Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) since 2023, contributing to the Future of Work and AI Safety projects. She also co-led projects on co-generated work with Prof. Christiane Wendehorst within the Data Governance Working Group. Earlier in her career, she was a Visiting Fellow at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project (2010–2011).

She holds an LL.M. from the University of Tokyo and an LL.B. from Sophia University.