Masatomo Suzuki

Born in Iwate Prefecture in 1962, Masatomo completed his Research Doctoral Course and Master’s degree at the Chuo University Graduate School of Law, Tokyo. And completed a Doctoral Program for Informatics at the Institute of Information Security, Tokyo. After working with Nifty Corporation for 4 years, He became a professor at Niigata University in 2005 and concurrently serving as Chairman of the Institute for Information Law since 2016. He joined RIKEN in 2017. He was also involved in the establishment and amendment of the Japanese Personal Information Protection Act, the creation of the “My Number” system and the “Privacy Mark” system in Japan. In 2016 He was appointed as a Director of “the Association of Law and Information Systems”, “Journal of Law and Information System" Editorial Board. In 2020, he began working as a visiting principal researcher for the AI Utilization in Society and Legal System Team at the RIKEN Center for Integrated Research on Innovative Intelligence.