Professor of Law, Niigata University Graduate School of Modern Society and Culture, Faculty of Law
President and Representative Director, Japan Institute of Law and Information Systems (JILIS)
Born in 1962, Professor Suzuki graduated from Chuo University Faculty of Law and completed his Master's degree at Chuo University Graduate School of Law under the supervision of Professor Masao Horibe, earning an LL.M. He subsequently completed his doctoral program at the Institute of Information Security (IISEC) under the supervision of Professor Koichiro Hayashi, earning a Ph.D. in Informatics. After working at Nifty Corporation*1, he joined Niigata University as a professor in 2005, specializing in information law.
Since 2016, he has served as President and Representative Director of the Japan Institute of Law and Information Systems (JILIS)*2, and since 2020 as a Director of the Next Generation Infrastructure Policy Research Institute (NFI), headed by Akira Morita. From 2017 to 2024, he concurrently served as Information Law Team Leader (Principal Investigator) and Senior Visiting Scientist at the RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP), conducting research on AI and law.
As a government advisor and committee member, Professor Suzuki has been instrumental in the amendment of Japan's Personal Information Protection Act, the drafting of JIS Q 15001, the establishment of the Privacy Mark system, the creation and revision of METI's Personal Information Protection Guidelines, the introduction of anonymized and pseudonymized processed information systems, the My Number system, and the resolution of the "2000(P2K) Problem" in personal information protection legislation (public-private integration). Recently, he has advocated for the necessity and theoretical foundation of legislation permitting the secondary use of pseudonymized medical information without individual consent.
His university research focuses primarily on Personal Information Protection Law and Privacy Rights, while at JILIS he engages in policy advocacy regarding information law systems.
＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿*1 Nifty Corporation was then a wholly owned subsidiary of Fujitsu Limited and Japan's largest Internet service provider, where I served as a management-level employee in both the Legal Department and Information Security Office, and was also responsible for the company's IPO.
*2 JILIS is a general incorporated foundation established in 2016 that conducts research on information law and provides policy recommendations.
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