Suzuki Tatsujirō

Professor of nuclear engineering at Nagasaki University. Earned his master’s from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1979 and his PhD from the University of Tokyo in 1988. Previous posts include associate director of the MIT International Program on Enhanced Nuclear Power Safety, associate vice president of the Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, and visiting professor at the Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Tokyo. From January 2010 to March 2014, he was vice chair of the Japan Atomic Energy Commission. In 2025 he was appointed a member of the Executive Committee and Council of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, the first Japanese national to hold the position, and president of the non-profit organization Peace Depot.