Okamatsu Akiko

Professor of international law at Hōsei University. She is a member of the Compliance Group of the 1996 London Protocol, special advisor to the Ministry of Environment, and guest researcher of the Research Office of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defense in Japan’s House of Councillors. She started as a research associate at Sophia University, and then serving in positions including postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute for Environmental Studies and assistant professor at Shobi University, before attaining her present status. She was also a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School, the University of Cambridge, and the University of Vienna. Her main works include “IAEA Safeguard” (2017), “International Framework for the Disposal of Radioactive Waste” (2022), and “ALPS Treated Waste from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station and the London Protocol” (2023).