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Today, our world is changing greatly.
The Institute of Geoeconomics (IOG) was established in 2022, the year that marked a turning point from the post-Cold War globalization era to the ‘Geoeconomics’ era, in which the strategies of international economics and those of geopolitics have become inseparable.
How should companies collect information to strike an apt balance between risks and costs? What can Japan do to contribute to the free, open and sginustainable future?
IOG aspires to be a think tank that transmits messages across the world from the Asia-Pacific region.
While inheriting the expertise in international relations, regional studies and geopolitics from the Asia Pacific Initiative, the IOG will keep striving to deepen connectivity between bureaucrats, politicians, and businesses.
The Core Role in the Geoeconomics Intelligence Community
As a private, independent think tank, the IOG will activate intelligent interactions and promote cultivation of business talents in the geoeconomics. The IOG will also keep disseminating sophisticated information for policy making, policy implementation, as well as corporate activities.
To be ‘Hub for Intellectual Exchange’ to Represent the Asia-Pacific Region
The IOG will work on networking of bureaucrats, politicians, and businesses in regard to geoeconomics and economic security, hold international symposiums, workshops, and field trips, promote joint research on geoeconomics/ economic security, and dispatch young researchers who aspire to be the future generation geoeconomics leaders.
What we do
To achieve the missions above, we will:
- ・Collect information, conduct research, accumulate knowledge and disseminate expertise undertaken by leading figures in Japan and the world in the fields of international affairs, regional studies, and geopolitics;
- ・Create a high-level community that connects policy makers in the field of economic security with global companies;
- ・Organize and implement a CGO (Chief Geoeconomics Officer) training program to enhance the ability of globally active companies to respond to geoeconomic risks and economic security challenges. In addition, we will invite corporate fellows to develop the next-generation of executives who have a strong understanding of geoeconomics;
- ・Cooperate with foreign think tanks and business communities in Asia (including holding regular exchange trips).
Message from Director Suzuki
In Japan, until recently, the worlds of politics and economy, security and private activities, public and private sectors existed self-sufficiently. Each has been treated autonomously albeit interfering with each other. In today’s world, these distinctions have become meaningless, and there are an increasing number of events that can only be understood within the framework of “geoeconomics,” a fusion of geopolitics and economy. There are many issues that geoeconomics should deal with, such as economic security, economic sanctions, and technological hegemony. At the IOG, we plan to deal with a wide range of geoeconomic themes initially centering on economic security and China, disseminate to the international community with a sense of speed, and grow ourselves to a think tank that will represent Asia and the Pacific. We would appreciate your warm support.
Dr. Kazuto Suzuki,
Director of the Institute of Geoeconomics
Organization Chart/ Management Structure
Pages for Groups・Special Sites
China / Economic Security / Europe & Americas / International Security Order /Emerging Technologies / Japanese Strategic Documents / The War in Ukraine / G7 Summit
IOG Executive Committee
Dr. Kazuto Suzuki, Director of the IOG (Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy, The University of Tokyo)
Dr. Yuichi Hosoya, Director of Research, Asia Pacific Initiative (Professor, Faculty of Law, Keio University)
Mr. Makoto Shiono, Partner, Industrial Growth Platform, Inc.
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Initiators
Hironori Kamezawa
President & Group CEO of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc.
Mitsunobu Koshiba
Co-Founder, Cdots GK
Tsuyoshi Nagano
Chairman of the Board of Tokio Marine Holdings, Inc.
Takeshi Niinami
Trustee, International House of Japan
President ＆ CEO, Suntory Holdings Limited
Masahiro Morimoto
Founder, CEO and Chairman of the Board of FRONTEO, Inc.
Takayuki Morita
President and CEO (Representative Director) of NEC Corporation
Hironori Kamezawa
President & Group CEO of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc.
Mitsunobu Koshiba
Co-Founder, Cdots GK
Tsuyoshi Nagano
Chairman of the Board of Tokio Marine Holdings, Inc.
Takeshi Niinami
Trustee, International House of Japan
President ＆ CEO, Suntory Holdings Limited
Masahiro Morimoto
Founder, CEO and Chairman of the Board of FRONTEO, Inc.
Takayuki Morita
President and CEO (Representative Director) of NEC Corporation
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Institute of Geoeconomics
Institute of Geoeconomics (IOG)
The IOG is a private and independent think tank that focuses on geoeconomics. It aims to be a hub for intellectual exchange in the Asia-Pacific region and make a significant global impact.