Tatsuo Masuda is professor at Kaishi Professional University (Niigata, Japan) and Akita International University (Akita Japan). He also serves as Chairman of FairCourt Capital (London), Auditor of SOC Corporation (Tokyo) and Strategic Committee Member of Elion House (Singapore). He taught at the Tokyo Institute of Technology on technological innovation, Paris University-Dauphine on energy geopolitics and the NUCB Business School on energy/climate nexus. He has extensive careers in energy business, market analysis and policymaking as Advisor to Japan Petroleum Exploration Co., Vice President of Japan National Oil Corporation and Director for Oil Markets and Security at the International Energy Agency in Paris. Prior to these, he assumed several posts related with energy in METI. He is strongly interested in energy technologies and a new dimension of energy/climate policies and measures, and associates with the World Economic Forum as member of Expert Network after serving Energy Governor and the Global Agenda Council member. He belongs to the World Federation of Scientists as member of the Permanent Monitoring Panel for Energy as well as the Mitigation of Catastrophic Risk. He also contributes to the Windsor Energy Group as International Panel member. He recently joind the Pugwash Coferences on Science and World Affaires since the Hiroshima Confrence in November 2025.
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