Hitoshi OKADA

Hitoshi Okada is an Associate Professor at the National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan. He got his Bachelor of Public Law (LLB) and Bachelor of Private Law (LLB) from the University of Tokyo, Japan. He completed his MA at the Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP) at Osaka University, Japan. He got his Ph.D. in International Public Policy from Osaka University, Japan. His current research topic is law and economics of e-money and e-commerce. He published a book titled ‘Definitive Edition: Bitcoin & Blockchain (in Japanese)’ from the Toyo Keizai Publisher in Japan. He is a chair of IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology (SSIT) Japan Chapter. He is a member of ISO/TC 307 'Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies' domestic committee in Japan. He was selected as a Member of the Committee for Convergence of Communications and Broadcasting at the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) Japan, a Member of the Information Frontier Research Committee at MIC in Japan, and a Member of the Information Exploration Era Research Committee at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) Japan. He is a Special Senior Research Fellow of the Institute for Information and Communications Policy (IICP) at MIC, Japan. He has got a prize from Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) for his contribution for e-learning education development. He was selected as a recipient of an Honorable Mention in the social science division of The DOCOMO Mobile Science Prize from The Mobile Communication Fund (MCF), Japan.