Daisuke Kawai

Daisuke Kawai is a Project Assistant Professor and the Deputy Director of the Economic Security Programme at RCAST, The University of Tokyo. He also serves as an Asia Fellow at the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), and Senior Advisor for Quad Strategic Planning to the Quad Investors Network (QUIN).

Previously, he was a Research Fellow for Indo-Pacific Affairs at the Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA). In 2024, he was nominated as a David Rockefeller Fellow (DRF) of the Trilateral Commission and appointed as the representative of the DRF Asia-Pacific Group.