Dr. AOKI Setsuko is currently Professor of Law, Keio University Law School, Tokyo, Japan. She obtained Doctor of Civil Law (D.C.L.) from the Institute of Air and Space Law, Faculty of Law, McGill University, Canada in 1993. She is a vice-president of the International Institute of Space Law (IISL).  She is a member of the Committee on National Space Policy (CNSP), Cabinet Office of Japan since July 2012; and a member of the Council for Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) since March 2017.