Dr. Setsuko Aoki is Professor of Law, Keio University Law School, Japan since April 2016. She specializes in public international law especially space law, arms control and export control.

Dr. Aoki obtained Doctor of Civil Law (D.C.L.) from McGill University, Montreal, Canada in 1993. She has served as Vice-President of the International Institute of Space Law (IISL) since October 2017; Dr. Aoki has also been a Member of the Committee on the National Space Policy (CNSP), Cabinet Office of Japan, since July 2012, and the Chair of the Security Subcommittee of the CNSP since April 2017.

Her English publications in 2020 include: “‘Nationality for Spacecraft?’ Revisited: Nationality to be Found”, 44 Journal of Space Law (2020), pp.373-404; “International Cooperation Mechanisms in Outer Space Activities for the Next Decade”, in Proceedings of International Institute of Space Law 2019 (2020), pp. 3-14.

Dr. Aoki is on the Council of The Off-World Approach.