Sadaaki Suwazono

Deputy Secretary General for International Affairs at The Japan Fair Trade Commission

Speaker

Mr. Suwazono took the current position last July. Prior to it, he worked as the Head of Local Office of Japan Fair Trade Commission, JFTC in Osaka　from April 2017. During July 2013 to March 2017, he worked as the Director of International Affairs Division of JFTC, engaging in negotiation of Trans Pacific Partnership and several MOUs with competition authorities of Australia, Canada, China, Kenia, Korea, Mongolia and technical assistance activities cooperating with various institutions including OECD, UNCTAD. He also experienced several director positions in charge of drafting amendment bill of Anti-Monopoly Act and investigation of several cases in JFTC, and also in Cabinet Office, Cabinet Secretariat and Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. From 2009 to 2010, he taught competition laws and consumer protection laws as a professor in Law School of Tohoku University