My name is Matthew Brummer and I'm an assistant professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo. I am also a Policy Innovations Fellow in the Program on US-Japan Relations at Harvard University, where I teach a course titled "Science, Technology and National Security: Japan in Global Perspective" in the Department of Government. 

My department affiliations at GRIPS are with the Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Program (STI), Security Studies Program (SISP), and Global Leadership (GLD) program. I teach across these departments.

My primary research project examines the relationship between international politics and science, technology and innovation (STI), including at the global, regional, national, and sub-national levels of analysis. I also research Japanese foreign and security policy, often with a focus on technology.  I'm a core member of the "World and Japan database" project and the "Shinzo Abe Assassination Dataset" (SAAD). 

My advisees, or zemi, currently include eleven MA and six Ph.D. students. Please be in touch if you are a current or prospective GRIPS or Harvard student interested in studying the interconnection between technology, economics, and politics broadly defined.