My name is Matthew Brummer and I'm a tenured associate professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo. My primary department affiliation is with the Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Program (STI). I am also the incoming director of the Maritime Safety and Security Policy Program (MSP), associate director of the Global Leadership Development Program (GLD), and faculty associate of the Center for Data Science (CDS). 

From 2023-24, I was a Policy Innovations Fellow in the Program on US-Japan Relations at Harvard University, where I taught a course titled "Science, Technology and National Security: Japan in Global Perspective" in the Department of Government. 

My research examines the relationship between international politics and science, technology and innovation (STI), including at the global, regional, national, and sub-national levels of analysis. Several current 1-N projects include "Japanese Military Innovation," "Japanese Science Diplomacy," "Japanese Silver Science," and "Japanese Wargaming." 

I'm a core member of the "World and Japan database" project and the "Shinzo Abe Assassination Dataset" (SAAD), both part of my research utilizing big data for international relations and public policy. 

My advisees, or zemi, currently include thirteen 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.