Members
The Asia-Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (APLN) has over one hundred members from eighteen countries across Asia and the Pacific, consisting of former political, diplomatic and military leaders, senior government officials, and scholars and opinion leaders. APLN aims to inform and energize public opinion, especially high-level policymakers, to take seriously the very real threats posed by nuclear weapons, and to do everything possible to achieve a world in which they are contained, diminished and eventually eliminated.
SUZUKI Tatsujiro
President of Peace Depot and Visiting Professor at the Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition, Nagasaki University (RECNA)
Suzuki Tatsujiro is President of a non-profit organization "Peace Depot" based in Japan, and a Visiting Professor at the Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition, Nagasaki University (RECNA). He is also the former Vice Chairman of the Japan Atomic Energy Commission (JAEC). Prior to joining RECNA, Suzuki also served as an Associate Vice President of the Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry in Japan (1996-2009), a Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of Public Policy, the University of Tokyo (2005-09), an Associate Director of MIT’s International Program on Enhanced Nuclear Power Safety (1988-1993), and a Research Associate at MIT’s Center for International Studies (1993-95) where he co-authored a report on Japan's plutonium program. He is also Chair of the Executive Committee of Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, and Non-resident Senior Research Fellow of UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) since 2024. Dr. Suzuki has a PhD in nuclear engineering from the University of Tokyo (1988).