Risa Koyanagi
こやなぎ りさInternational Security · Space · Nuclear · Cyber · Emerging Technology Governance
Researcher
Risa Koyanagi is a Cambridge Future Scholar and researcher working at the intersection of space governance, nuclear governance, cyber governance, strategic risk, and emerging technology governance. Her research is especially concerned with legitimation theory, dual-use governance, authority architecture, responsible behaviour norms, and international security. She is supervised by Prof. Harald Wydra in connection with her Cambridge-based research trajectory, and is building the Strategic Infrastructure Risk Suite: a set of public-facing policy platforms across nuclear, orbital, and cyber domains.
Platforms
Strategic Infrastructure Risk Suite
Global Nuclear Infrastructure Atlas
LiveInteractive mapping of civilian nuclear power infrastructure, accident sites, and estimated arsenals with policy and health context.
Orbital Risk Tracker
LiveTracking ASAT events, proximity operations, GNSS jamming, and cyber-space entanglement with escalation analysis.
Japan Promise Tracker
LiveTracking Japanese government policy commitments and their fulfilment status across governance domains.
Cyber Escalation Atlas
In ProductionMapping cyber incidents as strategic behaviour, attribution frameworks, and governance signals.
Research
Selected research across governance domains
Who Speaks for Humanity on the Moon?
Working PaperExamining legitimation audiences, translation devices, and authority architecture in competing lunar governance frameworks.
Responsible Behaviour as an Unfinished Norm
In ProgressInvestigating denial, displacement, and inoculation in AI governance discourse across space, AI, and cyber domains.
Post-Disaster Governance and the Trust Gap
In ProgressLong-term fieldwork examining policy gaps, trust, and recovery governance in post-disaster Fukushima communities.
Projects
Fieldwork, leadership, and interdisciplinary engagement
Fukushima Field Research
2019–2024Multi-site fieldwork in Futaba and Namie districts examining post-disaster governance, trust, and recovery.
AFRECOS
2024Co-Founder & President
Co-founded a 10+ country network for cultural and policy events bridging Africa and Japan.
Art Practice
Interdisciplinary art practice spanning visual thinking, international exhibition, and conceptual work.
Speaking
Selected speaking and policy engagement
TICAD Ministerial Meeting
Policy engagement and youth representation at the Tokyo International Conference on African Development.
Japan–Netherlands Peace Exchange
Bilateral dialogue and peace exchange between Japanese and Dutch participants.
Africa–Japan Youth Drive
Youth-focused policy forum addressing Africa–Japan co-creation and development cooperation.
European Forum on North Korean Human Rights
Invited by the former British Ambassador to DPRK. UK Parliament All Parliament Party Group on DPRK.
Roundtable and Friends of Education
Hosted by GPE and the World Bank at the Japanese House of Councillors.