Risks and Regulation of New Technologies

Jonathan Wolff is the Alfred Landecker Professor of Values and Public Policy, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, Political Philosophy, and a Governing Body Fellow at Wolfson College. He was formerly the Blavatnik Chair in Public Policy at the School, and before that was professor of philosophy and dean of arts and humanities at University College London. He is currently developing a new research programme on revitalising democracy and civil society, in accordance with the aims of the Alfred Landecker Professorship. His other current work largely concerns equality, disadvantage, social justice,and poverty, as well as applied topics such as public safety, disability, gambling, and the regulation of recreational drugs, which he has discussed in his books Ethics and Public Policy: A Philosophical Inquiry (Routledge, 2011) and The Human Right to Health (Norton, 2012). His most recent book is An Introduction to Moral Philosophy (Norton, 2018).



Takashi Yanagawa

Takashi Yanagawa has been a professor at the Graduate School of Economics at Kobe University since 2004 and specializes in industrial organization. He received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1993, where he majored in industrial organization. He worked at Nagoya Gakuin University from 1992 to 1999 and has been a faculty member at Kobe University since 1999. He was the director of the Interfaculty Initiative in the Social Sciences at Kobe University from 2014 to 2016, and the vice-dean of the Organization for Advanced and Integrated Research at Kobe University from 2016 to 2020. He was a visiting researcher at the London School of Economics (1996-1997), the University of California at Berkeley (2004-2005), and the Japan Fair Trade Commission (2008-2011). He was the president of the Japan Economic Policy Association from 2016 to 2019. He is currently a board member of the Japan Economic Policy Association and the Public Utility Economics Association. He is also a co-editor of the International Journal of Economic Policy Studies (Springer).