Yoichi Iida

Special Policy Adviser to Minister, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Japan

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Yoichi Iida is Special Policy Adviser to Minister for International Affairs at the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC).

He has been long engaged in the international policy discussions at G7, G20 and IGF, as well as through bilateral dialogues. In 2016, he chaired G7 ICT WG meetings. In 2019, he chaired G20 Digital Economy Task Force meetings and led the discussion toward adoption of "G20 AI Principles", drawn from OECD AI Principles. He was elected as the Chair of Committee on Digital Economy Policy (CDEP, current CPD) at the OECD in November 2019. In 2023, he chaired G7 Digital and Tech WG and Hiroshima AI Process WG, leading the discussion to G7 agreement on Hiroshima AI Process Guiding Principles and Code of Conduct, which provide a voluntary framework for global AI governance.

Yoichi Iida graduated from Tokyo University, with a major in Economics, in 1988. He then joined the former Japanese Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPT).

From 1991 to 1993, he was seconded to the OECD Secretariat, working in the Information, Computer, and Communications Division (now the Digital Economy Policy Team). He later served at the Japanese Embassy in Germany from 1998 to 2001.

After returning to Japan in 2001, he continued to focus on international affairs in the telecommunications and digital policy fields, especially after the MPT integrated into the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) in 2000.