Kimiaki Kawai is Research Fellow for the Toda Peace Institute where he is responsible for the area of emerging technologies, peace and security. Prior to taking this position in October 2019, Mr Kawai served as Director of Peace and Human Rights at Soka Gakkai International (SGI) and Director of the Soka Gakkai Peace Committee. Since the early 1990s, he has been involved in activities for the abolition of nuclear weapons, with a focus on public outreach and education. He has participated in and spoken at international conferences on security issues focused on nuclear weapons and lethal autonomous weapons system (LAWS), including the negotiation conferences leading up to the adoption of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons at the United Nations in 2017. He concurrently serves as a member of the secretariat of Japan NGO Network for Nuclear Weapons Abolition. He is a member of the Japan Association of Disarmament Studies. Mr. Kawai holds MA in Political Science from Graduate School of International Politics, Economics and Communication, Aoyama Gakuin University (2020) and is taking PhD Program at Graduate School of Global Humanities and Social Sciences, Nagasaki University.