Speaker – Mr Iida Yoichi
Mr Iida Yoichi
National Cyber Director & Deputy National Security Advisor,
National Cybersecurity Office
Japan
Biography
Mr. IIDA was appointed National Cyber Director and Deputy National Security Advisor on July 1, 2025, after serving as Deputy Chief Executive at the National Center of Incident Readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity (NISC). He currently leads the National Cybersecurity Office, which formulates a new National cybersecurity strategy and develops detailed rules of the Active Cyber Defense Act.
Before joining NISC, he served as Director-General for Economic Security at the Cabinet Office. He supervised policy planning and implementation in the field of economic security, including the Economic Security Promotion Act (ESPA) and the Critical Economic Security Information Act (CESI Act).
Prior to those appointments, Mr. IIDA held several key positions in international trade and industrial policies during his 33-year career at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), including Director-General of the Trade and Economic Cooperation Bureau and Director-General of theTrade Control Department. In these roles, he was responsible for trade promotion policies such as trade insurance while strengthening security export control mechanism, inward foreign direct investment regulation as well as trade sanction against countries of concern for national and international peace and security.
Mr. IIDA holds a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Tokyo and a Master of Arts in International Development Policy from Duke University in the United States.
He was born on March 6, 1966.