Professor Takayo Ando

Takayo Ando is a Professor of public international law at Nihon University, College of Risk Management (Japan). She graduated from the University of Tokyo, holds an MA (2001) from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo, and received PhD (2014) from Nihon University. 

Takayo participated in the Preparatory Commission for the International Criminal Court (2002) and the Assembly of the States Parties of the ICC (2002) as a member of the Japanese Delegation. She also worked as a fixed-term official at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan (2006-2009) and has served as a Refugee Examination Counsellor, Immigration Services Agency of Japan since 2016. She was awarded the 54th Mineichiro Adachi Memorial Prize in 2021 for her monograph The Structure of Legal Control of International Terrorism (Kokusai Shoin, 2020).
 
Takayo will be a Visiting Scholar at Pembroke College and a Visiting Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge for one year beginning September 2023. Her research area is International Criminal Law and her research title is “The Analysis of the Structure and Development of International Criminal Law through the aut dedere aut judicare Principle.”