Portrait of Chikako Masuda

Head of Intelligence Research and International strategy, Digital Agency of Japan government 

Chikako Masuda

  • 2025
  • Jury
  • Creative Bureaucracy Festival

Chikako Masuda joined the Digital Agency in 2021. She is responsible for planning and managing the service design community, as well as leading intelligence research in the Corporate Strategy department. She co-authored an academic paper with the Oxford Internet Institute on the evolution and current state of digital policy in Japan (2024). Before joining the Digital Agency, she was a Principal Researcher at the Digital Government Research Institute. She contributed to a comparative analysis of design systems in foreign governments (2021) and wrote a handbook on promoting design management in the private sector (2020). She specializes in linguistics, public policy and service design. 

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Chikako Masuda trat Digital Agency in 2021 bei. Sie ist verantwortlich für die Planung und Leitung der Service-Design-Community sowie für die Durchführung von Forschungsarbeiten im Bereich Unternehmensstrategie. Gemeinsam mit dem Oxford Internet Institute verfasste sie einen wissenschaftlichen Artikel über die Entwicklung und den aktuellen Stand der Digitalpolitik in Japan (2024). Vor ihrer Tätigkeit bei Digital Agency war sie Hauptforscherin am Digital Government Research Institute. Dort arbeitete sie an einer vergleichenden Analyse von Designsystemen ausländischer Regierungen (2021) mit und schrieb ein Handbuch zur Förderung von Designmanagement im privaten Sektor (2020). Sie ist spezialisiert auf Linguistik, öffentliche Politik und Service Design.

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