Dr. Kondo is Director of the Office of the Director-General for Cybersecurity in the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. She has previously held a position in National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) as Director of Policy Planning Office of the Cybersecurity Research Institute from 2009 to 2011 and in National Information Security Center (NISC) of the Cabinet Secretariat as Counselor for International Strategy from 2011 to 2014. She has a Masters from University of Tokyo, an MBA from Stanford, and a PhD from Tokyo Institute of Technology.