Mr. Takayuki Sumita graduated from Tokyo University and joined MITI in 1985. He studied in Graduate School for Foreign Service, Georgetown University, between 1991 and 1993. After coming back to Japan, he engaged in various tasks including environment policy, energy policy, innovation, specific industry policy for software and IT, comprehensive economic policy on corporate tax, corporate disclosure, IPR and FTA/EPA negotiation. METI dispatched him to Brussels between 2009 and 2013 with the main function of deepening the connection and cooperation between the EU and Japan. Since June 2013, he has been working on energy policy in his current post.