[Oct 1] Overview: Prof. Tetsuya Watanabe
[Oct 8] Governance with crisis - Risk assessment, management and communication / net assessment / scenairo planning / table top excercises: Mr. Mark Saburi. Counsellor, Minister's Secretariat, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry / RIETI
[Oct 15] Energy security: Mr. Nobuo Tanaka, the former Executive Director, the International Energy Agency (IEA)
[Oct 22] Economic integration and its entanglement with national security: Associate Professor Shiro Armstrong, Australia National University
[Oct 29] High technology governance: Ms. Atsuko Nishigaki, Senior Researcher, RIETI
[Nov 5] (P) : Prof. Tetsuya Watanabe
[Nov 12] Asian regional integration: Dr. Deborah Elms, Founder and Executive Director, the Asian Trade Centre
[Nov 19] Geopolitics of digital currency: Mr. Hiroyuki Nishimura, Member of the Editorial Board of the Nikkei
[Nov 26] The US-China geopolitical tensions - ASEAN perspectives: Ambassador Bilahari Kausikan, the former Permanent Secretary, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore
[Dec 3] Climate change policy - European perspectives: Mr. Yasuo Tanabe, Managing Director, The EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation
[Dec 10] Post-pandemic regional architecture and cooperation in the Indo-Pacific: Prof. Kunihiko Shinoda, National Graduate Insititute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)
[Dec 17] Discussions and wrap up (1): Tetsuya Watanabe
[Dec 24] Discussions and wrap up (2): Tetsuya Watanabe.