Risa Koyanagi

Born in 2003, Risa Koyanagi is a Cambridge Future Scholar and researcher working at the intersection of space governance, nuclear governance, cyber governance, strategic risk, and emerging technology governance. Her research is especially concerned with legitimation theory, dual-use governance, authority architecture, responsible behaviour norms, and international security.

She develops public-facing policy and research platforms that translate governance theory into usable tools across strategic infrastructure domains. Her work connects conceptual research on legitimacy, authority, and governance architecture with applied questions of escalation, responsibility, and institutional design.

Although her work spans multiple domains — from space and nuclear to cyber and AI governance — it is unified by a consistent conceptual focus on how authority is constructed, contested, and legitimated in environments of technological complexity and strategic ambiguity.