Ryosaku Kondo advises on compliance, risk management, and strategic responses to measures and policies taken by countries and regions related to international trade, as well as dispute resolution, domestic and cross-border corporate matters, legal compliance, investigations, international transactions, and other related fields.
From 2017 to 2020, Ryosaku Kondo was in charge of international trade dispute settlement based on the WTO rules at International Trade and Investment Dispute Settlement Division, Economic Affairs Bureau (currently Economic Dispute Settlement Section, International Legal Affairs Bureau), Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan. After being transferred to the Permanent Mission of Japan to the International Organization in Geneva in 2020, he dedicated himself to WTO dispute settlement matters as a diplomat until 2022, engaging in WTO consultations, panels, the Appellate Body hearings and negotiations with other government officials. He has experience in dealing with various trade-related matters, including anti-dumping and other trade remedy measures, subsidy cases, export controls, import and export restrictions, tariffs, technical standards, sanitary and quarantine measures, national security-related measures, investment-related measures, and others. He is a member of the Japan Association of International Economic Law.