Tateo Arimoto served as Director General of S&T Policy Bureau of the Ministry of Education and Science, Executive Research Fellow of Economic and Social Research Institute at the Cabinet Office, and Director of Research Institute of S&T for Society at JST.

He has played an active role in public policy-making and implementation of STI in Japan and in developing Science of STI policy through transdisciplinary approach. He has been a steering committee member of the OECD study projects on “Scientific Advice”, “Research Funding System”, “Transdisciplinary Research” and “Mission Oriented Innovation Policy”.

He is a board member of International Network for Government Science Advice (INGSA), and a member of the Committee of Science Diplomacy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, and United Nations STI for SDGs Forum.