Professor Katsumi Mori is Professor Emeritus and Collaborative Research Fellow at the National Institute of Fitness and Sports in Kanoya (NIFS), Japan’s only national university specialising in sport. He has received four Grants‑in‑Aid for Scientific Research from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, advancing pioneering safeguarding research in Japanese sport and studies on child protection and sport integrity in the United Kingdom. Supported by these grants, he has organised five international symposia in Japan. Professor Mori earned his PhD in Sport Sciences in 2025 for his research on child protection in the UK sport sector. In 2026, he became the first Japanese researcher to receive the SSI Kari Fasting International Research Award at the Safe Sport International Conference in Cape Town. He serves as a Board Member of the Japan Sports Law Association, Auditor of the Japanese Society of Policy for Physical Education and Sport, and is a member of the Safe Sport International Research Committee.
