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.