Megumi Ochi is an academic and legal professional who specializes in International Criminal Law and currently serves as an associate professor at the Graduate School of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan. She obtained her PhD in Law from Osaka University, Japan, and an LL.M. from Leiden University in the Netherlands. She has been a senior fellow at Case Matrix Network (CMN) (2016-2024) and an active member of the governing bodies of the International Association of Penal Law (AIDP) (2014-2024). She has published two monographs on international criminal procedure in Japanese and co-edited three books on international criminal justice in English.