Yukiya Amano
| Yukiya Amano | |
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| 天野 之弥 | |
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| 5th Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency | |
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Assumed office 1 December 2009 |
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| Preceded by | Mohamed ElBaradei |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
9 May 1947 Yugawara, Japan |
| Political party | Liberal Democratic Party |
| Alma mater |
University of Tokyo University of Franche-Comté University of Nice Sophia Antipolis |
Yukiya Amano (天野 之弥 Amano Yukiya?, born 9 May 1947) is a Japanese diplomat and the current Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), having been elected to the position in July 2009. Amano previously served as an international civil servant for the United Nations and its subdivisions.
Amano was born in Yugawara, a small town in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, in 1947. He started his studies at the University of Tokyo in 1968. After graduating from the Faculty of Law, he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in April 1972. He specialized in the international disarmament issue and nuclear nonproliferation efforts. In 1973–1974, he studied at the University of Franche-Comté and in 1974–1975, at the University of Nice, France.
Amano held different posts in the foreign ministry such as the Director of the Science Division and Director of the Nuclear Energy Division in 1993. As a member of the Diplomatic service, he was posted in the Embassies of Japan in Vientiane, Washington and Brussels, in the Delegation of Japan to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva and was Consul General of Japan in Marseille.
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