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Mr. Norio HATTORI
Born in 1945, Mr. Hattori graduated in Law from the University of Tokyo in 1968.
He entered the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1968. From 1969, he served at the Embassy of Japan to France. After having worked at the headquarters in Tokyo and at the Embassy in Manila (Philippines), as well as the Delegation to the United Nations in Geneva in 1980, he then returned to Japan in 1983, where he was a senior assistant for economic cooperation at the Aid Policy Division of the Economic Cooperation Bureau at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The same year he became Director of the Domestic Public Relations Division of the Public Information and Cultural Affairs Bureau. In 1985 he was appointed Director of the First Western European Division of the European and Oceanian Affairs Bureau.
From 1986 to 1989, Mr. Hattori served as Counsellor at the Embassy of Japan to the People’s Republic of China. Then, from 1989 to 1992 he was Counsellor at the Embassy of Japan to France. In 1992, he was appointed Deputy Director-General of the Consular and Migration Affairs Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Then, from 1993 to 1996, he was Deputy Director-General of the Economic Cooperation Bureau at the Ministry.
In 1996, Mr. Hattori was posted to the Embassy of Japan to Indonesia, serving as Minister and subsequently, as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary. In 1999, he returned to Tokyo and was appointed Director-General for Arms Control and Scientific Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with the rank of Ambassador. In 2001, he became Press Secretary and Director-General for Press and Public Relations at the Ministry.
From 2002 until his nomination as Permanent Representative of Japan to the OECD,
Mr. Hattori was Ambassador to Vietnam.
Ambassador Norio Hattori took up his duties as Permanent Representative of Japan to the OECD on
4 March 2008.
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