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Mario AMANO
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Mr. Mario Amano was appointed Deputy Secretary-General on 14 June 2007. He is in charge of Environment, the Development Cluster, the Policy Coherence dossier, G8 Co-ordination and the Executive Committee.
Prior to joining the OECD, Mr. Amano, a Japanese national, was Acting Executive Director of the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization from 2004-2007.
During his successful 34-year career as a Japanese Foreign Affairs Official, Mr. Amano worked on policy issues in the areas of macroeconomic management, trade frictions, development aid, foreign investment, environment and energy. From 1976 to 2000, he was involved in an increasingly senior capacity in all G8 Summit Meetings. Mr. Amano served as Japan’s chief negotiator for the Trade Related Investment Measures in the Uruguay Round and as Consul-General in Houston from 2001 to 2004.
In 1988-1989, Mr. Amano was in the Permanent Delegation of Japan to the OECD, where he covered the Council, Budget Committee and Ministerial Meetings.
Mr. Amano has an economics degree from the University of Tokyo and a Special Diploma in Social Studies from University of Oxford.
Mr. Amano is married and has three children.
Mr. Amano took up his functions on 14 June 2007.
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