Mari Amano

Mr. Mari Amano has been appointed Deputy Secretary-General. He will be in charge of the Development Cluster and the Policy Coherence dossier. Mr. Amano will take up his functions on 14 June 2007.

Mr. Amano, a Japanese national, is currently Acting Executive Director of the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organisation.

During his successful 34-year career as a Japanese Foreign Affairs Official, Mr. Amano has 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 2000 to 2003.

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.