Hisashi Owada Ambassador Hisashi Owada, former Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations, was born in 1932. After graduating from Tokyo University, Ambassador Owada pursued his graduate studies at Cambridge University. He joined the Foreign Service of Japan, spending a large part of his career on legal as well as United Nations affairs. Ambassador Owada served as Private Secretary to the Foreign Minister and then to the Prime Minister of Japan, later as Director-General of the Treaties Bureau (Principal Legal Advisor) and Deputy Minister of the Foreign Ministry, and then Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan. Ambassador Owada has participated in numerous diplomatic conferences and negociations, both bilateral and multilateral, as Japan's representative. As ambassador, he was Permanent Representative of Japan to the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) (1988-1989) and to the United Nations (1994-1998). During his tenure of Office at the United Nations, he was twice President of the Security Council. He is currently Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan and Senior Advisor to the President of the World Bank. see article Autumn 2000 | |||
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