Sadako Ogata

Sadako Ogata (Japanese绪 方 贞子Sadako Ogata, born September 16, 1927 in Tokyo ) is a Japanese high school teacher and UN diplomat and former UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

Life

Coming from a family of diplomats, she studied political science. 1953 she received a master's degree from Georgetown University in Washington, DC and received his doctorate in 1963 at the University of California, Berkeley before returning to Japan. From 1965 to 1974 she taught international relations at the International Christian University and at the Holy Heart University of Tokyo. From 1974 to 1976 she was an assistant professor at the International Christian University. In 1976 she went back to the United States, this time in the national representation at the United Nations in New York, where she first held the rank of minister, later she was special envoy. In 1980 she returned to Tokyo and was only a professor and later director of the Institute of International Relations at Sophia University in Tokyo. In 1989 she was dean.

Ogata is a member of the Club of Rome.

Work for the UN

From 1982 to 1985 she was the Japanese representative in the UN Human Rights Commission. In 1990, she was briefly worked as an independent expert of the UN Commission on Human Rights in Myanmar.

From 1991 to 2000, Sadako Ogata, UN High Commissioner for Refugees. She was first elected in 1990 by the UN General Assembly for a term of three years and took office on 1 January 1991. She was elected for another five years 1993 and 1998, again for two years. Her successor in that office in 2001 was held at the Dutch Ruud Lubbers.

In early 2002 Ogata refused the offer of Prime Minister Koizumi Jun'ichirô to be the successor to the dismissed Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka.

Family

Ogata's father is the former Deputy Prime Minister Ogata Taketora, her maternal grandfather, the former Foreign Minister Yoshizawa Kenkichi.

Awards

Publications

  • Refugees, A Mulilateral Response to Humanitarian Crises in " The Movement of People ". RSA Journal, Volume V, 1992
  • Towards a European Immigration. The Philip Morris Institute for Public Policy Research, Brussels 1993
  • The Turbulent Decade: Confronting the Refugee Crises Of The The 1990s. 2005, ISBN 0-393-05773-9
  • Defiance in Manchuria: The Making of Japanese Foreign Policy, 1931-1932. 1984, ISBN 0-313-24428-6
Four Freedoms Award Ramon Magsaysay Award Asahi Prize Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Order of Friendship Royal Norwegian Order of Merit Order of Prince Henry Order of Orange-Nassau Fridtjof Nansen Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan Poul Hartling Thorvald Stoltenberg Wendy Chamberlin Integrated Authority File
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