Yukiya Amano

Yukiya Amano (Japanese天野 之 弥, Yukiya Amano, born May 9, 1947 in Yugawara, Kanagawa Prefecture) is a Japanese diplomat. He is considered an expert in issues of nuclear disarmament and nuclear energy. On 2 July 2009 he was elected general of the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA) and entered this office on 1 December 2009.

Life

Amano graduated in 1972 his studies of law at Tokyo University and joined the Foreign Service in the same year. She then studied abroad at the Universities of Besançon (1973-1974) and Nice ( 1974-1975 ).

During his work for the Japanese Foreign Ministry, he held various positions, so he headed from February 1993, the Department of Atomic Energy Sciences and from August 1993, the Department of Atomic Energy. It was in August 1994, Legal Adviser of Japan to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva. As of June 1997, he held the post of the Japanese Consul General in Marseille, before he was appointed in August 1999 as Deputy General Director for arms control and scientific affairs. Amano was Chairman of the G7 Group on Nuclear Safety (2000) and represented Japan at the United Nations as an expert on defense issues. In August 2002, he was appointed Director General of the Department of Disarmament, Non- proliferation and Science. Since August 2005 he has been Permanent Representative of Japan to the International Organizations in Vienna and Governor at the International Atomic Energy Agency. In this capacity he served from 2005 to 2006 as Chairman of the IAEA Board of Governors.

Amano was also active as a lecturer in International Politics at the University of Yamanashi, and from 2000 to 2001 at the Sophia University from 1991 to 1992. In 2001 he was a Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University and worked from 2001 to 2002 as a visiting lecturer at the Monterey Institute of International Studies.

On 2 July 2009 Amano was elected by the IAEA Board of Governors with 23 to 11 votes with one abstention to succeed Mohammed el- Baradei, Office of the Director-General. He sat down with it through against the South African candidate Abdul Minty. His term began on 1 December 2009.

Publications

• Making the Agenda Stick: Lessons Learned From the 2007 NPT PrepCom. In: The Nonproliferation Review. 1/2009, ISSN 1073-6700, pp. 15-24.
• Nuclear security challenges: Japan 's view. In: International Atomic Energy Agency (ed.): Nuclear security - global directions for the future. Vienna 2005, ISBN 92-0-105905-1, pp. 23 ff
• A Japanese View on Nuclear Disarmament. In: The Nonproliferation Review. 1/2002, ISSN 1073-6700, pp. 132-145.
• The Significance of the NPT Extension. In: Julie Dahlitz (ed. ): Future legal restraints on arms proliferation. United Nations publication, New York 1996, ISBN 92-1-100723-2.