International Policy Studies Forum
2005:
Japan in the International Community
Organized by David Ewick and Modjtaba Sadria
The Proceedings of the International Policy Studies Forum 2005, introduced and edited by David Ewick and Modjtaba Sadria, may be found in Of Windows and Mirrors: Reflections on Japan in the International Community, special issue of Journal of Policy and Culture / Sôgô seisaku kenkyû (Tokyo: Chuo University Press / Chuo University Faculty of Policy Studies, 2007). A description of and photographs from the Forum may be found here.
Speakers:
July
19: H. E. Mr. Domingo L. Siazon, Jr. Ambassador to Japan from the Republic
of the Philippines, holds Bachelor degrees in Political Science
and Physics from the University of Ateneo de Manila and Tokyo University
of Education, respectively, and a Master of Public Administration degree
from Harvard University, where he was also a Fellow of the Edward S. Mason
Program in Policy and Management in Developing Countries at the John F.
Kennedy School of Government. His first appointment to the Philippine
Embassy in Tokyo was from 1964 to 1968, and he has served as well in the
Philippine Embassy in Berne, as Philippine Ambassador to the Federal Republic
of Austria, Ambassador and Permanent Representative both to the International
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the United Nations International Development
Organization (UNIDO). From 1985 to 1993 he was Director General of the
United Nations Industrial Development Organization. His first appointment
as Ambassador to Japan from the Republic of the Philippines was from 1993
to 1995, following which, from 1995 to 2001, appointed by three successive
Presidents, he was the Philippine Secretary of Foreign Affairs. He has
been the recipient of Orders of Merit, including the Order of the Rising
Sun, from several governments, and is fluent in six languages, Japanese
among them. His published speeches include the collections Preparing
for the 21st Century: Challenges for Philippine Foreign Policy and
Philippine Foreign Policy: Challenges and Opportunities in the New
Era. His second posting as Ambassador to Japan from the Republic
of the Philippines began in September 2001.
July
5: H. E. Dr. Ben Ngubane, Ambassador to Japan from the Republic of South
Africa, holds Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery degrees from the
Durban Medical School, Master of Family Medicine and Primary Health degrees
from the Natal Medical School, and Diplomas in Tropical Medicine and Public
Health from the University of Witwatersand. From 1991 to 1994 he was Minister
of Health of the KwaZulu Government, and in 1993 Leader of the KwaZulu
Government Delegation to the constitutional negotiations that brought
an end to the apartheid legal order. In August 1994 he was appointed Minister
of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology in Nelson Mandela’s Government
of National Unity. He was later a member of the Executive Council and
then Premier of the newly-formed KwaZulu-Natal Province. He has been Regional
Councilor for the South African Red Cross Society since 1978, and has
served as Chairman of the South African Commonwealth Science Council.
He is currently a member of the board of the South African National Committee
for the Rights of Children (NCRC), the Community-Based Development Programme
(CBDOP), the Grassroots Early Childhood Development Project, and the Community
Peace Foundation. In 1995 he delivered the Lord Zuckerman Lecture to the
Royal Society in London, and in 1999 was reappointed South African Minister
of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology. He became Ambassador to Japan
from the Republic of South Africa in February 2004.
June
28: H. E. Mr. Åge B. Grutle, Ambassador to Japan from the Kingdom
of Norway, completed his undergraduate studies in Russian and History
at the University of Oslo and, as a Fulbright Scholar, a Masters of International
Affairs at the Russian Institute of Columbia University. He entered the
Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1978, and among other posts has
served at the Royal Norwegian Embassies at Seoul and Moscow. His first
appointment to the Norwegian Embassy in Tokyo was as First Secretary,
from 1988 to 1992. At the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs he has
been Senior Executive Officer and Assistant Director-General at the Political
Department, Chief of the Cabinet for the Minister of Foreign Affairs,
Head of Section for Russia and Central and Eastern Europe, Secretary of
the Foreign Affairs Committee, and Director-General of the Multilateral
Department. He has also served as Head of the International Department
of the Norwegian Parliament. He began his appointment as Ambassador to
Japan from the Kingdom of Norway in February 2004.
June
21: H. E. Mr. Kamran Niaz, Ambassador to Japan from the Islamic Republic
of Pakistan, is educated to the post-graduate level in Political
Science, and has been a member of the Foreign Service of Pakistan since
1972. In addition to appointments at the Embassies of Pakistan in Ankara
and Colombo he has been First Secretary and Counselor to Pakistan's Permanent
Mission at Geneva, Counselor to the High Commission of Pakistan in New
Delhi, Minister to the Permanent Mission of Pakistan in New York, Minister
and Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy of Pakistan in Washington,
and Ambassador of Pakistan to the Kingdom of Nepal. At the Pakistani Foreign
Ministry he has been Director for the South Asian Association for Regional
Cooperation (SAARC) and Director General for South Asia. He took up his
appointment as Ambassador to Japan from the Islamic Republic of Pakistan
in April 2003.
June
14: H. E. Mr. Dennis N. O. Awori, Ambassador to Japan from the Republic
of Kenya, holds a degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the University
of Manchester and has completed programs as well at Ashridge Management
College and the Business School of Emory University. He was Captain of
the legendary Kenya National Rugby Team of the late 1970s, and widely
regarded as among the world's best players. Following this he has had
an outstanding career both in industry and in social and governmental
service. He has been General Manager or Managing Director of several major
automotive corporations, including Yamaha Motors Kenya, and Coordinator
and Corporate Advisor to Toyota East Africa. From 2000 to 2003 he was
Director of the Communications Commission of Kenya, and he has served
as a Member of the Association of Round Tables of East Africa (ARTEA),
Chairman of the Nairobi District Round Table No. 3, Chairman of the Kenya
Motor Industry Association, and Vice-Chairman of the Kenya Private Sector
Alliance. He was appointed Ambassador of the Republic of Kenya to Japan
and to the Republic of Korea in October 2003.
June
7: H. E. Mr. Manilal Tripathi, Ambassador to Japan from the Republic of
India, holds degrees in Political Science from Ravenshaw College
in Cuttack, Orissa, and the University of Delhi. His distinguished diplomatic
career has included appointments at the Indian Missions in Kathmandu,
Moscow, and Kabul, as Consul General at the Indian Mission in Karachi,
Deputy Chief of the Indian Mission in Bonn, Ambassador of the Republic
of India to Romania, Deputy High Commissioner of the Indian Mission in
Ottawa, and High Commissioner of India in the Republic of Mauritius and
the People’s Republic of Bangladesh. He took up his appointment
as Ambassador to Japan from the Republic of India in October 2003.
May
31: Dr. Jadwiga M. Rodowicz, Minister-Counselor to the Embassy in Japan
from the Republic of Poland, holds MA and PhD degrees in Japanese
Studies from the Institute of Oriental Studies at Warsaw University. For
two years she was a postgraduate student at the Department of Comparative
Literature at the University of Tokyo. She has been Assistant Professor
and then Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Oriental Studies at Warsaw,
and Lecturer at the Warsaw School of Inter-Cultural Relations. From 1979
to 1992 she worked with cultural minorities in Poland and elsewhere in
Europe as a researcher with the Gardzienice Center for Theater Practices,
the most internationally acclaimed theater company in Poland. She joined
the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1993 as Counselor to the Far
East Division, and from 1994 to 1999 was First Secretary and Counselor
to the Embassy of Poland in Tokyo. She returned to the Embassy in Tokyo
in 2002 as Minister-Counselor and Deputy Chief of Mission. In addition
to many articles in Polish and English on Japanese culture, Dr. Rodowicz
has been awarded numerous prizes for her academic work, and is the author
of Five Women Characters in the Noh Theatre (1993) and A
Perfect Actor—Zeami Motokiyo’s Treatises (2000).
May
24: H. E. Dr. Egbert Jacobs, Ambassador to Japan from the Kingdom of the
Netherlands, holds a Doctorate in Law from the University of Leiden.
Among other appointments in a distinguished career he has been Head of
the Department of Netherlands Volunteers, Special Advisor to the Dutch
Director-General for International Cooperation, Deputy Secretary General
and then Secretary General of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador
of the Netherlands to East Berlin, Chargé d’Affaires at Cairo,
Ambassador to Helsinki, and Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of
the Netherlands to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
(OSCE) in Vienna and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
(OECD) in Paris. He has been Ambassador from the Netherlands to Japan
since February 2001, and has recently been appointed Ambassador of the
Kingdom of the Netherlands to Italy, a position he will take up in Rome
in the summer of 2005.
May
17: H. E. Mr. Miguel Ruiz-Cabañas, Ambassador to Japan from the
United Mexican States, holds degrees in International Relations
from El Colegio de Mexico and in Political Science from Columbia University.
He has been Chief of Section of the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
Member of the Permanent Mission of Mexico to the United Nations, Chief
of Staff of the Mexican Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister in
Charge of Migration and Border Affairs at the Embassy of Mexico in Washington,
Director General for Special Affairs and for North America at the Mexican
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Permanent Representative of Mexico to
the Organization of American States in Washington. He has been Professor
of International Relations and Foreign Policy at several prominent Mexican
universities, has published in International Relations in both Spanish
and English, and given conference presentations at universities in Mexico,
Argentina, Spain, and the United States. He took up his appointment as
Ambassador to Japan from the United Mexican States in July 2004.
May
10: H. E. Mr. Poul Hoiness, Ambassador to Japan from the Kingdom of Denmark,
holds degrees in Political Science from the University of Aarhus and the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he studied as a Fulbright
Fellow. After several years as radio, television, and newspaper commentator
on American Politics and International Relations, he joined the Royal
Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1976. Among other appointments he
has served at the Royal Danish Embassies in Washington, Kuwait City, and
Abu Dhabi, as Head of the International Trade Department at the Danish
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador and Under-Secretary of Foreign
Trade, Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and non-resident Ambassador
to the Sultanate of Oman, the Yemeni Republic, the States of Bahrain,
Kuwait, and Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. In 1990 he was appointed
to the Board of Directors at the Institute for Contemporary Middle East
Studies at the University of Odense, and has been Chairman of that Board
since 1993. He took up his appointment as Ambassador to Japan from the
Kingdom of Denmark in September 2001.
April
26: H. E. Mr. Samir I. Naouri, Ambassador to Japan from the Hashemite
Kingdom of Jordan, is a graduate of the American University of
Beirut, and has been a member of the Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
since 1972. His first posting to the Jordanian Embassy in Tokyo was from
1974 to 1978. Among other appointments he has been Secretary to the Jordanian
Minister of Foreign Affairs, First Secretary of the Embassies of Jordan
in Paris and Canberra, Counselor at the Embassy of Jordan in Madrid, Head
of the Political Department of the Asian Division and Director of the
Private Office at the Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Deputy Permanent
Representative at the Jordanian United Nations Mission in New York, and
Ambassador of Jordan to the People’s Republic of China. He began
his appointment as Ambassador to Japan from the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
in 2000.
April
19: H. E. Mr. Hisham Badr, Ambassador to Japan from the Arab Republic
of Egypt, holds advanced degrees in International Relations and
Political Science from the American University in Cairo and Oxford University,
respectively, and has been Professor of Political Science and Diplomacy
at the American University in Cairo, where he has lectured on Japanese
Foreign Policy, The US Congress and the Middle East, and The Arab League
in World Politics. His first appointment to the Egyptian Embassy in Tokyo
was from 1985 to 1990. He has served as Diplomatic Attaché at the
Department of Information and Research at the Egyptian Foreign Ministry,
First Secretary and then Deputy Director of the Cabinet of the Foreign
Minister, Counselor to the Egyptian Embassy in Washington, and Chief of
Staff of the Cabinet of the Secretary General of the League of Arab States.
He has represented the Government of Egypt at many international conferences,
including summits of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa
(COMESA) and the Davos meetings of the World Economic Forum. In 2003 he
began his appointment as Ambassador to Japan from the Arab Republic of
Egypt.
Organized under the
auspices of
the University Graduate School and the
Faculty of Policy Studies, Chuo University, Tokyo.
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Photographs by Takahiro Suzuki;
page design by David Ewick
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