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Lecture by Ms. Izumi Nakamitsu, Assistant Secretary-General of UN, Assistant Administrator and Crisis Response Unit leader of UNDP
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Lecture by Ms. Izumi Nakamitsu, Assistant Secretary-General of UN, Assistant Administrator and Crisis Response Unit leader of UNDP

Lecture by Ms. Izumi Nakamitsu, Assistant Secretary-General of UN, Assistant Administrator and Crisis Response Unit leader of UNDP
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We are organizing a lecture from Ms. Izumi Nakamitsu, Assistant Secretary-General of UN, Assistant Administrator and Crisis Response Unit leader of UNDP. Find the details below.

Turbulent World and the United Nations: The Role of Development Cooperation

  • Date: November 29, Tuesday 11:00-12:10 (Registration desk opens at 10:30)
  • Venue: Okuma Small Auditorium
  • Lecturer: Ms. Izumi Nakamitsu, Assistant Secretary-General of the UN, and Assistant Administrator and Crisis Response Unit leader of UNDP
  • Application: Apply online HERE *Open to all Waseda students, faculty members, and the general public
  • Language: Japanese (with simultaneous interpretation in English)
  • Inquiry: International Office:[email protected]
  • Organized by International Office, International Affairs, Waseda University and UNDP

Lecture Summary

Ms. Izumi Nakamitsu began her career at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Turkey. After serving as Director of the Division of Policy, Evaluation and Training in the UN’s Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) and Director of the Asia and the Middle East Division, she was appointed Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and Assistant Administrator and Director of Crisis Response Unit of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in November 2014.

On November 1, 2016, she was appointed Special Advisor to the Secretary-General of the United Nations to follow up the U.N. summit for refugees and migrants held in September, which made her the highest-ranking Japanese female member in the U.N. With her outstanding contribution that has received a great deal of public attention, she was chosen as one of “100 Most Respected Japanese People in the World” (Newsweek, 2009), “120 Women Leading Japan” (Bungei Shunju, March 2015), and “125 Exceptional People to Energize Japan” (Bungei Shunju, 2016 New Spring).

In the lecture, she will talk about how disasters and conflicts the world suffers are dealt through international cooperation, introducing her own story of how she has made her way to the current position and what she has felt while working for humanitarian aid, peace and development.

Lecturer’s Short Bio

Ms.Izumi Nakamitsu

Ms.Nakamitsu holds a Master of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. and Bachelor of Laws from Waseda University. She has many years of distinguished service within and outside the United Nations System. She most recently served as Director of the Asia and the Middle East Division in the UN’s Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO). Between 2008 and 2012, she was Director of the Division of Policy, Evaluation and Training in DPKO. Between 2005 and 2008, she was Professor of International Relations at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, and during the same period she also served as a member of the Foreign Exchange Council of the Japanese Foreign Minister, and as a visiting senior advisor on peacebuilding at Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).

Prior to this, she was Chef de Cabinet and Director of Planning and Coordination at the Stockholm-based intergovernmental organization, the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) between 1998 and 2004. Earlier in her career, she held a number of positions in the UN system both at Headquarters and in the field, including in the UN Reform Team of former Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the Office of the UNHCR Assistant High Commissioner for Policy and Operations Sergio Vieira de Mello, and in UNHCR field operations in the former Yugoslavia, Turkey and northern Iraq.


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