Tadamichi Yamamoto
Yamamoto in 2011
UN Secretary-General's Special Representative for Afghanistan
In office
March 2016 – March 2020
Head of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA)
In office
March 2016 – March 2020
Ambassador of Japan to Hungary
In office
2010–2012
Personal details
Born1950 (age 73–74)
Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima, Japan
EducationTokyo Institute of Technology
University of Oxford

Tadamichi Yamamoto (山本 忠通, Yamamoto Tadamichi, born 1950) is a diplomat, who served as UN Secretary-General's Special Representative for Afghanistan and head of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA)[1][2] until replaced by Deborah Lyons in March 2020.[3][4]

Previously, he served as the Secretary-General’s Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan dating back to November 2014. He also served as Ambassador of Japan to Hungary in 2012 and was the special representative of the Government of Japan for Pakistan and Afghanistan from 2010 to 2012.[5] Yamamoto also coordinated a ministerial-level international conference on Afghan development, which was held in Tokyo, Japan in July 2012.

He completed his Bachelor of Science degree in engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Oxford.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "UNAMA's senior leadership team consists of Tadamichi Yamamoto, Toby Lanzer and Ingrid Hayden". unmissions.org.
  2. ↑ "Japanese to be tapped as U.N. chief's special representative to Afghanistan". Japan Times. 18 March 2016.
  3. ↑ "Secretary-General Appoints Deborah Lyons of Canada Special Representative, Head of United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan". The United Nations. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
  4. ↑ "Leadership - UNAMA". United Nations.
  5. ↑ "Secretary-General Appoints Tadamichi Yamamoto of Japan Special Representative for United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan". un.org. 18 March 2016.
  6. ↑ "Secretary-General appoints Tadamichi Yamamoto of Japan Deputy Special Representative of United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan". Reliefweb. 7 October 2014.
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