Yoshiji Nogami
President and Director General, the Japan Institute of International Affairs
Yoshiji Nogami is President and Director General of the Japan Institute of International Affairs and Executive Advisor to Mizuho Bank, Limited. From 2004 to 2008, he was Japanese Ambassador to the UK. After graduating from the University of Tokyo in 1966, he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he served as Deputy Director-General of the Middle Eastern and African Affairs Bureau and the Foreign Policy Bureau, Director-General of the Economic Affairs Bureau, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan. His overseas posts include Economic Counsellor at the Embassy of Japan in the US, Consul-General in Hong Kong and Ambassador to the OECD in Paris. He was a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs.
