NORIYUKI SHIKATA

Cabinet Secretary for Public Affairs, Prime Minister’s Office of Japan

Cabinet Secretary for Public Affairs, Prime Minister’s Office of Japan since October 2021
July 2020-October 2021: Assistant Minister, Director-General, Economic Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
September 2019-May 2020: Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
Until August 2019, he was Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Deputy Chief of Mission (since September 2017), Embassy of Japan in China.

His other assignments in Tokyo include the following:
Deputy Director-General, Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2016-2017)
Director of Personnel, Minister's Secretariat (2014-2016)
Deputy Cabinet Secretary for Public Affairs, Prime Minister's Office (2010-2012)
Director of Economic Treaties, International Legal Affairs Bureau (2009-2010)
Director of Second North America Division (economic/trade relations with the U.S. and Canada), North American Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2007-2009)
Assistant Press Secretary, Director of International Press Division (2006-2007)
Director of Status of U.S. Forces Agreement (SOFA), North American Affairs Bureau (2004-2006)

His other overseas assignments include the following:
Political Minister at the Embassy in the U.K. (2012-2014)
First Secretary (Energy and Economic Policy), Delegation of Japan to the OECD (1999-2002)
Press Officer at the Embassy in DC (1989-91)

He is a graduate of Kyoto University (1986) and the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (MPP 1989). He was Visiting Professor at Graduate School of Public Policy, Kyoto University (2016-2017).