CURRICULUM VITAE (CV)
Ambassador Shigeki Sumi
Education
- March 1977 Graduated from Hitotsubashi University, Faculty of Commerce and Management
- July 1980 Graduated from Oxford University, St Catherine's College
Professional Career
- April 1977 Entered Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- June 1987 First Secretary, Embassy of Japan to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan
- December 1989 First Secretary, Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations
- August 1993 Senior Coordinator, Policy Coordination Division, Foreign Policy Bureau
- February 1994 Director, International Peace Cooperation Division, Foreign Policy Bureau
- February 1996 Director, Oceania Division, European and Oceania Affairs Bureau
- August 1997 Counselor, Permanent Mission of Japan to the International Organizations in Geneva
- July 2000 Counselor, Embassy of Japan in Thailand
- January 2001 Minister, the same Embassy
- May 2003 Deputy Director-General, Multilateral Cooperation Division
- September 2005 Ambassador, Permanent Mission of Japan to the International Organizations in Vienna
- 2003-05 Board member of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
- August 2008 Ambassador, Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations
- September 2011 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Bahrain
- September 2014 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Ukraine
Publication
- "Introduction to International Peace Cooperation" Yuhikaku sample (August 1995)
- "Pacific Island Countries resource situation and international relations" International resources (No. 267) (March 1997)
- "The road to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Attendance of the 3rd Ad hoc Committee on Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities " Normalization, 24 (7) (No. 276) (July 2004)
- "What is necessary to do for the Convention on the Party of Persons with Disabilities" DPI. 20 (3) (9 2004)
- "United Nations and Japan at the beginning of 1990s" United Nations journal. Fall 2006
Honors and Awards
- 2003 Order of Crown of Thailand, First class
- 2013 Order of Bahrain, First class