Слайд 1Koichiro MATSUURA
The first Asian Director-General of UNESCO;
Specialist in various topics from
Environment to World language and Natural heritage;
Participated in “UNESCO Children's Performing Arts Festival in East Asia” which was held in Gwangju;
Mr. Matsura was the one who suggested to organize the World
Culture Forum 2015 in Gwangju.
Слайд 2Koichiro MATSUURA:
Biography
Academic:
1956-’59: Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo;
1959-’61: Faculty
of Economics, Haverford College, USA.
Professional:
1961-’63: Third Secretary of the Embassy of Japan in Ghana;
1968-’72: Second, then First Secretary of the Japanese Delegation to the OECD in Paris;
1988-’90: Director-General, Economic Cooperation Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs;
1992-’94: Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs (Sherpa for Japan at the G-7 Summit);
1998-’99: Chairperson, World Heritage Committee of UNESCO;
1999-2009: UNESCO Director-General.
Слайд 3Koichiro MATSUURA:
Publications
In Japanese:
the Forefront of Economic Cooperation Diplomacy, 1990
History of
Japan-United States Relations, 1992
The G-7 Summit: Its History and Perspectives, 1994
In French/English:
Development & Perspectives of the Relations between Japan and France, 1995
Japanese Diplomacy at the Dawn of the 21st Century, 1998
A year of Transition, 2002
Building the New UNESCO, 2003
Responding to the Challenges of the 21st Century, 2014