New Permanent Representative of Japan Presents Credentials to the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva

Atsuyuki Oike, the new Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Tatiana Valovaya, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Oike had been serving as the Permanent Delegate of Japan to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization since 2020.  From 2017 to 2020, he was Deputy Chief Negotiator, Trans-Pacific Partnership Headquarters, Cabinet Secretariat (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership and Japan-United States negotiations).  He served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy of Japan in the United States from 2016 to 2017; and Assistant Minister and Director-General for Global Issues, and Chief Negotiator for Climate Change (Paris Agreement) from 2014 to 2016.

Mr. Oike joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan in 1983.  He has held a number of other posts, including Economic Minister at the Embassy of Japan in China from 2012 to 2014; Economic Minister at the Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations Office at Geneva, in charge of the World Trade Organization, from 2010 to 2012; and Economic Minister at the Embassy of Japan in the Republic of Korea from 2007 to 2010.

Mr. Oike was born on 26 August 1960 in Osaka.  He has a Bachelor of Arts in law from the University of Tokyo and a Master of Letters in international relations from the University of Oxford.

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