Board Members and Executive Officers

Kunio Umeda

Member of the Board of Directors (Audit and Supervisory Committee Member)

Special Assistant to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1978	Apr	Joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
1995	Apr	Director, Second Southeast Asia Division, Southeast and Southwest Asian Affairs Department, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
1996	Jul	Director, Regional Policy Division, Asian Affairs Bureau, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
1997	Jul	Counsellor, the Japanese Embassy in Republic of Peru and Consul-General in Lima, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
1998	Sep	Counsellor, the Japanese Embassy in United states of America, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
1999	Jun	Counsellor, the Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations
2002	Jan	Minister, the Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations
2002	Sep	Director, Personnel Division, Minister's Secretariat, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
2004	Sep	Counsellor, Minister's Secretariat, Foreign Policy Bureau and Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
2006	Dec	Chief Minister, the Japanese Embassy in People's Republic of China, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
2010	Aug	Director-General, Southeast and Southwest Asian Affairs Department, Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
2012	Sep	Director-General, International Cooperation Bureau, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
2014	Jan	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to Federative Republic of Brazil
2016	Oct	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
2020	Apr	Left the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
2020	Nov	Special Assistant to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan (current position)
2024	Jun	Outside Member of the Board of Directors (Audit and Supervisory Committee Member), NIDEC (current position)