Yukio Satoh is President of the Japan Institute of International Affairs in Tokyo. Ambassador Satoh was the Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations up to August 2002. He served as the Ambassador of Japan to the Netherlands (1994-96) and to Australia (1996-98). He entered the foreign service in 1961 from the University of Tokyo’s Faculty of Law, and studied history as Edinburgh University from 1961-63. Since then, he has served in various overseas postings including Washington D.C., London and Hong Kong. His domestic postings include Director of Security Division, American Affairs Bureau (1976-77), Private Secretary to Foreign Minister Sunao Sonoda (1977-79), Director of the Policy Coordination Division (1985-87), Assistant Vice-Minister for Parliamentary Affairs (1987-88), Director-General of the Information Analysis, Research and Planning Bureau (1990-1992), and Director-General of the North American Affairs Bureau (1992-94) in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was also Chief of Prefectural Police of Miyazaki Prefecture from 1984-85. While in London between 1980 and 1984, he was Research Associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) from 1980-81. He has written numerous articles on Japanese security issues both in English and in Japanese.
