President of the Japan International Cooperation Agency
In office 1 October 2003 – 30 March 2012
Preceded by
Position established
Succeeded by
Akihiko Tanaka
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
In office 3 November 1990 – 31 December 2000
Preceded by
Thorvald Stoltenberg
Succeeded by
Ruud Lubbers
President of the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund
In office 1978–1979
Preceded by
Ferdinand Oyono
Succeeded by
Zaki Hasan
Personal details
Born
中村 貞子 (Nakamura Sadako)
(1927-09-16)16 September 1927 Azabu, Tokyo City, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan (present day Minato, Tokyo, Japan)
Died
22 October 2019(2019-10-22) (aged 92) Tokyo, Japan
Spouse
Shijuro Ogata
(m. 1960; died 2014)
Children
Two; including Atsushi Ogata
Alma mater
University of the Sacred Heart Georgetown University University of California, Berkeley
Sadako Ogata, néeNakamura (緒方 貞子, Ogata Sadako, 16 September 1927 – 22 October 2019), was a Japanese academic, diplomat, author, administrator, and professor emerita at the Roman Catholic Sophia University.[1]: 222 She was widely known as the head of the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) from 1991 to 2000, as well as in her capacities as Chair of the UNICEF Executive Board from 1978 to 1979[2][3] and as President of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) from 2003 to 2012. She also served as Advisor of the Executive Committee of the Japan Model United Nations (JMUN).[4]
^Wessels, David (1996). "Sadako Ogata". In Volcansek, Mary L.; Solakor, Rebecca M. (eds.). Women in Law: A Bio-bibliographical Sourcebook.
^"Officers of the UNICEF Executive Board 1946–2016" (PDF). Retrieved 20 August 2016.
^"Sadako Ogata (Japan): 1991-2000". United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Retrieved 27 November 2018.
^"MUN in Japan - 27th All Japan Model United Nations". All Japan Model United Nations (AJMUN). Retrieved 13 April 2016.
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