CURRICULUM VITAE

Ambassador Nobuyasu Abe Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations, Vienna

Born: 9 September, 1945, Japan. Education: Graduated from Amherst College in 1969. Career History: Served in the Japanese Embassies in Washington, DC, Tel Aviv and Manila and the Japanese Missions in Geneva and to the UN in New York. Fellow at the Center for International Affairs, Harvard University. Consul-General in Boston. Private Secretary to Foreign Minister Kiichi Miyazawa, Director of Policy Planning and a sous-Sherpa for the G7 Summits. Director-General for Arms Control and Disarmament and Science Affairs 1997-1999. Affiliations: Associate member, International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, and member, Monterey Nonproliferation Strategy Group of the Monterey Institute for International Studies.