Teruhiko Shinada served in Japan’s diplomatic service for over 40 years. Education: Faculty of Economics, Keio University, Japan. As a diplomat, he held numerous leadership positions: Embassy of Japan in Belgrade (1980-86, 1992-95, 2006-10), Office of the High Representative in Sarajevo (1996), Japan Mission to the UN in New York (1997-98), Embassy of Japan in Vienna (1999-2001). In the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tokyo, he served as Senior Coordinator for Foreign Policy (2010-12), Senior Coordinator for Global Environmental Issues (2013-14), Senior Coordinator of the Paris Club (2014-15), Director of the Exchange Programs Division in the Secretariat of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Assistant Advisor to the Chief Cabinet Secretary for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics (2015-16). From 2016 to 2022, he served as the first Resident Ambassador of Japan to Barbados. Shinada also taught Serbian language at the University of Tokyo (2002-04). He assumed the role of Special Advisor to IAS in May 2022.

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