18 November 2008
Toru Shikibu was appointed as the Executive Director for Japan on July 24, 2007. Born in Hiroshima, Shikibu studied Liberal Arts and British Studies at the University of Tokyo during which time he was a Sankei Scholar at Reading University for one year. He went on to do a Masters degree in International Studies which he finished in 1977.
Shikibu began his career in Japan's Ministry of Finance, and since then, has been in several prestigious positions, most notably, as the Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Graduate School of Economics at Nagasaki University; financial minister for the Japanese Embassy in the UK, and the Director-General for the Kinki District Finance Bureau in Osaka, Japan.
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