Mitsuo Sakaba
Chairman
Medicine
Eisai
China
Biography
Former Ambassador to Vietnam/Belgium. Mr. Mitsuo Sakaba graduated from Yokohama City University and started his career at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan in 1973. As a trainee of the Ministry, he studied at the Montpellier University in France (1974-76). Following that, he served as Director of Technical Cooperation in charge of JICA in the Economic Cooperation Bureau and as the Counsellor of Permanent Delegation of Japan to the OECD in charge of development cooperation issues. He also served as the Consul-General in Chicago, the Director-General of the Latin American and Caribbean Affairs Bureau, and as Ambassador to Vietnam (2008-10) and the Kingdom of Belgium (2012-14). In September 2014, after leaving the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he became a Professor of International Politics at Yokohama City University (2015-17). Since January 2017, he is serving as a Member of the Public Security Examination Commission under the Ministry of Justice.
Research Interest
Pharmaceutical Science
