Koji SAKANE

Name

Koji SAKANE

 Koji SAKANE (坂根 宏治)


Current affiliation

 ・Senior Director, Office for Peacebuilding, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)


Activities in the Association

 ・GPAJ 42nd Seminar “Prospect for Building Sustainable Peace in Afghanistan Global Peacebuilding”(by Ms. Lisa Leefke, Senior Political Affairs Officer, UNAMA) (1 Feb, 2020): Commentator

 ・Tokyo Peacebuilding Forum 2019 (2 November, 2019): Presenter (Sessoin2 “Current Conflict and Fragility”, Session 4 “How to Achieve “Sustaining Peace”?-Roles of UN and its Alternative Measures”)

 ・Seminar “Is Peacebuilding dead? What’s Next?” (by Professor Achim Wennmann, Director, Center on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP), Geneva Institute of International Development Studies)(10 April 2019): Commentator

 ・Seminar “Triple Nexus and Sustaining Peace” (30 March, 2019): Main Speaker

 ・Peacebuilding Forum Tokyo 2018 (8 December 2018): Presenter (Session 1-2)


Professional history

 ・Senior Director for Peacebuilding and Reconstruction at JICA (April 2017)
 ・Deputy Chirf Secretary at Office of the President (2014-2017)
 ・Director for Planning and ASEAN Coordination at Southeast Asia and the Pacific Department (2011-2014)
 ・Director for Cambodia at Southeast Asia and the Pacific Department (2010-2011)
 ・Indonesia Office (2006-2010)
 ・Aid Coordination Division (2003)
 ・Second Secretary at Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations (New York) (2001-2003)
 ・Secretariat of Japan Disaster Relief Team (1996-1999)
 ・Cambodia Office (1994-1996)


Academic training

 ・Master’s degree in Conflict Resolution (Bradford University, UK) (2000)
 ・Bachelor’s degree in Political Science (Waseda University, Japan) (1991)


Publications
2018

 ・”ASEAN Integration: Opportunities and Challenges”(Co-author) in “Economic Integration and Regional Development: The ASEAN Economic Community” Routledge, 2018