Amb. Tsuneo Nishida
Amb. Tsuneo Nishida
Position:
Board Member

Ambassador Tsuneo Nishida is a former Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations. Prior to his appointment in 2010, Nishida served as Japan’s Ambassador to Canada.

Working for Japan’s Foreign Ministry since 1970, he was in the Japanese Embassies in the USSR and in the USA, and was also the Japanese Consul-General in Los Angeles between 1999 and 2001. He served as Deputy Vice- Minister for Foreign Policy and as Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs in Tokyo.