Mami Mizutori

Mami Mizutori was the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Disaster Risk Reduction and the Head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction from March 2018 until December 2023. Previously, from 2011 she served as the Executive Director of the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures at the University of East Anglia, United Kingdom. Mami joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan in 1983, where she was responsible as the Director of the United Nations Policy Division, the National Security Policy Division and the Status of US Forces Agreement Division, and Director of the Japan Information and Culture Centre at the Japanese Embassy in London. She was also stationed at the Japanese embassies of Washington DC and Mexico City.   She is currently a Specially Appointed Professor and Strategic Management Advisor at Tohoku University with a focus on disaster risk reduction and an Advisor to Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co., Ltd. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, Cambridge University, UK and on the Board of the Association for Aid and Relief Japan, a Japanese NPO focusing on refugees and internally displaced people globally and in Japan.