Ambassador Akamatsu's Profile

 
 
Ambassador to Pakistan since November 2024
 
Ambassador AKAMATSU joined the Japanese Foreign service in 1989, after graduating from the University of Tokyo. After joining the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he studied at the People’s University of China in Beijing and completed his post-graduate studies at the Graduate School of Harvard University in Boston. At the headquarters of the Ministry in Tokyo, he has been involved in various multilateral and bilateral trade negotiations and dispute settlement procedures as a legal expert of Japanese delegations in the mid-1990s. He has also served as the Ambassador for Economic Diplomacy, G7/G20 Sous Sherpa, Deputy Assistant Minister for Economic Affairs, Latin American and Caribbean Affairs, Middle Eastern and African Affairs.
 
Before assuming the current position, he served as the Ambassador and Consul-General of Japan in Shanghai since September 2021 until August 2024. 
 
H.E.Mr. AKAMATSU has experienced overseas postings at the Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York (2000-03), the Embassy in China (1990-92, 2003-06), Indonesia (2014-17) and the United Kingdom (2017-19). During his tenures abroad, he was elected to serve as Vice-Chair of the Sixth Committee (Legal) of the 57^th session of the United Nations General Assembly (2002-03), Chair of the Food Assistance Convention (2018) and Chair of the International Grains Council (2018-19) in the respective international organizations.