Mr. Michiru Nishida is Special
Assistant for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Issues of the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs of Japan (MOFA) since 2007. He currently serves as Head of
Disarmament Unit in the Arms Control and Disarmament Division since July 2011.
Before this current assignment, he served from 2006 as First Secretary to the
Delegation of Japan to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, mainly in charge of nuclear issues as
well as space security issues. He is also Visiting Associate Professor of
Research Center for Nuclear Abolition (RECNA) of Nagasaki University. Before being posted to Geneva, Mr. Nishida
served as Head of the Export Control Unit of the Non-Proliferation, Science and
Nuclear Energy Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was also in
charge of NPT, IAEA, MNA (Multilateral Nuclear Approaches to the Nuclear Fuel
Cycle), PSI (Proliferation Security Initiative), SUA amendment, etc. He was a
member of the Japanese delegation to the Six-Party Talks in 2005 on the
occasion of agreement on the Joint Statement. He served as Head of the
Political Section of the Consulate-General of Japan
to Karachi, Pakistan.
