Yoshinobu Nagamine

• Researcher, Secretariat of the International Peace Corporation Headquarters
  Cabinet Office of Japan

Yoshinobu Nagamine was the Head of the Tokyo Office of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), whose mandate is to assist and protect victims of armed conflict and other situations of violence. Previously, he served in Afghanistan as well as in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Prior to joining the ICRC, he worked with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) for the Tsunami relief efforts in Banda Aceh, Afghan presidential elections in Pakistan and also at the headquarters in Geneva. He has earned MAs from Waseda University in Tokyo and the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, and has a language certificate from Zhejiang University, People's Republic of China. Having spent most of his life abroad, he is also fluent in German and French.