Tembusu College Master’s Tea

Ambassador Takaaki Kojima

3pm, Thursday

23rd January 2014

Master’s Common Lounge,

Level 3, Residential Block

Refreshments will be served.

Only 30 seats available!

Please register at dev-tembusu-nus.pantheonsite.io

Ambassador Takaaki Kojima was born in 1947. He received his Bachelor of Arts Degree from Tokyo University in1970 and his BAchelor of Laws Degree from Cambridge University in 1974. He joined the Japanese Diplomatic Service in 1971. He took on the roles of Councillor at the Japanese Embassy in China from 1989 to 1992, and Minister at the Japanese Embassy in the United Kingdom between 1992 and 1995. From 2001 to 2002, he served as Minister at the Japanese Embassy in the United States of America, and later became the Director General for Intelligence and Analysis at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Japan from 2002 to 2004.

Ambassador Kojima was posted to Singapore from 2004 to 2007 and serve as the Ambassador to Australia from 2007 to 2010. He was the Ambassador in charge of counter terrorism cooperation between 2010 and 2011. Active also in academia, Ambassador Kojima was a Fellow at the Wetherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, from 2001 to 2002. He is currently a Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.