Yukiya Amano is Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), assuming office on 1 December 2009.  He was endorsed by the IAEA General Conference for a second term as Director General on 16 September 2013. Prior to his election, Mr. Amano was Japan's Resident Representative to the Agency from 2005, and served as Chair of the Agency’s Board of Governors from September 2005 to September 2006. 
At the Japanese Foreign Ministry, Mr. Amano was Director-General for the Disarmament, Non-Proliferation and Science Department from 2002 until 2005. He previously served as a governmental expert on the U.N. Panel on Missiles and on the U.N. Expert Group on Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Education. Mr. Amano contributed to the 1995, 2000 and 2005 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference, and chaired the 2007 Preparatory Committee for the 2010 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference.
A graduate of the Tokyo University Faculty of Law, Mr. Amano joined the Japanese Foreign Ministry in April 1972, when he began a series of international postings in Belgium, France, Laos, Switzerland, and the United States.