Subject: Honorary Degree Ceremony: Madame Sadako Ogata, MA'53
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Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:01:28 +0000

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Special Event Announcement
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John J. DeGioia
The President of Georgetown University

requests the pleasure of your company for the conferral of an honorary degree upon

** Madame Sadako Ogata, MA'53 (https://www4.georgetown.edu/uis/keybridge/keyform/form.cfm?FormID=4694)
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Monday, May 13, 2013
Ceremony: 5pm, Gaston Hall
Reception: 6pm, Second Floor Loggia

Georgetown University
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Madame Sadako Ogata has dedicated her life and work to creating peace, advancing human rights and protecting refugees and vulnerable populations around the world.

She has contributed to this work both within the Academy – as Dean of the Faculty of Foreign Studies and as a member of the faculty at Sophia University, Tokyo – and as a practitioner, through her service as President of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and in several high-level positions at the United Nations.

As President of JICA from 2003 to 2012, she helped guide Japan’s international development efforts. Her tenure as president was characterized by a field-based approach that put development workers in the communities they were serving to help them better understand a region’s specific needs and challenges. Under her leadership, JICA dramatically increased its work in Africa with an emphasis on economic growth, sustainable development and increasing mobility among nations. She also led JICA through significant engagement in peace-building activities in Afghanistan. She remains involved with JICA today as Special Advisor to the President.

Prior to assuming the presidency of JICA, Madame Ogata served as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from 1991-2000. She had served in a variety of roles focused on human rights and human security in her decades-long career, beginning in the 1970s when she was Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations.

Ogata received her B.A. from the University of the Sacred Heart in Tokyo, her M.A. in international relations from Georgetown University and her Ph.D. in political science from the University of California at Berkeley.
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