Takao Toda

As the Vice President for Human Security and Global Health, Dr. Toda promotes strategic planning and implementation of JICA’s operations

For more than three decades, he has been playing various key roles of strategizing and implementing Japan’s ODA, such as Group Director on Peace Building, Group Director on Human Security, Senior Fellow of JICA Research Center, Chief Representative of Bangladesh Office, Director General of Human Development Department. He has a wide range of knowledge and experience especially on the operationalization process of Human Security, which has been the core concept of Japan’s diplomatic policy of international cooperation.

Dr. Toda received Ph.D at the Graduate School of International Development in Nagoya University in 2009, master’s degree at the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences in the University of Tokyo in 2001, and LL.B at the Faculty of Law in Kyoto University in 1984.