Kotaro Katsuki is the Minister and Head of Political Section at the Embassy of Japan to the United Kingdom. He holds a BA in Law from the University of Tokyo and an MA in Regional Studies East Asia from Harvard University. He has lectured at various universities in Japan and the United States and is a frequent speaker at policy events around the globe.

He has held various managerial positions in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Headquarters and the Japanese Government including Free Trade Agreement negotiations, Sustainable Development Goals implementation and Sustaining Peace efforts among others.

Most recently, Mr. Katsuki was Minister and Deputy Head of Mission at the Embassy of Japan in Sri Lanka, where he was heavily involved in facilitating the IMF program and debt restructuring process following the economic crisis in Sri Lanka in 2022.

Mr Katsuki joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1994. His other foreign postings have been at the Embassy of Japan in the United States of America and the Embassy of Japan in the People’s Republic of China.

We are so pleased to welcome him to Belmont as an old Belmontian, he attended the School between 1978-1980 and is delighted to be coming back to speak to us today.