Sukehiro Hasegawa

is a Japanese academic, educator, author and administrator. He served as the Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations for Timor-Leste and head of peacekeeping and peacebuilding missions, UNMISET, UNOTIL and UNMIT from May 2004 to September 2006. He is currently the President of the Global Peacebuidling Association of Japan, the ACUNS (Academic Council on the United Nations System) Liaison Officer in Tokyo, the Chair of the Hiroshima Peacebuilders Center (HPC) Council and the Personal Advisor to former president and Prime Minister José Ramos-Horta of Timor-Leste.

Education Hasegawa holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the University of Michigan, a Master of Arts degree in public administration from International Christian University of Tokyo, and a Ph.D. in international relations from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. the Japan Association of United Nations Studies (JAUNS), and member of the Earth Charter Commission for Asia and the Pacific. He is currently the ACUNS Liaison Officer in Tokyo and the executive committee (2014-2015) of the Academic Council on United Nations System (ACUNS).

Publications

Hasegawa, Sukehiro (2015). "Japan and the United Nations: Its Past, Present and Future." in Japan's Development Assistance: Foreign Aid and the Post-2015 Agenda, edited by Hiroshi Kato et al. Palgrave Macmillan: 239–254. .

Hasegawa, Sukehiro (2010). "Building trust in government in Timor-Leste: The roles and strategies of United Nations missions." in Building trust in government: Innovations in governance reform in Asia, edited by G. Shabbir Cheema and Vesselin Popovski. United Nations University Press: 221–233. .