Sadako Ogata

Her Excellency Sadako Ogata
緒方 貞子
Sadako Ogata in 1993
President of the Japan International Cooperation Agency
In office 1 October 2003 – 30 March 2012
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Akihiko Tanaka
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
In office 3 November 1990 – 31 December 2000
Preceded by	Thorvald Stoltenberg
Succeeded by	Ruud Lubbers
President of the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund
In office 1978–1979
Preceded by	Ferdinand Oyono
Succeeded by	Zaki Hasan
Personal details
Born	中村 貞子 (Nakamura Sadako) (1927-09-16)16 September 1927 Azabu, Tokyo City, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan (present day Minato, Tokyo, Japan)
Died	22 October 2019(2019-10-22) (aged 92) Tokyo, Japan
Spouse	Shijuro Ogata ​ ​ (m. 1960; died 2014)​
Children	Two; including Atsushi Ogata
Alma mater	University of the Sacred Heart Georgetown University University of California, Berkeley

Sadako Ogata, née Nakamura (緒方 貞子, Ogata Sadako, 16 September 1927 – 22 October 2019), was a Japanese academic, diplomat, author, administrator, and professor emerita at the Roman Catholic Sophia University.^[1]: 222 She was widely known as the head of the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) from 1991 to 2000, as well as in her capacities as Chair of the UNICEF Executive Board from 1978 to 1979^[2][3] and as President of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) from 2003 to 2012. She also served as Advisor of the Executive Committee of the Japan Model United Nations (JMUN).^[4]