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  Taisuke Miyamoto, Japan

Taisuke Miyamoto has been a staff of DPI-Japan Secretariat since 1995 and has primarily been responsible for issues related to international affairs, including coordination of small scale income-generation projects in Asia-Pacific countries (1995-2001), co-heading the logistic team of the 6th DPI World Assembly in Japan (2002), serving as a participant of the Japan Disability Forum on the United Nations Convention on Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Japan Disability Forum. In this capacity, he has been responsible for managing the World Bank’s inclusive development/education consulting activities in Latin America and the Caribbean since 2003 and assists in the coordination of the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) training course for leaders with disabilities in Southern Africa.

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