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, born 1927, is a Japanese scholar and administrator. She served as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from 1991 until 2001. She was appointed as the president of the Japan International Cooperation Agency on October 1, 2003 and is still serving as of 2007.
Her mother was a grandchild of Inukai Tsuyoshi and was influenced by his liberal political attitude. She was born in Tokyo, and graduated from University of the Sacred Heart, Tokyo before studying at Georgetown University and its Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and earned a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1963. Ogata later taught international politics at Sophia University.
In 2005, Ogata received the World Citizenship Award from the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts.