Tomoko Baba

Ms. Tomoko Baba is currently the Principal Deputy Director of the International Safety and Security Cooperation Division at the Foreign Policy Bureau of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan.

Ms. Baba is a diplomat with 15 years of professional experience in security, policy planning, international cooperation, and human rights.
Ms. Baba joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1998. After completing the Specialist Training Program in Spain (1999-2001), she moved to her first foreign mission at the Embassy of Japan in Panama (Third Secretary), where she served as a cultural attaché.

From 2003 to 2015, Ms. Baba served in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, handling policy planning for international cooperation, especially with Latin American countries, policy planning for Latin American affairs and Afghanistan, and policy coordination in the Foreign Policy Bureau.
From 2012 to 2015, Ms. Baba worked in the Treaties Division of the International Legal Affairs Bureau, as well as for ad-hoc secretariats for the Tokyo Conference on Afghanistan (2012) and the World Assembly for Women in Tokyo: WAW! (2014).

From 2015 to 2018, she served at the Human Rights Council (First Secretary, Human Rights Officer) at the Permanent Mission of Japan to the International Organizations in Geneva.

From 2018 to 2023, she was Counsellor and Deputy Head of the Embassy of Japan in Uruguay.

Ms. Baba graduated from the School of International Cooperation Studies at Kobe University in Japan and holds a Master of Arts in Economics.