Nobuo Tanaka

Nobuo Tanaka, the former executive director of the International Energy Agency, is a Fellow at the Center on Global Energy Policy. He is also the global associate for energy security and sustainability at the Institute of Energy Economics in Japan. Mr. Tanaka's decades of experience with energy and finance began in 1973 when he joined Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. He has also worked for the Japanese embassy in Washington, D.C., and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. He served as executive director of the International Energy Agency from 2007 to 2011. Mr. Tanaka, a Japanese national, has a degree in economics from the University of Tokyo and an MBA from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.