Ms Kazumi Ogawa is the Director of the UN Mine Action Service. 
With nearly 30 years of diverse experience within the United Nations system, Ms. Ogawa has served the Organization worldwide, including in the former Yugoslavia, Eritrea, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic, Geneva, and New York. 
She began her career in the United Nations Secretariat (New York) in 1994 in the Department of Public Information. During the course of her career, Ms. Ogawa has worked in the areas of development, political affairs, crisis management, human rights, public information, and human resources. She was most recently the Deputy Director for Central and Southern Africa and the Great Lakes. Prior to that, she was the Principal Coordination Officer for Europe at the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat). She served as Director of Human Resources at the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), from 2019 to 2023, and was the Chief of Staff of UN-Habitat in Nairobi, Kenya, from 2016 to 2019. 
Ms. Ogawa holds a Master of Arts degree in East Asian Studies, obtained in 1992 from the University of Hawaii (USA) as an East-West Center Scholar. She has a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations and a Bachelor of Science in Mass Communication and Public Relations from Boston University (USA).