Tadamichi Yamamoto

{{short description|Japanese diplomat}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Tadamichi Yamamoto

| image = Tadamichi Yamamoto - Reception at the Hôtel de Talleyrand (cropped).jpg

| caption = Yamamoto in 2011

| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1950}}

| birth_place = Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima, Japan

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| office = UN Secretary-General's Special Representative for Afghanistan

| term_start = March 2016

| term_end = March 2020

| office1 = Head of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA)

| term_start1 = March 2016

| term_end1 = March 2020

| office2 = Ambassador of Japan to Hungary

| term_start2 = 2010

| term_end2 = 2012

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|education = Tokyo Institute of Technology
University of Oxford|other_names=

}}

{{Nihongo|Tadamichi Yamamoto|山本 忠通|Yamamoto Tadamichi|born 1950}} is a diplomat, who served as UN Secretary-General's Special Representative for Afghanistan and head of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA){{cite news|title=UNAMA's senior leadership team consists of Tadamichi Yamamoto, Toby Lanzer and Ingrid Hayden|url=https://unama.unmissions.org/leadership|publisher=unmissions.org}}{{cite news|title=Japanese to be tapped as U.N. chief's special representative to Afghanistan|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/18/national/japanese-tapped-u-n-chiefs-special-representative-afghanistan/#.WrdQc4hubIU|publisher=Japan Times|date=18 March 2016}} until replaced by Deborah Lyons in March 2020.{{cite web |title=Secretary-General Appoints Deborah Lyons of Canada Special Representative, Head of United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan |url=https://www.un.org/press/en/2020/sga1952.doc.htm |website=The United Nations |accessdate=14 April 2020}}{{cite web |url=https://unama.unmissions.org/leadership |title=Leadership - UNAMA |date=13 March 2015 |publisher=United Nations}}

Previously, he served as the Secretary-General's Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan dating back to November 2014. He also served as Ambassador of Japan to Hungary in 2012 and was the special representative of the Government of Japan for Pakistan and Afghanistan from 2010 to 2012.{{cite news|title=Secretary-General Appoints Tadamichi Yamamoto of Japan Special Representative for United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan|url=https://www.un.org/press/en/2016/sga1646.doc.htm|publisher=un.org|date=18 March 2016}} Yamamoto also coordinated a ministerial-level international conference on Afghan development, which was held in Tokyo, Japan in July 2012.

He completed his Bachelor of Science degree in engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology and a bachelor's degree from the University of Oxford.{{cite news|title=Secretary-General appoints Tadamichi Yamamoto of Japan Deputy Special Representative of United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan|url=https://reliefweb.int/report/afghanistan/secretary-general-appoints-tadamichi-yamamoto-japan-deputy-special-representative|publisher=Reliefweb|date=7 October 2014}}