Rintaro Tamaki, Deputy Secretary-General, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

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Mr. Rintaro Tamaki has been appointed Deputy Secretary-General as of 1st August 2011. He will help the Secretary-General manage the OECD work on environment, development, green growth, financial affairs and taxes.
Prior to joining the OECD Mr. Tamaki, a Japanese national, was Vice Minister of Finance for International Affairs at the Ministry of Finance, Government of Japan.
During his 35-year prominent career at the Japanese Ministry of Finance, Mr. Tamaki has worked on various budget, taxation and development issues. He worked for the OECD Secretariat from 1978-1980 in the Economic Prospects Division and from 1986-1988 in the Fiscal Affairs Division of DAFFE. In 1994 he was posted to the World Bank as Alternate Executive Director for Japan and in 2002 as Finance Minister at the Embassy of Japan in Washington DC. He then became Deputy Director-General (2005), Director-General (2007) and Vice Minister, International Affairs (2009) at the Ministry of Finance.
Mr. Tamaki graduated in 1976, LL.B. from the University of Tokyo.