The 2nd Tokyo Global Dialogue
Speakers (as of Feb 25, 2021)（★:Moderator ◎:Panelist

Panelists are in alphabetical order.）（The program and participants are subject to change）

February 25 (Thu)◆Message
H.E. Suga Yoshihide

Prime Minister of JapanMr. SUGA Yoshihide is the Prime Minister of Japan and the President of the Liberal
Democratic Party (LDP). He is a member of the House of Representatives (elected 8
times). He served as Chief Cabinet Secretary from 2012 to 2020 and assumed office in
September 2020.

◆Foreign Policy Speech
H.E. Motegi Toshimitsu

Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan

Mr. Motegi Toshimitsu is a member of the House of Representatives belonging to the
Liberal Democratic Party and currently serves as Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan.
He graduated from the University of Tokyo, and earned his Master’s Degree from
Harvard University. He served as Chairman of Policy Council of the LDP; Minister of
Economy, Trade and Industry; and Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy. He
assumed the current position in September 2019.

◆Roundtable Featuring JIIA Strategic Annual Report★Kenichiro Sasae

President, The Japan Institute of International Affairs

Kenichiro Sasae joined the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs after graduating fromThe University of Tokyo in 1974. His distinguished and illustrious diplomatic career
includes prestigious assignments as Executive Assistant to the Prime Minister, DirectorGeneral of the Economic Affairs Bureau, Director-General of the Asian & Oceania Affairs
Bureau, and Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs. During his period of service in Tokyo, he
represented the Japanese Government in the Six-Party Talks on North Korean issues.
He also worked as Political Director for the G-8 Summit. From 2012-2018, he was
Ambassador of Japan to the United States. Subsequently, in June 2018, Ambassador
Sasae was appointed President of The Japan Institute of International Affairs to head
Japan’s premier foreign affairs think tank.

◎ James Crabtree

Associate Professor of Practice, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy,

National University of Singapore/ Executive Director-Designate, IISS–Asia

James Crabtree is a Singapore-based author and journalist, and an Associate Professorof Practice at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. His best-selling 2018 book,“The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India’s New Gilded Age” was short-listed for the
FT / McKinsey book of the year. Prior to academia, James worked for the Financial
Times, most recently as Mumbai bureau chief. He is now a columnist for Nikkei Asian
Review, and a fellow at the Asia-Pacific programme at Chatham House. James has
written for a range of global publications, including the New York Times, the Economist,
Wired, and Foreign Policy. Prior to journalism he was an advisor in the UK Prime
Minister’s Strategy Unit under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. He has worked for various
think tanks in London and Washington DC, and spent a number of years living in America,
initially as a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

◎ Bilahari Kausikan

Chairman, Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore /Former Ambassador-at-Large, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore

Bilahari Kausikan is currently Chairman of the Middle East Institute, an autonomous
institute of the National University of Singapore. He has spent his entire career in the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs. During his 37 years in the Ministry, he served in a variety of
appointments at home and abroad, including as Ambassador to the Russian Federation,
Permanent Representative to the UN in New York, and as the Permanent Secretary to
the Ministry. Raffles Institution, the University of Singapore and Columbia University in
New York all attempted to educate him.

◎ Charles D. Lake II

President, Aflac International / Chairman and Representative

Director, Aflac Life Insurance JapanCharles Lake is President of Aflac International and Chairman and Representative
Director of Aflac Life Insurance Japan Ltd. He is also a member of the Aflac Incorporated
Global Executive Management Committee. Lake has served in various positions sincejoining Aflac in 1999. He currently chairs the Aflac Life Insurance Japan Ltd. Board of
Directors and represents the Company at international standards setting organizations
and at global fora. Prior to joining Aflac, Lake practiced law in Washington, D.C (19941999). From1990-1994, Lake served in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative in
the Executive Office of the President, departing as Special Counsel to the Deputy U.S.
Trade Representative and Director of Japan Affairs. He currently serves on the boardsof the Peterson Institute for International Economics and the U.S.-Japan BusinessCouncil and is president emeritus of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan.

◎ Thierry de Montbrial

Executive Chairman, French Institute of International Relations

Thierry de Montbrial is Executive Chairman of the French Institute of International
Relations (IFRI), which he founded in 1979. He is Professor Emeritus at theConservatoire National des Arts et Métiers. In 2008, he launched the World Policy
Conference. He has been a member of the Académie des Sciences Morales etPolitiques of the Institut de France since 1992. He chaired the Department of Economics
at the Ecole Polytechnique from 1974 to 1992. He was the first Chairman of theFoundation for Strategic Research (1993- 2001). Entrusted with the creation of the Policy
Planning Staff (Centre d’Analyse et de Prévision) at the French Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, he was its first director (1973-1979). He has authored more of twenty books,
several of them translated in various languages. He is a Grand Officier of the Légion
d’honneur, Grand Officier of the Ordre National du Mérite.

◎Shi Yinhong

Professor, Renmin University of China

Dr. SHI Yinhong is Distinguished Professor of International Relations, Chairman of
Academic Committee of the School for International Studies, and Director of the Centeron American Studies at Renmin University of China in Beijing. He is also a non-resident
Specially-invited Professor at School of Governmental Administration, Nanjing
University in Nanjing. He has served as a Counsellor to the State Council of PRC since
February 2011. He mainly engages in history and ideas of international politics, strategic
studies, East Asia security and foreign policies of both China and the United States. He
has published nineteen books, including The Dramatic Changes and Political Prudence:
On Statecraft in Foreign Relations (2019); The Traditional Chinese Foreign Strategies:
Lessons from the Four Earliest Classical Historiographies (2018); Foreign Policy andHistorical Lessons (2014). He also published more than 630 professional articles andessays, as well as eighteen translated books mainly on strategic history and international
politics.

◎ Akihiko Tanaka

President, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) /Senior Adjunct Fellow, JIIA

Akihiko Tanaka is President of the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS).
He had been Professor of International Politics at the Institute for Advanced Studies onAsia, The University of Tokyo, for many years. He was also Executive Vice President of
The University of Tokyo (2009-2011). He served as President of JICA (2012-2015). He
is Chairman of the Board, Japan for UNHCR. He obtained Ph.D. in Political Science at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1981. He received the Medal with Purple
Ribbon in 2012.

February 26 (Fri)◆Opening Plenary Session: US-China Relations★Toshihiro Nakayama

Professor, Keio University / Senior Adjunct Fellow, JIIA

Toshihiro Nakayama is a Professor of American Politics and Foreign Policy at theFaculty of Policy Management at Keio University. He is also a Senior Adjunct Fellow at
the Japan Institute of International Affairs. He was a Special Correspondent for the
Washington Post at the Far Eastern Bureau, Special Assistant at the Permanent Missionof Japan to the United Nations in New York, Senior Research Fellow at The Japan
Institute of International Affairs. He was also a CNAPS Visiting Fellow at the Brookings
Institution, and Japan Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center. He received his M.A.
(1993) and Ph.D. (2001) from Aoyama Gakuin University. He has written two books andnumerous articles on American politics, foreign policy, and international relations.

◎ John R. Allen

President, Brookings Institution

John R. Allen currently serves as president of the Brookings Institution. He is a retired
U.S. Marine Corps four-star general and former commander of the NATO International
Security Assistance Force and U.S. Forces in Afghanistan. Prior to his role at Brookings,
Allen served as senior advisor to the secretary of defense on Middle East Security andas special presidential envoy to the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL. Allen is the first
Marine to command a theater of war, as well as the first Marine to be named
commandant of midshipmen for the U.S. Naval Academy. He holds a Bachelor of
Science in operations analysis from the U.S. Naval Academy, a Master of Arts in national
security studies from Georgetown University, a Master of Science in strategic
intelligence from the Defense Intelligence College, and a Master of Science in national
security strategy from the National Defense University.

◎ John J. Hamre

President and CEO, Center for Strategic and International Studies

John Hamre was elected president and CEO of CSIS in January 2000. Before joining
CSIS, he served as the 26th U.S. deputy secretary of defense. Prior to holding that post,
he was the under secretary of defense (comptroller) from 1993 to 1997. As comptroller,
Dr. Hamre was the principal assistant to the secretary of defense for the preparation,
presentation, and execution of the defense budget and management improvement
programs. In 2007, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates appointed Dr. Hamre to serveas chairman of the Defense Policy Board, and he served in that capacity for four
secretaries of defense. Before serving in the Department of Defense, Dr. Hamre worked
for 10 years as a professional staff member of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
During that time, he was primarily responsible for the oversight and evaluation of
procurement, research, and development programs, defense budget issues, andrelations with the Senate Appropriations Committee. From 1978 to 1984, Dr. Hamreserved in the Congressional Budget Office, where he became its deputy assistantdirector for national security and international affairs. In that position, he oversaw
analysis and other support for committees in both the House of Representatives and the
Senate. Dr. Hamre received his Ph.D., with distinction, in 1978 from the School of
Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C., where
his studies focused on international politics and economics and U.S. foreign policy. In
1972, he received his B.A., with high distinction, from Augustana College in Sioux Falls,
South Dakota, emphasizing political science and economics. The following year hestudied as a Rockefeller fellow at the Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge,
Massachusetts.

◎ Jia Qingguo

Professor, Peking University

Jia Qingguo is professor and former dean of the School of International Studies of Peking
University. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1988. He is a member of theStanding Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political
Consultative Conference. He is vice president of the China American Studies
Association, vice president of the China Association for International Studies, and vicepresident of the China Japanese Studies Association. He has published extensively on
US-China relations, relations between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan and Chinese
foreign policy.

◎ Akio Takahara

Professor, The University of Tokyo / Senior Adjunct Fellow, JIIA

Akio Takahara is Professor of Contemporary Chinese Politics at the Graduate School of
Law and Politics and the Graduate School of Public Policy at The University of Tokyo.
He received his DPhil in 1988 from Sussex University, and later spent several years as
Visiting Scholar at the Consulate-General of Japan in Hong Kong, the Japanese
Embassy in Beijing, Harvard University, Peking University, and at the Mercator Institutefor China Studies. Before joining The University of Tokyo, he taught at J. F. Oberlin
University and Rikkyo University. He served as President of the Japan Association for
Asian Studies, and as the Secretary General of the New Japan-China Friendship 21stCentury Committee. He currently serves as Director of the JICA Ogata Sadako ResearchInstitute for Peace and Development, Senior Fellow of the Tokyo Foundation for Policy
Research, Senior Adjunct Fellow of the Japan Institute of International Affairs, andDistinguished Research Fellow of the Japan Forum on International Relations. His
publications include The Politics of Wage Policy in Post-Revolutionary China, (Macmillan,
1992), and Japan-China Relations in the Modern Era, (co-authored, Routledge, 2017).

◎ Wu Xinbo

Professor and Dean, Institute of International Studies, Fudan University

Dr. WU is Professor and Dean, Institute of International Studies, and Director at theCenter for American Studies, Fudan University. He teaches and researches China’s
foreign and security policy, Sino-U.S. relations, and U.S. Asia-Pacific policy.

He got his

Ph. D. in international relations from Fudan University in 1992. Dr. Wu serves on thepolicy advisory board of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Dr. Wu is the author of
Dollar Diplomacy and Major Powers in China, 1909-1913 (Fudan University Press, 1997),
Turbulent Water: US Asia-Pacific Security Strategy in the post-Cold War Era (Fudan
University Press, 2006), Managing Crisis and Sustaining Peace between China and theUnited States (United States Institute of Peace, 2008), The New Landscape in Sino-U.S.
Relations in the early 21st Century (Fudan University Press, 2011), and co-authoredAsia-Pacific Regional Order in Transformation (Current Affairs Press, 2013), China andthe Asia-Pacific Chess Game (Fudan University Press, 2017).

February 26 (Fri)◆Breakout Round PartⅠ: Thematic Analysis- Breakout Session 1: US-China Military Balance and Prospects forArms Control★Satoru Mori

Professor, Hosei University

Satoru Mori is a Professor at the Department of Global Politics, Faculty of Law, Hosei
University. He is a former Foreign Ministry official, and holds a Ph.D. degree from the
University of Tokyo, LL.M. degrees from Columbia University Law School and Kyoto
University, and a LL.B. degree from Kyoto University. During his sabbatical leave, he
was a visiting researcher at Princeton University (2014-2015) and George Washington
University (2013-2015). His book The Vietnam War and Alliance Diplomacy wasawarded the 15th Hiroshi Shimizu Prize from the Japanese Association for American
Studies. He is a recipient of the 2015 Nakasone Yasuhiro Incentive Award.

◎ Li Chen

Associate Professor, Renmin University of China

Li Chen is an associate professor and director of Center for International Security andStrategy at School of International Studies, Renmin University of China. His researchinterests include strategic and diplomatic history, contemporary security and military
strategy, and China-U.S. security relations, on which he has published scholarly articles
in leading journals such as The Journal of Strategic Studies, China Military Science, andvarious policy briefings. He frequently participates in various Track-2 dialogues on AsiaPacific security. He is also a non-resident fellow of Center for International Security andStrategy at Tsinghua University. Li received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridgein 2013, and MSc from the LSE and Peking University in 2008.

◎ Izumi Nakamitsu

Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament

Affairs, United Nations

Ms. Izumi Nakamitsu assumed her position as Under-Secretary-General and High
Representative for Disarmament Affairs on 1 May 2017. Prior to taking on this post, she
served as Assistant Administrator of the Crisis Response Unit at the United Nations
Development Programme since 2014. She has many years of experience within andoutside the UN system, most recently as Special Adviser Ad Interim on Follow-up to theSummit on Addressing Large Movements of Refugees and Migrants between 2016 and2017. She was previously Director of the Asia and the Middle East Division of the UN
Department of Peacekeeping Operations between 2012 and 2014, and Director of the
Department’s Division of Policy, Evaluation and Training, from 2008 to 2012. Born in
1963, Ms. Nakamitsu holds a Master of Science degree in Foreign Service from
Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and a Bachelor of Law degree fromWaseda University in Tokyo. She is married and has two daughters.

◎ Randy Schriver

Chairman, Project 2049 Institute / Former US Assistant Secretary of

Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs

The Honorable Randall G. Schriver is Chairman of the Board at the Project 2049 Institute.
Most recently, Mr Schriver served as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific
Security Affairs. Prior to his confirmation, Mr. Schriver was a founding partner of Armitage
International LLC, and was also a founder of
the Project 2049 Institute, where he acted as President and CEO. Previously, Mr.
Schriver served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs.
From 2001 to 2003, he served as Chief of Staff and Senior Policy Advisor to the Deputy
Secretary of State. From 1994 to 1998, he worked in the Office of the Secretary of
Defense. Prior to his civilian service, he served as an active duty Navy Intelligence
Officer from 1989 to 1991. Following active duty, he served in the Navy Reserves fornine years. Mr. Schriver has won numerous military and civilian awards.

- Breakout Session 2: Beyond the Geo-technology Competition?
★Heigo Sato

Professor, Takushoku University

Heigo Sato is a Professor at the Faculty of International Studies and the Vice Presidentof the Institute of World Studies (IWS), Takushoku University since April 2006. He wasa Senior Research Fellow at the National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS) before
coming to IWS. He was a Special Adviser to Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada on
disarmament and non-proliferation from June to September 2010. He is the former
president and current vice president of Japan Association of International Security andTrade, as well as currently a board member of Japan Association for International
Security. As a special expert, he is a member of the Japanese government delegation
for the CCW (Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons) on LAWS (Lethal
Autonomous Weapon Systems) at the United Nations Geneva. Professor Sato is theauthor of numerous articles on international relations, security studies, arms control /disarmament, political economy, export control, and emerging security technology.

◎ Elsa B. Kania

Adjunct Senior Fellow, Technology and National Security Program, Center

for a New American Security (CNAS)

Elsa B. Kania is an Adjunct Senior Fellow with the Technology and National Security
Program at the Center for a New American Security. Her research focuses on U.S.-China
relations, Chinese military strategy, defense innovation, and emerging technologies. Her
book, Fighting to Innovate, will be forthcoming with the Naval Institute Press. Currently,
Ms. Kania is a PhD candidate in Harvard University's Department of Government.

◎ Jun Nagashima

Senior Research Adviser, Nakasone Peace Institute

Lieutenant General (Retired) Jun Nagashima was born in 1960 in Tokyo, Japan. He
served as a Government of Japan Cabinet Councillor starting in August 2013 and also
as Deputy Assistant Chief Cabinet Secretary, National Security Secretariat, fromJanuary 2014. He is the first military officer to hold the position of Cabinet Councillor inJapan. As an intelligence expert, his extensive career includes critical assignments as
Defense Attaché, Liaison Officer to NATO and the EU, Embassy of Japan in Belgium;
Director, Logistics (J-4), Joint Staff Office; and Defense Intelligence Officer, DefenseIntelligence Headquarters. He retired in August 2019. He is a graduate of the National
Defense Academy and earned his Master’s Degree (European Security) from Tsukuba
University. He attended the “Generals, Flag Officer and Ambassador Course” at NATODefense College and “Transnational Security Cooperation Course” at APCSS.
He is a prolific writer of academic essays, including “Proliferation of Ballistic Missile andSecurity of East Asia,” Journal of National Defense (November 1994), which won theprestigious 1994 Kamiya Fuji Prize; “The Deepening of NATO Transformation andJapan,” Journal of World Affairs (November 2005); and “Geopolitical Risk of the Korean
Peninsula: Implications for the Japan-U.S. Alliance,” Air Power Studies (2018).

◎ Donald (Andy) Purdy

Chief Security Officer, Huawei Technologies USA

Andy is Chief Security Officer for Huawei Technologies USA overseeing Huawei USA's
cyber security assurance and user privacy protection program. Andy is the Huawei global
lead for the East-West Institute Global Cooperation in Cyberspace Initiative. Andy was
the senior cyber security official of the U.S. Government from 2004-2006. Prior tojoining the Department of Homeland Security, Andy was a member of the White House
staff where he helped to draft the U.S. National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace (2003),
after which he went to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) where he helped toform and then led the National Cyber Security Division (NCSD) and the U.S. Computer
Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT). Immediately prior to joining Huawei, Andy was
the Chief Cybersecurity Strategist for Computer Sciences Corporation.

- Breakout Session 3: Fallout of the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Crisisof Multilateralism★Kiyotaka Akasaka

Former Under-Secretary-General for Communications and PublicInformation, United Nations

Mr. Akasaka joined the Japanese Foreign Ministry in 1971 after graduating from Kyoto
University. He also graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge in the UK. In 1997, heserved as one of his country’s senior negotiators in the Kyoto Conference on Climate
Change. He worked in the secretariat of the GATT (now WTO) and the WHO,
respectively. Mr. Akasaka became Ambassador to the UN in 2000. He served as abureau member for the preparation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development,
held in Johannesburg in 2002. He held the position of Deputy Secretary-General of theOrganization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) from 2003 until 2007
in charge of development, environment and sustainable development. Mr. Akasaka held
the position of United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Communications and PublicInformation for five years from 2007 till 2012. From 2012 till 2020, he served as Presidentof the Foreign Press Center Japan.

◎ Jason Bordoff

Professor, SIPA, Columbia University

Jason Bordoff joined the Columbia faculty after serving until January 2013 as Special
Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Energy and Climate Change on the
Staff of the National Security Council, and, prior to that, holding senior policy positions
on the White House's National Economic Council and Council on Environmental Quality.
One of the world's top energy policy experts, he joined the Administration in April 2009.
At Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs, Bordoff is a professor of
professional practice and serves as founding Director of SIPA's Center on Global Energy
Policy. Prior to joining the White House, Bordoff was the Policy Director of the Hamilton
Project at the Brookings Institution. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations
and the National Petroleum Council, a consultant to the National Intelligence Council,

and serves on the boards of Winrock International, the New York Energy Forum and the
Association of Marshall Scholars. Bordoff graduated with honors from Harvard Law
School, holds an MLitt degree from Oxford University where he studied as a Marshall
Scholar, and a BA magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Brown University.

◎ Takeshi Kasai

Regional Director for Western Pacific, World Health Organization

Dr Takeshi Kasai began his term as WHO Regional Director for the Western Pacific on
1 February 2019, following his nomination by the WHO Regional Committee for theWestern Pacific and his appointment by the WHO Executive Board. The public healthcareer of Dr Kasai began nearly 30 years ago when he was assigned to a remote poston the northeast coast of Japan, providing health-care services for the elderly. His earlyexperiences there impressed upon him value of building strong health systems from theground up. In the mid-1990s, Dr Kasai attended the London School of Hygiene &Tropical Medicine, where he studied in the Department of Global Health andDevelopment and received a master’s degree in public health. Dr Kasai has worked for
WHO for more than 15 years, and at the time of his nomination was Director of
Programme Management, the No. 2 position at the WHO Regional Office for the Western
Pacific in Manila, Philippines. As a Technical Officer and later as the Director of theDivision of Health Security at the Regional Office, he was instrumental in developing andimplementing the Asia Pacific Strategy for Emerging Diseases and Public Health
Emergencies, which guides Member States in preparing for and responding to publichealth emergencies. Dr Kasai also served as the WHO Representative in Viet Nam from2012 to 2014, and in 2014 received the For the People’s Health Medal from theGovernment, the top honor bestowed upon those who have made significant
contributions to public health.

◎ Mari Pangestu

Managing Director, Development Policy and Partnerships, World Bank

Dr. Mari Pangestu is the World Bank Managing Director of Development Policy andPartnerships. In this role, she provides leadership and oversees the institution’s researchand data group, Global Practice Groups, and External and Corporate Relations function.
Mari joins the Bank with exceptional policy and management expertise, having served
as Indonesia’s Minister of Trade (2004-2011) and as Minister of Tourism and Creative
Economy (2011-2014). She is highly regarded as an international expert on a range ofglobal issues and has had vast experience of over 30 years in academia, second track
processes, international organizations and government working in areas related tointernational trade, investment and development in multilateral, regional and nationalsettings. Most recently, she was a Senior Fellow at the Columbia School of Internationaland Public Affairs and Professor of International Economics at the University ofIndonesia, and Board Member of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies,
Jakarta.

◎ Yves Tiberghien

Professor, University of British Columbia

Yves Tiberghien (Ph.D. Stanford University, 2002; Harvard Academy Scholar 2006;
Fulbright Scholar 1996) is a Professor of Political Science, Director Emeritus of theInstitute of Asian Research, and Co-Director of the Center for Japanese Research at the
University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada. Yves is Distinguished
Fellow at the Asia-Pacific Foundation of Canada and a Senior Fellow at the Universityof Alberta’s China Institute. He is an International Steering Committee Member at PacificTrade and Development Conference (PAFTAD). He is a visiting professor at Tokyo
University and at Sciences Po Paris. He co-founded the Vision 20 initiative in 2015. Yves’
research specializes in comparative political economy and global economic andenvironmental governance, with an empirical focus on Japan, China, Korea, and Europe.
His latest book is The East Asian Covid-19 Paradox (forthcoming 2021, Element Series,
Cambridge University Press). In 2020, he edited an online collection of papers on
Japan’s leadership in the Liberal International Order.

February 26 (Fri)◆Breakout Round Part II: Regional Focus- Breakout Session 1: Russia’s View of the Strategic Transformation★Nobuo Shimotomai

Distinguished Professor, Kanagawa University

Nobuo Shimotomai was born in Sapporo 1948. He received Ph.D. from University ofTokyo Graduate Schools for Law and Politics in 1978. His specialties are politics ofRussia, history of the former Soviet Union, and Asian Cold War History. His publications
include [all in Japanese] /God and Revolution,(Chikuma shobo,: 2017); Japan’s Cold
War History/ (Iwanami Shoten: 2011); and his translations include A. Brown,The Riseand Fall of Communism (Chuokoron Shinsha: 2012).

◎ James Brown

Associate Professor, Temple University Japan Campus

James D.J. Brown is associate professor of Political Science at Temple University, Japan
Campus, where he is also coordinator of the International Affairs major. He holds anundergraduate degree from the University of York, and postgraduate degrees from theuniversities of Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Aberdeen. His main area of research is JapanRussia relations. Dr Brown's work has been published in several academic journals,
including International
Affairs, Asia
Policy, International
Politics, Post-Soviet
Affairs, Europe-Asia Studies, Problems of Post-Communism, and The Asia-Pacific
Journal: Japan Focus. His two most recent books are Japan, Russia and their Territorial
Dispute: The Northern Delusion (Routledge 2017) and Japan’s Foreign Relations in Asia,
edited with Jeff Kingston (Routledge 2018). He regularly writes op-eds, including
for Nikkei Asia, The Japan Times, and The Diplomat, as well as in Russian for theCarnegie Moscow Center and in Japanese for Nikkei Business.

◎ Yoko Hirose

Professor, Keio University

Graduated in Policy Management from Keio University, received M.A. in Laws from The
University of Tokyo and obtained Ph.D. in Media and Governance from Keio University.
Occupied such positions as Special Researcher at Slavic Research Center of Hokkaido
University, Visiting Scholar at Harriman Institute, Columbia University (2013-2014), andVisiting Researcher at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki in Finland (20172018). Her main research interests are Regional studies on the former USSR (especiallyon the South Caucasus) and International Politics◎ Anna Kireeva

Associate Professor, MGIMO University

Dr. Anna Kireeva is Associate Professor at the Department of Asian and African Studies
and Research Fellow at Center for Comprehensive Chinese Studies and Regional
Projects of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University), theMinistry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. She holds B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. ininternational relations and regional studies from MGIMO University. Dr. Anna Kireeva
specializes on international relations and security in East Asia and the Indo-Pacific andfocuses on the foreign policy strategy and policy of major powers in East Asia: the U.S.,
China, Japan and Russia as well as India as an emerging power. Her focus recently has
been on Russia’s Asian pivot and Russia’s relations with Japan, China, the Korean
Peninsula and East Asia in general.

◎ Dmitri Trenin

Director, Carnegie Moscow Center

Dmitri Trenin is a founding member of the Carnegie Moscow Center, and has been its
director since 2008. Prior to joining Carnegie in 1994, he had a 21 year-long career in
the Soviet/Russian military, and retired as a colonel. Trenin is an author of a dozen books
on Eurasian geopolitics, including New Global Balance: Russian Foreign Policy in
Search of an Equilibrium (forthcoming, Spring 2021); Russia and the World in the 21stCentury (in Russian) and, in English, Post-Imperium: A Eurasian Story, that wastranslated into Japanese and Chinese; What Is Russia Up to in the Middle East andShould We Fear Russia? published by Polity Press in the UK. His most recent English
book is Russia – a concise history of the country since 1900. Trenin is a frequentinternational affairs commentator for the global and Russian media. He was born andlives in Moscow.

- Breakout Session 2: Southeast and South Asia’s View of theStrategic Transformation★Tsutomu Kikuchi

Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University / Senior Adjunct Fellow, JIIA

Professor Tsutomu Kikuchi is a Professor at the Department of International Politics,
Aoyama-Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan. He has been an adjunct fellow at the Japan
Institute of International Affairs (JIIA) since 1987. He is specializing in international
political economy in the Asia-Pacific. He was a visiting fellow at the Australian National
University (ANU: Canberra) and the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS:
Singapore), a Visiting Professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC, Vancouver),and a consultant of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). He has been engaged invarious track 2 activities and international research projects conducted under suchregional institutions as PECC (Pacific Economic Cooperation Council) and CSCAP(Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific). He has published many books andarticles on international political economy (especially regional institution-building) of the
Asia-Pacific. He obtained his doctoral degree from Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan.

◎ Bilahari Kausikan

Chairman, Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore /Former Ambassador-at-Large, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Singapore

Bilahari Kausikan is currently Chairman of the Middle East Institute, an autonomous
institute of the National University of Singapore. He has spent his entire career in the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs. During his 37 years in the Ministry, he served in a variety of
appointments at home and abroad, including as Ambassador to the Russian Federation,
Permanent Representative to the UN in New York, and as the Permanent Secretary to
the Ministry. Raffles Institution, the University of Singapore and Columbia University in
New York all attempted to educate him.

◎ Tan Sri Rastam Mohd Isa

Former Chairman, Institute of Strategic and International

Studies Malaysia (ISIS Malaysia) / Former Secretary General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
Malaysia

Tan Sri Rastam Mohd Isa, 69 is a former Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs of Malaysia and former Chairman and Chief Executive of the Institute of Strategic
and International Studies (ISIS) Malaysia. In more than 36 years that he served in the
Malaysian Administrative and Diplomatic Service, he had several diplomatic
assignments including as Ambassador to the Republic of Indonesia and Permanent
Representative to the United Nations. He was ASEAN SOM leader for Malaysia in 20062010, Co-Chair of CSCAP in 2015-2017 and Chair of ASEAN-ISIS in 2016-2018. He
was a member of the APEC Business Advisory Council in 2016-2019. He has
participated in numerous security, economic and business conferences, seminars andfora in Asia, Europe, U.S. and the Middle East. He is currently a Board Member of Batu
Kawan Berhad, a Malaysian public listed company.

◎ Hemant Krishan Singh

Director General, The Delhi Policy Group (DPG) / Former

Ambassador of India to Japan

Ambassador Hemant Krishan Singh is a former career diplomat with extensive
experience of geo-strategic and geo-economic issues as well as multilateral institutions
which underpin international law. During his diplomatic career (1974-2010), he hasserved as India’s Ambassador to several countries including Japan and Indonesia, andas India's Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva. He has held
assignments dealing with the United States, West Europe and the European Union, andIndia's immediate neighbours in South and South East Asia. From 2011-2016,
Ambassador Singh was US Chair and Professor for Strategic Studies at ICRIER, New
Delhi. Since June 2016, Ambassador Singh has been the Director General of the Delhi
Policy Group, which is among India’s oldest independent think tanks focused on strategic
and international issues of critical national interest. He has been associated with policy
dialogues on the Indo-Pacific involving think tanks of the US and Asia. An alumnus of St.
Stephen’s College, Ambassador Singh holds a M.A. degree from the University of Delhi.

◎ Rizal Sukma

Former Executive Director, The Centre for Strategic and International

Studies Indonesia (CSIS Indonesia)/ Former Ambassador of Indonesia to the UK and theInternational Maritime Organization (IMO)

Dr. Rizal Sukma is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Strategic and International
Studies, Jakarta. Previously, he was Indonesia’s Ambassador to the United Kingdom,
Ireland and the International Maritime Organization (IMO), London, from 2016 to 2020.
He joined CSIS in 1990 as a researcher and assumed the role of Executive Director in2009 until 2015. Dr. Sukma also served as former Chairman of International Relations,Muhammadiyah Central Executive Board (2005-2015). Since receiving a PhD in
International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science in
1997, he has worked extensively on such issues as Southeast Asian security, ASEAN,
Indonesia’s defense and foreign policy, military reform, Islam and politics, and domestic
political changes in Indonesia. Dr Sukma has served as a member of the National
Committee on Strategic Defence Review at the Ministry of Defence, and as a memberof the National Drafting Committee for the National Defence Bill (2000–2002) and theArmed Forces Bill (2002–2003). He was the first Indonesian to receive the Nakasone
Award, in July 2005, and named one 100 Global Thinkers in 2009 by Foreign Policy
magazine. His many publications include, most recently, “The Asean Political andSecurity Community (APSC): Opportunities and Constraints for the R2P in Southeast
Asia”, appears in The Pacific Review, Vol. 25, No. 1 (March 2012), and “Indonesia Finds
A New Voice,” Journal of Democracy, Vol. 22, No. 4, (October 2011). He has also
published three books: Security Operations in Aceh: Goals, Consequences, andLessons (Washington, DC: East-West Centre, 2004); Islam in Indonesia’s Foreign Policy(London: Routledge, 2003), and Indonesia and China: The Politics of A Troubled
Relationship (London: Routledge, 1999).

- Breakout Session 3: Europe’s View of the Strategic Transformation★Ken Endo

Professor, Hokkaido University / Adjunct Fellow, JIIA

Ken Endo is Professor of International Politics, School of Law & Dean of the Graduate
School of Public Policy, Hokkaido University. He is also Adjunct Fellow at the Japan
Institute for International Affairs. He obtained a D.Phil in Politics at St Antony's College,
University of Oxford, in 1996. His main publications include The Presidency of theEuropean Commission under Jacques Delors (Macmillan/St. Martin’s, 1999) and a prizewinning book, The End of Integration (Iwanami, 2013, in Japanese).

◎ Federica Mogherini

Rector, College of Europe / Former High Representative of the

EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President, European Commission

Federica Mogherini is the Rector of the College of Europe since September 2020. She
co-chairs the United Nations High Level Panel on Internal Displacement since January
2020. Previously she has served as the High Representative of the European Union for
Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission,from 2014 to 2019. Prior to joining the EU, she was Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs
and International Cooperation (2014), and a Member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies(2008-14). Federica Mogherini is a Fellow of the Harvard Kennedy School. She is alsoa member of the Board of Trustees of the International Crisis Group, Fellow of theGerman Marshall Fund, member of the Group of Eminent Persons of the Preparatory
Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization, and memberof the Board of Directors of the Italian Institute for Foreign Affairs (IAI).

◎ Robin Niblett

Director and Chief Executive, Royal Institute of International Affairs(Chatham House)

Robin Niblett became the Director and Chief Executive of Chatham House (the RoyalInstitute of International Affairs) in January 2007. From 2001 to 2006, he was the
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Washington-based Center for
Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Dr Niblett is an expert on UK foreign policy,
European political and economic security and transatlantic relations. He is co-Chair of
the World Economic Forum’s Global Futures Council on Geopolitics and has served as
the Chair of its Global Agenda Council on Europe (2012-13). He was a Special Adviser
to the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee (2015-17) and Chairman of theExperts Group for the 2014 NATO Summit. From January 2010–May 2020, he was a
Non-Executive Director of Fidelity European Values Investment Trust. He became aCompanion of St Michael and St George (CMG) in 2015.

◎ Daniela Schwarzer

Director, German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP)

Dr. Daniela Schwarzer is Director of the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP)
since July 2017, after leading its Research Institute from November 2016. Before, shewas Senior Director of Research and Director of the Europe Program as well as the
Berlin office of the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF). From 2005 to
2013, Schwarzer worked with the German Institute for International and Security Affairs(SWP). She headed the European Integration Division as of 2008 and was a Senior
Fellow from 2005 to 2008. From 1999 to 2005, she was editorialist and France
correspondent of FT Deutschland. Daniela Schwarzer is a non-executive board memberof BNP Paribas, the Institut Jacques Dolors and the Association United Europe.

◎ Bruno Tertrais

Deputy Director, The Foundation for Strategic Research (FRS)

Bruno Tertrais is Deputy Director of the Foundation for Strategic Research (FRS). His
areas of expertise include geopolitics and international relations, strategic and militaryaffairs, nuclear deterrence and non-proliferation, US policy and transatlantic relations,security in the Middle East and in Asia. Tertrais is a member of the Group of Eminent
Persons of the CTBTO Preparatory Commission; of the Group of Eminent Persons for
the Substantive Advancement of Nuclear Disarmament; of the International Institute forStrategic Studies; of the editorial board of The Washington Quarterly; of the editorial
board of the Journal of Security and Strategic Analyses. He is also a Senior Fellow at
Institut Montaigne, and a scientific adviser to the French government’s HighCommissioner for Planning.

- Breakout Session 4: The Middle East amid the Pandemic and theStrategic Transformation★Ryoji Tateyama

Professor Emeritus, National Defense Academy of Japan

Prof. Tateyama was a faculty member of the Graduate School of Security Studies andDepartment of International Relations, National Defense Academy until 2013, and taught
security studies and international relations in the Middle East. He had previously worked
for UNRWA and the Japanese Institute for Middle Eastern Economies. Tateyama has
written a number of books and articles, including: Israel and Palestine (1989); Jerusalem(1993); A Jewish State and Post-Zionism (2000), Jews and the USA: Shifts in Israel
Lobby (2016); “The Syrian Civil War: politicization of the crisis and challenges anddilemmas for humanitarian response,” in Atsushi Hanatani, Oscar A. Gómez, andChigumi Kawaguchi, eds., Crisis Management beyond the Humanitarian Development
Nexus (2018); “Multiple Crises in the Middle East and Iran,” CISTEC Journal, No.183,
March 2020; “From the Arab World's ‘Three No's’ to Normalized Ties—The
Establishment of UAE-Bahrain-Israel Diplomatic Relations and the Palestinian Question”,
JIIA Research Report, October 16, 2020.

◎ Meliha Altunişik

Professor, Department of International Relations, Middle East

Technical University

Meliha Benli Altunişik is a Professor at the Department of International Relations, Middle
East Technical University, Ankara. She is a non-resident fellow in the Middle East
Institute, Washington, DC. She was a Fulbright Scholar at Center for Middle EasternStudies, Harvard University in 1988-89 and received her Ph.D. in political science from
Boston University in 1994. Dr. Altunişik was a resident Fulbright scholar in the Middle
East Institute in Washington, D. C. from January to June 2003. Some of her publications
include Turkey: Challenges of Continuity and Change (with Ozlem Tur) (Routledge);‘From Distant Neighbors to Partners? Changing Syrian-Turkish Relations’ (with Ozlem
Tür) Security Dialogue (2006); ‘Worldviews and Turkish Foreign Policy in the Middle
East,’ New Perspectives on Turkey (2009); ‘The Possibilities and Limits of Turkey’s SoftPower in the Middle East,’ Insight Turkey (2008); ‘Turkey’s Search for a Third Party Rolein Arab-Israeli Conflicts: A Neutral Facilitator or a Principal Power Mediator?’ (with Esra
Cuhadar) Mediterranean Politics (2010); ‘Making Sense of Turkish Foreign Policy in the
Middle East under AKP,” (with Lenore G. Martin) Turkish Studies (2011); ‘Iran-Turkey
Relations: between Competition and Rivalry,’ in Imad Mansour and William Thompson(eds) Shocks and Rivalries in the Middle East and North Africa (2020); ‘The New Turn inTurkey's Foreign Policy in the Middle East: Regional and Domestic Insecurities,’ in Silvia
Colombo and Andrea Dessi (eds) Fostering a New Architecture in the Middle East (2020).

◎ Uzi Rabi

Professor, Director, The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African

Studies, Tel-Aviv University

Professor Uzi Rabi, Ph.D (Tel Aviv University, 2000) focuses on the modern history andevolution of states and societies in the Middle East, Iranian-Arab relations, oil and politics
in the Middle East, and Sunni-Shi’i dynamics. He has written a number of books in both
English and Hebrew. He recently published his book The Return of the Past: State,
Identity, and Society in the Post–Arab Spring Middle East (Lexington Books, 2019),
which is a translation of his best-seller book in Hebrew Back to the Future – The Middle
East in the Shadow of the Arab Spring (Resling, 2016). Professor Rabi is regularly invited
to the Knesset and other governmental forums to deliver briefings and lectures onmatters of national and regional importance. Professor Rabi is a sought-after lecturer,
and frequently provides expert commentary and analysis on a number of internationaland Israeli news outlets, including Arabic language television channels.

◎ Sanam Vakil

Deputy Director, Senior Research Fellow, Middle East & North Africa

Programme, Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House)

Dr. Vakil is the deputy director of the Middle East North Africa Programme, where sheleads the Future Dynamics in the Gulf project and the Iran Forum. Sanam’s research
focuses regional security, Gulf geopolitics and on future trends in Iran’s domestic andforeign policy. She is also the James Anderson professorial lecturer in the Middle EastStudies department at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies(SAIS Europe) in Bologna, Italy. Dr. Vakil’s recent publications include: “Through the
Looking Glass: An Analysis of US-Iranian Relations”, “Action and Reaction: Women and
Politics in the Islamic Republic of Iran”, and many other papers and articles on the Middle
East and U.S. foreign policy.

◎ Luciano Zaccara

Research Assistant Professor, Gulf Studies Center, Qatar University

Dr. ZACCARA is also a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Georgetown University in
Qatar, and Director of the Observatory on Politics and Elections in the Arab and Muslim
World, Spain. He obtained a BA in Political Science from National University of Rosario,
Argentina, and a PhD in Arab and Islamic Studies from Autonoma University of Madrid,
Spain. He has been post-doctoral fellow at Autonoma University of Barcelona; Visiting
Researcher at Exeter University, Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies; and Visiting
Researcher at Princeton University, Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies. His
research interests are Iranian Politics and Foreign Policy; Gulf Politics; International
Relations in the Persian Gulf; and Electoral Systems in MENA region. His latest
publication is “Foreign Policy of Iran under President Hassan Rouhani's First Term(2013–2017)”, Zaccara, Luciano (Ed.), Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.

February 27 (Sat)◆Breakout Round Part III: Impacts of the Strategic Transformation- Breakout Session 1: Northeast Asian Security amid US-China
Competition★Masao Okonogi

Professor Emeritus, Keio University

Okonogi Masao is Professor Emeritus of Keio University. He is the Co-chair of JapanKorea Forum and the Vice-chair of Japan Society for Defense Studies. He specialized
in international politics and Korean politics. He received his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. from
Keio University. He studied at the graduate school of Yonsei University as an exchange
student from Keio University (1972-74). He was a research fellow at the Center for
Korean Studies of University of Hawaii and the Institute for Sino-Soviet Studies ofGeorge Washington University (1981-82). He worked as an associate professor,
professor and dean of Department of Law and Politics of Keio University, and director
for Center for Area Studies at the same university. After retiring Keio, He was a researchprofessor at Kyushu University. He served as a member of foreign policy advisory groups
for Prime Minister Koizumi and Fukuda. He also served as a leader from Japanese sidefor Japan- Korea joint studies groups, such as Japan-Korea Joint Study Forum (19962005), Japan-Korea Joint Committee for History Studies (the first term: 2002-2005) andJapan-Korea Joint Research Project for New Era (2009-2013). He has written and edited
numerus works, including The Korean War: The American Involvement (1986, Keio

University Prize) and The Origins of the Korean Division (2018, Asia Pacific Prize), The
Korean Peninsula During the Post-cold War Era, North Korea Under the Kim Jung Il’s
Leadership.

◎ Hajime Izumi

Professor, Tokyo International University

Hajime Izumi is Professor of the Institute for International Strategy, Tokyo International
University in Japan. He received his undergraduate degree at Chuo University in Tokyoand his graduate degree at Sophia University in Tokyo. He conducted research at Yonsei
University in Seoul, Korea between 1980 and 1982. He was a senior research fellow at
the Research Institute for Peace and Security (RIPS) in Tokyo and has taught at Tokyo
University of Foreign Studies. He was a visiting scholar at Harvard University from 1991
to 1992, at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1992, and at the United States
Institute of Peace (USIP) in 1995. His selected publications (in English) include: “The
Second Bush Administration and North Korea”, International Journal of Korean
Unification Studies, Vol14, No.1 (2005), “Remembering and Forgetting: Japan-Korea
Dimensions,” in Gerrit W. Gong, ed., Memory and History in East and Southeast Asia:
Issues of Identity in International Relations (Washington, D.C.: The CSIS Press, 2001),“A Japanese View on Korean Security after the North-South Summit,” Korean Journal of
Defense Analysis, Vol. XII, No.2 (Winter 2000), Whales and Shrimp? The Roles of Japanand China,” Joint U.S. – Korea Academic Studies (Korea Economic Institute of America,
Vol. 11, 2001) , “Pyongyang Grasps New Realities,” Japan Quarterly, Vol. 47, No.2 (AprilJune 2000), “North Korea and Japan-Russia Relations,” in Vladimir Ivanov and Karla
Smith, eds., Japan and Russia in Northeast Asia: Partners in the 21st Century (Westport:
Praeger, 1999), “Japan and the Korean Peninsula: The Idea of a ‘Northeast Asia Nuclear
Nonproliferation Zone’,” Gary K. Bertsch, et.al., eds., U.S. and Japanese
Nonproliferation Export Controls (New York and London: University Press of America,1996).

◎ Kim Joon Hyung

Chancellor, Korea National Diplomatic Academy, Ministry of Foreign

Affairs (KNDA)

Kim Joon Hyung is Chancellor of the Korea National Diplomatic Academy and Professorof the International Studies Department, Handong Global University (leave of absence).
His areas of specialization and interests are theories of international relations, Northeast
Asian relations including US-China, US-ROK, and North-South Korean relations. He wasalso invited as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar to George Mason University, Department of
Public and International Affairs, USA and taught several courses including US-Korea
Relations and East Asian International Politics. ince 2011, Dr. Kim has involved in the
Korea Peace Forum, a renowned network-based think-tank specialized in the peace andunification. Since 2016, He has been a member of Moon Jae In’s presidential election
camp, where he consulted and wrote major foreign policies. After Moon was elected, hejoined the Government Transition Committee, and became a member of the Presidential

Commission on Policy Planning (Security and Foreign Policy Sub-committee). In
addition to that, he belonged to Advisory Committees to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Unification, and the National Security Council.
Dr. Kim earned his Bachelor’s Degree at Yonsei University (1986), and M.A. and Ph.D.
at George Washington University.

◎ Nobushige Takamizawa

Former Ambassador of Japan to the Conference on

Disarmament

Ambassador Nobushige (Nobu) Takamizawa is currently visiting professor at theGraduate School of Public Policy (GraSPP), University of Tokyo. Before coming back toTokyo in January 2020, he had served as Ambassador and Permanent Representativeof Japan to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva for three years. After serving
several position in the Ministry of Defense including as Director General of Bureaus ofOperational Policy and Defense Policy, and President of the National Institute for
Defense Studies (NIDS), he worked at the Cabinet Secretary as Assistant Chief Cabinet
Secretary and Deputy Secretary General of National Security Secretariat between 2013
and 2016.

◎ Tien Hung-mao

Chairman and President, Institute for National Policy Research

Hung-Mao Tien is Ph.D. in Political Science, the University of Wisconsin – Madison;
President and board chairman, Institute for National Policy Research; Chief advisor to
Taiwan’s National Council of Industries; Board member of several cultural and charity
foundations as well as business corporations in Taiwan. Formerly Chairman of the Straits
Exchange Foundation; the R.O.C. Minister of Foreign Affairs; Representative(Ambassador) to the United Kingdom, and Senior Advisor to the President. He also
served as advisor to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and professor ofpolitical science in the US and Taiwan (on adjunct basis) universities; Author and coauthor of numerous books and articles in English. Distinguished Alumni Global
Achievement Award of the University of Wisconsin-Madison- Breakout Session 2: Impacts on Territorial Issues / Rule of Law★Atsuko Kanehara

Professor, Sophia University / President, Japanese Society ofInternational Law

Professor of Public International Law, Sophia University. President of Japanese Societyof International law. Member of Governing Board of IMO International Maritime Law
Institute. Councilor of Advisory Council for the National Headquarters for Ocean Policyof Japan, appointed by Prime Minister. Member of the Board of the Bar Exam of Japan,
appointed by Minister of Justice (2006–2015). Advocate for the Government of Japan in“Southern Bluefin Tuna” Cases (Australia and NZ v. Japan). Counsel for the Governmentof Japan in “Whaling in the Antarctic” Case. She delivered a special course of lecturesat The Hague Academy of International Law in 2017.

◎ Renato De Castro

Distinguished University Professor, International Studies

Department, De La Salle University

Renato Cruz De Castro is a Distinguished University Professor in the International
Studies Department, De La Salle University, and Manila. He is the chair-holder of the
Dr. Aurelio Calderon Chair in Philippine-American Relation. He earned his Ph.D. fromthe Government and International Studies Department of the University of South
Carolina as a Fulbright Scholar in 2001, and obtained his B.A. and two master’s degrees
from the University of the Philippines. As a member of the Board of Trustees of the Albert
Del Rosario Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ADRI), he contributes his
two monthly opinion columns to the Business World and Philippine Star. He has written
over 100 articles on international relations and security that have been published inseveral scholarly journals, monographs, and edited works in the Philippines, Japan,
South Korea, Canada, Malaysia, France, Singapore, Taiwan, Germany, the United
Kingdom, Australia, the Netherlands, and the United States.

◎ Kentaro Furuya

Adjunct Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies /Professor, Japan Coast Guard Academy

He is working for the Japan Coast Guard for more than 30 years, both onboard andshore. He dedicated himself to maritime search and rescue, investigation of crimes atsea, and planning and execution of maritime security operations. He had been assigned
as a Japanese delegation to the International Maritime Organization and otherinternational conferences relating to maritime laws and security measures for counterpiracy and counter-terrorism operations. He was assigned as an associate professor at
the Japan Coast Guard Academy in 2012. He taught international law and law of the sea
to students from ASEAN countries. In April 2015, he moved to GRIPS as a joint associate
professor. As a dual-appointment faculty member, he taught Law of the Sea and coast
guard policies to both overseas and domestic postgraduate students. He was assigned
a professor at the JCGA and GRIPS in 2018.

◎ James Kraska

Chair and Charles H. Stockton Professor of International Maritime Law,

Stockton Center for International Law, US Naval War College

James Kraska is Chair and Charles H. Stockton Professor of International Maritime Law
in the Stockton Center for International Law at the Naval War College and Visiting
Professor of Law and John Harvey Gregory Lecturer on World Organization at Harvard
Law School. He has served as Visiting Professor of Law at the College of Law, Universityof the Philippines and Visiting Professor of Law at Gujarat National Law University. He
previously was Mary Derrickson McCurdy Visiting Scholar at Duke University Marine
Laboratory and Chief of Naval Research Fellow at Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution. He has published numerous books and scholarly articles and is Editor-inChief of International Law Studies and the treatise, Benedict on Admiralty: International

Maritime Law. He is also a Permanent Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Professor Kraska served as a U.S. Navy officer and lawyer, with multiple tours of duty inJapan and the Pentagon.

◎ Masaharu Yanagihara

Professor, The Open University of Japan

Masaharu Yanagihara is professor of public international law at the Open University ofJapan. Yanagihara is working at several academic societies: President, JapaneseSociety of International Law (2009-2012); Director of Planning Committee, Japan Branch,
International Law Association (since 2014). His main recent publications in English are
as follows: “Significance of the History of the Law of Nations in Europe and East Asia,”
Recueil des cours 371(2015), pp.273-435; “‘Shioki (Control),’ ‘Fuyo (Dependency),’ andSovereignty,” A. Roberts et al. (eds.), Comparative International Law (Oxford University
Press, 2018), pp.141-157.

- Closing Plenary Session: The Indo-Pacific of Tomorrow andInternational Response★Tomiko Ichikawa

Director-General, JIIA

Ms. Tomiko Ichikawa joined Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1985. Her assignments in Japan
include Directorship at West Europe Division, Economic Integration Division (EU), Nonproliferation, Science and Nuclear Energy Division as well as Economic Policy Division.
Overseas postings include Embassy of Japan in the UK and Permanent Mission ofJapan to the International Organizations in Vienna. She also assumed positions ininternational organizations as Political Affairs Officer at UNPROFOR (UN PKO in theFormer Yugoslavia) and Special Assistant to the Director General, the International
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Ms. Ichikawa participated in the Six Party Talks(December 2006-December 2008), and continued to follow the DPRK nuclear issue at
Permanent Mission in Vienna (2011-2014) and the IAEA (2014-2020). She obtained
Bachelor in Law, University of Tokyo, Japan and MA, International relations andcontemporary war, King’s College London, UK.

◎ Delia D. Albert

Former Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines / Senior Advisor,

SGV Ernst & Young

Ambassador Delia Domingo Albert is the first woman career diplomat to become
Secretary (Minister) of Foreign Affairs in Asia. She represented the Philippines in
Switzerland, Romania, Hungary, the Federal Republic of Germany and theCommonwealth of Australia. As Chair of the United Nations Security Council in 2004
she introduced the agenda “The Role of Civil Society in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding”
highlighting the role of women as peace makers. She attended the University of thePhilippines, the Institute of International Studies in Geneva, the Diplomatic Institute in
Salzburg, Boston University Overseas in Bonn, the J.F. Kennedy School of Government

at Harvard University, among others. The Philippine Women’s University conferred on her
Doctor of Humanities, honoris causa for building a gender-fair society and was awarded“Most Distinguished Alumna of the University of the Philippines in 2012. For her
meritorious and exceptional service to the country she was conferred the Presidential
Order of Sikatuna rank of Datu. In 2004 she was given the title of “Bai-A-Rawatun sa
Pilimpinas” for assisting Muslim women in their search for peace and development. She
received the Knight’s Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit with Star
(BundesVerdienstKreuz) from the Federal Republic of Germany and the single award tocelebrate 70 years of Philippine-Australia relations from the Australian government. In
2019 she was conferred with the Order of the Rising Sun Gold and Silver Star by theGovernment of Japan.

◎ Peter Jennings

Executive Director, Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)Peter Jennings is the executive director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)
a position he has held since May 2012. Peter has worked at senior levels in the Australian
Public Service on defence and national security. Career highlights include being Deputy
Secretary for Strategy in the Defence Department (2009-12); Chief of Staff to the Minister
for Defence (1996-98) and Senior Adviser for Strategic Policy to the Prime Minister (200203). Peter led the ‘External Expert Panel’ appointed by Government in early 2014 toadvise Ministers and the Defence Department on the Defence White Paper, released in
February 2016. Peter studied at the London Business School in 2000–2001 as a Sloan
Fellow and was awarded a Masters of Science (Management) with Distinction. He has a
Master of Arts Degree in International Relations from the Australian National University(1987) and a BA (Honours) in History from the University of Tasmania (1980–1984). He
has been a Fulbright Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1985).

◎ Sunjoy Joshi

Chairman, Observer Research Foundation (ORF)

He began his career with the Government of India as a member of the Indian
Administrative Service in 1983, serving in various capacities for 25 years when he left tojoin the Observer Research Foundation to pursue his primary interests in energy andenvironment. His last posting with the Government of India was as Joint Secretary in the
Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas. He has been Director of the Board of National
Energy Companies such as ONGC, OVL, OIL and MRPL and has had wide experiencein administering fiscal and contractual regimes for oil and gas. His experience of policy
making and implementation cuts across the conventional as well as non-conventionalenergy sectors and covers issues related to water use, and its conservation andmanagement. He has been Visiting Associate at the International Institute of Strategic
Studies, London and Distinguished Visitor to the Program on Energy and Sustainable
Development, University of Stanford. Takes keen interest in social development as Vice
President of the Mountain Children’s Foundation, a not for profit group working with ruralchildren in the Himalayas.

◎ H. R. McMaster

Former Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs

H.R. MCMASTER is the Fouad and Michelle Ajami Senior Fellow at the Hoover
Institution, the Bernard and Susan Liautaud Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institution and
Lecturer at Stanford University School of Business. He was the 26th Assistant to the
President for National Security Affairs. McMaster served as an active duty Army officer
for thirty-four years after graduation from the United States Military Academy. He holds
a Ph.D. in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the authorof Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World and the award-winning Derelictionof Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Lies that
Led to Vietnam.

◎ John Mearsheimer

Professor of Political Science, The University of Chicago

John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of
Political Science at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1982. He
graduated from West Point (1970), has a PhD in political science from Cornell University(1981), and has written extensively about security issues and international politics.
Among his six books, The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (2001, 2014) won the Joseph
Lepgold Book Prize; and The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (with Stephen M.
Walt, 2007), made the New York Times bestseller list and has been translated into
twenty-four languages. His latest book is The Great Delusion: Liberal Ideals andInternational Realities (2018), which won the 2019 Best Book of the Year Award from the
Valdai Discussion Conference, Moscow. He has written numerous articles and op-eds
that have appeared in International Security, London Review of Books, Foreign Affairs,
The Financial Times, and The New York Times. In 2003, he was elected to the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2020, he won the James Madison Award, which
is given once every three years by the American Political Science Association to “anAmerican political scientist who has made a distinguished scholarly contribution topolitical science.”◎ Kenichiro Sasae

President, The Japan Institute of International Affairs

Kenichiro Sasae joined the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs after graduating fromThe University of Tokyo in 1974. His distinguished and illustrious diplomatic career
includes prestigious assignments as Executive Assistant to the Prime Minister, DirectorGeneral of the Economic Affairs Bureau, Director-General of the Asian & Oceania Affairs
Bureau, and Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs. During his period of service in Tokyo, he
represented the Japanese Government in the Six-Party Talks on North Korean issues.
He also worked as Political Director for the G-8 Summit. From 2012-2018, he was
Ambassador of Japan to the United States. Subsequently, in June 2018, Ambassador
Sasae was appointed President of The Japan Institute of International Affairs to head
Japan’s premier foreign affairs think tank.

◎ Zhang Yunling

Professor and Member, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences / Dean,

Institute of International Studies, Shandong University

Academy Member of Chinese Academy of Social Science (CASS); Chair Professor,
Chairman of Academic Council, School of Northeast Asia Studies, President of Institutefor International Studies, Shandong University; Vice president of China-ROK Friendship
Association. He was Director of International Studies, CASS (2007-2018); Director of
Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies(1993-2007), Director of Japanese Studies( 1995-2001),
CASS ; Member of East Asia Vision Group (2000-2001, EAVG II, 2012-2013), Memberof Official Expert Group on China-ASEAN Cooperation (2001), Member of ASEM Task
Force (2003-2004), Chairman of Joint Expert Group for Feasibility Study on EAFTA(2005-2006); Member of Joint Expert Group of CEPEA (2006-2009); Member of National
Committee of Chinese Political Consultant Conference (2002-2018.3) ； Executive
Chairman of China-Republic of Korea Joint Expert Committee (2010-2013); Member ofChina-Japan 21st Century Friendship Commission (2003-2008).
Latest Publication: China and Asia Regionalism (English, 2010), China and World: Newchange, understanding and Identification (Chinese, 2011), Seeking a benign relationshipbetween China and the world (Chinese, 2013)，Between the Ideal and Reality-Thinkingof East Asian cooperation (Chinese 2015)，On East Asian Regional Cooperation: ideality
and reality (vol. I.II ,English, 2019)