Speakers’ Biography

Opening remarks
Masakazu TOYODA
Chairman and CEO, Japan Economic foundation (JEF)
Masakazu Toyoda is Chairman and CEO of the Japan Economic
Foundation. He also serves as Special Advisor to the Institute ofEnergy Economics (IES, where he was previously Chairman andCEO),
Adjunct Professor with the National Graduate Institute for Policy
Studies (GRIPS) and is on the Board of Directors for the PacificInternational Center for High Technology Research (PICHTR). In
2008, he was Secretary-General of the Secretariat of Strategic
Headquarters for Space Policy with Japan’s Cabinet Secretariat,
and from 2008-08 he was Vice-Minister for International Affairs forJapan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (previously the
Ministry of International Trade and Industry), where he has also
held several other positions.

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Naoyuki HARAOKA
Executive Managing Director, Japan Economic Foundation (JEF)

Born in Tokyo in 1955. After graduating the University of Tokyoin 1978 (Bachelor of Economics), he joined MITI (Ministry of International
Trade and Industry) of Japanese government. Having been posted in theindustrial policy section and the international trade policy section for a few
years, he was enrolled in a two year MPA (Master of Public Administration)
programme at Woodraw Wilson School of Princeton University in the US on a
Japanese government sponsorship. After having acquired MPA at Princeton,
he rejoined MITI in 1984 as an economist. Since then he had been posted as
Deputy Director and Director of a number of MITI divisions including Research
Division of International Trade Policy Bureau. He was also posted in Paris
twice, firstly, Principal Economist of Trade Bureau of OECD (Organization of
Economic Cooperation and Development) from 1988 to 92 and secondly
Counselor to Japanese Delegation of OECD from 1996 to 99. After comingback to MITI from his second stay in Paris, at the occasion of the government
structural reform in 2001 when MITI was remodeled as METI (Ministry of
Economy Trade and Industry) he joined the efforts to found METI research
institute, Research Institute of Economy Trade and Industry as its Director of
Administration. He became Chief Executive Director of JETRO San Francisco
in 2003 and stayed in San Francisco until 2006. He was Director-General of
METI Training Institute from 2006 until July, 2007 when he left METI
permanently and joined JEF as Executive Managing Director.

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Shujiro URATA
Professoe Emeritus, Waseda University
Shujiro Urata is Professor Emeritus, Waseda University.
He was Professor of International Economics, Graduate School
Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University. He is currently Faculty
Fellow at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI),Specially Appointed Fellow at the Japanese Centre for Economic Research(JCER), Senior Research Advisor, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN
and East Asia (ERIA), Visiting Fellow, Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)
and Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Institute of Developing Economies(IDE-JETRO). Professor Urata received his BA in Economics from Keio
University, MA and Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University. He is aformer Research Associate at the Brookings Institution, an Economist at theWorld Bank. He specializes in International Economics and Economics ofDevelopment. He has held a number of research and advisory positions
including senior advisor to the Government of Indonesia, consultant to theWorld Bank, OECD, the Asian Development Bank and the Government of Japan.
He has published a number of books and articles on international economic
issues. His recent books include Achieving Inclusive Growth in the Asia Pacific,
co-editor, Australian National University Press, 2020, Enhancing SME
Participation in Global Value Chains, editor, Asian Development Bank Institute,2021, The Effect of Globalisation on Firm and Labour Performance, co-editor,
Routledge, 2021, and Globalization and Its Economic Consequences: Looking
at APEC Economies, co-editor. Routledge, 2021

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Keiichiro KOMATSU
Principal, Komatsu Research and Advisory
Dr. Keiichiro Komatsu (D.Phil., University of Oxford) is the Founder and Principal of
London-based think tank Komatsu Research and Advisory (KRA). KRA specialises inbusiness development and country risk-analysis with global coverage.
Dr Komatsu has worked at the semi-governmental Central Co-operative Bank forCommerce and Industry (firstly in Tokyo and then as Assistant Vice-President in NewYork), the World Bank, the British government’s Department of Trade and Industry (nowDepartment for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy) and British Trade International(now Department for International Trade), and later as Special Advisor to the President of
the Republic of Madagascar.
He has been working to promote sustainable trade and investment in the Indian Ocean
Region as a hub that connects the African continent with Asia as well as the broader IndoPacific region. In this context, he has been appointed as Special Envoy for TICAD VII
Public-Private Partnership by Japan’s Foreign Minister on 12 July 2019, Strategic Advisor
to the Economic Development Board of Mauritius under the aegis of the Prime Minister’s
Office of the Republic of Mauritius on 15 August 2019, Special Advisor to the Blue
Economy Department under the Vice President’s Office of the Republic of Seychelles on
23 August 2019.
He is also Senior Fellow to JETRO (Japan External Trade Organisation), an Agency of the
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) in Japan.
He is a member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House),
International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), Centre for International Studies(University of Oxford), and Global Peacebuilding Association (Japan). His publications
include ‘Origins of the Pacific War and the Importance of “Magic”’.

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Shingo ITO
Senior Economist, Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES)
Born in Aichi Prefecture in 1970. After taking his B.A. in Law at the University ofTokyo, he joined the International Research Division of Fuji Research InstituteCorporation in 1993. During the period from 2001 to 2003, he concurrently held
the position of Associate Research Fellow of the Taiwan Institute of Economic
Research. In 2002, he entered Research Department (Asia) of Mizuho ResearchInstitute Ltd. as three banks including the Fuji Bank merged and establishedMizuho Financial Group. He had been Senior Economist and Chief of China
Research Unit at the institute during the period from 2011 to 2017. In 2018, heassumed the current position. He has numerous books and articles on the
Chinese economy, the Taiwanese economy, and the Cross-Strait economic
relations including Entry into WTO Will Change China (Tokyo: Toyo Keizai Inc.
2000, coauthor), ”Japanese Taiwanese Joint Ventures in China: The Puzzle ofthe High Survival Rate,” China Information, 2009, and ”The Narrow ‘Breadth of
R&D’ and the Bottleneck of Technological Catch-up: A Case Study of Taiwan’s
Flat Panel Display (FDP) Industry from the Perspective of the R&D Strategy of
AMOLED,” in Yukihito Sato and Hajime Sato eds., Varieties and Alternatives ofCatching-up: Asian Development in the Context of the 21st Century, Palgrave
Macmillan, 2016. He has participated in research projects organizedby the Japan Economic Foundation, the University of Tokyo, the ResearchInstitute of Economy, Trade and Industry, the Japan External Trade
Organization, the Institute for Developing Economies, and others.

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Yukari NIWA YAMASHITAManaging Director Institute of Energy Economics, Japan (IEEJ)
Yukari Niwa Yamashita is a Managing Director for the Institute of Energy
Economics, Japan (IEEJ), in Charge of the Energy Data and Modelling Center
which is responsible for quantitative and qualitative analyses on energy
policy issues. Her team’s analyses and recommendations contribute greatly
to debate and policy making for Japan and international communities such as
ERIA, APEC and IEA. The annual IEEJ's Outlook is globally recognized for its
timely analyses and pragmatic approach towards climate change.
She has been serving as a member of various government councils andcommittees in the fields of energy and science & technologies. She also led
miscellaneous international and regional programs in the area of energy
cooperation through IEA, APEC, ERIA and IPEEC. She is a visiting professor at
Kyushu University. She served as the 2020 President of the International
Association for Energy Economics (IAEE) and is the 2021 Executive Vice
President.
She is married with two daughters and three grand children.
Her favorite way to spend weekend is gardening, especially with her mossgarden (“koke-niwa”) and roses.

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Naoyuki YOSHINO
Professor Emeritus Keio University
Naoyuki Yoshino: Professor Emeritus of Keio University in TokyoJapan, Visiting Professor at GRIPS and Director of Financial
Research Center (FSA Institute, Government of Japan). Ph.D fromJohns Hopkins University (where his thesis supervisor was Sir Alan
Walters (UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s Economic
Adviser)). Assistant Professor of State University of New York,
Visiting scholar at MIT (USA), Visiting Scholar at the Central Bankof Japan, Visiting Professor at the Univ. of New South Wales(Australia), Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (France).
He received Honorary Doctorates from Univ. of Gothenburg(Sweden) and Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg(Germany). He was conferred Fukuzawa award from Keio University
for his contribution to research. He was chairing Financial System
Council under Prime Minister and Foreign exchange council under
Finance Minister of Japan. He is currently chairing Financial
education council under the Central Bank of Japan and Financial
Services Agency, Government of Japan. He was the Dean/CEO of
Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) in Tokyo (2014-2020).

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Yukiko FUKAGAWA
the Deputy Dean and Professor School of Political Science and Economics Waseda
University
Yukiko Fukagawa is currently the Deputy Dean and Professor, School of
Political Science and Economics, Waseda University. After undergraduate
program at Waseda, she studied at Yale University for MA in International
Development Economics, and finished Ph.D program at Waseda Graduate
School of Business Studies. Her major interest lies in economic developmentin East Asia, especially Korea. She worked for Japan External Trade
Organization (JETRO) and Long-Term Credit Bank Research Institute(LTCBR) before joining the faculty member of Aoyama Gakuin University andthe University of Tokyo. She came back to Waseda in 2006. She was a visiting
fellow at Cambridge University in 2014, and Yonsei University in 2015.
She engaged in many consultation and advisory activities for the government,such as the Committee for Industrial Structure in the Ministry of Economy
and Industry etc.. Her recent publication includes “Beyond “Abenomics”:
Japan’s integration catch-up and prospects for Japan-UK cooperation”,
Chatham House, 2019, Economic Development in East Asia, co-ed with
Fumiyasu Mieno, Minerva publication, 2017, Japan’s Future International
Cooperation, Nihon Hyoronsha, 2015.

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Takaaki ASANO
General Manager, Senior Analyst, Sumitomo Corporation Global Research

Takaaki ASANO is a General Manager/Senior Analyst at Sumitomo
Corporation Global Research (SCGR). He monitors political andeconomic developments in North and Latin America, and also
follows global geo-economic trends.
Prior to joining SCGR in 2017, he was a research fellow at Tokyo
Foundation, where he followed Japanese economic diplomacy andJapan-U.S. relations. From 2005 to 2011, he was a policy research
manager at the Japan Association of Corporate Executives (JACE, or
Keizai Doyukai), an influential business organization in Japan,
where he was responsible for JACE’s international programs andeditedvariouspolicyproposals.
Prior to joining JACE, he was the senior research analyst at theRepresentative Office of the Development Bank of Japan in
Washington, DC, where he authored policy reports on a wide range
of issues, from politics to financial and economic policy.
Earned M.A. in political science at New York University, andreceived B.A. in sociology at the University of Tokyo.
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KIM Sung-Hwan
Chairman of the East Asia Foundation / Former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of
the R.O.K
Sung-Hwan Kim was a career diplomat and served as the Ministerof Foreign Affairs and Trade of the Republic of Korea from October2010 to March 2013. With a career spanning over 36 years, he held
a number of senior diplomatic posts including the Senior Secretary
to the President for Foreign Affairs and National Security and Vice
Minister of MOFAT. He was ROK's ambassador to Austria andPermanent Representative to the International Organizations in
Vienna and the ROK's Ambassador to Uzbekistan. He wasappointed as a Member of the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level
Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda
in July, 2010. After retiring from the Foreign Service, he served as
the Chair of Institute for Global Social Responsibility andDistinguished Visiting Professor at the Seoul National University
until March 2015. He also taught at Hanyang University as aDistinguished Professor and served as the Chairman of theGangwon Art and Culture Foundation. He is now working as the
Chairman of the East Asia Foundation, President of the Taejae
Academy and the Chairman of the Beautiful Mind Charity
Foundation.
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AHN Choong-YongDistinguished Professor, Graduate School of International Studies at Chung-Ang
University
Dr. Choong Yong Ahn is currently Distinguished Professor at the Graduate School ofInternational Studies, Chung-Ang University Seoul. He is also Co-Chair of the Korea-India
Strategic Dialogue organized by the Seoul International Forum. Previously, he was
Chairman, Korea Commission for Corporate Partnership (KCCP: 2014-2018) to induce
voluntary collaborations between Korea’s big businesses and SMEs, and also Chairmanof the Board, Korea Electric Power Corporation. Before taking the KCCP post, he served
as presidentially appointed Foreign Investment Ombudsman (2006-2014) for foreign
direct investors in Korea. He is also former Chairman of the Presidential Regulatory
Reform Committee (2010-2012). While on sabbatical from Chung-Ang University, he also
served several posts such as the President of the Korea Institute for International
Economic Policy (2002-2005); Chair of the APEC Economic Committee(2002-2005); Chairof Board, Choheung Bank; consultant to the World Bank; UNIDO Chief Technical Advisor
to the Economic Planning Unit of Malaysia to design Malaysia's industrial master plan;and served as President of several academic societies in Korea including the Korea
International Economics Association, Korean Association of Trade and Industry Studies,and the Korea Econometric Society. He was also a visiting professor to Economic
Research Institute, Kyoto University, Japan. Dr. Ahn’s honors include the Economist of
the Year Award from the Maeil Business Daily Newspaper in Korea, the Okita Policy
Research Award by the National Institute for Research Advancement in Japan for his
publication on “Modern East Asian Economy,” and Free Economy Publication Award by
the Federation of Korean Industries. Since receiving his Ph.D. from Ohio State University,
Dr. Ahn has published many articles in international journals including Review of
Economics and Statistics, European Economic Review, Japanese Economic Review,
Journal of Asian Economics, Global Asia, and Monograph papers in North-Holland,
Cambridge University Press, Springer, Edward Elgar, Palgrave Macmillan, Iwanami
Shoten of Japan, Peking University Press, etc.

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KIM Sang-Hyup
Chairman of 2050 Carbon Neutrality Commission
Sang-Hyup Kim is the chairman of 2050 Carbon Neutrality
Commission and the former president of Jeju Research Institute, avisiting professor at Graduate School of Green Growth, College ofBusiness, KAIST and the founder and former chairman of Coalition
for Our Common Future. Prior to joining KAIST, he worked at the
Office of the President of the Republic of Korea in 2008 as the
Secretary for National Future and Vision, where he contributed insetting the historic “Low Carbon Green Growth” vision for Korea. In
2011, he became the Senior Secretary to the President for Green
Growth, coordinating the planning, development andimplementation of Korea’s Green Growth strategy. Throughcollaboration with the Presidential Committee on Green Growth
and relevant ministries, his agenda ranges from national
implementation of Green Growth policies to international climatechange negotiations and promoting global cooperation for making
Green Growth became a truly global asset. He also served as amember of the Global Agenda Council.

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CHUNG Chul
Senior Research Fellow, Korea Institute for International Economic Policy(KIEP)
Chul Chung is senior research fellow of International Trade Department at
the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP), and vice chairof the Korea National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation (KOPEC).
In the government, Dr. Chung served as trade advisor to the Minister ofTrade, Industry, and Energy, a member of the Presidential Commission on
Policy Planning, Long-term Strategy Committee chaired by Deputy Prime
Minister, and Policy Advisory Committee member of the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs. Dr. Chung has served as senior vice president of KIEP and vicepresident of the Korean Association of Trade and Industry Studies. He also
served as the editor-in-chief of the East Asian Economic Review and the
Journal of International Trade and Industry Studies. Prior to joining KIEP, hetaught international economics as a professor in the School of Economics at
Georgia Tech in the United States. He has also held an adjunctprofessorship in the Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul
National University and the KDI School of Public Policy and Management.
While on leave from KIEP (2009-2012), Dr. Chung worked on the ratificationof the Korea-US FTA as chief economist of the Korea International Trade
Association (KITA) in Washington D.C. He has published numerous
academic articles and policy research papers on international trade,
economic geography, and regional economic integration including APEC
studies. He received Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor.

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YI Insill
Chairwoman of Board of Institute for Sustainable Economy and Society / President of
the Korean Peninsula Population Institute for future
Insill Yi is currently a Chairwoman of Board of Institute for Sustainable Economy andSociety and a President of the Korean Peninsula Population Institute for future. She wasa Professor of Graduate School of Economics (from September 2006) and was a Directorof Nam Duck-Woo Economic Research Institute and former Vice-President for Public
Affairs at Sogang University. She served for Korean government as the 12th
Commissioner of Statistics Korea from the private sector also for the first time. She also
served for National Assembly Budget Office as a Chief economist of Economic Analysis
Division. She also worked as a senior research fellow and director of the Center for
Finance and Tax, for Korea Economic Research Institute. She worked as a senioreconomist and team leader of financial analysis team, for Hana Bank Research Institute.
She had been and is currently active in participating the governmental committees (suchas Advisory Committee Member of National Assemble Budget Office, Member of Policy
Advisor to Minister of Justice, and Advisory Committee Member of Financial Supervisory
Service, Advisory Member of Ministry of Strategy and Finance). She is publishing books,
articles and expressing various opinions in academic journals and newspapers. She
served for the president and is currently honorary president of the Korean Women
Economic Association, the Association of Korean Economic Studies, and the Korean
Economic Association. She has a bachelor’s degree in economics and geology fromYonsei University and a doctoral degree from the University of Minnesota USA.

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LIM Jaekyu
Senior Research Fellow, Korea Energy Economics Institute(KEEI)
Jaekyu Lim currently works as a Senior Research Fellow at the Korea Energy
Economics Institute(KEEI). He also serves as a member of the Special
Committee of Carbon Neutrality of the Presidential Advisory Council on
Science and Technology(PACST) and member of the Energy Policy Special
Committee of the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy(MOTIE). He
previously served as a member (Representative of Asian Region) of theConsultative Group of Experts (CGE) at the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) (Jan 2004 ~ Dec 2007), theDirector of the Energy Conservation Policy Research Division (Mar 2010 ~Aug 2013) and Managing Director of the Climate Change Policy ResearchGroup (Sep 2013 ~ Aug 2018) at the KEEI among many other posts. He
earned his B.A. of Economics at Chung-Ang University in Seoul, M.A. of
Economics at University of Sydney and his Ph.D. in Economics at School of
Economics in the University of New South Wales. His main research fields
include the economic analysis on climate change and international tradeissues including international negotiation strategies, development andapplication of computable general equilibrium (CGE) model (global CGE
model & national CGE model), environmental policies including emission
permit trading and environmental tax scheme, trade policies including
environmental trade policies such as environmental tariff, and therelationship between economic growth, international trade and environment.

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CHI Fulin
President, China Institute for Reform and Development
Chi Fulin, Senior Research Fellow and Ph.D student supervisor, a member of the
11th and 12th National Committee of CPPCC. He is currently president of China
Institute for Reform and Development (CIRD) and president of Hainan Institute forFree Trade Port Studies. He is also vice chairman of China Society of Economic
Reform, vice chairman of China Society of Administrative Reform, a member of the
National Experts Committee for Programming Economic and Social Developmentin the 13th Five-year Plan Period, policy decision-making advisor for provincial
governments such as Guangdong, Shandong, Hainan and Heilongjiang. He is
distinguished professor at universities including Peking University, Northeastern
University and some others.
He, as an expert, has been entitled to the State Council’s special allowances. He
has been awarded “the Five-One Project Publications Prize”, the Sun Yefang
Economic Science Award and the China Development Research Award. He is also
awarded the title of “Top Outstanding Talents in China” and selected as one of
the “100 Economists Who Have Influenced China’s Economic Construction in theLast 60 Years”. His works are selected and included in the Overview on theacademic Achievements of Well-known Chinese Scientists in the 20th Century(Economics Volume).
He has been dedicated to the theoretical and practical research of economic
system reform for more than three decades. He has published more than 40
monographs in Chinese and English, more than 800 academic papers and morethan 70 research reports. He has submitted a large number of policy
recommendations, which has exerted positive impacts on decision-making andreform practices.

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CHEN Yuming
Vice President, China Public Diplomacy Association
1976-1982 Staff Member, Attache, Chinese Embassy in theSocialist Republic of Romania
1982-1985 Attache, the Department of Soviet Union andEuropean Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1985-1989 Third Secretary and Second Secretary, Chinese
Embassy in the Socialist Republic of Romania
1989-1996 Second Secretary, Deputy Director and Director,
the Department of Soviet Union and European andEuropean-Central Asian Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1996-1998 Counsellor, the Permanent Mission of China to
the United Nations
1998-2002 Deputy Director General, the Policy Research
Office, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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QUI Guohong
Former Chinese ambassador to South Korea

After graduating from Shanghai International Studies
University, I was assigned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairsof the People's Republic of China. In 1991, I served as theSecond Secretary and First Secretary of the Chinese
Embassy in Japan, before serving as the First Secretary,
Deputy Director and Director of the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs. In 1998 I was appointed the Counselor of theChinese Embassy in Japan before being promoted to
become the minister. In 2006, I served as deputy director of
the Department of Asian Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs. Later I was appointed Chinese Plenipotentiary
Ambassador to Nepal from 2008 to 2011, before taking therole of Director of Security Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs from 2011 to 2014. Since then, I have been the
Chinese Ambassador to South Korea. And most recently
since June 2020, I have also become the Chief Research
Fellow of Northeast Asian Affairs at the Charhar Institute.
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CAO Yuanzheng
Board Chairman, Research Corporation of BOC International

PhD in economics, research fellow. Dr. Cao has long beenworking been in the State Commission for Economic
System Restructuring and had been engaged in policy
making and theoretical research on China’s economic
system reform and macro economy. He joined Bank of
China (BOC) International in late 1990s and dedicated tothe implementation of economic system reform measures.
He was Director, Executive Vice President and Chief
Economist of BOC International (China), Chief Economist of
BOC. He has a teaching role in Renmin University of China,
Peking University, Tsinghua University and Fudan
University. He holds various positions including the Vice
Chairman of China Society of Macroeconomics. He is anexpert/advisor for the WB, ADB, UNDP, and transitioning
economics as Vietnam, Mongolia, Czech Republic,
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan, as well as many
provinces in China.
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TIAN Xueyuan
Academician of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Tian was graduated from the department of economy at Peking
University in 1964. He has been Guest Researcher at the East-WestCenter from 1982 to 1983, and been the director of the Institute ofPopulation and Labor Economics at the Chinese Academy of Social
Sciences from 1984 to 1998. And he is also a member of the Expert
Advisory Committee of national social sciences research.
Professor Tian has published more than 500 journal articles and 12
books. Among which, three of his books have been translated into
other languages such as English, Japanese, and Russian. He has
conducted innovative research in quite a few areas such as
population development strategy, cost-benefit study of children toa society, population and sustainable development, and so on. He
has been honored among the first as the national “Young Expert
with Outstanding Contributions”, and he has also been awarded thefirst prize of National Science and Technology for technologicalachievement, the Chinese Population Award (top prize in Chinese
population studies), National Book Award, International Intellectual
Celebrity (awarded by the IBC in UK), and the World’s Five
Thousand Celebrity (titled by the ABI in the US).
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GUO Yanjun
Director, Institute of Asian Studies, China Foreign Affairs University

Prof. Guo Yanjun is director of the Institute of AsianStudies at China Foreign Affairs University. He is incharge of the NEAT China (Network of East AsianThink-tanks), NACT China (Network of ASEAN-China
Think-tanks) and NTCT China (Network of Trilateral
Cooperation Think-tanks). He specializes in the
study of regional cooperation in East Asia, water
diplomacy and the Lancang- Mekong river water
management.

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ZHANG Yunling
Academician and former Director General, Department of International Studies, Chinese
Academy of Social Sciences

Zhang Yunling, Professor and Academician of Chinese
Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). He is a member of
National Committee of CPPCC. He is now President ofChinese Association for Asia-Pacific Studies, Vice
President of China Committee of PECC, Director of
Research Center for Regional Security. He was Director
General of Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, CASS
(1993.11-2007.8), Director General of Institute of JapaneseStudies, CASS (co-current, 1995-2001). He served as amember of EAVG, China-ASEAN Cooperation Official
Expert Group, Task Force of ASEM and Chairman of Joint
Expert Group for Feasibility Study on EAFTA, and a
Member of Joint Expert Group for Feasibility on CEPEA.

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Supporter
OU Boqian
Secretary-General, Trilateral Cooperation Secretariat
Education:
1984 - 1989
Bachelor of Law, Foreign Affairs University, Beijing, China
1996 – 1997 MIPP, Elliott School of International Affairs,
George Washington University, Washington D.C., USA
Professional Career:
1989 – 1990 Staff member, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA)
1990 – 1993 Staff member, Attaché, Department of African Affairs, MFA
1993 – 1996 Attaché, Third Secretary, Chinese Embassy in Uganda
1996 – 2000 Third Secretary, Deputy Section Director, Section Director,
Department of African Affairs, MFA
2000 – 2001 Deputy Secretary, CPC Committee of Xincheng District,
Xi’an Municipality, Shaanxi Province
2001 – 2003 Counselor, Information Department, MFA
2003 – 2007 Political Counselor, Chinese Embassy in Australia
2007 – 2008 Counselor, Policy Planning Department, MFA
2008 – 2013 Deputy Director-General, General Office, MFA
2013 – 2017 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of China to Grenada2017 – 2021 Vice President, Chinese People’s Institute of Foreign Affairs
2021 – Present
Secretary-General, Trilateral Cooperation Secretariat

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