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Kazumasa Kusaka
Chairman and CEO, Japan Economic Foundation (JEF)
Mr. Kazumasa Kusaka has been Chairman and CEO of the Japan Economic Foundation (JEF)
since April 1, 2013, and is also a Professor at University of Tokyo Graduate School of Public
Policy. He previously served for 36 years in Japan’s Ministry of International Trade and Industry(MITI), rising to become vice-minister for international affairs in the reorganized Ministry of
Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) in 2004. During his long career in public service, Kusaka
was seconded to the International Energy Agency (IEA)/OECD and was Japan’s senior official for
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC). He played a central role in Asia’s economic
integration, promoting FTAs in the region as well as serving as a senior official negotiating theDoha development agenda of the WTO. He was head of Japan’s Energy Agency and held directorgeneral positions in technology and environmental policy in addition to trade and investmentrelated areas within METI. He was also instrumental in finalizing the Kyoto Protocol, anddeveloping Japan’s energy and environment policies. Among many other posts Kusaka has held
are Special Adviser to the Prime Minister on Global Warming, senior vice president of Mitsubishi
Electric, executive adviser to Dentsu Inc., and president of the Japan Cooperation Center for the
Middle East.

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Keiichiro KOBAYASHI
Research Director, The Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research
Professor, Faculty of Economics, Graduate School of Economics, Keio University【Concurrent position】
Professor, Faculty of Economics, Keio University.
Research Director, Canon Institute for Global Studies
Faculty Fellow, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry
Member of the New Coronavirus Infectious Disease Control Subcommittee【Bio】
1991 Earned his master’s degree in engineering from the School of Engineering, University ofTokyo, and worked at The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. (METI)
1998 Earned his doctorate in economics from the University of Chicago.
2010 Professor at the Institute of Economic Research of Hitotsubashi University.
2013 Professor in the Faculty of Economics, Keio University.
2019 Research Director, The Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research
Areas of Expertise : Macroeconomics, financial crises, economic philosophy

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Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University,
Senior Fellow, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)
Prof. Matsushita served as Professor of Global Environmental Policy at the Graduate School of
Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, from 2001 to 2013. He graduated from theTokyo University and obtained MA in political economy from the Johns Hopkins University. He
joined the Environment Agency in 1972 and served as the Director of the Air Pollution Control
Division and the Global Environment Policy and Cooperation Division. He also served as anadministrator at the Environment Directorate of the OECD, Senior Environment Planning Officer
at UNCED (United Nations Conference on Environment and Development) and as an Executing
Deputy President of IGES. His research areas cover environmental policy, climate change policy
as well as green economy and environmental policy integration for sustainable society. His
publications include “A Journey to Global Environmental Studies”, “An Introduction toEnvironmental Policy”, “Environmental Governance”, “Introduction to Environmental
Politics”,“Environment in the 21st Century and New Development Patterns” (in English). He is
also Academic Adviser of the Global Environment Forum (GEF) of Japan as well as a member ofthe Board of Trustees of the Environmental Innovation and Communication Organization.

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Takuma INAMURA
Director of the Healthcare Industries Division at METI (Ministry of Economy
Trade and Industry) of Japan
He joined METI in 1998 and has mostly worked on policy making in areas such as energy,
international trade and manufacturing industries. Before taking up his current position, he was
the director in charge of a drastic revision of the Japanese legislation on the electricity supply
business in order to enable the cost effective deployment of renewable energy and sustainable
investment in the power grid system. He also has government-wide experience through his
secondment to other Japanese ministries including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (an Economy
Counselor at the Permanent Delegation of Japan to the OECD) and Ministry of Finance (a Deputy
Director in charge of port and airport construction public works with an annual budget of 1
trillion yen).
He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Law from the University of Tokyo and a Master’s Degree fromthe Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.

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Kazumasa OGURO
Professor, Faculty of Economics, Hosei University

Kazumasa Oguro graduated from the Faculty of Science of Kyoto University and holds a PhD in
economics from Hitotsubashi University. In 1997, he joined the Ministry of Finance and worked
as Assistant to the Legal Examination Officer at the Administration and Legal Division of the
Minister’s Secretariat, Assistant at the Enforcement Division of the Customs and Tariff Bureau,
and Research Fellow at the Policy Research Institute of the same ministry. This was followed bya position as associate professor at the Institute of Economic Research at Hitotsubashi University,
after which, he joined Hosei University in April 2015, and he has been there ever since. He is also
active as a Senior Visiting Researcher at the Ministry of Finance’s Policy Research Institute, aConsulting Fellow at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry. Professor Oguro is amember of the Japanese Cabinet Office’s Committee for Regulatory Sandbox in Japan.
Furthermore, he is Director at the Kajima Institute of International Peace and the Institute for
New Era Strategy, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Canon Institute for Global Studies. His
expertise is in Public Economics.

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Naoyuki YOSHINO
Professor Emeritus of Keio University
Visiting Professor at GRIPS
Naoyuki Yoshino: Professor Emeritus of Keio University in Tokyo Japan, 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 Bank of 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 underPrime 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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Naoyuki HARAOKA
Executive Managing Director, Japan Economic Foundation (JEF)
Mr. Naoyuki Haraoka has been Executive Managing Director of the Japan Economic Foundation(JEF) since 2007. After graduating the University of Tokyo in 1978 (Bachelor of Economics), hejoined MITI (Ministry of International Trade and Industry) of Japanese government.
Having been posted in the industrial policy section and the international trade policy section fora 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 Delegationof OECD from 1996 to 99. After coming back to MITI from his second stay in Paris, at theoccasion 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.

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Yukiko FUKAGAWA
Dean and Professor, School of Political Science and Economics,
Waseda University
Yukiko Fukagawa is currently the Deputy Dean and Professor, School of Political Science andEconomics, 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 development inEast Asia, especially Korea. She worked for Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) andLong-Term Credit Bank Research Institute (LTCBR) before joining the faculty member of Aoyama
Gakuin University and the University of Tokyo. She came back to Waseda in 2006. She was avisiting fellow at Cambridge University in 2014, and Yonsei University in 2015.
She engaged in many consultation and advisory activities for the government, such as theCommittee 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 JapanUK 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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Akira HIRAIManaging Director, Chief Secretary of Kyushu Economic Federation

Born in Fukuoka in 1956. After graduating from the University of Kyushu in 1980 (Bachelor of
Economics), he joined Mitsubishi Mining and Cement, Co.,Ltd. He was transferred to Mitsubishi
Coal Mining, Co.,Ltd and worked in Yubari, Hokkaido from 1981 to 1985.
He started working at the Kyushu Economic Federation in 1985. Since then he has held
positions in the planning, administration, public relations, and international affairs departments.
He became the Director, Chief Secretary in 2009 and became the Managing Director, Chief
Secretary in 2015.
He has visited CK every year from 2001, when the first meeting was held, till now as theorganizer of the “Yellow Sea Rim Economic and Technology Exchange Conference”. Specificallyhe has visited Beijing, Liaoning, Shandong, Jiangsu, Shanghai, and other cities in China, as well as
Seoul, Incheon, Busan, Daejeon, Gwangju, and other cities in South Korea. They discussed trade,
regional supply chains, and the creation of new industries or new markets by innovation andtourism. His concerns are how to export kyushu’s agricultural products to CK and to increase
tourists from CK to kyushu post Covid-19 recovery.

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Shujiro URATA

Professor 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 Researcher, Asian Development
Bank Institute (ADBI) and Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Institute of Developing Economies.
Professor Urata received his B.A. in Economics from Keio University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in
Economics at Stanford University. He is a former Research Associate at the Brookings Institution,an Economist at the World 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 the World Bank, OECD, the Asian Development
Bank and the Government of Japan. He published and edited a number of books on international
economic issues and is an author and co-author of numerous articles in professional journals.
His recent book publications in English include Emerging Global Trade Governance, co-editor,
Routledge, 2018, East Asian Integration, co-editor, Routledge, 2019 and others.

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CHI Fulin
President, China Institute for Reform and Development
Professor Chi Fulin is Chief Research Fellow and Ph.D student supervisor, is currently Presidentof China Institute for Reform and Development (CIRD). He has been a member of the 11th and12th National Committee of CPPCC. He has been invited to be Vice Chairman of China Society of
Economic Reform, Vice Chairman of China Society of Administrative Reform, and distinguished
Professor at universities including Chinese Academy of Governance, Peking University andNortheastern University. He has served as a member of the National Experts Committee for
Programming Economic and Social Development in the 13th Five-year Plan Period, been
appointed Vice Chairman of the Expert Committee for Market Supervision of the State
Administration for Market Regulation. He is also policy decision-making advisor for provincial
governments such as Guangdong, Shandong and Hainan. He was awarded renowned Sun Yefang
Prize for Economics and China Development Research Award and many others. He was selected
as one of the “100 Economists that have Influenced China’s Economic Construction in the Last 60
Years”. He and his work were selected in Overview on the academic achievements of famous
Chinese social scientists in the 20th Century (Economics Volume).

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Vice President and Associate Research Fellow of China Institute for Reform andDevelopment
He Dongni, Vice President and Associate Research Fellow of China Institute for Reform andDevelopment (CIRD). She studied at Xiamen University, Nankai University, Maastricht School ofManagement in Netherlands and Northeastern University. She obtained a master's degree in

economics, a master's degree in business administration, and a PhD. degree in management
science and engineering. She participated in the completion of more than 30 national, provincial
and ministerial-level projects, published more than 40 papers and reviews, she also participatedin the research and compilation of Annual Report on China Reform Studies by CIRD, andpublished 8 monographs (as deputy Editor and chief editor). The projects she was responsiblefor including “Research on the Fiscal and Taxation System and Policy Options for the Expansionof Middle-Income Group in China”, “The Path Selection and Institutional Arrangements for theOpenness of Hainan's Service Industry under the Background of International Tourism Island”,
and “Research on the Sustainability of Hainan Provincial Local Debt Repayment andConstruction of Investment and Financing Platform”, etc. She also participated in projects
including “Structural Contradictions and Possible solutions in the Establishment of ChinaEurope FTA”, “The Transformation and Reform Towards Consumption-led Economy”,etc.

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JIANG Ruiping
Former Vice President, China Foreign Affairs University
Professor Jiang is a member of the Economic and Trade Policy Advisory Committee at
MOFCOM and a member of Advisory Group of East Asian Cooperation at Ministry ofForeign Affairs. He also serves as Vice Chairman of National Association for Japanese
Economic Studies and Vice President of East Asian Forum for Peace and Development.
He has been granted special government allowance and various other honorable titles.
His research interests cover international economics, Japanese economy and ChinaJapan economic relations, East Asian economic cooperation and international political
economy. He has published a number of books and articles, most of which have wide
influence within the academia and the policy sector. Before joining his present
organization, he worked at Hebei University as the Professor of economics and served
as Deputy Director of Institute of Japan studies.

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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 amember of National Committee of CPPCC. He is now President of Chinese Association for AsiaPacific 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 (1993.112007.8), Director General of Institute of Japanese Studies, CASS (co-current, 1995-2001). He
served as a member 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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CHANG, Xiuze
Professor, Academy of Macroeconomic Research
Dr. Chang Xiuze is a prestigious Chinese economist. He is now professor and PHD supervisor of
the Academy of Macroeconomic Research at the National Development and Reform Commission.
He is also a research fellow of the National Center for Economic Research at Tsinghua University.
He is committed to the research of institutional economics, such as theory on people’s
development, broad intellectual property theory and China’s transformation. He has become
author to about 10 books and published many academic articles. Some of the research projects
he engaged in have been awarded with national prizes.

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QI Ye
Professor and Director, Institute of Public Policy at Hong Kong University
Science and Technology
Qi Ye is Professor of Public Policy and Director of Institute of Public Policy at Hong
Kong University Science and Technology, and Cheung Kong Professor at Tsinghua
University’s School of Public Policy and Management. Prior to joining HKUST in
January 2019, he was the Volkswagen Professor of Sustainability at Schwarzman
College, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and the Director of BrookingsTsinghua Center for Public Policy. He received a Ph.D. in Environmental Science in1994 jointly awarded by the State University of New York College of Environmental
Science and Forestry and Syracuse University.

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QIU Guohong
Chief Research Fellow of Northeast Asian Affairs, the Charhar Institute
After graduating from Shanghai International Studies University, he was assigned to the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China. In 1991, he served as the Second
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 he wasappointed the Counselor of the Chinese Embassy in Japan before being promoted to become theminister. In 2006, he served as deputy director of the Department of Asian Affairs of the Ministryof Foreign Affairs. Later he was appointed Chinese Plenipotentiary Ambassador to Nepal from2008 to 2011, before taking the role of Director of Security Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs from 2011 to 2014. Since then, he has been the Chinese Ambassador to South Korea. And
most recently since June 2020, he has also become the Chief Research Fellow of Northeast Asian
Affairs at the Charhar Institute.

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TIAN Xueyuan
Academician, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS)
Mr. Tian graduated from the School of Economics at Peking University in 1964. He has
been Guest Researcher at the East-West Center from 1982 to 1983, and been the
Director of Institute of Population and Labor Economics at the Chinese Academy ofSocial Sciences from 1984 to 1998. And he is also Member of the Expert Advisory
Committee of National Social Sciences Research.
Professor Tian has published more than 500 journal articles and 12 books. Three ofhis books have been translated into English, Japanese, and Russian and otherlanguages. He has conducted innovative research in quite a few areas such as
population development strategy, cost-benefit study of children to a society,population and sustainable development, and so on. He was among the first batch of“Young Expert with Outstanding Contributions”, and he also has been awarded thefirst prize of National Science and Technology for technological achievement, theChinese Population Award (top prize in Chinese population studies), National Book
Award, International Intellectual Celebrity (awarded by the IBC in UK), and theWorld’s Five Thousand Celebrity (titled by the ABI in the US).
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WU Shicun
President, National Institute for South China Sea Studies
Mr. Wu has a PhD in history, and is president and senior research fellow of China’s
National Institute for South China Sea Studies. He is also the chairman of board of
directors of China-Southeast Asia Research Center on the South China Sea, vicepresident of China Institute for Free Trade Ports Studies, deputy director of the
Collaborative Innovation Center of South China Sea Studies of Nanjing University. Mr.
Wu’s research interests cover the history and geography of the South China Sea,
maritime delimitation, maritime economy, international relations and regional
security strategy. He has published widely in academic journals and been the subjectof frequent media interviews as a senior commentator on South China Sea, regional
security issues, the Belt & Road Initiative and the development of Hainan Province.

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GUO Yanjun
Director, the Institute of Asian Studies at China Foreign Affairs University
Dr. Guo Yanjun is director of the Institute of Asian Studies at China Foreign Affairs University. Asa core member of the NEAT China (Network of East Asian Think-tanks), NACT China (Network of
ASEAN-China Think-tanks) and NTCT China (Network of Trilateral Cooperation Think-tanks), he
has involved in a couple of track II diplomacies. He also serves as a research fellow at theInnovation Center on National Territorial Sovereignty and Maritime Rights and the Innovation
Center on China’s Neighboring Diplomacy. He specializes in the study of regional cooperation in
East Asia and international rivers & transboundary water resources management, esp. theLancang- Mekong river water management. He has published relevant writings and articles bothat home and abroad in recent years.

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WU Hailong
President, China Public Diplomacy Association
Mr.Wu Hailong successively held the positions of Member of the International Department of the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the People's Republic of China (1978-1981); Permanent
Representative and Third Secretary to the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for
Asia and the Pacific, Third Secretary and Second Secretary of the International Department of
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1981-1986); Second Secretary and First Secretary of thePermanent Mission to the United Nations (1988-1992); First Secretary and Deputy Director of
the International Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1992-1996); Counsellor of the
Embassy of the State of Israel (1996-1999); Deputy Director-General of the International
Department of the Foreign Ministry (1999-2001); Deputy Commissioner, Office of theCommissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region(2001-2004); Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office at Vienna and otherinternational organizations, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and Permanent
Representative to the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, Permanent
Representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Director of the International
Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2004-2006); Assistant Foreign Minister (20092011); Head of Mission to the EU, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (2011-2014);
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and Permanent Representative to the United
Nations Office at Geneva and other international organizations in Switzerland(2014-2016);
Member of the CPC Leading Group and President of the Chinese People's Institute of Foreign
Affairs (2016-2019). Mr. Wu Hailong is currently the President of China Public Diplomacy
Association.
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KIM Sung-Hwan
Chairman of the East Asia Foundation / Former Minister of Foreign Affairs and T
rade of the R.O.K
Sung-Hwan Kim was a career diplomat and served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of
the Republic of Korea from October 2010 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 and Permanent Representative to the International
Organizations in Vienna and the ROK's Ambassador to Uzbekistan.

He was appointed as a Member of the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel of Eminent Perso
ns 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 Respo
nsibility and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Seoul National University until March 2015.
He also taught at Hanyang University as a Distinguished Professor and served as the Chairman of
the Gangwon Art and Culture Foundation.
He is now working as the Chairman of the East Asia Foundation and the Chairman of the Beautif
ul Mind Charity Foundation.

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MICHIGAMI Hisashi
Secretary-General, Trilateral Cooperation Secretariat
Education:
1983 Graduated from University of Tokyo, Faculty of Law ,1985-6 Studied at Graduate School ofSeoul National University,1987 MA, Harvard University (International Relations of East Asia)
Professional Career:
1983 Entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
1987~97 Northeast Asian Affairs Division, Minister’s Secretariat, Economic Affairs Bureau,
Permanent Mission of Japan to International Organizations in Geneva (WTO)
1998~2000 Counselor, Embassy of Japan in Korea
2003~7 Director, Second Economic Affairs Division
2007~9 Minister, Embassy of Japan in China
2011 Minister, Embassy of Japan in Korea (February 2014, Minister and Deputy Chief of Mission)
Aug. 2014 Consul General of Japan in Dubai,Jun. 2017 Consul General of Japan in Busan,Sep.
2019 Secretary-General, Trilateral Cooperation Secretariat
Publishment and Teaching Experience:
Published ３ books in Japan including “Japanese Diplomat in Korea”, “China Sees Japan ThisWay” and ２ in Korea
Many articles on Korea, China, Trade, Culture and Mutual Understanding
50 articles and interviews on Korean Newspapers and Magazines
Lectured at Universities (85 times)
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GONG Ro-Myung
Former Korean Foreign Minister and former chairmanof the East Asia Foundation
Former Korean Foreign Minister and the chairman of the East Asia Foundation, Ro-Myung Gong wasa chair professor in the Division of International Studies of Dongseo University in Busan, Korea,
since 2007. He is also the advisor of the Korea-Japan Forum since after serving as Chairman from2003 to 2012. He was born on February 25, 1932. He is a graduate of the Law College, Seoul
National University and studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He entered
the Republic of Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1958 and served at various overseas
diplomatic missions of Korea, including in Washington DC, Tokyo, Canberra and Cairo. He was theRepublic of Korea's Ambassador to Brazil from 1983 to 1986, Consul-General in New York (198689), Ambassador to the then-Soviet Union (1990-92), Director of the Institute of Foreign Affairs andSecurity(IFANS) (1992-93), Ambassador to Japan (1993-94), and became Minister of Foreign Affairs
from December 1994 to November 1996. After retiring from government, he served as a member of
the Presidential Advisory Council on Unification in 1997. In 1992, he was also the representative of
the 6th, 7th, and 8th round of high-level inter-Korean talks and chairman of South Korea for the SouthNorth Joint Nuclear Control Commission. He was chairman of the 2010 PyeongChang Olympic
Winter Games Bid Committee (1992-93), chair professor of Dongguk University, Seoul (1997-2004)
and of Hallym University in Chuncheon (2004-07), and chairman of the Sejong Foundation/Sejong
Institute (2008-11).

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KWON Soonman
Professor and Former Dean of the School of Public Health, Seoul National
University
Prof Kwon is a health economist and has worked over 30 years on UHC, health finance, andhealth systems & policy. He has held visiting positions at the Harvard School of Public Health,London School of Economics, University of Toronto, University of Tokyo, Peking University, andUniversity of Bremen. He was the Chief of the Health Sector Group in the Asian Development
Bank (ADB) in 2016-2017. He is the founding director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for
Health System and Financing at Seoul National University. He received the excellence ineducation award of Seoul National University in 2020.
He has served as president of the Korean Health Economic Association, the Korean Associationof Schools of Public Health, and the Korean Gerontological Society. He is the president-elect of
the Korean Society of Health Policy and Management. He is the Asia Region Editor of Health
Policy (Elsevier) and International Journal of Health Economics and Management (Springer), andwas the editor of the Korean Journal of Public Health and the Korean Journal of Health Economics.
He holds PhD from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (1993) and taught at the
University of Southern California School of Public Policy until 1996.

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SEONG Baik Lin
Professor, Yonsei University Medical School, andDirector, Vaccine Innovative Technology ALliance (VITAL)-Korea, Seoul, KOREA
Baik Lin Seong, PhD, established scientific experience from basic molecular biology to pre-clinica
l development of vaccines and therapeutic proteins. He received B.S. from Seoul National Univers
ity (1977), M.S. from KAIST (1979), PhD from MIT (1988). He worked as postdoctoral scientist at the University of Oxford (1988-1992). As a research scientist at Aviron, California, he was invol
ved in developing live attenuated influenza vaccine, which later was developed as nasal spray ty
pe vaccine FluMist in MedImmune. Dr. Seong served as director of the Institute of Biological Scie
nces at Hanhyo Institute (1993-1998), and represented the Korean Government for Biological W
eapons Convention (BWC) in United Nations (2000-2008). He currently serves Scientific Advisor
y Board (SAB) member of International Vaccine Institute (IVI). As professor at Yonsei University
for the last 20 years, He continues to work on designing universal flu vaccine, and virus-like particle (VLP) vaccines against viral infections including norovirus, dengue, Zika and COVID-19. He w
as recently asked by the Korean government to lead the VITAL-Korea fund (10 years; 200M US$)for developing vaccines against infectious diseases.

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AHN Choong Yong
Distinguished Professor, Chung-Ang University
Dr. Ahn is currently Distinguished Professor, Graduate School of International Studies, Chung-Ang University. Previously, he was the Chairman, Korea Commission for Corporate Partnership (KCCP) and responsi
ble for inducing voluntary collaborations between Korea’s big businesses and SMEs, and also Chairman of the Board, Korea Electric Power Corporation. Before taking his current post, he served as Foreign Invest
ment Ombudsman (2006-2014) who is the troubleshooter responsible for resolving grievances raised byforeign investors at the Korea Trade and Investment Promotion Agency in Korea. He is former Chairmanof the Presidential Regulatory Reform Committee (2010-2012). While on sabbatical from Chung-Ang Uni
versity, he also served several posts such as the President of the Korea Institute for International Econom
ic Policy (2002-2005); Chair of the APEC Economic Committee; Chair of Board, Choheung Bank; consulta
nt to the World Bank; UNIDO Chief Technical Advisor to the Economic Planning Unit of Malaysia to desig
n Malaysia's industrial master plan; and served as President of several academic societies in Korea includ
ing the Korea International Economics Association, Korean Association of Trade and Industry Studies, and the Korea Econometric Society.
Dr. Ahn’s honors include the Economist of the Year Award from the Maeil Business Daily Newspaper in K
orea, 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 Federationof Korean Industries. Since receiving his Ph.D. from Ohio State University, Dr. Ahn has published many art
icles in international journals including Review of Economics and Statistics, European Economic Review,
Japanese Economic Review, Journal of Asian Economics and Monograph papers in North-Holland, Cambr
idge University Press, Springer and Edward Elgar, etc.

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KANG MoonJeong
Head of Institute for Hydrogen Industry(IHI) of Hyundai Motor Group
MoonJeong Kang is the Head of Institute for Hydrogen Industry(IHI), Hyundai Motor Group’s thi
nk-tank coordinating group-wide fuel cell and hydrogen agenda. With her extensive expertise, she leads research and analysis in the area of global hydrogen value chain and policy dynamics. H
er work further extends to policy recommendation to public authorities, in order to realize the v
ision of hydrogen economy pursued both by Hyundai Motor Group and the Government of Korea.
Prior to joining IHI, Ms. Kang served as the founding CEO of Potlatch Inc., an energy technologic
al startup. For 10 years, she successfully originated, engineered, financed, built, commissioned, and operated biogas to bio methane for vehicle fuel project, biogas to bio methane for pipeline inj
ection project, and solar power plant at a wastewater treatment plant, which were first attempts
initiated in Korea.
Her proven track record of general management, strategic planning and business development
attributes to her experience as the CEO of theCobaltSky, the first management consulting firm in
Korea specializing in energy and carbon management. She made a success in developing then w
orld largest 11.2 MW fuel cell power plant in Korea. During her earlier years at Arthur.D.Little, she was recognized for her reputable expertise in various industries as a strategy consultant.
As a renowned speaker and writer, she was an adjunct professor of the Graduate School of International Studies at Ewha Womans University for 11 years. She received her Bachelor of Business Administration from Seoul National University, and MBA from Bowling Green State University

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KIM Sang-hyup
President, Jeju Research InstituteSang-Hyup Kim is the President of the Jeju Research Institute. He is also the Director of the Global Strategy Institute of KAIST, a Visiting Professor of the College of Business, KAIST and Chairmanof Coalition for Our Common Future. Prior to joining the KAIST (2013), Mr. Kim worked at the Of
fice of the President of the Republic of Korea from 2008 as the Secretary for National Future andVision, where he contributed in setting the historic “Low Carbon Green Growth” vision for Korea.
In 2011, he became the Senior Secretary to the President for Green Growth, coordinating the pla
nning, developing, and implementing Korea’s Green Growth strategy. Also, he served as a membe
r of the Global Agenda Council of World Economic Form and now he serves as a co-chairman of J
eju Green Big Bang Committee.
Kim was formerly a Washington correspondent for Maeil Business Newspaper and co-founding
member of the World Knowledge Forum and Vision Korea Project. He also worked at SBS, Seoul
Broadcasting System, during which he set up the future and vision projects team in 2004, in addi
tion to found and serving in the capacity of the Executive Director of the Seoul Digital Forum.

Kim has a B.A and M.A in International Relations from Seoul National University. He has been recipient of numerous awards during his career, including: Broadcaster of the Year; Korean Broadc
asters Association (2007); Hongjo Order of Service Merit (2010); Hwangjo Order of Service Merit (2012).

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KIM Jung-Sik
Professor Emeritus at School of Economics, Yonsei University
Jung-Sik Kim is Professor Emeritus at School of Economics, Yonsei University. He was a Visiting
Scholar of Department of Economics, Harvard University and Institute for International Studies
at University of Cambridge. He worked as the Dean of the College of Business and Economics
and Dean of the Graduate School of Economics, Yonsei University.
He served as Adviser of Bank of Korea, and held the post of Chairman of Committee for Financial
Development in Financial Services Commission (FSC) and Chairman of Policy Evaluation
Committee of Ministry of Strategy and Finance. Kim was the President of Korean Economic
Association (KEA) and Korea International Economic Association (KIEA).
Kim is the President of Korea Social Science Research Council(KOSSREC) and Asia FinanceSociety. He has published widely on open macroeconomics, international finance and East Asianfinancial cooperation. His most recent paper is “Korean Currency Crisis and Capital Flow
Reversal: A Supply Side Approach of Currency Crisis”.

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YI Insill
Professor of Graduate School of Economics at Sogang University
Insill Yi is currently a Professor of Graduate School of Economics and was a Directorof Nam Duck-Woo Economic Research Institute and Vice-President for Public Affairs
at Sogang University.
She served for Korean government as the 12th Commissioner of Statistics Korea fromthe 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 asenior research fellow and director of the Center for Finance and Tax, for Korea
Economic Research Institute. She worked as a senior economist and team leader offinancial analysis team, for Hana Bank Research Institute.
She had been active in participating the governmental committees (such as Advisory
Committee Member of National Assemble Budget Office, Member of Policy Advisor to Minister ofJustice, 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 iscurrently honorary president of the Korean Economic Association, the Korean Women Economic
Association, and the President of the Association of Korean Economic Studies. She has abachelor’s degree in economics and geology from Yonsei University and a doctoral
degree from the University of Minnesota USA.

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KIM, Do Hoon
Professor, Graduate School of International Studies at Sogang University
KIM, DoHoon teaches “Korea’s Economic Development” and “international Business Strategy foc
used on Global Value Chain in East Asia” at GSIS (Graduate School of International Studies), Soga
ng University. He was former president of the Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and Trade(KIET) from May 2013 to May 2016. Before being appointed as president of KIET, he worked as d
irector of several research divisions in KIET, such as division of industrial policy and division of industrial cooperation and globalization and served as vice president for research, spanning the years from 1979 through May 2013. He was detached from KIET to work for the OECD in Paris as
principal administrator at the trade directorate from September 1997 to September 1999. He wo
rked for IERI at University of Washington as a visiting scholar. He served as president of a coupleof Korea’s academic associations including KSRS (Korea Society of Regulatory Studies).
He has been also members for many government policy advisory committees such ascommission for corporate partnership, and advisory council for budget policy. His major
publications include “Six Decades of Korea’s Industrial Development, KDI, December 2010” and“An Impact Analysis of the Korea-US FTA and Korea-EU FTA on

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