略歴Michael BÜLTMANNManaging Director, HERE Deutschland GmbHMichael Bültmann was appointed managing director of HERE DeutschlandGmbH in November 2014, having served as managing director of Nokia
GmbH the previous six years. He joined Nokia in 2001 and held senior
controlling, legal, and governmental relations positions throughout thecompany in Germany and France. In addition, he has taught international business law at Lüneburg
University, and served as a board member of BITKOM, an association representing more than 2,400
digital companies in Germany.

Dr. Klaus Günter DEUTSCH
Head of Research, Industrial and Economic Policy, Federation of German Industries (BDI)
Dr. Klaus Günter Deutsch has been the head of the industrial and economic
policy research department at the Federation of German Industries(Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie, or BDI) since 2014. Prior to joining BDI,
he was senior economist with Deutsche Bank Research, the economics thinktank of Deutsche Bank. He joined DB Research in July 1996 where he worked as economist in theunit on Economic and Banking Policy, and European integration in the headquarters in Frankfurt.
After a one-year exchange stint with the Federal Chancellery in 1999/2000 at the desk for banking
and external economic relations, he founded and has directed the office of Deutsche Bank Researchin Berlin. Dr. Deutsch received his education in political science and economics from the Free
University of Berlin and spent a year as a Fulbright exchange student at George Washington
University, Washington, DC, in 1988/89. He completed his doctorate in political science at FU Berlinin 1995.

Prof. Mitsuhiro FUKAO
Professor Emeritus, Keio University
Professor Faculty of Economics, Musashino University
Mitsuhiro Fukao has been a Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Economics ofMusashino University since April 2017. He had been teaching at the Faculty of Business
and Commerce of Keio University in Japan for twenty years until March 2017. His
primary fields of expertise are financial regulations, international finance, monetary economics and policy. Fukao
has abundant publications in Japanese and in English on international finance, exchange rate policy, corporate
governance, and recently on financial system and its crisis. Prior to joining Keio University, Fukao was the Headof the Strategic Research Division of Research and Statistics Department of the Bank of Japan. Between 1991
and 1993, Fukao was a senior economist at the OECD in Paris and a G-10 secretary. In 1989 and 1990, he was asenior economist at the International Department of the Bank of Japan and a member of the Danielsson
subgroup of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. From 1983 to 1985, Fukao served as a senioreconomist at the Economic Planning Agency of Japan, and participated in drafting the official White Paper onJapanese Economy. Born in Japan, Fukao received his bachelor's degree in Engineering from Kyoto University in
1974. He was awarded a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan in 1981. He is married to Masayo
Fukao, and has two children.

Tetsuro FUKUNAGA
Executive Director, Brussels Office, Japan Machinery Center for Trade and Investment (JMC)
Tetsuro Fukunaga currently holds the position of Executive Director of the Brussels
office of the Japan Machinery Center for Trade and Investment (JMC), where herepresents almost 250 Japanese machine manufacturers and trading companies. Prior tojoining JMC in 2013, he was the Director for Trade Policy at Large and for the Southwest
Asia Office at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) in 2012, and the Counsellor in the National
Policy Unit of the Cabinet Secretariat of the Japanese Government in 2010. Mr. Fukunaga has a diverse
background in trade and energy – in addition to industrial policy – which he gained over his more than 20 yearsof work experience with the Japanese government.

Naoyuki HARAOKA
Executive Managing Director, Japan Economic Foundation (JEF)
Naoyuki Haraoka was born in Tokyo in 1955. After graduating from the University ofTokyo in 1978 (Bachelor of Economics), he joined the Japanese Ministry of International
Trade and Industry (MITI). Having been posted in the industrial policy section and theinternational trade policy section for several 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 aneconomist. 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 1992 and secondly Counselor to the Japanese Delegation of OECD from 1996 to 1999. Aftercoming back 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 permanentlyand joined JEF as Executive Managing Director.

Dr. Henning HOFF
Executive Editor Berlin Policy Journal, German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP)
Dr. Henning Hoff is executive editor of Berlin Policy Journal and editor-at-large ofInternationale Politik, both published by the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP).
He joined DGAP in 2011, after nearly a decade as foreign correspondent in London, where
he worked for German and international media, including DIE ZEIT/ZEIT online,Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, International Herald Tribune, and TIME. He is also co-founder and director of theWELTKIOSK publishing company (London/Berlin) which specializes in international journalism. An international
historian by training, he holds a PhD in Contemporary History from Cologne University, Germany (2001).

Dr. Sota KATO
Executive Director of Research and Senior Fellow, Tokyo Foundation
Professor, International University of Japan
After earning a law degree (LLM) from the University of Tokyo in 1991, Dr.
Sota Kato joined the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry(MITI). His positions at MITI have included assistant director for the Aircraftand Defense Industries Division, deputy director for the International Economic Division, and seniorresearch fellow for the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI). After turning toacademia, he has served as a Professor at the International University of Japan since 2006. He has
held several positions at policy think tanks, including executive director of research and senior fellow
at the Tokyo Foundation, senior fellow at the Canon Institute of Global Strategy, and senior fellow
at the Mitsui Global Strategic Studies Institute. His research interest includes comparative politicaleconomy, political methodology, and Japanese political economy. He received the Nikkei Prize forEconomics Books in 2001, the Jiro Osaragi Rondan Prize (Asahi Shimbun) in 2002, and the BestPaper Award at the Society of Advancement of Socio-Economics in 2012. He received his MBAwith honors from Harvard Business School and his PhD in political science from the University ofMichigan.

Kazumasa KUSAKAChairman and CEO, Japan Economic Foundation (JEF)
Kazumasa Kusaka has been Chairman and CEO of the Japan Economic
Foundation (JEF) since April 1, 2013, and is also a Professor at the University ofTokyo Graduate School of Public Policy. He previously served for 36 years inJapan’s Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI), rising to become viceminister for international affairs in the reorganized Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) in2004. 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 playeda central role in Asia’s economic integration, promoting FTAs in the region as well as serving as a senior
official negotiating the Doha development agenda of the WTO. He was head of Japan’s Energy Agency
and held director-general positions in technology and environmental policy, in addition to trade andinvestment-related 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, executiveadviser to Dentsu Inc., and president of the Japan Cooperation Center for the Middle East.

Dr. Christian MÖLLING
Deputy Director of the Research Institute, German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP)
Dr. Christian Mölling has been deputy director of DGAP’s research institute inBerlin since February 2017. Before joining DGAP, he held research and leadership
positions with the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF), theInternational Security Research Division at the German Institute for Internationaland Security Affairs (SWP), the Center for Security Studies at ETH Zurich, and the Hamburg Institute for
Peace Research and Security Policy. He has been a visiting fellow at the European Union Institute for SecurityStudies, Paris, the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), London, and the Fondation pour la recherche
stratégique, Paris. He studied politics, economics, and history at the Universities of Duisburg and Warwick
and holds a doctoral degree from Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich.

Dr. Ilja NOTHNAGEL
Head of Division Foreign Trade Policy and Law, Association of German Chambers ofCommerce and Industry (DIHK)
Dr. Ilja Nothnagel has been the managing director for international economic policy at
the Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce (Deutscher Industrieund Handelskammertag, or DIHK) since February 2016. Before that, he worked at DIHK
as adviser to the president (2014-2016), the director for foreign trade, principle issues and promotion (20112014), and the director for corporate succession and corporate consolidation (2008-2011). Before joining DIHK,
he was a consultant focusing on location development and economics with the Stade Elbe-Weser Region’sChamber of Commerce. Dr. Nothnagel studied economics at Humboldt University in Berlin, earning his
doctorate in 2010.

Dr. Andreas RINKE
Chief Political Correspondent, Reuters Berlin
Dr. Andreas Rinke is Reuters’ chief political correspondent in Berlin. One ofGermany’s foremost “Hauptstadt-journalists” and a close observer of German
Chancellor Angela Merkel, he covers not only German politics and internationalaffairs, but also developments related to Industrie 4.0 and the digitizing ofGermany’s economy. His publications include Elf Drohende Kriege (“Eleven Looming Wars,” 2ndedition 2015, with Christian Schwägerl) and a highly-acclaimed Merkel lexicon (2016).

Dr. Claudia SCHMUCKER
Head of Globalization and World Economy Program, German Council on ForeignRelations (DGAP)
Dr. Claudia Schmucker has been head of DGAP's Globalization and World
Economy Program since 2002. She has published extensively on European andTransatlantic Trade Policy, the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the Doha
Round as well as on the role of informal global forums such as the G7 and the G20. She studied atRheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität in Bonn, at Elmira College in New York State, and at Yale
University. She holds an MA in North American studies and a PhD in economics from the Free
University of Berlin.

Alexander SCHÖNFELDERHead of the Division 400 Basic Economic Issues, International Economic and Financial Policy, Federal Foreign Office
Alexander Schönfelder was born in Marburg in 1963. From 1989 to 1993, he worked with the United
Nations Industrial Development Organization; after that, he worked for the Federal Foreign Office,with postings in Washington, Bangkok, Tokyo, Baghdad, and Algiers. In 2014 he became the head ofthe Foreign Ministry's Division for International Economic and Financial Policy and Trade Policy.

Toshiyuki SHIGA
Member of the Board of Directors, Vice Chairman, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
Chairman and CEO, Member of the Board of Innovation Network Corporation
Toshiyuki Shiga is a member of the Board of Directors, Vice Chairman ofNissan Motor Co., Ltd. Before assuming his current position in November
2013, Shiga acted as Chief Operating Officer from 2005, and as Senior Vice
President in charge of the general overseas market (GOM) Sales & Marketing division from 2000 to2005. Since joining NML in 1976, Shiga has held a number of positions in Sales operations in Asia
and Corporate Planning. From 1991 to 1997, he has served as a General Manger of Jakarta office,Asia, and Oceania. He has also served as Chairman and CEO, Member of the Board of Innovation
Network Corporation of Japan since June 2015. Shiga holds a degree from the faculty of economics
at Osaka Prefecture University.

Dr. Sylke TEMPELMember of the Executive Board, German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP)
Dr. Sylke Tempel is a member of the Executive Board of the German Council
on Foreign Relations (DGAP), Editor-in-Chief of Internationale Politik, aforeign policy magazine published by DGAP, lecturer at the Stanford Study
Center Berlin, and visiting professor at Stanford University. She studied
political science, Jewish studies, and history at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich andreceived her PhD from the University of the German Federal Armed Forces, Munich. Between 1993
and 2003 she was correspondent for major German language newspapers and magazines in Israel.
Among her publications are: Israel. Reise durch ein altes, neues Land (“Israel, Journey through an Old
New Land”), (2008) and Freya von Moltke. A Biography (2011).