略歴
Kazumasa Kusaka
Chairman 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 University of Tokyo Graduate School of Public Policy. He previously servedfor 36 years in Japan’s Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI).
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 the Dohadevelopment 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 tradeand investment-related areas within METI.
He was also instrumental in finalizing the Kyoto Protocol, and developing 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.

Rt Hon Sir Anand SatyanandPresident, New Zealand Institute of International Affairs (NZIIA)
Sir Anand Satyanand is currently President of the NZ Institute ofInternational Affairs. He has worked as a lawyer, judge andOmbudsman and was New Zealand’s 19th Governor-General from2006 until 2011. His activities include being Chancellor of The University of Waikato,
provides patronage to a small number of community organisations, he undertakes a
programme of speaking to audiences in New Zealand and elsewhere; and lastly holding
a small number of offices. He was Chairman of the Commonwealth Foundation in
London from 2013 to 2016, he is a Visiting Fellow at the Law School of the University of
Auckland, and a Member of the International Advisory Committee of Transparency

International.
Melanie Thornton
Executive Director, New Zealand Institute of International
Affairs (NZIIA)
Melanie Thornton is the Executive Director of the New ZealandInstitute of International Affairs. Prior to joining the Institute in
December 2018, Melanie held managerial positions at Greater Wellington Regional
Council. She spent four years managing the council’s office for the regional economic
development strategy and seven years managing a team promoting sustainabletransport initiatives across the region.
She has a background in radio journalism as a senior producer and presenter with RadioNZ for many years, was an arts consultant and previously an environmental
investigations officer with the Commission for the Environment.

Vangelis Vitalis
Deputy Secretary, Trade and Economic NZ Foreign Affairs &Trade
Vangelis Vitalis is Deputy Secretary, Trade and Economic at the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. He is also the APEC2021
Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM) Chair for New Zealand’s host year and the Chief
Negotiator for the Free Trade Agreement with the European Union.
Previously, Vangelis was the Chief Negotiator who concluded the Comprehensive andProgressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership and before that in 2007-9 led theconclusion of the ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement (AANZFTA)
and the Malaysia-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement (MNZFTA).
Vangelis has worked outside the Ministry including as an economist in the Secretariatof the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). He is a pastmember of the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Future Council on Trade and amember of the WEF Trade and Investment Expert network. He has chaired in a personal
capacity the OECD Committee on Trade and the Environment (2008-2017), the OECD
Global Forum on Trade and Climate Change and is currently the New Zealand Envoy
for the Small Advanced Economies’ Initiative.

Prof. Zhang Yunling
Chair Professor and Dean, Institute of International Studies,
Shandong University
Zhang Yunling, Academy Member of Chinese Academy of Social
Science (CASS); Chair Professor, Chairman of Academic Council,
School of Northeast Asia Studies, President of Institute for 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), Member of Official
Expert Group on China-ASEAN Cooperation (2001), Member of ASEM Task Force (20032004), Chairman of Joint Expert Group for Feasibility Study on EAFTA (2005-2006);
Member of Joint Expert Group of CEPEA (2006-2009); Member of National Committeeof Chinese Political Consultant Conference (2002-2018.3)；Executive Chairman of ChinaRepublic ofKorea Joint Expert Committee (2010-2013); Member of China-Japan 21st Century
Friendship Commission (2003-2008).

Anita Prakash
Director, Policy Relations Economic Research Institute for ASEAN
and East Asia (ERIA)
Anita Prakash is Director (Policy Relations) in the Office ofPresident of Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA), Jakarta,
Indonesia.
Her policy research supports the summits and ministerial processes in ASEAN, East
Asia and Oceania, Europe and Africa, notably the Trade Ministers meetings in ASEAN,
the East Asia Summit, Asia-Europe Meeting, and the T 20 and Sherpa process in G20.
Prior to her work at ERIA, she served as Director in the Government of India in the
Department of Commerce, and NITI Aayog. She was a Visiting Research Associate at
the Graduate Institute, Geneva from 2016 to 2019. She writes extensively oninternational cooperation for development and connectivity in Indo-Pacific. Importantworks include the plans for Asia-Africa Growth Corridor, and Asia-Europe Connectivity.

She is an alumni of Delhi University (M.Phil) and Australian National University (MBA).

Dr. Josef T Yap
Senior Technical Advisor, ASEP-CELLs project Ateneo School ofGovernment
Josef T. Yap was President of the Philippine Institute forDevelopment Studies, where he worked for 26 years until his
retirement on June 30, 2013. While at PIDS, he specialized in macroeconomic policy andapplied econometrics.
Dr. Yap finished his undergraduate and doctoral studies at the University of thePhilippines Diliman and went to the University of Pennsylvania on a post-graduate
program. In 2010, Dr. Yap was honored as one of the 100 outstanding alumni of the UP
Diliman College of Engineering as part of its Centennial celebration.
His current research interest centres on regional economic integration in East Asia andpromoting energy security in the Philippines. Dr. Yap was the regional coordinator of theEast Asian Development Network and was actively involved in the establishment of the
Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA).
At present, Dr. Yap is Senior Technical Advisor to the ASEPCELLs Project (Access to
Sustainable Energy Program, Clean Energy Living Laboratories) which is being
implemented under the auspices of the European Union and the Ateneo School ofGovernment.

Somkiat Tangkitvanich
President/Acting Program Director for Education Reform Policy
Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI)
Dr. Somkiat Tangkitvanich obtained his PhD in Computer Sciencefrom Tokyo Institute of Technology. He has been recognized as aleading Thai expert in the areas of trade and investment policies, innovation policy,
education policy and ICT policy. He was a main architect of Thai PBS, the first public
television in Southeast Asia, and many media laws in Thailand. Under his leadership,
TDRI is nominated “Person of the Year” in 2012 by the Bangkok Post.

Josie Pagani
Director Council for International Development
Josie

Paganiisa

communications

consultant

andpolitical

commentator. She took over the Director role at CID in June 2016.
She has a high-level understanding and experience in the aid and development sector.
Her career includes working as the communications manager for
NZAID, and also for OECD DAC in Paris. Since returning to Wellington from Paris in2007 Josie has managed a public affairs consultancy with a number of clients both in
New Zealand and abroad.

Dr. Yose Rizal Damuri
Head of Department of Economics Centre for Strategic andInternational Studies (CSIS)
Yose Rizal Damuri, Head of the Department of Economics, Center
for Strategic and International Studies. His research activities focus
on international trade, regional integration and globalization of value chain. He is active
in several research and advisory networks both in Indonesia and in East Asia, such as
Indonesia Service Dialogue (ISD) and Asia-Pacific Research and Training Network on
Trade (ARTNeT).
Yose also teaches International Economics courses at the Faculty of Economics
University of Indonesia. In addition, he occasionally writes in local and national
newspapers. He received his Bachelor of Economics from the Faculty of Economics,
University of Indonesia. He continued his study at the National Centre for Development
Studies, Australian National University (ANU), Canberra and got his Master of
Economics of Development (MEcDev). He received his PhD in International Economics
from the Graduate Institute of International Studies (HEI), Geneva, Switzerland.

Dr. Prof. Ahn Choong Yong
Distinguished Professor, Graduate School of International Studies
Chung-Ang University
Dr. Ahn is currently Distinguished Professor at the Graduate
School of International Studies, Chung-Ang University, Seoul. He
is also Co-Chair of Korea-India Strategic Dialogue organized annually by Korea
Foundation, Seoul Forum, and Ananta Aspen Centre of India. 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).
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.

Prof. Gary Hawke
Emeritus Professor, Victoria University of Wellington
Gary Hawke was Head of the School of Government and Professorof Economic History at Victoria University of Wellington. He held
visiting appointments at Stanford University, All Souls’ College,
Oxford, the Australian National University and a number of institutions in Japan. He isa Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Distinguished Fellow of the NZ Associationof Economists and Fellow of the Institute of Public Administration of New Zealand. He
is a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit. He consults for government on
education policy.
He was Director of the Institute of Policy Studies from 1987 to 1998. He is a member ofthe board of the New Zealand Committee of the Pacific Economic Co-operation Council,
NZPECC, a member of the Academic Advisory Council of the Economic ResearchInstitute for ASEAN and East Asia and represents NZ Institute for Economic Researchon its Research Institutes Network. He is now Emeritus Professor, Victoria University

of Wellington, and Senior Fellow, NZ Institute of Economic Research.

Simon SC Tay
Chairman, Singapore Institute of International Affairs (SIIA)
Simon SC Tay is a public intellectual as well as an advisor to major
corporations and policymakers. Based in Singapore, he is
Chairman of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs, thecountry’s oldest think tank that has been ranked as the best independent think tank in
Asia.
He is concurrently a tenured Associate Professor, teaching international law at the
National University of Singapore Faculty of Law and has also taught at Harvard Law
School, the Fletcher School and Yale University. Prof Tay is also Senior Consultant at
Wong Partnership, a leading Asian law firm of some 300 lawyers and with offices in
ASEAN, China and the Middle East. He served on boards for leading global companies
including MUFG Bank of Japan, Toyota Japan, and Deutsche Boerse (Asia), and waspreviously Corporate Advisor to Temasek Holdings (2006-09).

Dr. Vo Tri Thanh
Chairman, Vietnam National Committee for Pacific Economic
Cooperation (VNCPEC)
Dr. Vo Tri Thanh is former Vice-president of the Central Institutefor Economic Management (CIEM). He is currently Chairman ofVietnam National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation (VNCPEC) and amember of the National Financial and Monetary Policy Advisory Council. He is also
Director of Institute for Brand and Competitiveness Strategy (BCSI). He holds a
Bachelor of Science from the Moscow State University, and a master’s degree in
Economics and a PhD degree in Economics both from the Australian National University.
Dr. Vo Tri Thanh mainly undertakes research and provides consultation on issues related
to trade liberalization, international economic integration and macroeconomic policies.
His other areas of interests include institutional reforms, financial system and economic
development.

Charles Finny
Partner, Saunders UnsworthCharles Finny is a Partner at the Wellington Government
Relations company Saunders Unsworth. He is a former tradenegotiator, diplomat and CEO of the Wellington Regional Chamberof Commerce.
Charles has served overseas in Singapore, Beijing (Deputy HOM) and Taipei (HOM). He
has been heavily involved in New Zealand’s GATT/WTO, bilateral and regional FTAs. He
was Chief Negotiator in the early stages of the FTA with China and the Chief Negotiatorof the recently signed agreement with Taiwan.
Charles chairs the Board of Education New Zealand and is on the Boards of NZTE, the
New Zealand Film Commission and Victoria University of Wellington Council.

Ambassador Murray McLean AO
Chairman, Dunmore McLean Pty Ltd
Murray McLean is Chair, Foundation of Australian and JapaneseStudies (NPO); a Fellow of the Australian Institute forInternational Affairs (since 2018); and Chairman of his family
company, Dunmore McLean Pty Ltd. He was Chair, Australia Japan Foundation (20122020); a Vice Chancellor’s Professorial Fellow at Monash University (2012-2015) and a
non-resident Fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy (2014-2016).
Formerly a senior officer of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade(DFAT), he retired in 2012 after a 42-year career culminating in his role as Ambassador
to Japan (2004-2011).
Prior to that role, he served as Deputy Secretary of DFAT (2004); First Assistant
Secretary, North Asia Division (2001-2003), High Commissioner to Singapore (19972001); Assistant Secretary, East Asia Branch, (1992-1996), and Consul General,
Shanghai (1987-1992). His other DFAT postings were at the Australian Embassy inWashington D.C. (1983-1986); the Australian Embassy in Beijing (twice) (1973-1976 and1979-1983) and in Hong Kong (1971-1973).

Prof. Sachin Chaturvedi
Director

General,ResearchandInformation

SystemforDeveloping Countries (RIS)
Prof. Sachin Chaturvedi is currently Director General at the
Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS),a New Delhi-based Think-Tank. He works on issues related to development economics,
involving development finance, SDGs and South-South Cooperation, apart from trade,investment and innovation linkages with special focus on WTO. He is also Member,
Board of Governors, Reserve Bank of India.
He has authored/edited 22 books, apart from contributing several chapters in the edited
volumes and also publishing several research articles in prestigious journals. He is on
the Editorial Advisory Board of IDS Bulletin, Sussex, UK.
Professor Sachin Chaturvedi was also the Global Justice Fellow at the MacMillan Center
for International Affairs at Yale University and has served as a Visiting Professor at the
Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and was a Developing Country Fellow at the
University of Amsterdam (1996), Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies,
Shimla (2003), and Visiting Scholar at the German Development Institute (2007).

Prof. Shujiro Urata
Professor Emeritus, Waseda University
Shujiro Urata is Professor Emeritus, Waseda University. He wasProfessor of International Economics, Graduate School Asia-PacificStudies, 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 theInstitute 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 theWorld Bank. He specializes in International Economics and Economics of Development.
He has held a number of research and advisory positions including senior advisor to theGovernment of Indonesia, consultant to the World Bank, OECD, the Asian Development

Bank and the Government of Japan.

Datuk P. Ravidran Palaniappan
Former Senior Director and Advisor in Ministry of International
Trade and Industry, Malaysia
Senior Adviser, White Rook Advisory
Mr. P. Ravidran Palaniappan has served in the Ministry ofInternational Trade and Industry Malaysia (MITI) for 36 years in various capacities. As
Director and subsequently as Senior Director of the ASEAN Economic Integration
Division (AEID) MITI, one of the main responsibilities was to oversee the full
implementation of the measures under the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC
Blueprint measures, including liberalization of goods and services under the ASEAN
Trade in Goods Agreement and ASEAN Framework Agreement on Services).
He was also Malaysia’s lead negotiator for Malaysia –India FTA, Malaysia – Turkey FTA
and Malaysia – EU FTA (stalled). He was also the lead negotiator and ASEAN Co- Chair
for the ASEAN – India FTA. He also served as the Chair of the Working Group on
Services for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) Agreement from2015-2018. He has also served in the past as the Chair of the Coordinating Committee
on Services of the ASEAN Framework Agreement on Services, Chair of the ASEAN
Trade in Goods Working Group.
He holds BA (Hons) and Diploma in Education from University of Malaya, Diploma in
Public Administration from INTAN Malaysia and master’s in international businessfrom the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom.

Dr. Mignonne Man-Jung Chan
Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Forum on Humanities
Dr. Mignonne Man-Jung Chan is Chief Strategy Officer of Healthy
Asia, a region-wide company that flagships AI technology, medicare management expertise, and comprehensive medical humanity.
She sits on many Boards including Commissioner of the KMT Party Review &Disciplinary Commission, Board Member of the National Policy Research Foundation,
Independent Non-Executive Director of Standard Chartered Bank (Taiwan), Executive

Board Member of Association of Emerging Market Studies, Association of Strategic
Environmental Resources, and the Sino-U.S. Economic & Cultural Association.
Dr. Chan currently also serves as Advisor to Chinese Taipei APEC Study Center at
Taiwan Institute of Economic Research, and Advisor to the Chinese Cyan Geese Peace
Education Foundation, the 21st Century Foundation. She is also Visiting AssociatedProfessor for the MBA program and the International College of Innovation at the
National Chengchi University in Taiwan.
Dr. Chan was previously Senior Adviser to President Ma Ying-Jeou at the National
Security Council of ROC 2008~2010, Director General of International Secretariat ofPacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC) 1999~2001; Director (Research) at theInternational
Secretariat of Asia-Pacific Cooperation Council (APEC) 1996~1999, and Chief of Staff at
the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC).

Suzannah Jessep
Director, Engagement and Research Asia Media Centre, Asia New
Zealand Foundation
Suzannah Jessep joined the Asia New Zealand Foundation in
March 2018, atier serving as New Zealand’s Deputy HighCommissioner to India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Deputy Ambassador to Nepal and as
New Zealand’s Deputy High Commissioner to Vanuatu. During her thirteen years in the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, she also served in the Ministry’s Australia, PacificandEurope Divisions, and in the area of Antarctic and security policy. Prior to working in
the Foreign Ministry, Suzannah worked briefly in film production and is a section winner
in New Zealand’s World of Wearable Arts Awards. She is an honours graduate ofInternational Relations and Art History from Victoria University of Wellington andrecipient of the Alan Robinson Memorial Prize awarded to the top International
Relations student. Suzannah is passionate about Asia, and in particular building New
Zealand’s connections with the fast-growing and dynamic South Asia.

Naoyuki Haraoka
Executive Managing Director, Japan Economic Foundation (JEF)
Mr. Naoyuki Haraoka has been Executive Managing Director of theJapan Economic Foundation (JEF) since 2007. After graduating
the University of Tokyo in 1978 (Bachelor of Economics), he joined
MITI (Ministry of International Trade and Industry) of Japanese government.
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 coming back to MITI from his second stay in Paris, at the occasion of thegovernment structural reform in 2001 when MITI was remodeled as METI (Ministry of
Economy Trade and Industry) he joined the efforts to found MET 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.