[Introduction of participants from CJK – in alphabetical order]
AHN, Choong-yong
Distinguished Professor, Graduate School of International
Studies at Chung-Ang University
Dr. Ahn is currently a Distinguished Professor at the Graduate
School of International Studies, Chung-Ang University Seoul.
The major posts he served include Co-Chair of the Korea-India
Strategic Dialogue (2012-2021)organized by Korea Foundation and the Seoul
International Forum, former Chairman, Korea Commission for Corporate
Partnership (KCCP: 2014-2018) to induce voluntary collaborations between
Korea’s big businesses and SMEs, and also Chairman of the Board, Korea
Electric Power Corporation, presidentially appointed Foreign Investment
Ombudsman (2006-2014) for foreign direct investors in Korea, Chairman of the
Presidential Regulatory Reform Committee (2010-2012). While on sabbaticalfrom 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); Chair of 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,” andFree 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, Oxford University Press, Routledge, Springer, Edward Elgar,
Palgrave Macmillan, Iwanami Shoten of Japan, Peking University Press, etc. His
book, South Korea and Foreign Direct Investment: Policy Dynamics andAftercare Ombudsman has been just published by Routledge.

AIZAWA, Nobuhiro
Associate Professor, Department of Cultural Studies,
Kyushu University
Aizawa Nobuhiro has been an associate professor in the Facultyof Social and Cultural Studies at Kyushu University since 2014.
He earned a Bachelor of Laws in the Faculty of Law at the
University of Tokyo and his PhD in Asian and African Area Studies at Kyoto
University. A specialist in Southeast Asian political economy with primary focus
on Indonesia and Thailand. His research also highlights transnational andinternational politics of East Asia, migration politics and regional architecture.
He previously held positions as a researcher at the Institute of Developing
Economies–JETRO in Chiba and as a Research Associate at Japan’s National
Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo. He has also been a visiting
research fellow at Cornell University, Chulalongkorn University, Thammasat
University and a Japan Fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington, DC.
Noteworthy publications include Kajin to kokka: Indoneshia no “Cina mondai”[Ethnic Chinese and the State: The “Chinese/China Problem” in Suharto’s
Indonesia] (Tokyo: Shoseki Kōbō Hayama, 2010).

CHI, Fulin
President, China Institute for Reform and Development
Senior Research Fellow and Ph.D student supervisor, a memberof the 11th and 12th National Committee of CPPCC. He iscurrently President of China Institute for Reform andDevelopment (CIRD), President of Hainan Institute for Free
Trade Port Studies, Vice Chairman of China Society of Economic Reform andVice Chairman of China Society of Administrative Reform. He served as amember of the National Experts Committee for Programming Economic andSocial Development in the 13th Five-year Plan Period. He is also policy decisionmaking advisor for provincial governments such as Guangdong, Shandong andHainan. 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 oneof the “100 Economists Who Have Influenced China’s Economic Constructionin the Last 60 Years”. His works are selected and included in the Overview on
the academic 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.

CHOI, Eunmi
Research Fellow, The Asan Institute for Policy Studies
Dr. CHOI Eunmi is a Research Fellow at the Asan Institute for
Policy Studies (AIPS). Dr. CHOI received her M.A. and Ph.D.
in Political Science from Korea University. Before joining AIPS,
Dr. Choi has worked as a research professor of the Center forJapanese Studies at the Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security of
Korea National Diplomatic Academy, a visiting researcher at University ofMichigan in United States, Waseda University in Japan and the Sejong Institute,and a researcher at Ministry of Foreign Affairs of ROK. He has served as anexternal member of the Korea-Japan Relations T/F of the Presidential Policy
Planning Commission, a member of South Korean government’s the PublicPrivate Consultative Body to find breakthrough in resolving of the Forced Labor
Issues, and a visiting professor at Dankook University and Hankuk University ofForeign Studies. Dr. Choi currently serves as a policy advisor to the National
Security Council, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of National
Defense, the Peaceful Unification Advisory Council, and a visiting professor at
Yonsei University’s Graduate School of International Studies and Korea
University’s Graduate School of Policy Studies. Her main area of researchinterest is Korea-Japan Relations, Japanese Politics & Diplomacy, andmultilateral cooperation in Northeast Asia.

FUKUGAWA, Yukiko
Professor, School of Political Science and Economics,
Waseda University
Yukiko Fukagawa is currently a 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 liesin economic development in East Asia, especially Korea. She worked for Japan
External Trade Organization (JETRO) and Long-Term Credit Bank ResearchInstitute (LTCBR) before joining the faculty member of Aoyama Gakuin
University and the University of Tokyo. She came back to Waseda in 2006. She
was a visiting fellow at Cambridge University in 2014, and Yonsei University in2015.
Her recent publication includes “Free trade, economic security, decoupling or all
three? “, RSC PP 2023/05, European University Institute, and “Integration in Asia
Following Mega-FTAs: Asia-Pacific, Indo-Pacific, or Eurasia?”, RSC PP
2021/05, European University Institute.

GUO, Yanjun
Director, Institute of Asian Studies at China Foreign Affairs
University
Prof. GUO Yanjun is director of the Institute of Asian Studies at
China Foreign Affairs University. He is Chinese country
coordinator of the NEAT China (Network of East Asian Thinktanks), NACT China (Network of ASEAN-China Think-tanks) and NTCT China(Network of Trilateral Cooperation Think-tanks). He also serves as a seniorresearch fellow at the Innovation Center on China's Neighboring Diplomacy. He
specializes in the study of regional cooperation in East Asia.

HARAOKA, Naoyuki
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), he joined MITI (Ministry of International Trade and Industry) ofJapanese government.
Having been posted in the industrial 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 Woodrow 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 thenhe 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 ofOECD (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 METI
research institute, Research Institute of Economy Trade and Industry as its
Director of Administration. He became Chief Executive Director of JETRO SanFrancisco in 2003 and stayed in San Francisco until 2006. He was DirectorGeneral of METI Training Institute from 2006 until July, 2007 when he left METI
permanently.

ISHII, Junko
Director, International Affairs, Japan Economic
Foundation
Junko currently heads the International Affairs Section in JEF
where she arranges and conducts various symposiums topromote communication between Japan and other major regions

of the world. The aim is to cultivate better understanding of mutual interests andissues to search solutions for sustainable and inclusive global growth.
She served as the Managing Director of JETRO Singapore (Japan External Trade
Organization) from 2016 to 2020 where she launched a platform to enhance
digital transformation of Japanese companies by introducing global startups using
Singapore as a hub. Her task was diverse where she was also promoting exportsof food products from different localities of Japan to ASEAN and was also
engaged in pushing forward direct investments from ASEAN to Japan.
Prior to her overseas posting, she was the first JETRO female Director Generalof the department that supported the developing economies, especially Africa and
ASEAN, where she made efforts to put inclusive (BOP) businesses on track
among Japanese companies, served as the Secretary General of Asian Trade
Promotion Forum (ATPF, 2013-2015) and Africa Investment Promotion Forum(AIPF, 2015-2016).
She was the Managing Director of JETRO Yokohama (2011-2013), JETRO
Nagoya (2008-2011) and Deputy Managing Director of JETRO Manila (20002003).
She is a BA graduate of International Christian University (ICU) in Tokyo.

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,a visiting professor at Graduate School of Green Growth,College of Business, 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 in setting thehistoric “Low Carbon Green Growth” vision for Korea. In 2011, he became the
Senior Secretary to the President for Green Growth, coordinating the planning,development and implementation 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 Growthpolicies to international climate change negotiations

and promoting global cooperation for making Green Growth became a truly
global asset. He also served as a member of the Global Agenda Council.

KIM, Sung-Hwan
Chairman, 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
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of the Republic ofKorea 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 andPermanent 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 Persons on the Post-2015
Development Agenda in July, 2010. After retiring from the Foreign Service, heserved as the Chair of Institute for Global Social Responsibility and Distinguished
Visiting Professor at the Seoul National University until March 2015. He alsotaught 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, President of the Taejae Future Consensus
Institute and the Chairman of the Beautiful Mind Charity Foundation.

KIM, Taehwan
Professor of Public Diplomacy, Korea National
Diplomatic Academy(KNDA)
Dr. Taehwan Kim is Professor of Public Diplomacy of the
Korea National Diplomatic Academy(KNDA), the ROK
Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Before joining KNDA in 2013,
he had served as Director of Public Diplomacy at the Korea
Foundation since 2008. He also taught as Research Professor at the Division ofInternational Education of Yonsei University during 2002 and 2008. He is a bookreview editor for the quarterly Global Asia published by the East Asia Foundation.
Dr. Kim graduated from Yonsei University (B.A. and M.A. in Political Science)and received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University. His
research focus is on comparative political economy of post-socialist
transformation and Korea’s public diplomacy. His recent works include“Beyond Geopolitics: South Korea’s Eurasia Initiative as a New Nordpolitik”;“Paradigm Shift in Diplomacy: A Conceptual Model for Korea’s New Public
Diplomacy”; “Can Putin Go Beyond Putinism, Or Will It Be More of the Same?”;“Autocratic Resistance to Economic Reforms: Political-Economic Rents andReform Resistance in Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and North Korea”; and“Impassive to Imperial?: Russia in Northeast Asia from Yeltsin to Putin”.

KOBAYASHI, Yoshikazu
Executive Analyst, New Energy System Group, Clean
Energy Unit, The Institute of Energy Economics, JapanMr. Yoshikazu Kobayashi is Executive Analyst, New Energy
System Group, Clean Energy Unit of The Institute of Energy
Economics, Japan. He has extensive professional and researchexperience of the international oil and gas industry. He previously worked as ananalyst at Tonen General Sekiyu, an ExxonMobil- affiliated company in Japan,
and covered refinery operation planning and marine transportation optimization.
After joining IEEJ, he has conducted numerous research about Asian oil andnatural gas market, LNG demand development, hydrogen and ammonia supply
in Asia, and CCUS opportunities in Asia. He has degrees of Master of Arts ininternational economics and relations from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced
International Studies (SAIS) and Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences from
Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo.

KUANG, Xianming
Vice President, China Institute for Reform andDevelopment(CIRD)
Dr. Kuang has been engaged in reform policy research for a longtime, specialized in China's economic system reform. He has
hosted one National Social Science Foundation research projectand several Hainan Provincial Social Science Foundation projects. He has
participated in a number of key projects funded by National Social Science
Foundation and dozens of policy research projects commissioned by ministries(NDRC, Ministry of Education) and provinces (Shanghai, Guangdong, Yunnan,
Hainan, and Hunan), topics included but not limited to China’s national "12thFive-Year Plan", "13th Five-Year Plan", "14th Five-Year Plan" and Hainan Free
Trade Port Studies. Many of the research projects have won provincial andministerial awards such as the China Development Award and the Hainan
Provincial Social Science Outstanding Achievement Award.
He published 12 monograph and edited books (including those he was deputy
editor-in-chief), and more than a dozen academic papers in Macroeconomic
Research, International Trade, Nanjing Social Science, Reform and Economic
System Reform and other journals. He also published more than a hundred
articles in People's Daily, Guangming Daily, Economic Daily, China Economic
Herald, The Economic Observer and many other mainstream media.

KWAK, Soojong
Director, Lien Economic Research InstituteDr. Kwak was a Research Fellow at the Samsung Economic
Research Institute (SERI) from June 2005 to February 2012.
Prior to his work at SERI, Dr. Kwak was the Managing Research
Economist at the Kansas Corporation Commission (KCC) from
September 1998 to July 2005. At KCC, Dr. Kwak conducted economic researchanalysis for the Commission in order to protect the public interest throughimpartial, efficient, and transparent resolution of all jurisdictional issues. He also
served as an Adjunct Professor at National American University in Kansas City,
Kansas; the Graduate Business School of Baylor University in Kansas City, KS;
and at Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea.

Dr. Kwak currently holds many professional, academic and business advisory
positions. Dr. Kwak teaches Financial Economics, Macroeconomics, andEconomic History at Incheon University in Incheon, South Korea. He is also amember of Board of Trustees of Korea’s Derivative Markets Forum, a position
he has held since September 2006. Dr. Kwak has also served as an advisory
member of Public Procurement Service since May 2013. Additionally, Dr. Kwak
served as member of advising committee of Ministry of Commerce and the Board
of Audit and Inspection of Korea. He recently held the position of Advisor ofStrategic Planning Department of Pharmgenscience since May 2022.
Dr. Kwak authored several books regarding the Korean economy and the USAKorea Free Trade Agreement. He has also published over 20 professional journal
articles and delivered numerous presentations throughout the world. Recently, hefinished the book of ‘Coming Futures: The Flows of the Wealth’. Dr. Kwak has
held many roles in different professional fields such as Korea’s numerous
broadcasting medias.
Dr. Kwak was born in October 1962 in Keochang, Kyungmam, South Korea. He
received a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Yonsei University in Seoul,
Korea in 1986. Dr. Kwak received his Doctorate degree in Economics at the
University of Kansas in May 1996. He currently resides in Seoul with his wife.

KWON, Yi-kyun
Director General, Korea CCUS Association

Education- Bachelor Degree, 1997
Natural Science, Department of Oceanography, Seoul National University- Master Degree, 2000
Natural Science, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National
University- Ph.D., 2005

Natural Science, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National
University
Career- Researcher, 2001-2004, Korea Institute of Geosciences and Mineral Resources- Senior Researcher, 2005-2009, Korea Institute of Geosciences and Mineral
Resources- Principal Researcher, 2010-2012, Korea Institute of Geosciences and Mineral
Resources- Associate Professor, 2012-2017, Kongju National University- Professor, 2017-Present, Kongju National University- Director General, 2021-Present, Korea CCUS Association
Research Interests- Carbonate Sedimentology and Sequence Stratigraphy- Seismic Stratigraphy- Oil Sand Reservoir Geology- Carbon Capture and Storage- Unconventional Oil and Gas Geology

LEE, Hee-supSecretary-General, Trilateral Cooperation Secretariat

Education
Feb
1985

B.A in Political Science and International Studies, Yonsei
University, Seoul, Korea

Professional CareerApr 1987 Passed High Diplomatic Service Examination
Jun

1987

Joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA)

Dec 1995

First Secretary, Korean Embassy in Japan

Dec 1998

Counsellor, Korean Embassy in the People’s Republic ofBangladesh

Feb

2004

Visiting Fellow, Royal Institute of international Affairs, UK

Feb

2005

Assistant Secretary, National Security Council (NSC)

Jan

2006

Assistant Secretary, Office of the President

Aug 2006

Director, Northeast Asia Division I, Asian and Pacific Affairs
Bureau,Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT)

Jul

2007

Minister-Counsellor, Korean Embassy in the Commonwealth ofAustralia

Jan

2011

Minister, Korean Embassy in the Republic of Indonesia

Mar 2012

Deputy Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Office of the President

Mar 2013

Deputy Secretary for Policy Coordination, Office of National
Security

Oct

Minister, Korean Embassy in Japan2014

May 2019

Director-General for Global Education and cooperation,
National Human Resources Development Institute (NHI),
Ministry of Personnel Management (MPM)

Oct

2020

Consul-General, Korean Consulate-General in Fukuoka, JapanSep

2023~ Secretary-General, Trilateral Cooperation Secretariat

LI, Chun
Director and Chief Researcher, CIRD-GRANDALL Centerof FTP Law Studies
Mr. Li Chun is the founding and executive partner of Grandall
Law Firm and the director of Grandall Research Center.
Mr. Li is a well-known lawyer in China. He has served as thefifth and sixth president of Shenzhen Lawyers Association and the eighth vicepresident of Guangdong Lawyers Association.
Currently, Mr. Li holds the position of director and chief researcher at CIRDGRANDALL Center of FTP Law Studies, as well as director and chief researcher
at CIRD-GRANDALL Center of RCEP Laws Studies.

LI, Kai
Vice President of China
Revitalization (CANR)

AcademyofNortheast

Li Kai, PhD. and professor in Northeast University, vicepresident of China Academy of Northeast Revitalization(CANR). He has been committed to the research of industrialorganization and economic policy for a long time. He completed one research
program of the National Science and Technology Major Plan Project, andundertaken more than 20 projects including 4 National Natural Science
Foundation of China (NSFC), doctoral program of Ministry of Education, andother provincial and municipal projects. He has authored 4 books, and publishedmore than 200 academic papers in academic journals. He has won many awards
such as National Outstanding Scientific and Technological Workers, Outstanding
Teaching Achievement Award, and Liaoning Natural Science Academic
Achievement Award.

SATO, Hiroki
Senior Managing Executive Officer/Division CEO of
Global Business, Chubu Electric Power Co.
Hiroki Sato started his business career by joining Chubu ElectricPower Co., Inc. (“Chubu”) in 1985. After that, he experienced
several unique careers such as being sent to PERTAMINA(Indonesian state-owned oil & gas company) as a trainee, joining the Ministry ofForeign Affairs of Japan (Second Secretary of the Embassy of Japan in the
U.A.E.), and being one of the founding members of JERA Co., Inc. which is a
joint venture between Chubu and Tokyo Electric Power Co., Inc. since 2015. He
has a long career in the LNG business and has developed many unprecedented
deals or contracts including but not limited to;
1. Time-swap deal between Chubu and CPC, Taiwan
2. Tripartite agreement among Qatargas, Shizuoka Gas and Chubu
3. LNG Tolling Agreement between Freeport LNG and Chubu
4. JKM linked short term agreement between TotalEnergies and JERA

5. Joint purchasing agreement between ENI and KOGAS/Chubu
The Financial Times (UK) named him “Mr. LNG” on December 5, 2017.
He is now Senior Managing Executive Officer and Division CEO of Global
Business in Chubu since April 2022.
Outside of Chubu, he has various responsibilities such as advisory board memberof Wakayama Univ. (JPN) and The Institute of Energy and Economics of Japan,
member of Energy Policy Club in Oxford Univ. (UK) etc.

SOHN, Jie-ae
Ambassador for Cultural Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign
Affairs
Jie-ae Sohn is the Republic of Korea’s Ambassador for Cultural
Cooperation. She is also an invited professor at the Graduate
School of International Studies at Ewha Womans University,
focusing on international communications.
From 1995 to 2010, Amb Sohn was CNN’s bureau chief and correspondent basedin Seoul, Korea. She provided continuous coverage of both South and North
Korea for the global news network. During these years, she reported on thepolitical and economic development of South Korea, and North Korea’s nuclear
weapons program.
From 2011 to 2014, she was the President/CEO of Arirang TV and Radio,
Korea’s only English-language international broadcasting station, available inover 188 countries. With this, she became Korea’s first female head of a major
broadcasting company.
Previously, Amb. Sohn was the Presidential Secretary of the Office of Overseas
Public Relations, working for former South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak.
In 2010, she served as the spokesperson of the Presidential Committee for theSeoul G20 Summit.
Amb Sohn continues to provide communications consultancy services for several
international organizations such as the World Bank and the Asia Foundation.
Amb. Sohn is married with three daughters.

TOYODA, Masakazu
Chairman and CEO, Japan Economic Foundation (JEF)
He currently serves as Chairman and CEO of the Japan
Economic Foundation (JEF), as well as Special Advisor to theInstitute of Energy Economics of Japan; an Adjunct Professor at
Japan’s National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS);
and Director of the Pacific International Center for High Technology Research.
He is the former Chairman and CEO of the Institute of Energy Economics (20102021); served also for nearly a decade on both the Board of Governors of the
Oxford Institute of Energy Studies (2012-2021); and the International Advisory
Board Council of the King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center(KAPSARC) in Saudi Arabia (2011-2019).
During his distinguished government career, he served in numerous key positions
within the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry of Japan culminating in his
service as Vice Minister for International Affairs (2007-2008). He also
subsequently served as Secretary General of the Secretariat for Space Policy inJapan’s Cabinet Secretariat.
Mr. Toyoda holds a Master of Public Affairs degree from the Woodrow Wilson
School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University (1979), and anundergraduate Bachelor of Law degree from the University of Tokyo (1973).

WATANABE, Mariko
Professor, Department of Management,
Economics, Gakushuin University

Profile[March, 1991]
BA of Economics, University of Tokyo[April 1991 to August, 2013]
Research Fellow, Institute of Developing Economies[Dec 1999]

FacultyofM.Phil at School of Business, University of Hong Kong
[March 2006 to March 2009]
Visiting Scholar at Guanghua School of Management, Peking University[November, 2011]
Ph.D from University of Tokyo[September, 2013]
Professor, Gakushuin University
Research Fields
Applied Micro Economics (Empirical IO, Law and Economics, Contract Theory,
Business Economics), Chinese Economy, firm and its Institutions.
Papers and articles"Competition of the Mechanisms: How Chinese Home Appliances Firms Coped
with Default Risk of Trade Credit?" IDE Discussion Paper No. 312, December
2011.
"Ex Ante Bargaining and Ex post Enforcement in Trade Credit Supply: Theory
and Evidence from China" IDE Discussion Paper No. 279, 2010.
"State as an expropriating owner," in M.Watanabe ed., Recovering Financial
Systems, Palgrave Macmillan, November 2006.
"Holding Company Risk," China Economic Review, 13, December 2002, pp.373381.
Book
Mariko Watanabe ed., The Disintegration of Production: Firm Strategy andIndustrial Development in China, Edward Elger, Forthcoming. Recovering
Financial System, Palgrave-MacMillan, 2006
Mariko Watanabe ed., Recovering Financial System, Palgrave-MacMillan, 2006
Professional Affiliations
Japan Economic Association, Japan Association for Asian Studies, Japan
Association for Chinese Economy, Asian Law and Economic Association,
Econometric SocietyYANG, Rui
Executive Vice President, China Institute for Reform andDevelopment (CIRD)
Master degree in public administration from Beijing Normal
University. She is standing council member of the China Societyof Administrative Reform and the China Society for Public
Sector Reform, council member of China Enterprise Reform and Development
Society. She has long been engaged in academic exchange activities and research
projects of CIRD. In recent years, she has been working on historical research of
China's reform and opening up. She hosted the oral history and interviews withhundreds of people of the elder generations who experienced China’s reform.

ZHANG, Yunling
Professor and Academician of Chinese Academy of Social
Sciences (CASS)
He holds concurrent positions including Dean of the Institute ofInternational Studies, Director of the Strategic Advisory
Committee of the School of Northeast Asia Studies at Shandong
University. He is a renowned expert on international issues and received the titleof “expert with outstanding contributions” granted by the national government.
He was Deputy Director of Institute of European Studies, Director of Institute ofJapan Studies, Director of Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies and Director of
Academic Division for International Studies, at CASS.