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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 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, he was seconded to theInternational 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 asenior official negotiating the Doha development agenda of the WTO. He washead of Japan’s Energy Agency and held director-general positions in technology
and environmental policy in addition to trade and investment-related areas
within METI. He was also instrumental in finalizing the Kyoto Protocol, anddeveloping Japan’s energy and environment policies. Among many other posts
he has held are Special Adviser to the Prime Minister on Global Warming, senior
vice president of Mitsubishi Electric, executive adviser to Dentsu Inc., andpresident of the Japan Cooperation Center for the Middle East.

Naoyuki HARAOKA
Executive Managing Director
Japan Economic Foundation (JEF)
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 andthe international trade policy section for a few years, he was enrolled in a twoyear 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 Directorof 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 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.

Yoriko KAWAGUCHI
Visiting Professor, Musashino University
Fellow at the Musashino Institute for Global Affairs
Yoriko Kawaguchi also is Distinguished Fellow of Tokyo
Foundation for Policy Research. Prior to this, Ms. Kawaguchi
was Professor at Meiji University and the Meiji Institute for
Global Affairs from 2013 to 2018; Member of the House of Councilors (Upper
House, elected) for the Liberal Democratic Party from 2005 to 2013; Special
Adviser to the Prime Minister of Japan on foreign affairs from 2004 to 2005;
Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2002 to 2004 and Minister of the Environment
from 2000 to 2002.
Ms. Kawaguchi received Master of Philosophy in Economics from Yale
University and BA in International Relations from Tokyo University.
Ms. Kawaguchi was awarded the Order of the Grand Cordon of the Rising Sun
in May 2017, Star of Jerusalem by Palestinian National Authority in October2010 and Wilbur Cross Medal by Yale University in October 2008.
Ms. Kawaguchi co-edited and co-authored a book titled, Future View of the

Asia-Pacific – Networked Hegemony (Tokyo: Chuokeizai-sha, Inc.) published inJapanese in August 2017. It is on the question of whether Asia-Pacific can thrive
peacefully in coming years with a focus on the "actors" to lead the regional orderand the "structure."

Naoyuki YOSHINO
Dean and CEO
Asian Development Bank Institute (ADB Institute)
Professor Naoyuki Yoshino is Dean and CEO of the AsianDevelopment Bank Institute (ADB Institute); Professor
Emeritus of Keio University, in Tokyo, Japan; and Senior
Adviser at the Japan Financial Services Agency’s (FSA) Financial ResearchCenter (FSA Institute). He obtained his PhD from Johns Hopkins University,where his thesis supervisor was Sir Alan Walters (who was Margaret Thatcher’s
Economic Adviser). He was a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology (United States) and has been a visiting professor at various
universities including the University of New South Wales (Australia), Fondation
Nationale des Sciences Politiques (France), University of Gothenburg (Sweden)and Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg (Germany). He was an
Assistant Professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo and an
Economics Professor at Keio University from 1991 to 2014. He was appointed
board of the Financial Planning Standards Board in 2007, and also served aschairperson of the Japanese Ministry of Finance’s council on Foreign Exchange
and its Fiscal System Council (Fiscal Investment and Loan Program Section).
He was also a board member of the Deposit Insurance Corporation of Japan,
chairperson of the Meeting of Japanese Government Bond Investors (Ministry of
Finance), and was President of the Financial System Council of the Governmentof Japan. He was conferred honorary doctorates by the University of Gothenburg(Sweden) in 2004 and by Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg(Germany) in 2013; he also received the Fukuzawa Award from Keio University
for his contribution to academic research in 2013. He teaches “Financial System
of Japan” at the University on Air through nationwide television network inJapan every week. He is the President of Financial Education Council organizedby the Central Bank of Japan, Financial Services Agency (FSA), Ministry of
Education, Cabinet Ministry and private financial institutions.

Soichiro SAKUMA
Senior Advisor
Nippon Steel Corporation
Soichiro Sakuma is former Representative Director,
Executive Vice President and Member of the Board, Nippon
Steel Corporation (formerly known as Nippon Steel &Sumitomo Metal Corporation). He joined Nippon Steel Corporation in 1978 andworked at its legal department for more than twenty years on M&A transactions,

FDIs, international trade cases, compliance issues and general corporate affairs.
In 1986-89 he was in the Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry at
the OECD. Bachelor of Law, University of Tokyo (1978).
Currently, he is also Chair of the Public Interest Commission of the Cabinet
Office, a member of the Legislative Council of the Ministry of Justice and Chairof the Sub-committee on Economic Laws of Nippon Keidanren. He has been
Vice Chair of International Investment and Responsible Business Conduct
Committee of OECD-BIAC (Business at OECD) since 2007. Previously, heserved as a member of the Council for Regulatory Reform of the Cabinet Office,the Environmental Council of the Ministry of the Environment, METI Industrial
Structure Council's Sub-committee on Unfair Trade Policies and Chair of theSub-committee on Global Environment of Nippon Keidanren.
His publication includes: “Is the WTO dispute settlement mechanism importantto business?”, in The WTO in the Twenty-first Century: Dispute Settlement,
Negotiations, and Regionalism in Asia (Yasuhei Taniguchi, Alan Yanovich and
Jan Bohanes eds., Cambridge University Press 2007).

Kent E. CALDER
Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs and International Research
Cooperation, Johns Hopkins University (SAIS)
Kent Calder serves as Vice Dean of Faculty Affairs andInternational Research Cooperation and Director of the
Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies. Before arriving at Johns
Hopkins SAIS in 2003, Calder taught for 20 years at Princeton University andfour years at Harvard University. He also held visiting positions at Seoul
National University, Yangon University, and the S. Rajaratnam School ofInternational Studies, Nanyang University as the Rajaratnam Professor ofStrategic Studies. Dr. Calder has served as Special Advisor to the US
Ambassador to Japan (1997-2001), Japan Chair at the Center for Strategic andInternational Studies (1989-1993 and 1996), and as the first Executive Directorof Harvard University’s Program on US-Japan Relations from 1979-1980. A

specialist in East Asian political economy, Dr. Calder has spent 11 years living
and researching in Japan and four years elsewhere in East Asia. Dr. Calderreceived his PhD from Harvard University in 1979, where he worked under the
direction of Edwin O. Reischauer. He was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun,
Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon in the fall of 2014.

David B. SHEAR
Senior Advisor
Marclay Associates
Ambassador David B. Shear previously served as Assistant
Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs
from 2014 to 2016, when he performed the duties of Principal Deputy Under
Secretary of Defense for Policy. Prior to 2014, Ambassador Shear served for 32
years in the US Foreign Service, most recently as the US Ambassador toVietnam. He has also served in Sapporo, Beijing, Tokyo, and Kuala Lumpur. In
Washington, Ambassador Shear has served in the Offices of Japanese, Chinese,and Korean Affairs and as the Special Assistant to the Under Secretary for
Political Affairs. He was Director of the Office of Chinese and Mongolian Affairs
in 2008-2009 and served as Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of East
Asian and Pacific Affairs in 2009-2011. Ambassador Shear was a Rusk Fellow at
Georgetown University’s Institute for the Study of Diplomacy from 1998-1999.
He is the recipient of the State Department’s Superior Honor Award and the
Defense Department’s Civilian Meritorious Service Award for his work in USJapan defense relations.
Ambassador Shear graduated from Earlham College and has a Master’s degree inInternational Affairs from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International
Studies. He has attended Waseda University, Tai-wan National University, andNanjing University, and he speaks Chinese and Japanese.

Hal BRANDSHenry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global
Affairs, Johns Hopkins University (SAIS)
Hal Brands is former Special Assistant to the Secretary of
Defense for Strategic Planning. He is also a Senior Fellow
at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments and a columnist for
Bloomberg Opinion. He is the author or editor of several books, including
American Grand Strategy in the Age of Trump (2018), Making the Unipolar
Moment: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Rise of the Post-Cold War Order (2016),
What Good is Grand Strategy? Power and Purpose in American Statecraft from
Harry S. Truman to George W. Bush (2014), Latin America’s Cold War (2010),
From Berlin to Baghdad: America’s Search for Purpose in the Post-Cold War
World (2008), and The Power of the Past: History and Statecraft (co-edited with
Jeremi Suri, 2015). His newest book is The Lessons of Tragedy: Statecraft andWorld Order, co-authored with Charles Edel. Hal served as Special Assistant to
the Secretary of Defense for Strategic Planning from 2015 to 2016. He has also
served as lead writer for the Commission on the National Defense Strategy for
the United States, and consulted with a range of government offices andagencies in the intelligence and national security communities.

Yascha MOUNKAssociate Professor of the Practice, Johns Hopkins
University (SAIS)
Formerly Lecturer on Government, Harvard University;
and Commentator, The Wall Street Journal
Yascha Mounk is a political scientist known for his work on the rise of populism
and the crisis of liberal democracy. Born in Germany to Polish parents, hereceived his BA in History from Trinity College, Cambridge, and his PhD in
Government from Harvard University. He is now an Associate Professor of thePractice of International Affairs at Johns Hopkins University, where he holds

appointments in both the School of Advanced International Studies and theAgora Institute. He is also a Senior Advisor at Protect Democracy, a Senior
Fellow at New York University's Reiss Center on Law and Security, and a term
member of the Council on Foreign Relations. His third and most recent book,"The People vs Democracy: Why Our Freedom is In Danger and How to Save
It," has been translated into ten languages and recognized as a “Best Book of2018” by the Financial Times and other publications.

Daniel BOB
Senior Fellow, Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies,
Johns Hopkins University (SAIS)
Former Legislative Assistant to Senator William Roth,Chairman, US Senate Finance Committee
Daniel Bob has worked on US policy on Asia Pacific economic, diplomatic, andsecurity matters for almost three decades and has held senior positions in the
Senate, House, and executive branch. He also holds experience working in thinktanks, the private sector and as an entrepreneur. He is also a Distinguished
Senior Fellow at Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA, where he previously worked
as Director of US-Japan Programs and Senior Fellow from 2011-2018,
successfully developing and leading a multi-year expansion and upgrade of theorganization, supporting its rise as a player in US-Japan relations.
Previously, he worked as Senior Staff on the House Foreign Affairs Committee
where he handled Asia Pacific and global environmental issues and as Special
Assistant for Asian and Pacific Affairs for the Chairman of the US Senate
Finance Committee and Senate Governmental Affairs Committee. He has beenan International Affairs Fellow in Japan with the US Council on Foreign
Relations and Senior Advisor at the international law and lobbying firm, Reed
Smith. He was also Senior Advisor to the head of the regulatory agency thatoversaw the multi-trillion dollar US secondary mortgage market, working to
remedy Fannie Mae’s accounting irregularities and replacing the company’ssenior executives. During the 2008 Presidential campaign, he worked as amember of Advisory Group on Asian affairs for the Obama campaign.

James SHINN
Co-founder and Chairman
Predata
James Shinn started working in Silicon Valley at
Advanced Micro Devices, a California-based
semiconductor firm and then at Dialogic, a New Jersey-based digital signal
processing firm, which he co-founded. Dialogic did an IPO in 1992. After
Dialogic he was an investor and advisor to Haystack Labs, a cyber security
company, acquired by Trusted Information Systems; Longitude, a derivatives
trading platform, acquired by NASDAQ; Modo Labs, an enterprise mobile
engagement platform; and Kenshō Financial, a data analytics firm, acquired by
S&P. He currently serves on the supervisory board of CQS, an $18 billion AUM
London-based asset manager, and the advisory board of Red Six, an unmanned
aerial systems (UAS) firm. In the public sector, after posts in the U.S.
Department of State, including the East Asia Bureau and the U.S. Mission to theUN, he served as the National Intelligence Officer for East Asia at the CIA. In
2007 he was confirmed by the Senate as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asia.
He was awarded the Distinguished Public Service Medal, the Pentagon’s highest
civilian award, in 2008 for service in Afghanistan. He was Senior Fellow for
Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations from 1993-96, and Lecturer at
Princeton University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science from 20092016. His publications include Afghan Peace Talks: A Primer (RAND Press,2011), with James Dobbins, and Political Power and Corporate Control(Princeton University Press, 2005), with Peter Gourevitch. Jim has a BA and
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Joshua T. WHITE
Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University (SAIS)
Former Director for South Asian Affairs, US National
Security Council.
Professor Joshua T. White previously served at the WhiteHouse as Senior Advisor & Director for South Asian Affairs at the National
Security Council, where he staffed the President and National Security Advisor
on the full range of South Asia policy issues pertaining to India, Pakistan,
Afghanistan, and the Indian subcontinent, and led efforts to integrate U.S.
government policy planning across South and East Asia. While at the WhiteHouse, Dr. White played an instrumental role in advancing the U.S.-India
relationship, with a focus on deepened defense and security cooperation andexpanded opportunities for trade and investment; sustained constructive U.S.Pakistan ties on an array of counterterrorism, economic and regional issues;
supported a sustainable security transition in Afghanistan; coordinated U.S.
government plans to re-normalize ties with Sri Lanka after decades of civil war;and led a high-level government-wide effort to assess how the United States caneffectively respond to the growing economic, political, and strategic linkages
between South and East Asia. Prior to joining the White House, Dr. White was a
Senior Associate and Co-Director of the South Asia program at The Stimson
Center and, previously, Senior Advisor for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs in
the Office of the Secretary of Defense, a position he held in conjunction with an
International Affairs Fellowship from the Council on Foreign Relations. While atthe Pentagon he supported Deputy Secretary of Defense Ash Carter inadvancing the U.S.-India Defense Technology and Trade Initiative, and advised
on a broad set of defense issues related to the department’s rebalance to theAsia-Pacific.

Jacob M. SCHLESSINGER
Senior Asia Economics Correspondent and Central Banks
Editor-Asia, The Wall Street Journal
Jacob M. Schlessinger is Senior Asia Economics
Correspondent and Central Banks Editors, Asia. He's
based in Tokyo, where he has lived, on and off, for nearly 10 years. He waspreviously Tokyo bureau chief. A graduate of Harvard with a degree in
economics, Jake joined the journal from the St. Petersburg Times in 1986. Since
then, he has written about cars in Detroit, and the Fed, the economy, andpresidential politics in Washington, where he was deputy bureau chief. He is theauthor of “Shadow Shoguns: The Rise and Fall of Japan’s Postwar Political
Machine,” and was a member of the Journal team winning the 2003 Pulitzer
Prize for explanatory reporting. Follow him @JMSchles.

Kenneth I. LEVINSON
Executive Director, Washington International Trade
Association
Ken Levinson serves as the Executive Director of the
Washington International Trade Association (WITA).
WITA is Washington’s largest non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicatedto providing a neutral forum in the U.S. capital for the open and robust
discussion of international trade policy and economic issues. WITA and its
affiliated groups have over 5,000 members, and more than 160 corporate
sponsors and group memberships.
Ken has over 25 years of experience working with companies, associations,
NGOs and governments, advocating innovative solutions to complex public
policy challenges. Over the years, Ken has worked with clients in the technology,
telecommunications, bio-pharmaceuticals, agriculture and food, financial
services, retail, apparel, energy, and consumer products sectors.

Previously, Ken served as Senior Director for Global Government Affairs for
AstraZeneca. Prior to joining AstraZeneca, Ken served as Senior Vice President
and COO at the Washington, DC consulting firm of Fontheim International.
Ken joined Fontheim after spending six years on the staff of U.S. Senator John
D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV. Ken advised the Senator on foreign policy and national
security matters, and served as the Senator’s chief advisor on the U.S. Senate
Finance Committee, dealing with issues related to international trade and tax
policy.
Ken received his Master’s Degree from New York University after doing his
undergraduate work at the University of Massachusetts, in Amherst. Ken also
spent a year studying at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Ken and his
wife, the Reverend Donna Marsh, live in Bethesda, MD, with their two
daughters.