About the Participantsalphabetically ordered
Michael Armacost is the Shorenstein Distinguished Fellow at the Walter H. Shorenstein AsiaPacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC), Stanford University. In the interval between 1995 and2002, Ambassador Armacost served as president of the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC.
During a twenty-four-year government career, Ambassador Armacost served as Undersecretaryof State for Political Affairs and as the U.S. Ambassador to Japan and the Philippines. Armacost
graduated from Carleton College and earned his master’s and doctorate in public law andgovernment from Columbia University. He has received the President’s Distinguished Service
Award, the Defense Department’s Distinguished Civilian Service Award, the Secretary of State’s
Distinguished Services Award, and the Japanese government’s Grand Cordon of the Order ofthe Rising Sun. His recent book, Ballots, Bullets, and Bargains: American Foreign Policy andPresidential Elections, was published by Columbia University Press.

Shai Bernstein is an Associate Professor of Finance at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He
is also a Faculty Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and at the Stanford
Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR). His research interests lie at the intersection of
corporate finance, entrepreneurship and innovation. He has a PhD from Harvard University, MA
from Hebrew university and a BA from Ben Gurion University.

Nicholas (Nick) Bloom is the William Eberle Professor of Economics at Stanford University, aSenior Fellow of SIEPR, and the Co-Director of the Productivity, Innovation and Entrepreneurshipprogram at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research focuses on management
practices and uncertainty. He previously worked at the UK Treasury and McKinsey & Company.
He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the recipient of the Alfred
Sloan Fellowship, the Bernacer Prize, the European Investment Bank Prize, the Frisch Medal, theKauffman Medal and a National Science Foundation Career Award. He has a BA from Cambridge,
an MPhil from Oxford, and a PhD from University College London.

Richard Dasher has directed the US-Asia Technology Management Center in Stanford’s Schoolof Engineering since 1994. He concurrently served as Executive Director of Stanford’s industryfunded Center for Integrated Systems from 1998 – 2015. He is on the International Advisory
Committee for the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and the Program Committee ofthe World Premier International Research Center initiative under MEXT. Dr. Dasher was thefirst-ever non-Japanese person asked to join the governance of a Japanese national university,
serving on the board of directors and then the management council of Tohoku University, 2004
– 2010. He is also active as a consultant and advisor to business accelerators, startup companies,
and VC firms in the U.S., China, Japan, and S. Korea. He travels to Japan several times each year
and speaks and reads Japanese fluently.

Brad DeLong is a professor of economics at U.C. Berkeley, a research associate of the National
Bureau of Economic Research, a weblogger at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, and afellow of the Institute for New Economic Thinking. He received his B.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard
University in 1982 and 1987. He joined UC Berkeley as an associate professor in 1993 and becamea full professor in 1997. Professor DeLong also served in the U.S. government as Deputy Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy from 1993 to 1995. He worked on the Clinton
Administration’s 1993 budget, on the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs andTrade, on the North American Free Trade Agreement, on macroeconomic policy, and on theunsuccessful health care reform effort. Before joining the Treasury Department, Professor DeLong
was Danziger Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Harvard University. He has
also been a John M. Olin Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, an Assistant Professor of Economics
at Boston University, and a Lecturer in the Department of Economics at M.I.T.
Karl Eikenberry is the Oksenberg-Rohlen Distinguished Fellow and Director of the U.S.-Asia
Security Initiative at Shorenstein APARC, Stanford University. He is also an affiliate at theFreeman Spogli Institute’s Center for Democracy, Development, and Rule of Law; the Center forInternational Security Cooperation; and the Europe Center. Prior to his arrival at Stanford, heserved as the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan from May 2009 until July 2011, where he led thecivilian surge directed by President Obama to reverse insurgent momentum and set the conditions
for transition to full Afghan sovereignty. Ambassador Eikenberry also enjoyed a thirty-five-year
career in the U. S. Army, retiring in April 2009 with the rank of Lieutenant General. He served
as the Commander of the American-led Coalition forces in Afghanistan from 2005 to 2007.
His other military operational posts included assignments as commander or staff officer withmechanized, light, airborne, and ranger infantry units in the continental United States, and also in Hawaii, Korea, Italy,
and Afghanistan. Ambassador Eikenberry is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, holds MAs in East Asian studies
from Harvard University and in political science from Stanford University, and was a National Security Fellow at theHarvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Francis Fukuyama is the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute forInternational Studies (FSI) and the Mosbacher Director of FSI’s Center on Democracy, Development,
and the Rule of Law (CDDRL). He is also a professor by courtesy in the Department of Political
Science. He was previously at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
of Johns Hopkins University, where he was the Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International
Political Economy and director of SAIS’ International Development program. Dr. Fukuyama
has written widely on issues relating to questions concerning democratization and international
political economy. His book, The End of History and the Last Man, was published by Free Press
in 1992 and has appeared in over twenty foreign editions. His most recent book is Political Orderand Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy. Francis
Fukuyama received his B.A. from Cornell University in classics, and his Ph.D. from Harvard in Political Science. He wasa member of the Political Science Department of the RAND Corporation, and a twice a member of the Policy PlanningStaff of the US Department of State.

Naoyuki Haraoka is Executive Managing Director of Japan Economic Foundation. After
graduating the University of Tokyo in 1978 (Bachelor of Economics), he joined MITI (Ministryof 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 backto MITI from his second stay in Paris, 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. He was Director-General of METI Training Institute from 2006
until July, 2007 when he left METI permanently and joined JEF as Executive Managing Director.

Robert Hodrick is Nomura Professor of International Finance at Graduate School of Businessat Colmbia University. His research examines theoretical, empirical, and econometric issues in
asset pricing as related to equities, bonds, and currencies. He teaches international finance at the
MBA and PhD levels and is the author (with Geert Bekaert) of a leading textbook, International
Financial Management. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago in
1976, having received his A.B. in International Affairs from Princeton University in 1972. Hepreviously taught at Carnegie-Mellon University from 1976-1983 and at the Kellogg Graduate
School of Management of Northwestern University from 1983-1996. Professor Hodrick joined
Columbia Business School in July 1996. From 1997 to 2002 he was the Academic Director of
the School’s Chazen Institute for International Business. From 2002 to 2004, Professor Hodrick
served as the Senior Vice Dean of the Columbia Business School. He has been a Research Associate of the National
Bureau of Economics since 1982.

Takeo Hoshi is Henri and Tomoye Takahashi Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute forInternational Studies, Professor of Finance (by courtesy) at the Graduate School of Business,and Director of the Japan Program at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center,all at Stanford University. He received 2006 Enjoji Jiro Memorial Prize of Nihon Keizai Shimbunsha, and 2005 Japan Economic Association Nakahara Prize. His book Corporate Financing andGovernance in Japan: The Road to the Future co-authored with Anil Kashyap received the Nikkei
Award for the Best Economics Books in 2002. B.A., University of Tokyo (1983). Ph.D. (Economics),
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1988).

Gen Isayama has extensive experience in venture capital, finance, and entrepreneurship. He
founded his first company, a web design consultancy, as a third year student at Tokyo University.
Before he co-founded WiL, Gen was a partner at venture capital firm DCM, specializing in Internet
media, mobile, and consumer services. Then, at the Industrial Bank of Japan, he led efforts acrossmultiple disciplines, including corporate finance and market risk management. In addition to his
work at WiL, Gen authors columns for the Techology section of the Nikkei Newspaper’s digital
edition and the Toyo Keizai Online, and monthly article on Nikkei Sangyo Shinbun.. Furthermore,
he is an active member of various METI, MEXT committees. He is also a popular speaker on
venture and innovation. Gen holds a BA from the University of Tokyo’s Faculty of Law and an
MBA from Stanford Business School.

Takatoshi Ito is is Professor at School of International and Public Affairs and Associate Directorof Research at the Center on Japanese Economy and Business at Columbia University. He hastaught extensively both in the United States and Japan since finishing his Ph.D. in economics at
Harvard University in 1979. He taught as Assistant and tenured Associate Professor (1979-88) atthe University of Minnesota, as Associate and full Professor at Hitotsubashi University (19882002), as Professor at the Graduate School of Economics at University of Tokyo (2004-2014) before
assuming his current position in 2014. He served as a member of the Prime Minister’s Council on
Economic and Fiscal Policy (2006-2008). His research interest includes capital flows and currency
crises, microstructures of the foreign exchange rates, and inflation targeting. He was awarded the
National Medal with Purple Ribbon in June 2011 for his excellent academic achievement.

Shinnosuke Kameyama is the Chief Representative of NEDO Silicon Valley Office and responsible
for all activities and projects that the Office covers. He has worked for the Ministry of Economy,
Trade and Industry of Japan for 12 years before joining in NEDO. He worked in several
policy areas such as economic cooperation, export of infrastructure system, FDI promotion,
FTA, development of overseas market including SMEs business, improvement of industrial
infrastructure, revitalization of regional economies, industrial property right, development ofservice industry, and petroleum resources development. In addition, he worked for the Embassyof Japan in Singapore as a commercial attache in charge of trade, investment and technology. He
earned Master of Public Policy from University of Southern California in 2006. He graduatedfrom Tokyo University in the faculty of economics in 1999.

Keiichiro Kobayashi is Professor at Faculty of Economics, Keio University, Research Director atCanon Institute for Global Studies (CIGS), and Faculty Fellow at Research Institute of Economy(RIETI). He received Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago in 1998. He researches
macroeconomic theory. He currently works on theoretical models of financial crisis and monetary
theory. He joined the Ministry of International Trade and Industry of Japan in 1991 after
graduation from the University of Tokyo. From 2001, he was a fellow at RIETI and from 2010 to2013 he had been a professor at Hitotsubashi University. He has joined Keio University in April
2013. He also has been Research Director at CIGS from 2009.

Kazumasa Kusaka has been Chairman and CEO of the Japan Economic Foundation (JEF) sinceApril 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 the Doha development agendaof the WTO. He was head of Japan’s Energy Agency and held director-general positions intechnology and environmental policy in addition to trade and 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 theJapan Cooperation Center for the Middle East.

Kenji Kushida is the Japan Program Research Associate at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-PacificResearch Center and an affiliated researcher at the Berkeley Roundtable on the International
Economy. Kushida’s research interests are in the fields of comparative politics, political economy,
and information technology. He has four streams of academic research and publication: political
economy issues surrounding information technology such as Cloud Computing; institutionaland governance structures of Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster; political strategies of foreign
multinational corporations in Japan; and Japan’s political economic transformation since the1990s. Kushida has written two general audience books in Japanese, entitled Biculturalism andthe Japanese: Beyond English Linguistic Capabilities (Chuko Shinsho, 2006) and International
Schools, an Introduction (Fusosha, 2008). Kushida holds a PhD in political science from the
University of California, Berkeley. His received his MA in East Asian studies and BAs in economics and East Asianstudies, all from Stanford University.

Yong Suk Lee is the SK Center Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies(FSI) and duputy director of the Korea Program at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific ResearchCenter (APARC) at Stanford University. Lee’s research intersects the fields of labor, international,
and urban economics with focuses on entrepreneurship and firm growth, globalization andinequality, and economic sanctions. For example, his research examines the effect of university
entrepreneurship initiatives on innovation, and the impact of entrepreneurship on urban economic
growth. His research relating to globalization examines how inequality in South Korea evolved
after the Asian Financial Crisis, how China’s competition affects firm dynamics in Korea, andhow economic sanctions effect the regional distribution of economic activity in North Korea.
Prior to joining Stanford, Lee was an assistant professor of economics at Williams College in
Massachusetts. He received his bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in architecture from Seoul National University, amaster of public policy from Duke University, and a doctorate in economics from Brown University.
Phillip Lipscy is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Thomas Rohlen Center Fellow at the
Shorenstein Asia Pacific Research Center at Stanford University. His fields of research include
international and comparative political economy, international security, and the politics of East
Asia, particularly Japan. Lipscy is author of Renegotiating the World Order: Institutional Change
in International Relations (Cambridge University Press), which examines how countries seek
greater international influence by reforming or creating international organizations. His second
book project examines the politics of energy and climate change. His research addresses a wide
range of substantive topics such as international cooperation, the politics of energy, the politics
of financial crises, the use of secrecy in international policy making, and Japanese politics. Lipscy
obtained his PhD in political science at Harvard University. He received his MA in international
policy studies and BA in economics and political science at Stanford University.
Prashant Loyalka is a Center Research Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International
Studies and a Faculty Member of the Rural Education Action Program at Stanford University.
His research focuses on examining/addressing inequalities in the education of youth and onunderstanding/improving the quality of education received by youth in large developing economies,
including China, Russia and India. In the course of addressing educational inequalities, Prashant
examines the consequences of tracking, financial and informational constraints, and psychologicalfactors of both students and teachers in highly competitive education systems. His work onunderstanding educational quality is built around research that assesses and compares student
learning in higher education, high school and (the later stages of) compulsory schooling. He also
evaluates programs/policies that seek to improve student outcomes. Prashant’s research agenda
is based on long-established and close collaborations with researchers at a number of universities in China, Russia’s
National University Higher School of Economics and Apple University. Before coming to Stanford, Prashant worked as
an Assistant Professor in Peking University.
Hideichi Okada is President & CEO of Japan Petroleum Exploration Co., Ltd. Okada was
Senior Executive Vice President in NEC Corporation responsible for its global business strategy(2014-2016). Prior to join private business, he served as Vice Minister for International Affairs,
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), Government of Japan (2010-2012). In thatcapacity, he promoted international trade and investment, including negotiations of major
free trade agreements. He also worked for Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi as his Executive
Assistant, where he dealt with policies on economy, industry, energy, science and technology, andenvironment, and with public relations (2001-2006). He was a Pacific Leadership Fellow at UC San
Diego (March 2014) and the Sasakawa Peace Fellow at the Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford
University (2013-2014). He was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School (2007) and the Schoolof International Relations and Pacific Studies, UC San Diego (2007) and Professor at National Graduate Institute for
Policy Studies (GRIPS) (2006-2007). Okada was born in Tokyo in 1951. He received a LL.M. degree from Harvard Law
School (1981), and graduated from the University of Tokyo with LL.Bs. (1975, 1976).

Kathryn Shaw is Ernest C. Arbuckle Professor of Economics at the Graduate School of Business,
Stanford University. Professor Shaw currently studies managing talent in high-performance firms,
entrepreneurship, and the value that good bosses confer on their firms and workers. She particularly
focuses on how firms attract and build star talent. In addition, she on how the firm’s choiceof its human resource management practices can produce performance gains. She is identified
as the co-developer of the field of “insider econometrics,” a research field within economics inwhich researchers go within companies and use insider knowledge to empirically identify theperformance gains from management practices. Her research has been extensively funded by the
NSF, the Sloan Foundation, and the Russell Sage and Rockefeller Foundations. Previously, Shaw
was a Member of President Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers (1999-2001) and was theFord Distinguished Research Chair and Professor of Economics at the business school at Carnegie Mellon University.
She completed her Ph.D. in economics at Harvard University in 1981. In 2008, she was elected a Fellow of the Society ofLabor Economists; in 2001 Shaw received the Columbia University award for the best paper on international business.
At Stanford, she teaches Organizational Strategy and Contemporary Economic Policy, and has won teaching awards.
Hirokazu Shimoda is an Executive Director at Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO)in San Francisco. He joined MITI (Ministry of International Trade and Industry) of Japanese
Government in 1999. Since MITI was reorganized to METI (Ministry of Economy, Tradeand Industry) in 2001, he had been posted in IT industrial policy section to promote big databusinesses, IT device platforms, and cyber security measures for several years. He had also
managed aircrafts and equipment of Japan Maritime Self-defense Force in Japan Defense Agency
from 2004 to 2006. When the nuclear power plant accident occurred in Fukushima in 2011, he
attended the Office of Corresponding to Nuclear Power Plant Accident at Cabinet Secretariat.
He made the standards of compensation for the accident suffers. Since he came back to METI,
he made industrial frameworks to promote precision medicine and regenerative medicine. He had
also been responsible for ensuring budget, planning new projects and managing human resourcesof the Commerce, Distribution and Industrial Safety Policy Group, and the Commerce and Information Policy Bureau
at METI from 2014 to 2016.
Kenneth Singleton is the Adams Distinguished Professor of Management at the Graduate
School of Business at Stanford University. He has published widely on financial risks and theirimpacts on economic decision-making, including books on credit risk and dynamic asset
pricing. His professional awards include the Smith-Breeden Prize (Journal of Finance), FrischMedal (Econometrica), and the Stephen A. Ross Prize in Financial Economics (Foundation for
the Advancement of Research in Financial Economics), and he is a Fellow of the EconometricSociety, the Journal of Econometrics, and the Society for Financial Econometrics. He is currently
a scientific advisor to Credit Sesame, a startup helping individuals build wealth through informed
management of their liabilities and credit; was a special advisor to the chief economist at the IMF
during the crisis in 2009; and co-led the Fixed Income Research group of Goldman Sachs, Asia
while on leave from Stanford in the early 1990’s. He is President of the Board of the 501(c)3 nonprofit 1 Grain to 1000
Grains that leads programs for low-income communities through which families discover intuitive and actionable plans
for more healthful eating and financial bandwidth. Ken holds a BA in Mathematics from Reed College and a PhD in
Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Daniel Sneider is the associate director for research at Shorenstein APARC at Stanford University. He
currently directs the center’s project on Nationalism and Regionalism and the Divided Memories
and Reconciliation project, a comparative study of the formation of historical memory in East
Asia. His own research focuses on current U.S. foreign and national security policy in Asia and on
the foreign policy of Japan and Korea. Sneider was named a National Asia Research Fellow by the
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the National Bureau of Asian Research in2010. Prior to coming to Stanford, Sneider was a long-time foreign correspondent. He also wrote
widely on defense issues, including as a contributor and correspondent for Defense News, thenational defense weekly. Sneider has a BA in East Asian history from Columbia University and an
MPA from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Kathleen Stephens (USFS, retired) is an American diplomat. She was U.S. Ambassador to the
Republic of Korea 2008-2011. She also was posted abroad in diplomatic assignments including
U.S. Charge ‘d Affaires to India (2014), and in China, Korea Yugoslavia, the United Kingdom,
Portugal, and Trinidad and Tobago. Her Washington assignments included Acting Undersecretaryof State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs (2012), Principal Deputy Assistant Secretaryof State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (2005-2007), Deputy Assistant Secretary of State forEuropean and Eurasian Affairs (2003-2005), and National Security Council Director for European
Affairs at the Clinton White House. Stephens is currently the William J. Perry Fellow for Korea at
Stanford University’s Shorenstein Asia Pacific Research Center.

Masaaki (Masa) Tanaka is Senior Global Advisor of PwC International and Vice Chair of theBoard of Councilors of the U.S.-Japan Council. He has been serving on several Governmental
Panels in Japan, including the Council of Experts on the Stewardship Code. On February 1st,
2017, He was appointed Advisor to the Financial Services Agency of Japan. Until June 2015, he
was Director and Deputy President of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. Between 2011 and2015, he served on the Board of Morgan Stanley. Mr. Tanaka joined the Mitsubishi Bank in 1977
and held a variety of positions such as Executive Officer and General Manager of the Corporate
Planning Division, President and CEO of Union Bank, and Senior Managing Executive Officer
and CEO for the Americas. Mr. Tanaka holds a law degree from the University of Tokyo and a
Master of Laws Degree from the University of Michigan Law School.

Ryoichi (Ricky) Togashi is General Manager at Technology Innovation & Planning Agency, Officeof the CTO, Komatsu Ltd. After joining Komatsu in 1993, 15+ years’ experience in design anddevelopment of heavy equipment of mobile crushers and hybrid excavators. From 2012, engaged inopen innovation promotion work, and after 2014, strengthen the activities due to the establishment
of office of CTO. Spent about half of the year in Silicon Valley and gathering information on
advanced technologies. As an outside committee activity, he serves as chairperson of “Research anddevelopment management committee” of Japan Research Industries and Industrial Technology
Association. Togashi holds a Master of Engineering.

Yoshiaki Tojo

Tsunehiko Yanagihara is Executive Vice President at Mitsubishi Corporation (Americas) in Silicon
Valley, running a cross-industrial, cross-company innovation hub called M-Lab. He has extensive
international business experience, having spent more than 25 years in business management
positions within the company. Mr. Yanagihara began his career with Mitsubishi Corporation in1984 in the Machinery Group. In 1993, he moved to the Chemicals Group and became Managing
Director of European Precision Molding B.V. in the Netherlands. He returned to Japan in 1999
and served as General Manager at the Life Sciences Business Unit and Bio-Fine Chemicals Unit.
From 2010 to 2015, he worked in the Washington D.C. office as Senior Vice President and General
Manager of Government Affairs. Most recently he served as General Manager at the Chemicals
Group CEO Office of Mitsubishi Corporation. Mr. Yanagihara holds a MBA from Harvard
Business School and a BA from Amherst College.

Yu Jin Woo is is a Japan Program Research Scholar at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center(APARC). Woo’s research interests are in the fields of international and comparative political
economy, particularly migration policies and citizenship laws. Woo holds a doctorate in politicalscience from the University of Virginia. She received her first master’s degree in international
cooperation at Seoul National University and her second master’s degree in political economy at
New York University. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts in East Asian Studies at Smith College.