The 4th Tokyo Global Dialogue
Speakers (as of Feb 15, 2023)（★:Moderator ◎:Panelist

Panelists are in alphabetical order.）（The program and speakers are subject to change.）

February 20 (Mon)◆Opening
Remarks
H.E. KISHIDA Fumio

Prime Minister of Japan(TBC)

KISHIDA Fumio is the Prime Minister of Japan and the President of the Liberal
Democratic Party (LDP). He is a member of the House of Representatives (elected 10
times). He served as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2012 to 2017. He assumed officein October 2021.

Speech
H.E. HAYASHI Yoshimasa

Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan(TBC)

HAYASHI Yoshimasa serves as Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan since November
2021, and is a member of the House of Representatives belonging to the Liberal
Democratic Party. Graduated from Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo, and earned his
Master’s Degree from Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government. Mr.
Hayashi served as Minister of Defense; Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy;
Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries; Minister of Education, Culture, Sports,
Science and Technology; Minister in charge of Education Rebuilding.

◆Roundtable Featuring “Strategic Annual Report 2022"◎ Lisa Curtis

Senior Fellow and Director, Indo-Pacific Security Program, Center for a New

American Security (CNAS)

Lisa Curtis is Director of the Indo-Pacific Security Program at the Center for a New
American Security (CNAS). With over 20 years of service in the U.S. government, herwork has centered on U.S. policy toward the Indo-Pacific and South Asia, with a particularfocus on U.S.- India strategic relations; the Quad (U.S., Australia, India, and Japan); andChina’s role in the region. Curtis served as Deputy Assistant to the President and NSC
Senior Director for South and Central Asia from 2017-2021. From 2006–2017, Curtis was
Senior Fellow on South Asia at The Heritage Foundation. She also previously worked for
the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the State Department, CIA, and at the U.S.

Embassies in Islamabad and New Delhi. Curtis received the Secretary of Defense Medal
for Outstanding Public Service in December 2020 in recognition of her work at the NSC.

◎ Bill Emmott

Chairman of the Trustees, The Institute for International Strategic Studies (IISS)

Bill Emmott is a writer and consultant best known for his 13 years as editor in chief of
The Economist in 1993-2006, a publication he first joined in 1980 and served in Brussels,
Tokyo and London. He is now chairman of the International Institute for Strategic Studies,of the board of Trinity College Dublin’s Long Room Hub for Arts & Humanities, of theJapan Society of the UK, and of the International Trade Institute. Mr. Emmott is the authorof 14 books on Japan, Asia, the 20th century and Italy. In 2017 he published “The Fateof the West”. His latest book, “Japan’s Far More Female Future”, was published inJapanese by Nikkei in June 2019 and in English by OUP in 2020. He was presenter andco-author of a documentary about Italy, “Girlfriend in a Coma” (2013) and executive
producer of “The Great European Disaster Movie” (2015), both shown on the BBC.

◎ Bilahari Kausikan

Chairman, The Middle East Institute, National University ofSingapore / Former Ambassador-at-Large

Bilahari Kausikan is currently Chairman of the Middle East Institute, an autonomous
institute of the National University of Singapore. He has spent his entire career in the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs. During his 37 years in the Ministry, he served in a variety of
appointments at home and abroad, including as Ambassador to the Russian Federation,
Permanent Representative to the UN in New York, and as the Permanent Secretary to
the Ministry. Raffles Institution, the University of Singapore and Columbia University in
New York all attempted to educate him.

◎ Ryosei Kokubun

Professor Emeritus, Keio University

Dr. Ryosei Kokubun served as President of National Defense Academy (NDA) of Japan
until March 2021 since April 2012. He is also Professor Emeritus at Keio University since2019. After completing his undergraduate and graduate degrees at Keio University, hebegan teaching there as an assistant professor in 1981. Kokubun became a professor
in 1992, and served as director of Keio’s Institute of East Asian Studies from 1999 to2007 and dean of the university’s Faculty of Law and Politics from 2007 to 2011. He has
been a visiting scholar at Harvard University, the University of Michigan, Fudan
University, Beijing University and National Taiwan University. Kokubun’s researchinterests encompass Chinese politics and international relations in East Asia. He is aformer president of the Japan Association of International Relations and the Japan
Association for Asian Studies. Kokubun has published and edited numerous English
publications as well as Japanese, including: Japan-China Relations through the Lens ofChinese Politics (JPIC, 2021) and Japan-China Relations in the Modern Era (Routledge,2017). He was awarded the Asia-Pacific Prize (Mainichi Shimbun) in 1997, the Suntory
Prize (Suntory Foundation) in 2004 and the Kashiyama Prize (Kashiyama Foundation)in 2017.

◎ Shi Zhiqin

Professor, Tsinghua University; Executive Dean, Institute of the Belt andRoad Initiative

Shi Zhiqin is executive dean of Institute of the Belt and Road Initiative, secretary generalof Tsinghua Symposium, deputy director of the Think Tank Research Center of the
SPPM, professor and doctoral supervisor of School of Social Sciences, Tsinghua
University. He served as secretary of party committee of the School of Humanities andSocial Sciences and director of the Department of International Relations, Tsinghua
University. His part-time positions include Editor-in-Chief of Silk Road Encyclopedia,
Vice-President of "the Belt and Road" Branch of the China Association of Higher
Education. He is also the executive member of the Chinese Society for the History ofInternational Communist Movement, and a member of Chinese Association for
European Studies. His research fields include the Belt and Road Initiative, international
relations, comparison of party and government, European party politics and China-EU
relations. He has published hundreds of academic articles and critical articles, and his
representative works include The Transformation of the Italian Communist Party and
The Political Change in Italy, Globalization and The Transformation of the European
Social Democratic Party.

★Kenichiro Sasae

President, The Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA)

Kenichiro Sasae joined the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs after graduating fromThe University of Tokyo in 1974. His distinguished and illustrious diplomatic career
includes prestigious assignments as Executive Assistant to the Prime Minister, DirectorGeneral of the Economic Affairs Bureau, Director-General of the Asian & Oceania Affairs
Bureau, and Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs. During his period of service in Tokyo, he
represented the Japanese Government in the Six-Party Talks on North Korean issues.
He also worked as Political Director for the G-8 Summit. From 2012-2018, he was
Ambassador of Japan to the United States. Subsequently, in June 2018, Ambassador
Sasae was appointed President of The Japan Institute of International Affairs to head
Japan’s premier foreign affairs think tank.

February 21 (Tue)◆Part 1: US-China Competition and the Indo-Pacific region- US-China Competition and the Indo-Pacific region(1) Politics and Security◎ Shiming FanProfessor; Executive Vice Dean of Yenching Academy, Peking University

FAN Shiming is now Professor of International Relations at Peking University. He also
serves as the Executive Vice Dean of PKU’s Yenching Academy. Prof. FAN offers
courses such as International History, Sino-American Relations and The Politics ofInternational Communication. His research interest covers image, perception, public
opinion and communication in international relations. Prof. FAN got all his degrees (BA1990, MA 1993, and Ph.D. 1999) on International Politics from Peking University. He
was a Visiting Fellow at the Fairbank Center for East Asian Studies at Harvard University(1998) and GSAPS of Waseda University (2013), a Visiting Professor at Niigata
University in Japan (2002-2003) and University of Oslo in Norway (2016).

◎ Bilahari Kausikan

Chairman, The Middle East Institute, National University ofSingapore, Former Ambassador-at-Large

Bilahari Kausikan is currently Chairman of the Middle East Institute, an autonomous
institute of the National University of Singapore. He has spent his entire career in the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs. During his 37 years in the Ministry, he served in a variety of
appointments at home and abroad, including as Ambassador to the Russian Federation,
Permanent Representative to the UN in New York, and as the Permanent Secretary to
the Ministry. Raffles Institution, the University of Singapore and Columbia University in
New York all attempted to educate him.

◎ Tsutomu Kikuchi

Professor Emeritus, Aoyama-Gakuin University / Senior Adjunct

Fellow, JIIA

Professor Tsutomu Kikuchi is senior adjunct fellow at the Japan Institute of International
Affairs (JIIA) and a professor emeritus and former vice-president at Aoyama-Gakuin
University, Tokyo. He is specializing in international political economy in the Asia-Pacific.
He was a visiting fellow at the Australian National University (ANU: Canberra) and theInstitute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS: Singapore), a Visiting Professor at the
University of British Columbia (UBC, Vancouver), and a consultant of the AsianDevelopment Bank (ADB). He has been engaged in various track 2 activities andinternational research projects conducted under such regional institutions as PECC
(Pacific Economic Cooperation Council) and CSCAP (Council for Security Cooperation

in the Asia-Pacific). He has published many books and articles on international political
economy (especially regional institution-building) of the Asia-Pacific. He obtained his
doctoral degree from Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan.

◎ Choongmyon Lee President, Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security (IFANS),
Korea National Diplomatic Academy (KNDA)

Amb. LEE Choongmyon is currently President of the Institute of Foreign Affairs andNational Security(IFANS) at Korea National Diplomatic Academy (KNDA). As a seniordiplomat, he served as Ambassador for International Security Affairs and Special Advisor
to the Foreign Minister(Nov. 2020~Aug. 2022). He has diverse experiences as a
diplomat both in Korea-US and Korea-China relations: he served as Director for the
North American Division(Aug. 2009~Jul. 2011) and Deputy Director-General for North
American Affairs Bureau(Feb. 2017~Nov. 2017) of the Foreign Ministry on the one hand,and as Minister/Deputy Chief of Mission(Nov. 2018~Nov. 2020) as well as
Counsellor/Minister-Counsellor(Jul. 2011~Feb. 2015) of the Korean Embassy in the
People’s Republic of China on the other hand. He is also one of the experts in the interKorean issues as he served as Director-General for Korean Peninsula Peace Regime(Nov. 2017~Nov. 2018) of the Ministry. He majored in Law, German Literature andChinese Language. He is a NY State lawyer and has a LLM degree in Georgetown Law
School of the US.

◎ Susan A. Thornton

Director, Forum on Asia-Pacific Security, National Committee on

American Foreign Policy (NCAFP)

Susan A. Thornton is a former career U.S. diplomat who served as Acting Assistant
Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from 2017-18. She is currently a
Visiting Lecturer at Yale Law School and a Senior Fellow at the Law School’s Paul Tsai
China Center. Thornton is also Director of the Forum on Asia Pacific Security at the
National Committee on American Foreign Policy and a non-resident fellow at the
Brookings Institution.

★Fumiaki Kubo

President, National Defense Academy of Japan / Senior Adjunct Fellow, JIIA

Fumiaki Kubo is President of the National Defense Academy of Japan as well as a
Senior Adjunct Fellow at the Japan Institute for International Affairs. He was the A.
Barton Hepburn Professor of American Government and History at the Graduate
Schools for Law and Politics, the University of Tokyo from 2003 to 2021. He is alsoaffiliated with the 21st Century Public Policy Institute as the Director of the US Studies

Project. He studied at Cornell University in 1984-1986, at the Johns Hopkins University
in 1991-1993, and at Georgetown University and the University of Maryland in 1998-99.
He was also an Invited Professor at SciencesPo in Paris in the spring of 2009, and aJapan Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in 2014.
Kubo received his B.A. in 1979 and Ph.D. in 1989 from the University of Tokyo. He is
the author of many books which include: The Japan-US Alliance of Hope: Asia-Pacific
Maritime Security, The History of US-Japan Relations, A History of American Politics,
Ideology and Foreign Policy After Iraq in the United States, A Study on the Infrastructureof American Politics. In 1989, he received the Sakurada-Kai Gold Award for the Studyof Politics and the Keio Gijuku Award. Kubo was the President of the Japanese
Association for American Studies from 2016 to 2018.

- US-China Competition and the Indo-Pacific region(2) Economy◎ Shiro Armstrong

Associate Professor, Australian National University

Shiro Armstrong is an Associate Professor of economics at the Crawford School of Public
Policy in the College of Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University. He is
Director of the Australia-Japan Research Centre, Editor of the East Asia Forum, andDirector of the East Asian Bureau of Economic Research. He is also a Visiting Professor
at Keio University, Research Associate at the Center on Japanese Economy andBusiness at the Columbia Business School, Visiting Fellow at the Research Institute of
Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan and Research Associate at the New Zealand APEC
Study Centre. He is the Australian representative on the Research Institute Network of
the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia, ERIA.

◎ Emily Benson

Senior Fellow, Scholl Chair in International Business, Center for

Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

Emily Benson is a senior fellow on the trade team at CSIS, where she focuses on trade
and technology issues primarily in the transatlantic context. Prior to joining CSIS, shemanaged transatlantic legislative relations at the Bertelsmann Foundation, focusing on
trade and technology policy. She also held positions combating money laundering in art
markets and worked at an international law on issues relating to sanctions and export
controls. Her work has been featured in publications such as The Washington Post,
Foreign Policy, The Japan Times, The Diplomat, Politico, and a wide array of international
TV and radio outlets. Benson received her BA in international affairs and political sciencefrom the University of Colorado and her MA in political science from the University ofGeneva in Switzerland. Fluent in French, Emily has lived abroad in France, Indonesia,
and Switzerland.

◎ Hideaki Shiroyama

Professor, University of Tokyo

Hideaki SHIROYAMA is a professor of public administration at the Graduate School of
Public Policy and the Graduate School for Law and Politics, and the director of theInstitute for Future Initiatives at the University of Tokyo. He studies about global
governance/ international administration, science/ technology and public policy andpolicy process. He was the Dean of the Graduate School of Public Policy from 2014 to2016 and the Director of Policy Alternatives Research Institute from 2010 to 2014. Heserves as a member of various government advisory councils on higher education,
nuclear safety, consumer safety, space policy, AI/ IT and global health. His major
publications include “Technology Governance” in Sustainability Science: A
Multidisciplinary Approach, United Nations University Press, 2011, “Governance forsustainability: knowledge integration and multi-actor dimensions in risk management”,
Sustainability Science, vol.7 (2012), International Administration (Yuhikaku 2013) and
Science, Technology and Politics (Minerva Publisher 2018), Global Health Governance(Toshindo 2020).

◎ Vo Tri Thanh

Senior Expert, Central Institute of Economic Management (CIEM)

Dr. Vo Tri Thanh is former Vice-president of the Central Institute for Economic
Management (CIEM). He is currently Chairman of Vietnam National Committee for Pacific
Economic Cooperation (VNCPEC) and a member of the National Financial and Monetary
Policy Advisory Council. He is also Director of Institute for Brand and Competitiveness
Strategy (BCSI). He holds a Master degree in Economics and a PhD degree in Economics
both from the Australian National University. Dr. Vo Tri Thanh mainly undertakes researchand 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.

◎ Zhang Yunling

Academy Member of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) /Chair Professor; President of Institute for International Studies, Shandong University

Zhang Yunling, Academy Member of Chinese Academy of Social Science (CASS); Chair
Professor, President of Institute for International Studies, Shandong University. He was
Member of National Committee of Chinese Political Consultant Conference, andmember of the Foreign Relations Committee (2002-2018.3) He was Director ofInternational Studies, CASS (2007-2018); Director of Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies(1993-2007), Director of Japanese Studies (1995-2001), CASS; President of China
Association for Asia-Pacific Studies (1994-2017). He was Member of East Asia Vision
Group (2000-2001, EAVG II, 2012-2013), Member of Official Expert Group on ChinaASEAN Cooperation (2001), Member of ASEM Task Force (2003-2004), Chairman of
Joint Expert Group for Feasibility Study on EAFTA (2005-2006); Member of Joint Expert

Group of CEPEA (2006-2009); Executive Chairman of China-Republic of Korea Joint
Expert Committee (2010-2013); Member of China-Japan 21st Century Friendship
Commission (2003-2008). He is now the vice president of China-ROK Friendship
Association. Latest Publication（books）: China and Asia Regionalism (English, 2010),
China and World: New change, understanding and Identification (Chinese, 2011),
Seeking a benign relationship between China and the world (Chinese, 2013)，Between
the Ideal and Reality-Thinking of East Asian cooperation (Chinese 2015,English, 2019,
Korean 2021), Understanding World Grand Trends (Chinese, 2021)★Yukiko Fukagawa

Professor, Waseda University

Fukagawa’s major interest lies in economic development in East Asia, especially Korea.
She worked for Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) and Long-Term Credit Bank
Research Institute (LTCBR) before joining the faculty member of Aoyama Gakuin
University and the University of Tokyo. She was a visiting fellow at Cambridge University
in 2014, and Yonsei University in 2015. She engaged in many consultation and advisory
activities for the government. Recent publication includes “Beyond “Abenomics”: Japan’s
integration catch-up and prospects for Japan-UK cooperation”, Chatham House, 2019.

- US-China Competition and the Indo-Pacific region(Special Session): Maritime Security around Japan◎ Lisa Curtis

Senior Fellow and Director, Indo-Pacific Security Program, Center for a New

American Security (CNAS)

Lisa Curtis is Director of the Indo-Pacific Security Program at the Center for a New
American Security (CNAS). With over 20 years of service in the U.S. government, herwork has centered on U.S. policy toward the Indo-Pacific and South Asia, with a particularfocus on U.S.- India strategic relations; the Quad (U.S., Australia, India, and Japan); andChina’s role in the region. Curtis served as Deputy Assistant to the President and NSC
Senior Director for South and Central Asia from 2017-2021. From 2006–2017, Curtis was
Senior Fellow on South Asia at The Heritage Foundation. She also previously worked for
the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the State Department, CIA, and at the U.S.
Embassies in Islamabad and New Delhi. Curtis received the Secretary of Defense Medal
for Outstanding Public Service in December 2020 in recognition of her work at the NSC.

◎ Lai I-Chung

President, The Prospect Foundation

Dr. I-Chung LAI is the President of the Prospect Foundation. Dr. Lai served as Director
General for Department of International Affairs (2007-2008) and Director General for
Department of China Affairs (2006-2008) in the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP).

Prior to that, he was Special Assistant for Policy to Taiwan Representative to Japan (20002003), Executive Director for DPP Mission in the United States (1999-2000), and Vice
President of the Taiwan Thinktank (2013-2016). He received his Ph.D. degree from
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) and was Visiting
Researcher at Cornell University.

◎ Tomohisa Takei

Special advisor to the CEO, SAMPA K.K. / Adjunct Fellow, JIIA /Former Chief of Staff, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force

Currently, Admiral Tomohisa Takei serves as a special advisor to the CEO of the SAMPA
K.K. in Yokohama from March 2020. He retired from active duty in December 2016 after
having served for two years as the 32nd Chief of Staff of the JMSDF. Prior to this post,
he served as the Commandant, JMSDF Yokosuka District (2012-2014); Vice Chief of Staff,
JMSDF (2011-2012); Commandant, JMSDF Ominato District (2010-2011); Director, theMSO Operations and Plans Department (N3/N5) (2008-2010); Chief of Staff, Kure District(2007-2008); Director, the C4I Systems Department (J6), Joint Staff Office (2006-2007),
among others. He joined the JMSDF after graduating from the National Defense Academy
and holds a master’s degree from the University of Tsukuba. He is also a graduate of the
U.S. Naval War College, class of 1999. In 2016, Admiral Takei was awarded L'ordre
national de la légion d'honneur by the Government of France, and was awarded theLegion of Merit from the U.S. four times, as well as the Legion of Merit from Turkey.
Admiral Takei assumed the position of CNO’s Distinguished International Fellow in theInternational Programs Department at the U.S. Naval War College in April 2017. He has
been adjunct fellow at JIIA since October 2020.

★Tetsuo Kotani

Senior Fellow, JIIA / Professor, Meikai University

Tetsuo KOTANI is a professor of global studies at Meikai University and a senior fellow
at the Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA). His research focus is Japan’s
foreign/security policy, the US-Japan alliance, and international relations and maritime
security in the Indo-Pacific region. He won the 2003 Japanese Defense Minister Prize.
He has published numerous articles both in English and Japanese, and his recent English
publications include “Crisis Management in the East China Sea” (SIPRI Policy Brief,2015) and “China’s Military and Paramilitary Activities in the East China Sea: Implications
for the U.S.-Japan Alliance” (National Bureau of Asian Research, 2020). He received amaster’s degree from Doshisha University.

◆Part 2: Impact of the War in Ukraine-Impact of the War in Ukraine (1) Politics and Security◎ Bill Emmott

Chairman of the Trustees, The Institute for International Strategic Studies (IISS)

Bill Emmott is a writer and consultant best known for his 13 years as editor in chief of
The Economist in 1993-2006, a publication he first joined in 1980 and served in Brussels,
Tokyo and London. He is now chairman of the International Institute for Strategic Studies,of the board of Trinity College Dublin’s Long Room Hub for Arts & Humanities, of theJapan Society of the UK, and of the International Trade Institute. Mr. Emmott is the authorof 14 books on Japan, Asia, the 20th century and Italy. In 2017 he published “The Fateof the West”. His latest book, “Japan’s Far More Female Future”, was published inJapanese by Nikkei in June 2019 and in English by OUP in 2020. He was presenter andco-author of a documentary about Italy, “Girlfriend in a Coma” (2013) and executive
producer of “The Great European Disaster Movie” (2015), both shown on the BBC.

◎ Shinji Hyodo

Director, Policy Studies Department, The National Institute for Defense

Studies (NIDS)

Prof. Shinji HYODO is a Director, Policy Studies Department, National Institute for
Defense Studies (NIDS). His specialty is Russian Area Studies and International
Security. He learned Russian language and Russian area studies in Sophia University(Tokyo, 1992) and Far Eastern State University of Russia (Vladivostok, 1991). He got
M.A. degree in international relations from Sophia University (Tokyo, 1994) .
He has worked as a special researcher, Embassy of Japan in Moscow from 1996 to
1998 and also worked as a cabinet secretariat in National Security Council from 2001 to
2003. He was a visiting fellow of the Royal United Services Institute for Defence andSecurity studied in London in 2007 and an advisor of National Security Secretariat from2016 to 2018. He is an editor in Chief of East Asian Strategic Review, NIDS and a board
member of the Japanese Association for Russian and East European Studies. He
teaches Russian studies at Aoyamagakuin University and International Christian
University. He has published many articles on Russian area studies.

◎ Sergiy Korsunsky

Ambassador of Ukraine to Japan

Dr. Sergiy Korsunsky was born on August 10, 1962 in Kyiv, Ukraine. He graduated from
Kyiv National University in 1984. On April 14, 2020 Sergiy Korsunsky was appointed
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to Japan by Presidential
Decree № 142 / 2020. Ambassador Korsunsky’s previous positions include: Director of
the Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine (2017 – 2020),Ambassador Extraordinary andPlenipotentiary of Ukraine to the Republic of Turkey (2008-2016), Director-General ofthe Economic Department, Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2006-2008); MinisterCounselor and Acting Ambassador at the Embassy of Ukraine in the USA (2000-2005);
Deputy Director, Department for Economic Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of
Ukraine (1999-2000); Counselor for Economy, Embassy of Ukraine in the State of Israel(1995-1998).Director of the Department for State R&D Programs, State Committee on
Science and Technology (1991-1994)Ambassador Korsunsky has extensive
professional experience with strategic planning and development, including energy,
trade and investment policy, energy security, regional security, science and technology.
He is a well-known expert on the geopolitic issues. Author of more than 320 academic
papers and other publications including 7 books, among them "Nonlinear waves indispersive and dissipative systems with coupled fields" (Addison, Wesley. Longman,1997), “Technology Transfer in the United States” (Kyiv, 2005), “Energy Diplomacy” (Kyiv,
2008), “Foreign Policy in Times of Transformations” (Kharkiv, 2020). He holds a
diplomatic rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. He also holds a
Doctor of Science Degree in Applied Mathematics since 1991. He is honored withseveral awards by the President and Government of Ukraine.

◎ Andrey Kortunov

Director General, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC)

Andrey Kortunov graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations(MGIMO) in 1979 and completed his postgraduate studies at the Institute for U.S. andCanada Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1982. He holds a PhD in History.
Dr Kortunov completed internships at the Soviet embassies in London and Washington,
and at the Permanent Delegation of the USSR to the UN. In 1982–1995, Dr Kortunov
held various positions in the Institute for U.S. and Canada Studies, including Deputy
Director. He taught at universities around the world, including the University of California,
Berkeley. In addition, he led several public organizations involved in higher education,social sciences and social development. Since 2011, Andrey Kortunov has been the
Director General of RIAC. He is a member of expert and supervisory committees andboards of trustees of several Russian and international organizations. His academic
interests include contemporary international relations and Russian foreign policy.

◎ Ian Lesser

Vice President and Executive Director, Brussels, The German Marshall Fundof the United States

Ian Lesser is vice president of GMF and a member of its executive team. He also serves
as executive director of the Brussels office and leads the organization’s work ontransatlantic relations involving the Mediterranean and Turkey. His expertise includes US
foreign policy and European and Middle Eastern security affairs. Prior to joining GMF,
Lesser was a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for
Scholars, vice president and director of studies at the Pacific Council on International
Policy, and, for more than a decade, a senior analyst and research manager specializing

in strategic studies at the RAND Corporation. From 1994-1995, he was a member of the
US Secretary of State’s policy planning staff, responsible for Turkey, Southern Europe,
North Africa, and the multilateral track of the Middle East peace process.

◎ Hemant Krishan Singh

Director General, The Delhi Policy Group (DPG), Former

Ambassador of India to Japan

Ambassador Hemant Krishan Singh is a former career diplomat with extensive
experience of geo-strategic and geo-economic issues as well as multilateral institutions
which underpin international law. During his diplomatic career (1974-2010), he has served
as India’s Ambassador to several countries, including Japan and Indonesia. He has held
important assignments dealing with the United States, West Europe and the European
Union, the United Nations, and India's neighbours in South and South East Asia. From
2011-2016, Ambassador Singh was US Chair and Professor for Strategic Studies at
ICRIER, New Delhi. Since June 2016, Ambassador Singh has been the Director Generalof the Delhi Policy Group, which is among India’s oldest independent think tanks focusedon strategic and international issues of critical national interest. He has been associatedwith several policy dialogues on Indo-Pacific issues involving think tanks of the US, Japan,
Australia and Asia. In November 2022, the Government of Japan conferred the “Grand
Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun” on Ambassador Singh for his contributions tobilateral relations and promoting friendship between India and Japan.

★Ken Endo

Professor, University of Tokyo / Adjunct Fellow, JIIA

Ken Endo is Chair & Professor of International Politics, Faculty of Law, The University ofTokyo, since April 2022. Formerly he was Professor of International Politics, School of
Law & former Dean of the Graduate School of Public Policy, Hokkaido University, Sapporo
for decades. He is also Adjunct Fellow, Japan Institute for International Affairs, Tokyo,
Japan. After obtaining MA (cum laude) in European Studies at Katholieke Universiteit
Leuven, Belgium, he obtained a D.Phil in Politics at St Antony's College, University of
Oxford, in 1996. The subsequent appointments include: Visiting Professor, University ofTokyo (2003-16), Visiting Professor, National Chengchi University (2008, 18), Fernand
Braudel Senior Fellow, European University Institute (2009-10), Visiting Professor &Japan Chair, Sciences po, Paris (2005 & 2010), Visiting Professor, University ofInternational Business and Economics, Beijing (2015), Visiting Fellow, Ifri, Paris (2017),
Taiwan MOFA fellow (2018).

- Impact of the War in Ukraine (2) Economy◎ Yose Rizal Damuri Executive Director, Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
Yose Rizal Damuri is the Executive Director, Centre for Strategic and International
Studies. His research activities focus on international trade, regional integration andglobalization of value chain. He received his PhD in International Economics from the
Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, Switzerland. He is active in many
networks of research institutes in East Asia, such as in Asia Pacific Research Network
on Trade (ARTNet) and ERIA Research Institute Network (ERIA-RIN) and Think 20, thethink tank network of G20 countries. Currently he serves as the Co-Chair of Indonesia
National Committee of Pacific Economic Cooperation (INCPEC). Yose is also active invarious policy forum in Indonesia, including as the Research Coordinator of Indonesia
Service Dialogue, a forum dedicated for the development of services sector in Indonesia.

◎ Tim Gould

Chief Energy Economist, International Energy Agency (IEA)

Tim Gould was appointed the Agency’s Chief Energy Economist in 2021. As Chief
Energy Economist, he provides strategic advice on energy economics across a wide
range of IEA activities and analysis. Mr Gould is also Head of the Division for Energy
Supply and Investment Outlooks, in which capacity he co-leads the World Energy
Outlook, the IEA’s flagship publication, and oversees the Agency’s work on investment
and finance, including the World Energy Investment report. Mr Gould joined the IEA in
2008, initially as a specialist on Russian and Caspian energy, and in recent years has
designed and directed the World Energy Outlook together with the IEA’s Chief Energy
Modeller while contributing to the Outlook as a principal author. Prior to joining the IEA,Mr Gould worked on European and Eurasian energy issues in Brussels and has ten
years of experience in Eastern Europe, primarily in Ukraine. He graduated from Oxford
University and has a post-graduate diploma from the School of Advanced International
Studies of Johns Hopkins University.

◎ Stephen Quest

Director-General, Joint Research Center(JRC), European Commission

Stephen Quest is the Director-General of the Joint Research Centre (JRC) as of 1 May
2020. Prior to this, he was the Director-General of the Directorate-General for Taxation
and Customs Union (TAXUD) and the Director-General for Informatics (DIGIT), driving
the digital transformation of the Commission. His career spans more than 30 years in
the European civil service, and has included work on the EU budget, social andenvironmental policy and four years as Assistant to the Secretary-General. As DirectorGeneral, Stephen is particularly focused on modernising organisational culture andpromoting innovation within the Commission, both as regards the use of technology andempowering and involving staff in decision-making. He is particularly passionate aboutcommunication and the interface between policy and technology.

◎ Ruan Wei

Research Counselor, Norinchukin Research Institute Co., Ltd.

Ruan Wei is Research Counselor at Norinchukin Research Institute Co., Ltd. She
received her MA in Economics from Sophia University in Japan. Her previous positions
include Visiting Researcher at the Louisiana State University Agricultural Centre (Sep.
2005-May 2006). Her research focuses on 'global food supply and demand, soybean
trade, food self-sufficiency in developing countries in Asia and Africa, the digital
agriculture movement, and China's food self-sufficiency measures and their impact on
global food trade.’ Her recent publications include: The Global Food Crisis, Nikkei BP
Nikkei Publishing 9 Sep. 2022.

◎ Maha Yahya

Director, Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center

MAHA YAHYA is director of the Carnegie Middle East Center, where her work focusesbroadly on political violence, identity politics, inequality, citizenship, and the refugee crisis.
She has two PhDs in the social sciences and humanities from Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology (MIT) and the Architectural Association (AA) in London. She has consulted
with international organizations including the United Nations organizations and the WorldBank as well the private sector on a broad range of issues in among other countries
Lebanon, Pakistan, Oman, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Iran. She serves on anumber of advisory boards including the UNESCO international commission on the
Futures of Education; a global member of the Trilateral Commission; co-chair of theInternational Advisory Board for the Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship at theAmerican University of Beirut; and member of the Board of Directors of the Ana Aqra
Association. Yahya is the author of numerous publications, including most recently
Unheard Voices: What Syrian refugees need to return home (April 2018); editor ofContentious Politics in the Syrian Conflict: Opposition, Representation, and Resistance,
co-editor of Visualizing Secularism and Religion, Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey, India and was
the director and principal author of The National Human Development Report 2008–2009:
Toward a Citizen’s State in Lebanon.

★ Kiyotaka Akasaka

President, The Nippon Communications Foundation / Former

United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Communication and Public Information

Mr. Kiyotaka Akasaka is President of the Nippon Communications Foundation(Nippon.com). He held the position of United Nations Under-Secretary-General for
Communications and Public Information for five years from 2007 to 2012. He was incharge of the UN Department of Public Information. Before joining the UN, Mr. Akasaka
held the position of Deputy Secretary-General of the Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development (OECD), in charge of development, environment, andsustainable development. Mr. Akasaka was also Japan’s Ambassador to the UN in 2000
and 2001. After retiring from the UN in 2012, he held the position of the President of theForeign Press Center of Japan, a non-profit foundation for assistance to foreignjournalists in Japan till 2020. He became President of the Nippon Communications
Foundation in 2022. He is the author of several books relating to the UN and other global
affairs.

◆Part 3: The Future of the US-led International Order-The Future of the US-led International Order◎ Michael Green

Professor and CEO, US Studies Centre, The University of Sydney

Dr. Michael J. Green is Professor and CEO at the US Studies Centre at the University
of Sydney. He is also the Kissinger Chair (non-resident) at the Center for Strategic andInternational Studies in Washington, DC where he previous led programs as the SeniorVice President for Asia while concurrently directing Asia Studies as Professor and Chairin Modern and Contemporary Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy at Georgetown
University. Dr. Green served as Director and then Special Assistant to the President for
National Security Affairs and Senior Director for Asia on the National Security Council
staff from 2001 through 2005. His publications include By More than Providence: Grand
Strategy and American Power in the Asia Pacific since 1783 (2018) and Line ofAdvantage: Japan’s Grand Strategy in the Era of Abe Shinzo (2022). He hosts the
podcast The Asia Chessboard, serves on the Boards of The Asia Foundation and RadioFree Asia, and is Senior Advisor for The Asia Group consultancy.

◎ Qingguo Jia

Professor, Peking University

Jia Qingguo is professor and former dean of the School of International Studies of Peking
University. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1988. He is a member of theStanding Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political
Consultative Conference. He is vice president of the China American Studies
Association, vice president of the China Association for International Studies, and vicepresident of the China Japanese Studies Association. He has published extensively on
US-China relations, relations between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan and Chinese
foreign policy.

◎ Sunjoy Joshi

Chairman, Observer Research Foundation (ORF)

Mr. Sunjoy Joshi heads the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) in New Delhi as its
Chairman and Chief Executive. He has over the last 10 years spearheaded the rise of
the ORF as India’s premier think tank and window into the world of Global Affairs.
He joined the Madhya Pradesh Cadre of the Indian Administrative Services in 1983. Took
premature retirement in 2009 in order to pursue his academic interests. He has been
Visiting Associate at the International Institute of Strategic Studies, London andDistinguished Visitor to the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development,University of Stanford, USA. He speaks, publishes and comments on the world oftechnology, energy, and development, framing them in the context of global shifts andthe challenges to growth and employment faced by emerging economies. Has a regular
Youtube commentary on Global and Current Affairs called India’s World which is alsoavailable as a podcast.

◎ Rory Medcalf

Head of College, National Security College, Australian National University

Professor Rory Medcalf AM is Head of the National Security College at the Australian
National University. His career spans diplomacy, academia, intelligence analysis,journalism and think tanks, including with the Lowy Institute. Professor Medcalf was asenior strategic analyst with the Office of National Assessments, Australia’s peak
intelligence agency, and a diplomat with service in India, Japan and Papua New Guinea.
He has played a lead role in Australia's informal diplomacy with India and a range ofother countries. Professor Medcalf is recognised globally as a thought leader on the
Indo-Pacific strategic concept, as articulated in his book Contest for the Indo-Pacific(published internationally as Indo-Pacific Empire). In June 2022 he was appointed a
Member of the Order of Australia for significant service to international relations andtertiary education.

◎ Thierry de Montbrial Executive Chairman, French Institute of International Relations (IFRI)
Thierry de Montbrial is Executive Chairman of the French Institute of International
Relations (Ifri), which he founded in 1979. He is Professor Emeritus at the Conservatoire
National des Arts et Métiers. In 2008, he launched the World Policy Conference. He has
been a member of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques of the Institut deFrance since 1992, and is a member of a number of foreign Academies. Thierry deMontbrial chaired the Department of Economics at the Ecole Polytechnique from 1974
to 1992. He was the first Chairman of the Foundation for Strategic Research (19932001). Entrusted with the creation of the Policy Planning Staff (Centre d’Analyse et dePrévision) at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he was its first director (1973-1979).
He has authored more of twenty books, several of them translated in various languages,
including Action and Reaction in the World System. The Dynamics of Economic andPolitical Power (UBC Press, Vancouver, Toronto, 2013) and Living in Troubled Times.: A
New Political Era (World Scientific, 2018). He is a Grand Officier of the Légion d’honneur,Grand Officier of the Ordre National du Mérite. He has been awarded the Order of the
Rising Sun – Gold and Silver Star, Japan (2009) and other state honors by the Frenchand several foreign governments. Thierry de Montbrial is a graduate of the Ecole
Polytechnique and the Ecole des Mines, and received a Ph.D. in Mathematical
Economics from the University of California at Berkeley.

◎ Kenichiro Sasae

President, The Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA)

Kenichiro Sasae joined the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs after graduating fromThe University of Tokyo in 1974. His distinguished and illustrious diplomatic career
includes prestigious assignments as Executive Assistant to the Prime Minister, DirectorGeneral of the Economic Affairs Bureau, Director-General of the Asian & Oceania Affairs
Bureau, and Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs. During his period of service in Tokyo, he
represented the Japanese Government in the Six-Party Talks on North Korean issues.
He also worked as Political Director for the G-8 Summit. From 2012-2018, he was
Ambassador of Japan to the United States. Subsequently, in June 2018, Ambassador
Sasae was appointed President of The Japan Institute of International Affairs to head
Japan’s premier foreign affairs think tank.

★Tomiko Ichikawa

Director General, The Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA)

Ms. Tomiko Ichikawa assumed the current position in July 2020. She joined Ministry ofForeign Affairs in 1985. Her assignments in Japan include Directorship at West Europe
Division, Economic Integration Division (EU), Non-proliferation, Science and Nuclear
Energy Division as well as Economic Policy Division. Overseas postings include Embassyof Japan in the UK and Permanent Mission of Japan to the International Organizations in
Vienna. She also assumed positions in international organizations as Political Affairs
Officer at UNPROFOR (UN PKO in the Former Yugoslavia) and Special Assistant to the
Director General, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). She obtained Bachelor
in Law, University of Tokyo, Japan and MA, International relations and contemporary war,
King’s College London, UK.