The 3rd Tokyo Global Dialogue
Speakers (as of March 2, 2022)（★:Moderator ◎:Panelist

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

March 2 (Wed)◆Opening
Message
H.E. KISHIDA Fumio

Prime Minister of Japan（TBC）

Mr. 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.

Keynote Speech
H.E. HAYASHI Yoshimasa

Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan (TBC)

Mr. HAYASHI Yoshimasa is a member of the House of Representatives belonging to the
Liberal Democratic Party and currently serves as Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan. He
graduated from Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo, and earned his Master’s Degree from
Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government. He served as Minister ofDefense; 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. He assumed the current position in November
2021.

◆Roundtable Featuring JIIA Strategic Annual Report 2021
★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 (JIIA) tohead Japan’s premier foreign affairs think tank.

◎ Julie Bishop Chancellor, Australian National University/ Former Foreign Minister ofAustralia

The Hon Julie Bishop served as Australia’s Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2013 until
her resignation in 2018. She was the first female to hold the role as well as the firstfemale Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party, serving for 11 years. Julie also served as
Minister for Education, Science and Training, Minister for Women’s Issues and Minister
for Ageing. In 2020 Julie was awarded a Fisher Family Fellowship for the Future of
Diplomacy Project at Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Centre for Science andInternational Affairs. In 2021 Julie was awarded the Kissinger Fellowship at the McCain
Institute of International Leadership at Arizona State University. In 2021 Julie wasappointed by the UK Government to the G7 Gender Equality Advisory Council (GEAC).
She is also a member of the Trilateral Commission Capitalism Task Force and theMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) AI Policy Forum Steering Committee. Julieis the Chancellor of Australian National University, Chair of Telethon Kids Institute, Chairof Prince’s Trust Australia, member of the international advisory boards of Afiniti and the
Human Vaccines Project and is the Patron of Shooting Stars (an education programme
for young aboriginal girls).

◎ Cathryn Clüver AshbrookNon-resident Fellow, The Global Public Policy Institute(GPPi) / Former Director and CEO, The German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP)

Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook is a non-resident fellow with the Global Public Policy Institute(GPPi). Previously, she served as director and CEO of the German Council on Foreign
Relations (DGAP). For over a decade prior, Cathryn served as the executive director of
the Future of Diplomacy Project at the Harvard Kennedy School in Cambridge,
Massachusetts. The project, which she co-founded, addresses 21st-century foreign
policy challenges through research by international leaders in academia and diplomacy
as well as teaching conflict research and prevention. Since 2018, Clüver Ashbrook has
also directed a research program on Europe and transatlantic relations. Previously, she
served on the management board of the European Policy Centre (EPC) in Brussels andworked as both a consultant and senior journalist at Roland Berger Strategy Consultantsin France and China, among other countries. She began her career as a television
journalist at CNN International in Atlanta and London. Clüver Ashbrook contributes tointernational publications, such as the New York Times and Washington Post, as well as
leading German media on transatlantic relations – especially trade and security policy –and German foreign and digital policy. She also advises foreign ministries in Europe andSouth America on their digital strategy.

◎ Xu Jian

President, China Foreign Affairs University

Dr. XU Jian is President and Deputy Secretary of CPC Committee of China Foreign
Affairs University (CFAU) and Chancellor of China Diplomatic Academy(CDA). He used
to work at China Center of International Studies (CCIS) as Senior Research
Fellow (1993-1999), Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Department of Strategic
Studies of China Institute of International Studies (CIIS) (1999-2003), and Vice Presidentof CIIS (2003-2008).Then, he worked as Counselor of Chinese Permanent Mission to
the United Nations (2008-2010), Minister Counselor of Chinese Embassy in
Russia (2010-2012). After serving abroad, he returned to CIIS and assumed the post of
Director of the Academic Council of CIIS (2012-2016) and Vice President of CIIS (2016-2019). He got his B.A. and MA in History at Beijing Normal University, M.A. in
International Relations at University of Sussex, and Ph.D. in International Relations at
University of Bristol.

◎ Bilahari Kausikan

Chairman, Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore/

Former Ambassador-at-Large, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore

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.

◎ Anna Kireeva

Associate Professor, MGIMO University

Dr. Anna Kireeva is Associate Professor at the Department of Asian and African Studies
and Research Fellow at Center for Comprehensive Chinese Studies and Regional
Projects of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University), theMinistry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. She holds B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. ininternational relations and regional studies from MGIMO University. Dr. Anna Kireeva
specializes on international relations and security in East Asia and the Indo-Pacific andfocuses on the foreign policy strategy and policy of major powers in East Asia: the U.S.,
China, Japan and Russia as well as India as an emerging power. Her focus recently has
been on Russia’s Asian pivot and Russia’s relations with Japan, China, the Korean
Peninsula and East Asia in general.

◎ Kenneth R. Weinstein

Walter P. Stern Distinguished Fellow, Former President andCEO, Hudson InstituteDr. Kenneth R. Weinstein is the Walter P. Stern Distinguished Fellow at Hudson Institute.
From 2011 through 2020, Dr. Weinstein served as president and CEO of Hudson. In
March 2020, he was nominated by President Trump to serve as U.S. Ambassador to
Japan. Dr. Weinstein is an expert on U.S. foreign policy on East Asia and Europe. His
writings have been widely published in the United States, Europe, and Asia, including
The Wall Street Journal, Le Monde, and the Yomiuri Shimbun. Dr. Weinstein serves on
the Advisory Committee on Trade Policy and Negotiations for the U.S. Trade
Representative Katherine Tai.

March 3 (Thu)◆Morning: Intensifying US-China Competition-Intensifying US-China Competition (1): Values and Technologies★Toshihiro Nakayama

Professor, Keio University / Senior Adjunct Fellow, JIIA

Toshihiro Nakayama is a Professor of American Politics and Foreign Policy at theFaculty of Policy Management at Keio University. He is also a Senior Adjunct Fellow at
the Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA). He was a Special Correspondent for the
Washington Post at the Far Eastern Bureau (1993-94), Special Assistant at thePermanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations in New York (1996-98), SeniorResearch Fellow at The Japan Institute of International Affairs (2004-06), Associate
Professor at Tsuda College (2006-10), and Professor at Aoyama Gakuin University(2010-14). He was also a CNAPS Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution (2005-06),
Sir Howard Kippenberger Chair Visiting Professor at the Center for Strategic Studies,
Victoria University in Wellington (2017), Japan Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center(2018-2019), and an Advisor to the Ministry of Defense (2019-2020). He received his
M.A.(1993) and Ph.D.(2001) from Aoyama Gakuin University. He has written two books
and numerous articles on American politics, foreign policy and international relations.
Recipient of Nakasone Yasuhiro Award (Incentive Award) in 2014.

◎ Aaron L. Friedberg

Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton

University

Dr. Aaron L. Friedberg is Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton
University, where he has taught since 1987. He has served as a Deputy Assistant for
National Security Affairs in the office of the Vice President (2003-05) and as a memberof the Defense Policy Board (2007-08). In January 2022 he was appointed to the U.S.-

China Economic and Security Review Commission. Dr.Friedberg is the author of several
books including The Weary Titan: Britain and the Experience of Relative Decline (1988),
In the Shadow of the Garrison State: America’s Anti-Statism and Its Cold War Grand
Strategy (2000), A Contest for Supremacy: China, America, and the Struggle for Mastery
in Asia (2011) , Beyond Air-Sea Battle: The Debate Over U.S. Military Strategy in Asia
(2014) and Getting China Wrong (2022). Friedberg received his A.B., M.A. and Ph.D.
degrees from Harvard University.

◎ John J. Hamre

President and CEO, Center for Strategic and International Studies

John Hamre was elected president and CEO of CSIS in January 2000. Before joining
CSIS, he served as the 26th U.S. deputy secretary of defense. Prior to holding that post,
he was the under secretary of defense (comptroller) from 1993 to 1997. As comptroller,
Dr. Hamre was the principal assistant to the secretary of defense for the preparation,
presentation, and execution of the defense budget and management improvement
programs. In 2007, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates appointed Dr. Hamre to serveas chairman of the Defense Policy Board, and he served in that capacity for four
secretaries of defense. Before serving in the Department of Defense, Dr. Hamre worked
for 10 years as a professional staff member of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
During that time, he was primarily responsible for the oversight and evaluation of
procurement, research, and development programs, defense budget issues, andrelations with the Senate Appropriations Committee. From 1978 to 1984, Dr. Hamre
served in the Congressional Budget Office, where he became its deputy assistantdirector for national security and international affairs. In that position, he oversaw
analysis and other support for committees in both the House of Representatives and the
Senate. Dr. Hamre received his Ph.D., with distinction, in 1978 from the School of
Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C., where
his studies focused on international politics and economics and U.S. foreign policy. In
1972, he received his B.A., with high distinction, from Augustana College in Sioux Falls,
South Dakota, emphasizing political science and economics. The following year hestudied as a Rockefeller fellow at the Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge,
Massachusetts.

◎ Ryosei Kokubun

Professor Emeritus, Keio University / Former President of National

Defense Academy of Japan

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.

◎ Yuan Peng

Professor, The China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations(CICIR)

Dr. Yuan Peng, Research Professor and Doctoral Advisor, is the President of China
Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR). He earned his PhD in WorldHistory in 1997 from Northeast Normal University. Then he served successively
as Deputy Director and Director of CICIR’s Institute of American Studies and then Vice
President of CICIR. He was a visiting scholar at the Atlantic Council (1999-2000) and
Brookings Institution (2003-2004). Having been following American studies for decades,
he has a wide-range of interests including Sino-U.S. relations, Asia-Pacific security andChina's foreign policy. He is the author or editor of several books such as American
Think-Tanks and Their Attitudes toward China (Current Affairs Press, 2003), China andthe U.S. Accommodating in the Asia Pacific: China, America and the Third
Parties (Current Affairs Press, 2013), From Westphalia to a New World Order (China
CITIC Press, 2016). He is Vice Chairman of Chinese Society of International Relations
and Vice Chairman of Chinese Society of American Studies.

◎ Yan Xuetong

Professor and Dean, The Institute of International Relations, Tsinghua

University

YAN Xuetong is a distinguished professor of Tsinghua University and a member ofRussia Academy of Sciences. He is serving as the Dean of The Institute of International
Relations at Tsinghua University and the Secretary General of the World Peace Forum.
He obtained Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley in1992 and was named as one
of world's Top 100 public intellectuals by the American journal Foreign Policy in 2008.
He has been the only political scientist listed in Most Cited Chinese Researchers by
Elsevier since 2014. Some of his books have been translated into English, Japanese,
Korean, Farsi or Albanian.

- Intensifying US-China Competition (2): Oceans★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.

◎ Xu BuPresident, The China Institute of International Studies (CIIS)

Xu Bu, President of the China Institute of International Studies. He studied at Nanjing
University, China Foreign Affairs University, Wuhan University and the Asia-PacificCenter for Security Studies, graduated with a PhD in Law. He has rich experience in
diplomatic work, served in Pakistan, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada,
ASEAN and Chile. He had previously served as Deputy Director-General of the Policy
Planning Department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2006-2009), Minister Counselorof the Chinese Embassy in Canada (2009-2011), Deputy Representative of the Ministryof Foreign Affairs for the Korean Peninsula Affairs (2011-2015), Ambassador
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to ASEAN (2015-2018), and Ambassador
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Chile (2018-2020). Xu has rich research experience
in international studies. He has published articles in high quality academic journals,
including Foreign Affairs Review, The Journal of International Studies, and China
International Studies, and several articles on the People's Daily, Guangming Daily andStudy Times. He is also the author of Say No to Wars: Comments on American Identity
and International Politics and American National Identity and Its Impact.

◎ Bonnie Glazer

Director of the Asia Program, The German Marshall Fund of the UnitedStatesBonnie S. Glaser is director of the Asia Program at the German Marshall Fund of theUnited States. She was previously senior adviser for Asia and the director of the China
Power Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Ms. Glaser isconcomitantly a nonresident fellow with the Lowy Institute in Sydney, Australia, and asenior associate with the Pacific Forum. For more than three decades, Ms. Glaser has
worked at the intersection of Asia-Pacific geopolitics and U.S. policy.

◎ Matt Pottinger

Distinguished Visiting Fellow, The Hoover Institution / Former US

Deputy National Security Advisor

Matt Pottinger is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Matt served at
the White House for four years in senior roles on the National Security Council staff,
including as Deputy National Security Advisor from 2019 to 2021. In that role, Matt
coordinated the full spectrum of national security policy. Before that he served as SeniorDirector for Asia, where he led the administration’s work on the Indo-Pacific region, andin particular its shift on China policy. Before his White House service, Matt spent the late
1990s and early 2000s in China as a reporter for Reuters and The Wall Street Journal.
He then fought in Iraq and Afghanistan as a U.S. Marine during three combat
deployments between 2007 and 2010. Following active duty, Matt founded and led an
Asia-focused risk consultancy and ran Asia research at an investment fund in New York.

◎ Jia Qingguo

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 vice president 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.

◎ Tomohisa Takei

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 the Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA) since October 2020.

◆Afternoon: International Responses-International Response (1): Oceans★Tomiko Ichikawa

Director General, 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
Embassy of 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 andcontemporary war, King’s College London, UK.

◎ 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(2000-2003), Executive Director for DPP Mission in the United States (1999-2000), andVice 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.

◎ Dino Patti Djalal

Founder and Chairman, The Foreign Policy Community of Indonesia /Former Ambassador of Indonesia to the US

Dr. Dino Patti Djalal is Founder and Chairman of The Foreign Policy Community ofIndonesia. He is a retired career diplomat; former Presidential spokesperson, speech
writer and special staff; former Indonesia’s Ambassador to the United States; youth
activist; academic; author of a national best seller; talk show host, and former Vice
Minister for Foreign Affairs (2014). He is also known in Indonesia as Presidential
Spokesperson for President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono – a position he held for 6 years
from October 2004 to October 2010, which makes him the longest serving Presidential
spokesperson in Indonesia’s modern history.

◎ Phạm Lan Dung

Acting President, Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam (DAV)Dr. Pham Lan Dung is the Acting President of the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam andSecretary-General of the Vietnam Society of International Law. She holds a Doctor ofPhilosophy in International relations at the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam and was
educated in the Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Soviet Union and
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University in the United States. Dr. Dung
has abundant experience with 26 years working in various positions at the Diplomatic
Academy of Vietnam. Dr. Dung was a Team Leader for many international research
projects funded by international organizations such as United Nations agencies. Her
research focuses on international law and international relations in maritime, trade,human security, and the role of non-permanent members of the UNSC. She is fluent inboth Russian and English.

◎ Tsutomu Kikuchi

Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University/ Senior Adjunct Fellow, JIIA

Professor Tsutomu Kikuchi is a professor at the Department of International Politics,
Aoyama-Gakuin University, Tokyo, as well as senior adjunct fellow at the Japan Instituteof International Affairs (JIIA). He is specializing in international political economy in the
Asia-Pacific. He was a visiting fellow at the Australian National University (ANU:
Canberra) and the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS: Singapore), a Visiting
Professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC, Vancouver), and a consultant of the
Asian Development 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.

◎ Joon-woo Park

Former Chairman, The Sejong Institute / Former Senior Secretary to the

President for Political Affairs, ROK

Ambassador Park Joon-woo, former Chairman of The Sejong Institute and former Senior
Secretary to the President for Political Affairs, was a career diplomat. He served as
Korean Ambassador to the European Union and Belgium, and to Singapore respectively.
His overseas assignments include Washington, D.C., Tokyo, Beijing and Helsinki. Afterretirement, he was a visiting fellow of the Walter Shorenstein Asia-Pacific ResearchCenter at Stanford University, USA, teaching a graduate class for a year. He was also avisiting professor at the Institute for State Governance of the Yonsei University, Seoul. In
2013, Ambassador Park was appointed as President Park Geun-hye’s Senior Secretaryfor Political Affairs. Later, he served as Chairman of The Sejong Institute, Korea’s leading
independent think-tank.

◎ Karambir Singh

Chairman, The National Maritime Foundation (NMF) / Former Chief of

the Naval Staff, Indian Navy

Admiral Karambir Singh, PVSM, AVSM, IN (Retd), who was the Republic of India’s 24th
Chief of the Naval Staff from 2019 to 2021, assumed the chairmanship of the National
Maritime Foundation in January 2022. An alumnus of the National Defence Academy,
Khadakwasla, the Defence Services Staff College, Wellington, and the College of Naval
Warfare, Mumbai, the Admiral was commissioned into the Indian Navy in July of 1980.
He has served in the Directorate of Naval Air Staff at the Integrated Headquarters of
the Ministry of Defence (Navy) and has been Captain (Air) and Officer-in-Charge of theNaval Air Station at Mumbai. Appointed thereafter as the Deputy Chief of Naval Staff,
he discharged his responsibilities towards the Indian Navy’s current and future
operational and combat capacity and capabilities. He then served the Vice Chief ofNaval Staff, involved with the development of the “future Navy”. He assumed Commandof the Indian Navy on 31 May 2019, serving until his retirement from active service on
30 November 2021.

- International Response (2): Values and Technologies★Ken Endo

Professor, Hokkaido University / Adjunct Fellow, JIIA

Ken Endo is Professor of International Politics, School of Law & the Graduate School of
Public Policy, Hokkaido University. He is also Adjunct Fellow at the Japan Institute forInternational Affairs (JIIA). He obtained a D.Phil in Politics at St Antony's College,
University of Oxford, in 1996. His main publications include The Presidency of theEuropean Commission under Jacques Delors (Macmillan/St. Martin’s, 1999) and a prizewinning book, The End of Integration (Iwanami, 2013, in Japanese).

◎ Meliha Altunisik

Professor, Middle East Technical University

Meliha Benli Altunişik is a Professor at the Department of International Relations, Middle
East Technical University, Ankara. She is a non-resident fellow in the Middle East
Institute, Washington, DC. She was a Fulbright Scholar at Center for Middle EasternStudies, Harvard University in 1988-89 and received her Ph.D. in political science from
Boston University in 1994. Dr. Altunişik was a resident Fulbright scholar in the Middle
East Institute in Washington, D. C. from January to June 2003. Some of her publications
include Turkey: Challenges of Continuity and Change (with O. Tur) (Routledge); ’The
Possibilities and Limits of Turkey’s Soft Power in the Middle East,’ Insight Turkey (2008)‘Worldviews and Turkish Foreign Policy in the Middle East,’ New Perspectives on Turkey(2009); ’Making Sense of Turkish Foreign Policy in the Middle East under AKP,” (with L.
G. Martin) Turkish Studies (2011); ’Iran-Turkey Relations: between Competition andRivalry,’ in Imad Mansour and William Thompson (eds) Shocks and Rivalries in theMiddle East and North Africa (2020); ‘The New Turn in Turkey's Foreign Policy in the
Middle East: Regional and Domestic Insecurities,’ in Silvia Colombo and Andrea Dessi(eds) Fostering a New Architecture in the Middle East (2020); ‘Pandemic Regionalism
or Not? The MENA Region in the Shadow of Covid-19,’ International Spectator (2021).

◎ Herizal Hazri

Chief Executive, The Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS)

Malaysia

Mr Herizal Hazri is the Chief Executive of the Institute of Strategic and International
Studies (ISIS) Malaysia. As Chief Executive of Malaysia’s premier think-tank. Herizal
leads the Institute’s Track Two diplomacy through the ASEAN Institutes of Strategic andInternational Studies (ASEAN-ISIS), the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia
Pacific (CSCAP) and the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC), among others.
Prior to joining ISIS Herizal has worked in numerous Asian countries to promote
development, democracy and security, including Indonesia, East Timor (now TimorLeste), Thailand, Philippines, Cambodia, Myanmar, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka,
Bangladesh, and Malaysia. In 2004, Herizal managed the only International Election
Observation Mission for the Afghanistan Presidential Election and deployed 45 longterm and short-term observers to Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran. From 2009 to 2013,
Herizal served as a member of the International Contact Group (ICG) at peace talks
between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the Moro Islamic
Liberation Front (MILF). Backed by this experience, today Herizal continues to contributeto the development of peace in Mindanao through various economic and socio-political
approaches. Herizal has widely published his articles and has contributed to chapters innumerous books. Herizal has also published three books on election observation andelectoral politics: Report of the Indonesian Legislative and Presidential Election 20032004, Afghanistan Presidential Election 2004, and Politics of the Straits: An Observationof the Taiwan Legislative Election.

◎ Anna Kireeva

Associate Professor, MGIMO University

Dr. Anna Kireeva is Associate Professor at the Department of Asian and African Studies
and Research Fellow at Center for Comprehensive Chinese Studies and Regional
Projects of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University), theMinistry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. She holds B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. ininternational relations and regional studies from MGIMO University. Dr. Anna Kireeva
specializes on international relations and security in East Asia and the Indo-Pacific andfocuses on the foreign policy strategy and policy of major powers in East Asia: the U.S.,
China, Japan and Russia as well as India as an emerging power. Her focus recently has
been on Russia’s Asian pivot and Russia’s relations with Japan, China, the Korean
Peninsula and East Asia in general.

◎ Hosuk Lee-Makiyama

Director, European Centre for International Political Economy

Hosuk Lee-Makiyama is director of ECIPE in Brussels and Senior Fellow of London
School of Economics. His research on trade and technology has played a prominent role
in reforming policies across the world, while his advice has been sought by G7
governments, and various organizations including the European Commission, ASEAN,
OECD, World Bank, WTO and the UN. He is also a regular commentator on CNBC, FT,
Politico, Nikkei, BBC, and other international broadcasters. During his government
career, he represented Sweden in the Council of the EU, the UN and the WTO, andserved in other roles in the Government of Sweden. He was born in Tokyo, Japan.

◎ 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 hasserved as India’s Ambassador to several countries including Japan and Indonesia, andas India's Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva. He has held
assignments dealing with the United States, West Europe and the European Union, andIndia's immediate 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 General of the Delhi
Policy Group, which is among India’s oldest independent think tanks focused on strategic
and international issues of critical national interest. He has been associated with policy
dialogues on the Indo-Pacific involving think tanks of the US and Asia. An alumnus of St.
Stephen’s College, Ambassador Singh holds a M.A. degree from the University of Delhi.

◎ Kazuto Suzuki

Professor, University of Tokyo / Adjunct Fellow, JIIA

Kazuto Suzuki is Professor of International Politics at Graduate School of Public Policy,
the University of Tokyo. He graduated Department of International Relations,
Ritsumeikan University, and received Ph.D. from Sussex European Institute, Universityof Sussex, England. He served as an expert in the Panel of Experts for Iranian Sanction
Committee under the United Nations Security Council from 2013 to July 2015. He has
been the President of Japan Association of International Security and Trade.

- International Response (3): Multilateral Response★Kiyotaka Akasaka

Former Under-Secretary-General for Communications and PublicInformation, United Nations

Mr. Akasaka joined the Japanese Foreign Ministry in 1971 after graduating from Kyoto
University. He also graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge in the UK. In 1997, heserved as one of his country’s senior negotiators in the Kyoto Conference on Climate
Change. He worked in the secretariat of the GATT (now WTO) and the WHO,
respectively. Mr. Akasaka became Ambassador to the UN in 2000. He served as abureau member for the preparation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development,
held in Johannesburg in 2002. He held the position of Deputy Secretary-General of theOrganization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) from 2003 until 2007
in charge of development, environment and sustainable development. Mr. Akasaka held
the position of United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Communications and PublicInformation for five years from 2007 till 2012. From 2012 till 2020, he served as Presidentof the Foreign Press Center Japan.

◎ Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana

Executive Secretary, The United Nations Economic

and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)

Ms. Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana was appointed Executive Secretary of the United
Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) on 13
September 2018. Prior to joining ESCAP, Ms. Alisjahbana was Professor of Economics
at Universitas Padjadjaran in Bandung, Indonesia, a position she assumed in 2005. She
joined Universitas Padjadjaran as a lecturer in 1988. Since 2016, she has served as
Director for the Center for Sustainable Development Goals Studies at Universitas
Padjadjaran and Vice Chair of the Indonesian Academy of Sciences. From 2009 to 2014,
she was Minister of National Development Planning and the Head of the National
Development Planning Agency (BAPPENAS), Indonesia. She served as Co-chair of the
Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation from 2012 to 2014. From2009 to 2014, she was Alternate Governor of the World Bank and Alternate Governor of
the Asian Development Bank representing the government of Indonesia. In 2016, she
was a member of the High Level Independent Team of Advisors to support the ECOSOC
Dialogue on the longer term positioning of the United Nations Development System inthe context of the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development.

◎ John Ashton

Independent speaker and writer / Co-founder, E3G / Former Special

Representative for Climate Change at the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO)

John Ashton is an independent speaker and writer. His activities range over politics,
economics, diplomacy, and culture but his particular focus is climate change. From 200612 John was the UK’s top climate diplomat, as Special Representative for Climate
Change for successive Foreign Secretaries under the Blair, Brown and Cameron
Governments. In this role he helped to pioneer a foreign policy-led approach to climatechange that came to be widely admired. He cofounded and was, from 2004-6, the first
Chief Executive of E3G. From 1978-2002, after a brief period as a research astronomer,
he was a career diplomat. He served in Beijing in the early 1980s and in Hong Kong in
the runup to the handover of sovereignty. He speaks Chinese, and China remains atheme in his work. He has also been a frequent visitor to Japan, where he has closefamily connections. In recent years, in addition to a period as a full time carer for his latemother, he has been prominent in the campaigns against fracking for shale gas and theopening of new coal mines in the UK.

◎ Rebeca Grynspan

Secretary-General, United Nations Conference on Trade andDevelopment (UNCTAD)

Rebeca Grynspan is a Costa Rican economist, and a renowned advocate of humandevelopment. She was Vice-President of Costa Rica (1994–1998), as well as Ministerof Housing, Minister Coordinator of Economic and Social Affairs, and Deputy Finance
Minister. At the United Nations Development Programme, she was Under-SecretaryGeneral and Associate Administrator from 2010 to 2014, and Regional Director for Latin
America and the Caribbean. Prior to that, from 2001 to 2006, Director of the Subregional
Headquarters in Mexico of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America
and the Caribbean. More recently, she was the first woman Secretary-General of the
Ibero-American Conference (2014–2021). In September 2021 Rebeca Grynspan wasnamed Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development,
becoming the first woman to lead the organization.

◎ Nobuo Tanaka

Former Executive Director, the International Energy Agency (IEA) / Chair,

the Steering Committee of Innovation for Cool Earth Forum (ICEF) / CEO, Tanaka Global, Inc.

Degree in Economics, University of Tokyo; MBA, Case Western Reserve University,
Cleveland, US. 1973, with Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), Tokyo; 1989,
Deputy Director then 1992, Director, Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry,
OECD; 1995, rejoined METI including: Director-General, Multilateral Trade System
Department, Trade Policy Bureau, led many trade negotiations with World Trade
Organization, worked on formulating international strategy and coordinating domestic
environment policy and energy policy in Kyoto COP 3 negotiation; 1998-2000, Ministerfor Industry, Trade and Energy, Embassy of Japan, Washington DC; Director, Science,
Technology and Industry, OECD; 2007-11, Executive Director, International Energy
Agency (IEA); Special Advisor, the Japan Institute of Energy Economics (IEEJ),
Professor at the Graduate School of Public Policy (GraSPP), the University of Tokyo;
2015 – 2016, President of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation (SPF), and Chairman of theBoard from 2016 to 2020; Currently, President of Tanaka Global Co., Ltd. and Chair, theSteering Committee of Innovation for Cool Earth Forum (ICEF).