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Editorial Board
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Ro-Myung Gong is a chaired professor of Dongseo University, the publisher of Global Asia, a journal of the East Asia Foundation. He also serves as the Chairman
of the Korea-Japan Forum since 2003. He was born on February 25, 1932.
He is a graduate of the Law College, Seoul National University.
He entered the Republic of Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1959 and served
at various overseas diplomatic missions of Korea in Washington DC, Tokyo,
Canberra, Cairo. He was the Korean Ambassador to Brazil (1983-86), the Consul
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General in New York (1986-89), the Korean Ambassador to the then-Soviet Union (1990-91) and Japan
(1993-94), and became the Minister of Foreign Affairs from December 1994 to November 1996.
Retiring from the Government, he briefly served as a member of the Presidential Advisory Council on
Unification in 1997. He became the Director of the Institute of Japanese Studies at Dongguk University
(1997-2003), of the Institute for Japanese Studies at Hallym University. He was also associated with the
Asahi Shimbun of Japan as the Chairman of the Asia Network from September of 2003 to May 2007. |
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Chung-in Moon is a professor of political science at Yonsei University.
He served as Dean of Yonsei’s Graduate School of International Studies and as
Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Northeast Asian Cooperation Initiative,
a cabinet-level post and Ambassador for International Security Affairs at the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Republic of Korea. He has published over
40 books and 230 articles in edited volumes and such scholarly journals as World
Politics, International Studies Quarterly, and the World Development.
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His recent publications include The United States and Northeast Asia: Debates, Issues, and New Order,
Handbook of Korean Unification, Arms Control on the Korean Peninsula, War and Peace in Asia, and Ending
the Cold War in Korea. He attended the 1st and 2nd Pyongyang summit as a special delegate.
He was a fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington, D.C. He served as Vice President
of the International Studies Association (ISA)of North America and president of the Korea Peace Research
Association. He is currently a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy (Los Angeles), the
Institute of International Strategic Studies (London), and fellow of the Club of Madrid. He is ARF-EEPs
representing South Korea and served as co-chair of the first and second AFR-EEPs meetings in June 2006
and February 2007. He is a board member of the Korea Foundation, the Sejong Foundation, the East Asia
Foundation, and the International Peace Foundation. He is also Editor-in-Chief of Global Asia, a quarterly
magazine. |
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David Plott specialized in business and financial journalism, as both a reporter
and an editor. He worked at the Far Eastern Economic Review (FEER) from 2000
-2004, serving as editor-in-chief at the time of his departure. He then joined the
faculty of the University of Hong Kong’s Journalism and Media Studies Centre.
As a young man, he reported for the Kansas City Times and the St. Petersburg
Times in the US before joining Dow Jones Newswires in 1987.
In 1994, he transferred to Singapore as news editor for Asian energy and
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commodities. In 1998, he became senior news editor for Asia-Pacific, with responsibility for 16 regional
bureaus. Plott has an undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley and an MA and
Ph.D. from Harvard University. He has taught literature and history at Harvard and at the University of
Grenoble in France. Plott also serves as managing editor of Global Asia, a quarterly journal of the East Asia
Foundation, and as Adjunct Fellow at the Pacific Council on International Policy in Los Angeles. |
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Hyung Taek Hong is Secretary General at the East Asia Foundation (EAF)
in Seoul, Korea, where he oversees planning and implementation of various
programs and activities decided by the board of trustees of the EAF.
Prior to joining the EAF in May 2005, Mr. Hong did Advanced graduate studies in
Political Science at Columbia University in the City of New York, majoring in
comparative politics, international relations, and Russian area studies.
From 1992 until June 1997, Mr. Hong was a lecturer of Korean language at the
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Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University. Mr. Hong is a graduate of the
Department of Political Science at Korea University in Seoul and holds a M.A. degree in political science from
the University of Texas at Austin. |
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Choong Yong Ahn is Chair Professor of Graduate School of International Studies
at Chung-Ang University. He is also Foreign Investment Ombudsman at Korea
Trade and Investment Promotion Agency. He is currently a member of the
National Competitiveness Council. He served as the managing editor of Journal of
Economic Development of Chung-Ang University.
He had also served as the President of the Korea Institute for International
Economic Policy (KIEP) from January 2002 to January 2005 and served as the
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| Chair of the APEC Economic Committee and a member of the Korea's Presidential Economic Advisory
Council. He has maintained a keen interest in public policy, serving in positions such as consultant to the
World Bank, UNIDO Chief Technical Advisor to the Economic Planning Unit of Malaysia to design
Malaysia's industrial master plan, and presidents of several academic societies in Korea.
He has also won various honors including the Economist of the Year Award from the Maeil Economic Daily
in Korea, the Okita Policy Research Award by the National Institute for Research Advancement in Japan,
and Free Economy Publication Award by the Federation of Korean Industries in 2002. Since receiving his
Ph.D. from Ohio State University in 1972, Dr. Ahn published many articles in prestigious international
journals. |
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Nayan Chandais the Director of Publications and the Editor of Yale Global Online
Magazine at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization. For nearly thirty years
before he joined Yale University, Chanda was with the Hong Kong-based magazine
the Far Eastern Economic Review as its editor, editor-at-large and correspondent.
In 1989-90 Chanda was a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace in Washington. From 1990-1992 Chanda was editor of the
Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly, published from New York. He is the author of
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Brother Enemy, The Age of Terror. He is the recipient of the Shorenstein Award for 2005.
The Award honors a journalist not only for a distinguished body of work, but also for the particular way it
has helped an American audience understand the complexities of Asia. |
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Barry Eichengreen is the George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1987. He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (Cambridge, Massachusetts) and Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London, England). In 1997-98 he was Senior Policy Advisor at the International Monetary Fund. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (class of 1997).
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Professor Eichengreen is the convener of the Bellagio Group of academics and economic officials and chair of the Academic Advisory Committee of the Peterson Institute of International Economics.
He has held Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships and has been a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Palo Alto) and the Institute for Advanced Study (Berlin). He is a regular monthly columnist for Project Syndicate. He was awarded the Economic History Association's Jonathan R.T. Hughes Prize for Excellence in Teaching in 2002 and the University of California at Berkeley Social Science Division's Distinguished Teaching Award in 2004. He is also the recipient of a doctor honoris causa from the American University in Paris. |
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Yoichi Funabashi is the chief diplomatic correspondent and columnist for the
Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun. He is the author of several prizewinning
books and was awarded the 1985 Vaughn-Uyeda Prize—often called Japan's
Pulitzer Prize—for his coverage of US-Japan trade frictions and was granted the
Sakuzo Yoshino award for the Japanese version of Managing the Dollar: From the
Plaza to the Louvre (revised edition, 1989). He is also the author of Asia-Pacific
Fusion: Japan's Role in APEC (1995), which was awarded the Asia Pacific Grand
Prix Award. |
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Tan Sri Mohamed Jawhar Hassan served with the government before he joined ISIS Malaysia as Deputy Director-General in May 1990. He was appointed Director-General in March 1997 and was subsequently appointed Chairman and CEO of ISIS Malaysia on 9 January, 2006. His positions in government included Director-General, Department of National Unity; Under-Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs; Director (Analysis) Research Division, Prime Minister’s Department; and Principal Assistant Secretary, National Security Council. He also served as Counselor in the
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Malaysian Embassies in Indonesia and Thailand. Tan Sri Jawhar was Project Coordinator of Malaysia’s Master Plan on Knowledge-Based Economy. He also helped draft the Report of the Royal Commission to Enhance the Operation and Management of the Royal Malaysian Police. Tan Sri Jawhar was also the lead drafter of the Islamic Development Bank’s Vision 1440 Hijrah document. Tan Sri Jawhar served as a member of Penang Knowledge Economy Information Communications Technology Council (K-ICT Council) since its inception. He was heavily involved in the formulation of the K-ICT Blueprint in support of the government’s goal of making Penang a fully developed state by 2010. His other positions include: Member, Economic Council; Member, National Unity Advisory Panel, Malaysia; Non-Executive Chairman, New Straits Times; Co-Chair, Network of East Asia Think-tanks (NEAT) 2005-2006; Chairman, Malaysian National Committee, Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC); Co-Chair, Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP) for a period of two years; Chair, ASEAN-ISIS (2007-2008); Expert and Eminent Person, for the purposes of the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) Register; Member of the Board of Directors, International Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies; and Distinguished Fellow, Institute of Diplomacy and Foreign Relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Malaysia. |
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Peter Hayes is Executive Director of the Nautilus Institute for Security and
Sustainable Development, a non-governmental policy-oriented research and
advocacy group. Peter graduated with degree in History from the University of
Melbourne. He has a doctorate from the Energy and Resources Group at the
University of California at Berkeley. Professionally active as an environment and
energy consultant in developing countries (working for United Nations
Environment Programme, Asian Development Bank, World Bank, Canadian
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International Development Research Council, US Agency for International Development, United Nations
Development Programme), he also writes widely about security affairs in the Asian-Pacific region.
He was first executive director of the Environment Liaison Centre in Nairobi, Kenya in 1974-76.
He was Deputy Director of the Commission for the Future (Australian Government) from 1989-1991.
He has visited the DPRK seven times. He is a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy, the
Western partner of the Council on Foreign Relations; and the US Committee of the Council for Security
Cooperation in the Asia Pacific. He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2000. |
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W. Lee Howell served as a Senior Advisor to the Bureau for Policy and Program Coordination in the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) before returning to the World Economic Forum. He also was an Adjunct Fellow at the New America Foundation and the Pacific Forum of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and a consultant to international business organizations. Previously, Lee was a Director at the World Economic Forum in Geneva, Switzerland. Most notably, he was responsible for the editorial focus and intellectual content of the
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Forum's 31st Annual Meeting and managed its historic move from Davos to Manhattan in the wake of September 11th. While in Geneva, he also served as a consultant to United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata and was responsible for developing a major UNHCR initiative ("Imagine Coexistence") on the sustainable repatriation and reintegration of refugees to communities scarred by ethnic violence. Before moving to Switzerland in 1999, Lee was based in New York City and directed the corporate and public policy programs at the Japan Society, a leading American non-profit organization focusing on economic, cultural and political developments in Japan and East Asia. Lee's career in international affairs began at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC. From 1993-1996, he was a Fellow at CSIS and managed the research, media and corporate programs related to Japan and South Asia. In 1996, he developed a high-level bilateral initiative on the future of US-Japan relations (the US-Japan 21st Century Committee). Former President George Bush and former Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa served as honorary co-chairmen. Lee has authored numerous articles in various international publications. He has also appeared on major news networks such as CNN, CNBC and MSNBC to comment on political and economic issues related to East Asia. Lee is a graduate of the University of Maryland in College Park and received his Masters of Law in International Legal Studies (LLM) from the Washington College of Law at American University. |
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G. John Ikenberry is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International
Affairs at Princeton University in the Department of Politics and the Woodrow
Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Professor Ikenberry has served
as a member of an advisory group at the State Department in 2003-04. He was
also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations’ Henry Kissinger-Lawrence
Summers commission on the Future of Transatlantic Relations, which issued a
report in 2004. He chaired a study group on "Democracy and Discontent" at the
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Council on Foreign Relations in 1993-94, served as a senior staff member on the 1992 Carnegie Commission
on the Reorganization of Government for the Conduct of Foreign Policy (the "Holbrooke Commission"), and
co-authored Atlantic Frontiers: A New Agenda for U.S.-EC Relations, (Washington, D.C.: Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace, 1993). He has lectured throughout the United States, Europe, and
Asia. He is also the reviewer of books on political and legal affairs for Foreign Affairs. Professor Ikenberry
started his career at Princeton in 1984 and he has also held posts at the State Department (Policy Planning
staff) (1991-92) and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Senior Associate) (1992-93).
Ikenberry has also been a Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution (1997-2002).
He previously taught at Georgetown University and the University of Pennsylvania (1993-1999).
He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1985. |
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Wonhyuk Lim is Director of Global Economy Research at the Korea Development Institute (KDI). Since he joined KDI in 1996, his research has focused on state-owned enterprises and family-based business groups (chaebol). He has also written extensively on development issues, in conjunction with policy consultation projects under Korea’s Knowledge Sharing Program (KSP). He received a Presidential order from the Dominican Republic for his work. After the 2002 Presidential Election, he worked for the Presidential Transition Committee and the Presidential Committee on
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Northeast Asia and helped to set policy directions for the restructuring of the electricity and gas sector and for Northeast Asian energy cooperation. Dr. Lim was also at Brookings as a CNAPS Fellow for 2005-06, and worked as a consultant for the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI). Most recently, he helped to formulate the G20 Seoul Development Consensus for Shared Growth. His recent publications include “Joint Discovery and Upgrading of Comparative Advantage: Lessons from Korea’s Development Experience” (World Bank, 2011) and Global Leadership in Transition: Making the G20 More Effective and Responsive (Brookings and KDI, 2011, co-edited with Colin Bradford). He received a B.A.S. in Physics and History and a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University. |
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Nodari Simoniya is the academic, the director of IMEMO RAN, and Yevsej
Gurvich, the head of the Economic Expert Group. He was the member of Institute
of Oriental Studies, USSR Academy of Sciences and ht junior and senior scientific
researcher. Also he was the Head of Sub-Department of Theory, Asian and North
African countries in 1970-1982, Head of Department of Political and Socio-
Economic Problems of Developing Countries 1982-1987. And when it comes to
the professional activities, he was a visiting assistant professor in the institute of
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Social Sciences Moscow (1980), Professor of Politics, Novosibirsk University Visiting Professor. From 1988
to the present, He is leading the Institute of World Economy and International Relations, USSR (from 1992
Russian) Academy of Sciences: Deputy Director of the Institute Concurrently Director of the Centre for
Comparative Analysis of Russia and the Third World, Academic-Secretary, International Relation's Branch
of the Russian Academy of Sciences. |
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Yoshihide Soeyais Professor of political science and international relations at the Faculty of Law of Keio University. He also serves as the Director of the Institute of East Asian Studies of the same university. His areas of interest are politics and security in East Asia, and Japanese diplomacy and its external relations in the region and the world. He received Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1987, majoring in world politics. Dr. Soeya served, in 1999-2000, as a member of the “Prime Minister’s Commission on Japan’s Goals in the 21st Century,” and, in 2010, as a member of “the Council on Security and Defense Capabilities in the New Era,” both in the Prime Minister’s Office.
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Stein Tønnesson is a Norwegian historian who serves, from 2001 to 2009, as Director of the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO). He was trained as a historian, and has in particular worked on East Asia. His doctoral thesis, defended at the University of Oslo in 1991, was on the international history of the Vietnamese revolution in 1945, and he is currently working on a manuscript for the University of California Press on Vietnam 1946: How the War Began. As Director of PRIO he has engaged in dialogue work in Cyprus, studies of energy dependence and Middle
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East policies, of global counter-terrorist strategies, and of the causes behind global and regional trends from 1992 to 2003 towards less and less murderous warfare. He currently intends to set up a research project on how to explain the East Asian Peace, meaning the relative peace in East Asia since 1979. He has also served as consultant to several Norwegian companies (StatoilHydro, Telenor, Norske Skog) and is a frequent commentator in the Nordic and international media on international affairs. He is also the author of a textbook in contemporary history for Norwegian secondary schools. |
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Wang Jisi, male, Han nationality, is a native of Guangzhou City.
He was born in 1948, and obtained a master's degree at Beijing University.
He is guest professor of the National Defense University of the PLA, president of
the Chinese Association for American Studies, founding member of the Pacific
Council on International Policy in Los Angeles, International Council Member of
the Asia Society in New York City, and Advisory Council Member of the Center for
Northeast Asian Policy Studies of the Brookings Institution in Washington DC.
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He is also advisor of the Asia Center at Harvard University. Wang Jisi is currently president of the
International Studies Institute of Beijing University. |
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