Participants in the Dialogue
| Contributors to the Dialogue include | |
| Taeho Bark Chalongphob Sussangkarn Reakwon Chung Wendy Dobson Peter Drysdale Stephen Howes Yiping Huang Gary Clyde Hufbauer Jusin Kim |
Kishore Mahbubani Scot A. Marciel Charles E. Morrison Peter A. Petri * Michael G. Plummer Hadi Soesastro Shen Dingli Maria Monica Wihardja ZhongXiang Zhang |
| *Convener of East-West Dialogue |
 Taheo BARK (issue 1) is Chairman of the Korea International Trade Commission; Dean, Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS), Seoul National University. |
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 CHALONGPHOB Sussangkarn (issue 2). Chalongphob Sussangkarn is currently distinguished fellow of the Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI), a private nonprofit policy research institute based in Bangkok. He obtained his bachelor’s degree through Ph.D. in economics from Cambridge University, UK. After obtaining his Ph.D., he taught in the Department of Economics of the University of California, Berkeley for two years (1977-79), then worked at the Research Department of the World Bank in Washington D.C. for six years (1979-1985). He returned to Thailand to join TDRI in 1985. Dr. Chalongphob was appointed president of TDRI in 1996, a post he held until he was appointed Thailand’s minister of finance in March 2007. After ending his duties as minister of finance in February 2008, he rejoined TDRI. Chalongphob is a member of the Executive Board of the Economic Society of Thailand and sits on the advisory panel of a number of journals, such as the Asia-Pacific Development Journal (published by ESCAP, Bangkok), the ASEAN Economic Bulletin (ISEAS, Singapore), the Asian Development Review (ADB, Manila), and the Asian Economic Policy Review (Japan Center for Economic Research). Dr. Chalongphob is also the regional coordinator of the East Asian Development Network (EADN), the regional network partner of the Global Development Network (GDN) in East Asia. In 2004, Dr. Chalongphob was awarded the National Outstanding Researcher Award for Economics from the National Research Council of Thailand. |
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 Raekwon CHUNG (issue 4) Ambassador Chung is the chief negotiator for climate change issues representing the Republic of Korea (South Korea) since May 2008. Since the early 1990s Ambassador Chung has been involved in international environmental negotiations for climate change and the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 and inserted “COMPULSORY LICENSING” and “TRANSFER OF PUBLICLY OWNED TECHNOLOGIES” in Agenda 21. He contributed as a lead author for an IPCC special report on technology transfer and received a personal copy of 2007 Nobel Peace Prize as contributor to the award of IPCC Nobel Pace prize 2007. He served as counselor at Korean Missions at the UN and the OECD and as Director-General for International Economic Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Korea before he joined UN ESCAP (Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific) as Director for Environment and Sustainable Development Division in August 2004. Having studied the Economics at SungKyunKwan University in Korea, he completed his MA (Master of Science in Foreign Service) at Georgetown University in Washington DC. |
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 Wendy DOBSON (issue 3) Wendy Dobson is Co-director of the Institute for International Business in the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. She is a former Associate Deputy Minister of Finance in the Canadian government and a former President of the C.D. Howe Institute, Canada’s leading independent economic think tank and a non-executive director of Canadian companies in finance and energy. She is also Vice-Chair of the Canadian Public Accountability Board, a director of the Canadian Ditchley Foundation, Senior Fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation and member of the Advisory Committee of the Peterson Institute of International Economics. She participates actively in a number of international networks, including the Pacific Trade and Development Network (PAFTAD). Her course offerings include introductory macroeconomics and International Business in the World Economy. Her research in international economics and international business focuses on globalization and regional integration.Wendy Dobson is a member of the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council’s (PECC) Taskforce on the Global Economic Crisis. More on Wendy Dobson |
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 Peter DRYSDALE (issue 1) is Emeritus Professor and Head of the East Asian Bureau of Economic Research, Crawford School of Economics and Government, former Executive Director of the Australia-Japan Research Centre. His main areas of expertise are international trade and economic policy; Australia’s economic relations with East Asia and the Pacific; the East Asian and Japanese economy and economic policy. This work includes developments in Asia Pacific economic cooperation, including relations between East Asia, Europe and APEC. His research work also extends to Chinese and Korean economies. More on Peter Drysdale |
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 Stephen HOWES (issue 4) is a professor at the Crawford School of Economics and Government at the Australian National University. In 2008, he worked on the Garnaut Climate Change Review. Prior to that, he was Chief Economist with the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID). From 1994-2005, he was with the World Bank, including as Lead Economist for India, based in Delhi. Professor Howes has a PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics, and has conducted extensive research over the last 20 years into the economies of the Asia-Pacific region. More on Stephen Howes
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 Yiping HUANG (commentator, issue 3) [bio to come]Yiping Huang is a member of the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council’s (PECC) Taskforce on the Global Economic Crisis. |
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 Gary Clyde HUFBAUER (issue 4) has been the Reginald Jones Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics since 1992. He was formerly the Director of Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (1996-98), Marcus Wallenberg Professor of International Finance Diplomacy at Georgetown University (1985–92), deputy director of the International Law Institute at Georgetown University (1979–81), and deputy assistant secretary for international trade and investment policy of the US Treasury (1977–79). He has written extensively on climate change, international trade, investment, and tax issues. His publications include Global Warming and the World Trading System (2009) and Economic Sanctions Reconsidered, 3d ed. (2007). More on Gary Clyde Hufbauer |
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 Jisun KIM (issue 4) is a research assistant at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Previously she worked as a tax consultant (US CPA) at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Seoul, Korea. Her areas of research at the Institute include international trade, international tax and climate change issues. She is coauthor of Global Warming and the World Trading System (2009) and has coauthored several papers with Gary Clyde Hufbauer. She received her MA degree in international relations from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. More on Jisun Kim
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 Kishore MAHBUBANI (issue 2). Kishore Mahbubani was appointed the first dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in August 2004. Currently, he is the dean and professor in the Practice of Public Policy at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKY SPP) of the National University of Singapore. He served in the Singapore Foreign Service from 1971 to 2004. He was permanent secretary at the Foreign Ministry from 1993 to 1998 and he also served twice as Singapore’s ambassador to the UN. Mahbubani has published and spoken in all corners of the globe and is the author of Can Asians Think?, Beyond the Age of Innocence: Rebuilding Trust between America and the World, and The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East. He graduated in philosophy from Singapore and Canada and served as a fellow of the Center for International Affairs in Harvard University from 1991 to 1992. The Foreign Policy Association Medal was awarded to him in New York in June 2004 with the following opening words in the citation: “A gifted diplomat, a student of history and philosophy, a provocative writer and an intuitive thinker.” He was also listed as one of the top 100 public intellectuals in the world by Foreign Policy and Prospect magazines in September 2005. More on Kishore Mahbubani.
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 Scot A. MARCIEL (issue 2). Scot Marciel, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the East Asia and Pacific Bureau of the U.S. State Department, was confirmed as the first United States Ambassador for ASEAN Affairs on April 29, 2008, making him the first ambassador appointed by an ASEAN Dialogue Partner. A career diplomat, Mr. Marciel joined the U.S. State Department in 1985 and has held assignments as Director of the Office of Maritime Southeast Asia, Director of the Office of Mainland Southeast Asia, and Director of the Office of Southeastern Europe. He has also has served in Vietnam, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Brazil, and Turkey, and in the Economic Bureau’s Office of Monetary Affairs. Mr. Marciel grew up in Fremont, California. He is a graduate of the University of California at Davis and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. |
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 Charles E. MORRISON (lead article author, issue 1) Charles E. Morrison has been president of the Center since August 1, 1998. He has had extensive involvement in the conceptualization, organization and funding of policy-oriented educational research and dialogue projects in both Japan and the United States, and has long been involved in promoting the concept of Asia Pacific community.In September 2005, he was elected international chair of the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC). He is a founding member of the U.S. Asia Pacific Council, the U.S. National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation and a member of the U.S. Committee for Security Cooperation in Asia Pacific. He is a past chair of the U.S. National Consortium of APEC Study Centers. A former director of the Center’s Program on International Economics and Politics, he is a former U.S. Senate aide and a research adviser to binational Japan-U.S. commissions. More on Charles E. Morrison |
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 Peter A. PETRI (lead article author, issues 1 and 3) specializes in international trade, finance, investment and economic integration, with emphasis on East Asia. A member of the Brandeis Economics Department since 1974, he served as the founding dean of the Brandeis International Business School (1994-2006). He is an East-West Center Senior Fellow and has consulted for the World Bank, OECD, the United Nations, the Asian Development Bank and other public and private organizations. His AB and PhD degrees are from Harvard University. He is the Principal Consultant for the Asian Development Bank study: Emerging Regionalism: Ten Years After the Crisis and is the convener of the East-West Dialogue.Peter Petri is a member of the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council’s (PECC) Taskforce on the Global Economic Crisis. More on Peter Petri |
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 Michael G. PLUMMER (lead article author, issue 2). Michael G. Plummer is professor of international economics at The Johns Hopkins University, SAIS-Bologna, and (nonresident) East-West Center senior fellow. He is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Asian Economics and director of the American Committee for Asian Economic Studies (ACAES). Previously, he has held teaching and management positions at Brandeis University and the East-West Center. He has also been a Fulbright Chair in Economics (Viterbo) and Pew Fellow in International Affairs (Harvard University). His main academic interests relate to international trade, international finance, and economic integration, especially in the Asian context. He has published extensively in these areas. Plummer serves on the editorial boards of the Asian Economic Journal, World Development and the ASEAN Economic Bulletin. His Ph.D. is from Michigan State University.Michael Plummer is a member of the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council’s (PECC) Taskforce on the Global Economic Crisis. More on Michael Plummer |
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 SHEN Dingli (issue 1) is Director of the Center for American Studies, Executive Dean of the Institute of International Affairs, Fudan University. He is also the founder and director of China’s first non-government-based Program on Arms Control and Regional Security at Fudan University. |
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 Hadi SOESASTRO (issue 3) Hadi Soesastro is a senior economist at CSIS. He was the Executive Director of CSIS as well as a member of the National Economic Council, an advisory council of President Abdurrahman Wahid, from December 1999 to September 2000. Furthermore, Hadi is also a member of the international advisory boards of various international institutions, including The Asia Society, New York.More on Hadi Soesastro |
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 Maria Monica WIHARDJA (issue 3) is an Associate Member at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Jakarta and teaches at the University of Indonesia. She was awarded a Magna Cum Laude in A.B. in Applied Mathematics – Economics in 1999 from Brown University. From 1999-2000, she attended the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, in U.K., fully funded by the Association of Cultural Exchange, Corpus Christi College. She was accredited with a Master of Philosophy in Economics. She received her Ph.D. in Regional Science from Cornell University in 2009. Her dissertation is titled “Three Essays on Institutions.” |
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 ZhongXiang Zhang (lead article author, issue 4) ZhongXiang Zhang is Senior Fellow at the East-West Center. He also is an adjunct professor at Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Peking University. He is co-editor of International Journal of Ecological Economics & Statistics, and is serving on the editorial boards of other eight international journals. He is among the most cited authors by the IPCC Climate Change 2001 and 2007, and is among Social Science Research Network Top 100 Economics Authors. Based on the number of journal pages weighted by the number of authors, he is among the Top 1000 Economists in the worldwide ranking.His publications at: http://ideas.repec.org/f/pzh243.html and http://papers.ssrn.com/author=201341 |
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