| DATE: | Friday-Sunday, October 31-November 2, 2003 |
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| PLACE: | Faculty Club, Zellerbach Hall, PFA Theater |
| SPONSOR: | Institute of East Asian Studies |
Ambassador Sung-Joo Han, of the Republic of Korea to the USA
Ambassador Han has a Ph.D. in Political Science from UC Berkeley and is a former professor at Korea University. He served as Korean Foreign Minister(1993-1994), United Nations Secretary-General's Special Representative for Cyprus (1996-1997), Member of the UN Inquiry Commission on the 1994 Rwanda Genocide (1999), and Acting President of Korea University (2002-2003).
Susan Shirk is a professor in the University of California San Diego's Graduate School of International Relations. She is also Research Director at the University of California system-wide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. Dr. Shirk's publications include her books, How China Opened Its Door: The Political Success of the PRC's Foreign Trade and Investment Reforms; The Political Logic of Economic Reform in China; and Competitive Comrades: Career Incentives and Student Strategies in China. Dr. Shirk received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Leon V. Sigal is director of the Northeast Asia Cooperative Security Project at the Social Science Research Council in New York and author of Disarming Strangers: Nuclear Diplomacy with North Korea, published by Princeton University Press. He was a member of the editorial board of The New York Times from 1989 until 1995 and served in the Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs at the U.S. Department of State, in 1979 as International Affairs Fellow and in 1980 as Special Assistant to the Director.
Richard Koo is a graduate of UC Berkeley and the Johns Hopkins University, and he was a Doctoral Fellow of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System before serving as an economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Joined NRI Tokyo in 1984 where he is now the chief economist. Author of many books and a visiting professor of Waseda University. Has served in many government functions ranging from the MoF's committee on financial liberalization to the Defense Agency's study group on national security.
Paul Matthews is Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Matthews International Capital Management, the Advisor to the Matthews Asian Funds. Mr. Matthews has been investing in the Asian markets since 1982.
Brewer Stone is a Managing Director at East Peak Advisors, a boutique investment bank that focuses on mergers and acquisitions and capital raisings for technology companies including firms located throughout the Pacific Rim. Previously Mr. Stone, who is fluent in Mandarin Chinese, opened Prudential Securities first office in China in 1994 and subsequently headed the firm's Asian investment banking business. Mr. Stone earned his Ph.D. in Government at Harvard, his M.A. in international political economy at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and his BA at UC Berkeley.
