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2010/SOM2/SOM-SFOM/WKSP/001a

Profile of Participants

Submitted by: Japan

/ Workshop on the APEC Growth Strategy
Sapporo, Japan
1 June 2010
2010 SOM-SFOM Workshop on the APEC Growth Strategy
1 June 2010, SapporoConvention Center
Profile of Participants
Opening Session
Shigeru Nakamura, the current APEC 2010 SOM Chair, is the ambassador for International Economic Affairs in Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. After finishing a lawdegree from HitotsubashiUniversity in 1973, Ambassador Nakamura joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He received a master of politics from OxfordUniversity in 1976. He has served as, amongothers, minister (Head of Chancery) of the Embassy of Japan in the UK, consul general in London, consul general in San Francisco, ambassador in charge of reconstruction assistance in Iraq, director-general of Intelligence and Analysis Service, and Japanese Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He has been in his current post since 2009 and APEC SOM Chair since 2010.
Masahiro Kawai is the dean and CEO of the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI). He was previouslyhead of the Office of Regional Economic Integrationof the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and special advisor to the ADB President in charge of regional economic cooperation and integration. He was a professor of economics at the University of Tokyo (1986–2008) and assistant and associate professor in economics at The Johns Hopkins University (1978–1986). He also worked as chief economist for the World Bank's East Asia and the Pacific Region from 1998 to 2001, and as deputy vice minister of finance for international affairs of Japan's Ministry of Finance from 2001 to 2003. He has published numerous books and articles on economic globalization, regional integration and cooperation in East Asia, and the international currency system.
Session 1: Rebalancing for Growth
Mario B.Lamberteis currently the director for research at ADBI. Prior to joining ADBI in June 2007, he worked for the Philippine Institute for Development Studies as a research fellow (1981–1986), vice president (1987–1997), and president (1998–2005). He also served as president of the Philippine Economic Society in 1993. He advised the Philippine Senate on legislative measures pertaining to financial markets and trade policy reforms, and has served as a consultant to several multilateral and bilateral donor agencies. He has authored and coauthored several published research papers and has edited several books. Mr. Lamberte earned his PhD in economics from the University of the Philippines (1982) and conducted post-doctoral studies at StanfordUniversity (1983–1984).
Susan M. Collins is the Joan and Sanford Weill Dean of Public Policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and a Professor of Public Policy and Economics, University of Michigan. Previously,she was a professor of economics at GeorgetownUniversity and a senior fellow with the Brookings Institution (1992–2007) and associate professor of economics at HarvardUniversity (1988–1992). She has published widely in prestigious professional journals. Her research interests center on determinants of economic growth, exchange rate regimes in developed and developing economies, and issues raised by increasing cross-national economic integration. Recent papers examine growth experiences in the People’s Republic of China vs. India, and external balance adjustment postcrisis. She edited or co-edited the annual Brookings Trade Forum from 1999 to 2007. Ms Collins received her BA in economics from HarvardUniversity in 1980, and her PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1984.
Ming Zhang is a senior research fellow and deputy head of the Department of International Finance, Institute of World Economics and Politics (IWEP), ChineseAcademy of Social Science (CASS). His fields of interest include international finance and Chinese macroeconomy. He is the author of 5 books and over 40 papers in academic journals. He also writes columns for newspapers and magazines. Before joining IWEP, he worked as an auditor in KPMG, and a PE fund manager in Asset Managers Group, a Japanese listed company. He received his doctorate degree from the Graduate School of CASS.
PeterMorganis senior consultant for research at ADBI. He has 23 years experience in the financial sector in Asia, most recently serving in Hong Kong as Chief Asia Economist for HSBC, responsible for macroeconomic analysis and forecasting for Asia. Before that, he served in Tokyo as Chief Japan Economist for HSBC, and earlier held similar positions at Merrill Lynch, Barclays de Zoete Wedd, and Jardine Fleming. Prior to entering the financial industry, he worked as a consultant for Meta Systemsin Cambridge, MA, specializing in energy and environmental areas, including energy policy issues in Asian countries, and at International Business Information KK in Tokyo, specializing in financial sector consulting. He earned his MA and PhD degrees in economics from YaleUniversity.
Lunch Session
Julius Caesar Parreñas is advisor on international affairs of the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, senior advisory fellow of the Institute for International Monetary Affairs in Tokyo and coordinator of the Advisory Group on APECFinancialSystemCapacityBuilding. He was senior advisor of Chinatrust Financial Holdings and the Taiwan Institute of Economic Research, policy advocacy coordinator of the Asian Bankers' Association and alternate member of the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC). Mr. Parreñas received his PhD, magna cum laude, from the LudwigMaximilianUniversity in Munich and has authored numerous publications on international finance and economics.
Nobuyuki Sato is currently the director for international affairs at the Policy Research Institute, Ministry of Finance (MOF).Previously, he was at the OECD in Paris as the senior outreach advisor for financial sector reform under the Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs. He has worked in various divisions in MOF as director, Policy Evaluation Office of the Minister’s Secretariat;director for East Asia Financial Cooperation, International Bureau, and director for Policy Planning & Coordination, Coordination Division, Customs and Tariff Bureau. Mr. Satoalso served as the first secretary at the Japanese Embassy in Singaporefrom 1995 to 1998. He received hislawdegree from the University of Tokyo, Japan, and MA in economics from Christ’s College, University of Cambridge,UK.
Session 2-1: Green Finance
KenjiHiramatsu is deputy director-general of both Economic Affairs Bureau and Latin American and Caribbean Affairs Bureau at theJapanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA). Mr. Hiramatsu graduated from the University of Kyoto and joined MOFA in 1979. His overseas diplomatic assignments include first secretary at the Permanent Delegation of Japan to the OECD, minister at the Embassy of Japan in the US, and minister and consul-general at the Embassy of Japan in the United Kingdom. His domestic assignments include director for Second Southeast Asia Division, director for National Security Policy Division, private secretary to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, and director for Northeast Asia Division, MOFA.
Won-Jae Leeis senior director at Fitch Ratings. He joined the Presidential Committee on Green Growth of the Korean Government in April 2009 as directorfor Policy Planning and Coordination—Green Finance. Previously, he served asvice president at JPMorgan Chase Bank and at the Bank of New York Mellon, in charge of heading the Korea sales team for corporate finance. Healso workedas vice presidentfor the KoreaCenter for International Finance, a policy advisory agency to the Korean Ministry of Finance and Economy from 1998 to 2002. He was an analyst and treasury/derivatives dealer at Standard Chartered Bank and Royal Bank of Canadain Seoul, Toronto, London, and Singapore between 1990 and 1996.
Takashi Hongo has been involved in environment projects such as climate change, water shortage and bio-diversity,using his long experience in large-scale infrastructure, and industrial and energy projects. He was deeply involved in the carbon market and initiated the Nikkei-JBIC Carbon Price Quotation Index. He facilitated weather index insurance for the agricultural industry using market-based approach. He contributes to numerous committees and task forces in climate change, environment, energy, and water infrastructure.
Sylvia del Carmen Treviño Medinais project director of Mexico’s Trust Fund for Electric Energy Saving (FIDE). She has been involved as a regional representative of Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) for the north part of Mexico. She is active in an NGO that supports countries to strengthen their infrastructure and helps in procuring funds from different sources. She worked with Cerrey (Mitsubishi Combustion Engineering, MHI-CE) and was a professor at several Mexican universities.
Kurt Tong is the economic coordinator for the US State Department’s Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs and currently theUSsenior official for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC). He has spent 17 years working and studying in East Asia, including service at the USembassies in Manila, Tokyo, Beijing, and Seoul. Most recently, he served as director for Korean Affairs at the Department of State from 2008 to 2009. Prior to joining the foreign service, Mr. Tong was an associate with the Boston Consulting Group in Tokyo.He has published articles in Nihon Keizai Kenkyu (an academic journal of the JapanCenter for Economic Research), Foreign Policy, and the Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars (now Critical Asian Studies). Mr. Tong holds a BA from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs,PrincetonUniversity, and studied graduate-level economics at the US Foreign Service Institute.
Session 2-2: Infrastructure Finance
TakeshiKurihara is the director of the Research Division, International Bureau, Ministry of Finance, Japan, and currently the APEC SFOM Chair. His previous positions include director for Research and Planning Office and director of the Non-bank Financial Companies Office, both of the Financial Services Agency; and Director of International Coordination Office, International Bureau at the Ministry of Finance, Japan.
John Graham is a senior investment officer with the Structured & Corporate Finance Department of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). As a senior investment officer, he leads the analysis, negotiation, and execution of structured and project finance transactions in the infrastructure space. Mr. Graham, a USnational, is fluent in both Spanish and Portuguese. He previously worked with Salomon Brothers in Mexico City and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation in Washington, DC. He holds a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a master’s degree from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. Mr Graham is an adjunct faculty member at GeorgetownUniversity teaching international project finance and investment at the masters level.
MichaelBarrowis a director in ADB’s Private Sector Operations Department focusing on lending, investment, and guarantees for private sector infrastructure projects including Public Private Partnerships (PPP). He oversees ADB's private infrastructure and PPP work in 15 countries with a particular focus on the energy, transport, water, and telecommunications sectors. He was previously a vice president in Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation's Project Finance team in Singapore working throughout North and Southeast Asia. Before that he worked for the Deutsche Bank Group, where he spent 13 years on various projects while based in London, Tokyo, and Singapore where he eventually became director for project finance and director for transport. He also acted as advisor for project finance, privatization and PPP to governments and the private sector.
ToruMiharais general manager of the Project Engineering Department at Mitsui Global Strategic Studies Institute. He joined Mitsui & Co., Ltd in 1973, and has since been engaged in development and investment of various industrial, energy, and infrastructure projects in Asia. In 1999 and 2009, he served as an expert panelist of the Private Finance InitiativePromotion Committee of the Cabinet Office, and from 2003 to 2006, he was an expert member of the Council for Regulatory Reform, an advisory council to the Prime Minister. He is also a guest Professor at Osaka University of Commerce (Public Policy) as well as at the Graduate School of Tokyo University.
Leslie Williams is the manager of the Regional Engagement Unit within the International and G20 Division of the Australian Treasury. With over 14 years experience in project development and management, he specializes in forming multilateral and bilateral partnerships with government agencies and organizations involved in capacity building cooperation activities across the Asia-Pacific. He has initiated and managed projects on finance, governance, environment, education, enterprise development, and aid coordination conducted under the auspices of APEC, EAS, AusAID and UN agencies. His in-country experience includes Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, People’s Republic of China, Cambodia, Viet Nam, the Philippines, Singapore, Timor-Leste, and Japan. Prior to joining the Australian Treasury, he served as deputy director at the Research Institute for Asia and the Pacific at the University of Sydney. During this time he also lectured in international project management for postgraduate students studying international public health at SydneyUniversity. Mr. Williams has a bachelor of arts from the University of Tasmania and a master of international studies from The University of Sydney. He speaks fluent Bahasa Malaysia.
Session 2-3: Innovation Finance
Risaburo Nezu is a senior executive officer at Fujitsu Research Institute. He is responsible for various activities at the institute in ICT, science and technology, and industry. In addition, he is a board member of the Research Institute of Economy, Trade, and Industry (RIETI), a research organ of the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI).He was with METI since 1970, engaged in trade and industry policymaking, multilateral negotiations in the WTO and OECD, as well as bilateral negotiations with the US and EU. He served as the director for Science, Technology,and Industry at the OECD from 1995 to 2001. He obtained his MBA from HarvardBusinessSchool.
PhillipWickhamis currently president and CEO of the Center for Venture Education (CVE). Mr. Wickham was in the Charter Class of the Kauffman Fellows Program, serving his fellowship under Ed Kania at OneLiberty Ventures in Boston, and was founding vice-chairman of the CVE Board. Prior to joining the CVE staff, he served as a general partner at JAFCO America Ventures and at Copan, based in Munich, Germany. In his venture career, he made over 30 investments, including Ikanos, Web Methods, Com21, Emergent, and Trilibis. He received his BS from the University of Arizona and his MBA from Rensselaer. He serves on the board of the non-profit Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs as well as on the boards of Trilibis and S2 Technologies.
PeterSheehanis founding director of the Centre for Strategic Economic Studies at VictoriaUniversity in Melbourne since 1993. Previously he was director general of the Department of Management and Budget in the Victorian Government, a position he held since 1982. He also joined the Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research at MelbourneUniversity from 1972-81, where from 1975-78 he was editor of the Australian Economic Review. He is currently co-chair (academic) of the APEC Life Sciences Innovation Forum. An important component of his work at the centre involves health, the biomedical industries and related areas of technological change. Since 1993, he has published 7 books, 18 journal articles, 28 book chapters and 25 research reports.
HidehikoNishiyama is the director-general for International Trade Policy, METI, Japan, and the current APEC SOM Chair. He has held the position as director of various divisions within the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry since 2001. He was formerly executive director of the Japan External Trade Organization in New York. He obtained his law degree from University of Tokyo in 1980 and his masters from HarvardUniversity in 1984.
Master of Ceremonies
Gloria O. Pasadilla joined ADBI in September 2009. Previously, she was a senior research fellow at the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (2004–2009) and assistant professor at the University of Asia and the Pacific (1998–2004). Between 2007 and 2009, she was the convenor of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Group on Services (GOS), and Philippine lead negotiator for services for the ASEAN-ANZ FTA negotiations. She had brief stints at ADB, the World Trade Organization in Geneva, SoutheastAsianCentralBanksCenterin Malaysia, International Monetary Fund (Asia Pacific Department) in Washington, DC, and Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong. She holds a PhD in economics from New YorkUniversity and a masters in international law and economics from the World Trade Institute in Bern, Switzerland.