Biographies

Naoyuki Yoshino is Dean of the Asian Development Bank Institute, Chief Advisor at the Japan Financial Services Agency’s Financial Research Center, Chairperson of the Meeting of Japanese Government Bond Investors, and Professor Emeritus of , Japan. He obtained his PhD from . Dr. Yoshino has served as Chair of the Financial Planning Standards Board. He has also been Chair of the Japanese Ministry of ’s Council on Foreign Exchange as well as Fiscal System Council, Board Member of the Deposit Insurance Corporation of Japan, and President of Japan’s Financial System Council.

Fernando Broner earned his PhD in at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2000. He is Senior Researcher at the Center for Research in International Economics, Adjunct Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and Research Professor at the Barcelona GSE. He is Co-Editor at the Journal of International Economics. He has been Visiting Professor at MIT, advisor at the Bank of Spain, Visiting Scholar at the IMF and World Bank, and Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland. He was awarded a European Research Council Starting Grant in 2010. His research interests include international economics, finance, and macroeconomics. His reasearch has been published at the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Review of Economic Studies, and the American Economic Review.

Brian Copeland is a Professor of Economics at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He studied for his Ph.D. at Stanford University. His research has focused on developing analytical techniques to study the interaction between international trade and the environment. His work has been published in the leading economics journals, including the American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of International Economics, and the Journal of Economic Literature. He and Scott Taylor are the authors of the book, Trade and the Environment: Theory and Evidence. He was Head of the Economics Department at UBC from 2006-2010.

Paolo Epifani is a Professor of International Economics at the University of Nottingham and the Head of School of Economics at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Economics at Bocconi University of , and his Ph.D. in Economics at Università Politecnica delle Marche. He previously worked as Associate Professor in Economics at Bocconi University and as Assistant Professor in Economics at . His primary research is focused on the theory and empirics of international trade. His recent work analyses, in particular, the effects of globalization and trade policy on: domestic and international institutions, international specialisation and the geography of economic activity, market structure and mark-ups, the organisation of firms and export behaviour, income distribution and wage inequality. His research is published in top general-interest and top-field economics journals.

Andrew Foster received his PhD in 1988 from UC Berkeley and worked at the University of Pennsylvania before moving to Brown University in 1998. He is an empirical microeconomist who has worked on a variety of topics including health, returns to schooling, labor-market failures, household division, marriage markets, environment , fertility change, and family-based informal insurance mechanisms. Foster’s research is characterized by its focus on developing and testing formally specified models of household behavior and how these behaviors interact through institutions and the environment. He currently serves as the Editor in Chief of the Journal of . 1

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Matthias Helble is a senior economist, Co-chair, Research Department at ADBI. His research interests include international trade, health and climate change. His work has been published in flagship reports of international organizations, books, as well as in numerous scientific journals. Matthias began his professional career at the World Bank, before joining the World Health Organization. He then worked as an economist for the World Trade Organization in the areas of environment and climate change. He holds degrees in economics from the University of Tübingen, the University of Wisconsin- Madison, and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (PhD) in Geneva.

Bihong Huang is a research fellow at ADBI. Her research interests include labor, environment, development, and financial economics. Her work has been published in books and refereed journals, including China Economic Review, Economic Modelling, Energy Economics, Global Economic Review, Journal of Banking and Finance, Review of Development Economics, and World Economy. Previously, she was on the academic staff of Renmin University of China and University of Macau. She holds degrees in economics from Xiamen University (MA and BA) in China, and Nanyang Technological University (PhD) in Singapore.

Jota Ishikawa is Professor of International Economics in the of Economics at Hitotsubashi University. Professor Ishikawa received his B.A. and M.A. from Hitotsubashi University and his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Western Ontario in 1990, and joined the Hitotsubashi faculty in 1991. He served as the Dean of the Graduate School of Economics from 2013 to 2015. He was the President of the Japan Society of International Economics from 2014 to 2016. Professor Ishikawa has written extensively on international trade. His research focuses are on “trade policies under imperfect competition” and “trade and environment”.

Sharon Koh is currently lecturing in the Department of Economics, Monash University Malaysia. Her research interests are in the areas of regional integration, income inequality and the ASEAN economy as a whole. She has published her work in several peer- reviewed journals such as Economic Modelling, Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy and Current Issues in .

Brantley Liddle is a Senior Research Fellow at the Energy Studies Institute, National University of Singapore. Previous appointments include Vice President/Special Advisor at the Asia Pacific Energy Research Centre in Tokyo and Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia. Dr. Liddle earned an interdisciplinary Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, received postdoctoral training at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, and was awarded a combined bachelor of science and arts in civil engineering and from Brown University.

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Akira Maeda is an economist whose expertise is in energy and environmental economics, financial economics, and decision sciences. Before his appointment at the University of Tokyo, he taught at Kyoto University and Keio University. Along with those appointments, he served as a Research Fellow, the Economic and Social Research Institute, Cabinet , Government of Japan. He also worked with the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria as a Research Scholar. He holds PhD and MS in Engineering-Economic Systems and Operations Research from Stanford University, and MS and BS in Electrical/Electronic Engineering from the University of Tokyo.

Alistair Munro is an economist who works for the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Japan (GRIPS), where he is Director of the Policy Analysis PhD Programme and Executive Advisor to the President. Prior to joining GRIPS he was a Professor at the University of London. He has published widely in the fields of Environmental, Behavioural and Experimental Economics and currently heads a MEXT-financed project on behavioural models of the household. He is also conducting research on the economic consequences of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

Enerelt Murakami is a research fellow at the JICA Research Institute. She is currently working on research projects on international migration and remittances in Tajikistan and the Philippines. Her research interests include international trade, migration, environmental changes, and poverty. She has been studying impacts of various macro changes such as trade liberalization, and climate and environmental changes on the micro level. She holds a master’s degree in international and development economics from the Australian National University and a PhD in agricultural economics from the University of Tokyo.

Toshihiro Okubo is Professor of International Economics at Faculty of Economics, Keio University. He received Ph.D. (International Relations) from Graduate Institute, Geneva and University of Geneva in 2005. His specialization is international trade and economic geography. His current research topics are globalization, trade and environment, natural disasters and economic geography, firm location and regional economy, and energy and household. His papers are published in several international journals such as European Economic Review, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Economic Geography, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Energy Economics, and Economic Theory.

Craig R. Parsons is a Professor of Economics at Yokohama National University (YNU) in Japan. His research interests include international economics, international trade, exchange rate pass-through, new empirical industrial organization and studies of market power in oligopolistic markets. He holds a BA in Economics from Rutgers College, Rutgers University and a PhD in Economics from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He has served as Managing Editor for the Asian Economic Journal and is very active in the East Asian Economic Association. He also serves as the Director of the Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program at YNU.

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Shruti Sharma is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad since 2013. Her areas of specialization are Applied Microeconomics, International Trade, and Development Economics. Her papers have been published in journals such as Applied Economics, Asian Development Review, Economic and Political Weekly, and India Policy Forum. She obtained her PhD from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 2013 and has previously worked for organizations such as The Conference Board (New York), United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, and UNICEF.

Daigee Shaw, Research Fellow at the Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica, specialized in policy design and evaluation related to natural resources and pollution control issues. He has served as Presidents of Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research, the East Asian Association of Environmental and Resource Economics, the Chinese Regional Science Association-Taiwan, and the Taiwan Association of Environmental and Resource Economics in various years. Dr. Shaw has published many articles in a number of professional journals, including AER, J. of Econometrics, JEEM, AJAE, Social Indicators Research, EEPS, Natural Hazards, Energy Policy, and Risk Analysis. He won the Ministry of Education Academic Award for Distinguished Scholarship in 1995.

Caixia Shen is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, School of International and Administration. She receives her Ph.D degree from Boston University in 2011. She focuses on antitrust economics in airline industry and environmental economics. She has published in Journal of Economics & Management Strategy.

Karnjana Songwathana is a lecturer in the Department of Economics at Bangkok University, Thailand She received her PhD in Forestry and Natural Resource Economics with minor in Statistics at North Carolina State University. Karnjana’s research interests include environmental health economics, environmental economics, and non-market valuation. She is the co-author of Occupational and Environmental Health Impacts from Mining in Orissa, India which is the book chapter of Environment and Development Economics: Esays in Honour of Sir Partha Dasgupta published by Oxford University Press.

Wong Chin-Yoong is an associate professor in economics in Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia, and was a visiting research fellow at Stockholm China Economic Research Institute in Stockholm School of Economics. He obtained his Ph.D degree in 2012 from Universiti Putra Malaysia, of which his thesis was accepted with distinction, the first since 1974. He has published widely in international reputable journals such as Economics Letters, China Economic Review, International Review of Economics and Finance, Review of Development Economics, Economic Systems, among others, on macroeconomic, trade, finance, and monetary issues.

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Yuqing Xing is a Professor of Economics of the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo. He served as the Director of the Capacity Building and Training Department of the Asian Development Bank Institute from 2011 to 2014. Dr. Xing’s research focuses on international trade, FDI, exchange rates, and global value chains. He is a leading expert on global value chains. Dr. Xing received his bachelor degree from Peking University and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Zhuoxiang Yang’s research interests include environmental economics and energy policy. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Tokyo, Japan and joined ADBI as a research associate from March 2017. She holds a MA in geography from Peking University and a BA in geographic information system from Wuhan University, both in the People’s Republic of China.

Ying YAO is a postdoctoral researcher of the Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study (HIAS). Before joining HIAS, she was a research associate at the Asian Development Bank Institute. She has been involved in several policy-oriented projects on health behavior, income inequality and health, trade finance, digitalization and inclusion. Her research interests are health economics and industrial organization, focusing on the pharmaceutical industry.

Eden Yu received his PhD from Washington University, USA. He has been Vice President of Chu Hai College Hong Kong since 2015. He was distinguished Professor at Louisiana State University, Chair Professor at Chinese University and City University of Hong Kong, and has published over 100 journal articles and 6 scholarly books in the areas of international trade and environmental economics. He has served on the editorial boards of several academic journals, Hong Kong Government committees and professional organizations. The founding Editor of the Pacific Economic Review and Advisory Editor of the Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting and Economics, he is also the founder of the International Economics and Finance Society of Hong Kong.

Jinhua Zhao is professor of economics and director of the Environmental Science and Policy Program at Michigan State University. He serves on the Environmental Economics Advisory Committee of the US EPA’s Science Advisory Board and the Air, Climate and Energy Committee of EPA’s Board of Scientific Counselors. He was a co-editor of Journal of Environmental Economics and Management and is on the editorial committees of Annual Review of Resource Economics and Frontier of Economics in China. He conducts research in environmental and resource economics, with special interests in environmental regulation, technology adoption, and dynamic decision making under uncertainty.

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