The 2Nd Tokyo Global Dialogue Speakers (As of Feb 25, 2021)
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The 2nd Tokyo Global Dialogue Speakers (as of Feb 25, 2021) (★:Moderator ◎:Panelist Panelists are in alphabetical order.) (The program and participants are subject to change) February 25 (Thu) ◆Message H.E. Suga Yoshihide Prime Minister of Japan Mr. SUGA Yoshihide is the Prime Minister of Japan and the President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). He is a member of the House of Representatives (elected 8 times). He served as Chief Cabinet Secretary from 2012 to 2020 and assumed office in September 2020. ◆Foreign Policy Speech H.E. Motegi Toshimitsu Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan Mr. Motegi Toshimitsu is a member of the House of Representatives belonging to the Liberal Democratic Party and currently serves as Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan. He graduated from the University of Tokyo, and earned his Master’s Degree from Harvard University. He served as Chairman of Policy Council of the LDP; Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry; and Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy. He assumed the current position in September 2019. ◆Roundtable Featuring JIIA Strategic Annual Report ★Kenichiro Sasae President, The Japan Institute of International Affairs Kenichiro Sasae joined the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs after graduating from The University of Tokyo in 1974. His distinguished and illustrious diplomatic career includes prestigious assignments as Executive Assistant to the Prime Minister, Director- General of the Economic Affairs Bureau, Director-General of the Asian & Oceania Affairs Bureau, and Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs. During his period of service in Tokyo, he represented the Japanese Government in the Six-Party Talks on North Korean issues. He also worked as Political Director for the G-8 Summit. From 2012-2018, he was Ambassador of Japan to the United States. Subsequently, in June 2018, Ambassador Sasae was appointed President of The Japan Institute of International Affairs to head Japan’s premier foreign affairs think tank. ◎ James Crabtree Associate Professor of Practice, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore/ Executive Director-Designate, IISS–Asia James Crabtree is a Singapore-based author and journalist, and an Associate Professor of Practice at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. His best-selling 2018 book, “The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India’s New Gilded Age” was short-listed for the FT / McKinsey book of the year. Prior to academia, James worked for the Financial Times, most recently as Mumbai bureau chief. He is now a columnist for Nikkei Asian Review, and a fellow at the Asia-Pacific programme at Chatham House. James has written for a range of global publications, including the New York Times, the Economist, Wired, and Foreign Policy. Prior to journalism he was an advisor in the UK Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. He has worked for various think tanks in London and Washington DC, and spent a number of years living in America, initially as a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. ◎ Bilahari Kausikan Chairman, Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore / Former Ambassador-at-Large, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore Bilahari Kausikan is currently Chairman of the Middle East Institute, an autonomous institute of the National University of Singapore. He has spent his entire career in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. During his 37 years in the Ministry, he served in a variety of appointments at home and abroad, including as Ambassador to the Russian Federation, Permanent Representative to the UN in New York, and as the Permanent Secretary to the Ministry. Raffles Institution, the University of Singapore and Columbia University in New York all attempted to educate him. ◎ Charles D. Lake II President, Aflac International / Chairman and Representative Director, Aflac Life Insurance Japan Charles Lake is President of Aflac International and Chairman and Representative Director of Aflac Life Insurance Japan Ltd. He is also a member of the Aflac Incorporated Global Executive Management Committee. Lake has served in various positions since joining Aflac in 1999. He currently chairs the Aflac Life Insurance Japan Ltd. Board of Directors and represents the Company at international standards setting organizations and at global fora. Prior to joining Aflac, Lake practiced law in Washington, D.C (1994- 1999). From1990-1994, Lake served in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative in the Executive Office of the President, departing as Special Counsel to the Deputy U.S. Trade Representative and Director of Japan Affairs. He currently serves on the boards of the Peterson Institute for International Economics and the U.S.-Japan Business Council and is president emeritus of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan. ◎ Thierry de Montbrial Executive Chairman, French Institute of International Relations Thierry de Montbrial is Executive Chairman of the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI), which he founded in 1979. He is Professor Emeritus at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers. In 2008, he launched the World Policy Conference. He has been a member of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques of the Institut de France since 1992. He chaired the Department of Economics at the Ecole Polytechnique from 1974 to 1992. He was the first Chairman of the Foundation for Strategic Research (1993- 2001). Entrusted with the creation of the Policy Planning Staff (Centre d’Analyse et de Prévision) at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he was its first director (1973-1979). He has authored more of twenty books, several of them translated in various languages. He is a Grand Officier of the Légion d’honneur, Grand Officier of the Ordre National du Mérite. ◎Shi Yinhong Professor, Renmin University of China Dr. SHI Yinhong is Distinguished Professor of International Relations, Chairman of Academic Committee of the School for International Studies, and Director of the Center on American Studies at Renmin University of China in Beijing. He is also a non-resident Specially-invited Professor at School of Governmental Administration, Nanjing University in Nanjing. He has served as a Counsellor to the State Council of PRC since February 2011. He mainly engages in history and ideas of international politics, strategic studies, East Asia security and foreign policies of both China and the United States. He has published nineteen books, including The Dramatic Changes and Political Prudence: On Statecraft in Foreign Relations (2019); The Traditional Chinese Foreign Strategies: Lessons from the Four Earliest Classical Historiographies (2018); Foreign Policy and Historical Lessons (2014). He also published more than 630 professional articles and essays, as well as eighteen translated books mainly on strategic history and international politics. ◎ Akihiko Tanaka President, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) / Senior Adjunct Fellow, JIIA Akihiko Tanaka is President of the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS). He had been Professor of International Politics at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo, for many years. He was also Executive Vice President of The University of Tokyo (2009-2011). He served as President of JICA (2012-2015). He is Chairman of the Board, Japan for UNHCR. He obtained Ph.D. in Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1981. He received the Medal with Purple Ribbon in 2012. February 26 (Fri) ◆Opening Plenary Session: US-China Relations ★Toshihiro Nakayama Professor, Keio University / Senior Adjunct Fellow, JIIA Toshihiro Nakayama is a Professor of American Politics and Foreign Policy at the Faculty of Policy Management at Keio University. He is also a Senior Adjunct Fellow at the Japan Institute of International Affairs. He was a Special Correspondent for the Washington Post at the Far Eastern Bureau, Special Assistant at the Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations in New York, Senior Research Fellow at The Japan Institute of International Affairs. He was also a CNAPS Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Japan Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center. He received his M.A. (1993) and Ph.D. (2001) from Aoyama Gakuin University. He has written two books and numerous articles on American politics, foreign policy, and international relations. ◎ John R. Allen President, Brookings Institution John R. Allen currently serves as president of the Brookings Institution. He is a retired U.S. Marine Corps four-star general and former commander of the NATO International Security Assistance Force and U.S. Forces in Afghanistan. Prior to his role at Brookings, Allen served as senior advisor to the secretary of defense on Middle East Security and as special presidential envoy to the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL. Allen is the first Marine to command a theater of war, as well as the first Marine to be named commandant of midshipmen for the U.S. Naval Academy. He holds a Bachelor of Science in operations analysis from the U.S. Naval Academy, a Master of Arts in national security studies from Georgetown University, a Master of Science in strategic intelligence from the Defense Intelligence College, and a Master of Science in national security strategy from the National Defense University. ◎ John J. Hamre President and CEO, Center for Strategic and International Studies John Hamre was elected president and CEO of CSIS in January 2000. Before joining CSIS, he served as the 26th U.S. deputy secretary of defense. Prior to holding that post, he was the under secretary of defense (comptroller) from 1993 to 1997. As comptroller, Dr. Hamre was the principal assistant to the secretary of defense for the preparation, presentation, and execution of the defense budget and management improvement programs. In 2007, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates appointed Dr. Hamre to serve as chairman of the Defense Policy Board, and he served in that capacity for four secretaries of defense. Before serving in the Department of Defense, Dr.