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Participants Nautilus Seoul Workshop from China Deng, Quheng (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) Deng Quheng got his Ph.D. degree in economics from the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Since 2003, he has worked in the Institute of Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. His research fields include development economics, labor economics and applied microeconometrics. From 2004 to 2008, he conducted cooperative research at University of Oxford in U.K., University of Gothenburg and National Social Insurance Board in Sweden, Paris School of Economics and University Lyon II in France. His English language publications appear in China Perspectives and a forthcoming issue of CESifo Economic Studies, apart from dozens of papers published in Chinese. He also serves as referee of CESifo Economic Studies and World Development. Han, Hua (Beijing University) HAN Hua is Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Arms Control and Disarmament at the School of International Studies (SIS), Peking University, China. She is an expert on, and teaches courses in International Arms Control, Disarmament and Nonproliferation, US Foreign Policy in Asia Pacific, and nuclear-related issues in South Asia. Han Hua has been a visiting researcher at School of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Sweden, The Stimson Center and Monterey Center for Nonproliferation in Washington DC, The Victoria University, Canada, and the Peace and Conflict Institute, Uppsala University, Sweden. She has also written extensively on Arms Control, nonproliferation and China's foreign policy for journals and newspapers in China and abroad. 1 Wang, Yanjia (Tsinghua University) Ms. Wang Yanjia has experiences in researching energy efficiency in industry, energy policy and energy economics for more than 20 years. She has research experiences in France, Thailand, USA, Japan and Mongolia. She has worked with energy intensive industrial sectors such as iron & steel, cement, pulp & paper and textile. She taught a course titled ―Energy and Environment in China‖ at UC Berkeley, USA. She is teaching a course titled ―Enterprise Energy Management and Conservation‖ at Tsinghua University which covers the items of ESCO, financing energy conservation project, energy efficiency case study and energy auditing. She has practice at energy conservation in industry. She is invited as a guest lecturer at many training-on-the-job programmes domestically and internationally on energy efficiency technology. Ms. Wang received a B.S. in chemical engineering in 1984, an M.S. in energy system engineering in 1989, both from Tsinghua University. Yang, Yi (Beijing Foreign Studies University) Assistant Professor, School of International Relations and Diplomacy, Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU), 2008-present -Ph. D., School of International Studies, Peking University, 2004-2008 -M.A., Department of Political Science, Nankai University, 2001-2004 -A.B., Department of Political Science, Nankai University, 1997-2001 Academic awards and honors: -Japanese Government Scholarship, awarded by Japanese Government for study and research in School of Law, Niigata University, Japan, 2006-2008 -The Zhang Wenjin Scholarship in International Studies, Peking University 2006 Publications: Frederic S Pearson and Simon Payaslian, International Political Economy: Conflict and Cooperation in the Global System, translated by Yang Yi, Beijing: Peking University Press, 2006 ―International Institutions and the Construction of a Harmonious World‖, Innovation, No.5, 2007, pp.62-66 2 from Japan Ayukawa, Yurika (Office Ecologist & Osaka University) Executive Director of Office Ecologist (member of Climate Action Network). Special Professor at Osaka University Research Institute for Sustainable Science. - BA from Sophia University, Foreign Language Faculty, English Language Division - Master‘s Degree in Public Administration from Harvard University. Was the Vice-Representative for ―2008 G8 NGO Forum‖ for Toyako G8 Summit from February, 2007 to December 2008. Had been Climate Change Programme Special Advisor at WWF（World Wide Fund for Nature）Japan since July, 2007 to April, 2008. Has been working as the Japan representative in WWF‘s Climate Change Programme since 1997. Lobbied the governments on international negotiations and domestic climate policy of Japan. Proposed a cap & trade domestic emissions trade scheme in 2007. Worked on Climate Savers Programme to make companies commit to absolute GHG reductions (Sagawa Express and Sony Corporation from Japan). Testified at the Lower House Environmental Committee in 2002, and in 2005. Was a member of the advisory committee of the Ministry of Environment on carbon tax, Kyoto Mechanisms and ―Capacity Building of Environment-conscious Workforce for a Sustainable Asia in Universities.‖ Before joining WWF, worked at Citizens‘ Nuclear Information Center from 1988 to 1995. Mainly worked on transforming the Japanese energy policy to phase out from nuclear and stop going towards plutonium economy. Campaigned against the shipment of reprocessed plutonium from France to Japan in 1992, against the start-up of Monju fast breeder reactor, and against construction of Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant. Publications: ―Decarbonized Society and Emissions Trading- A Policy Mix proposal‖ Jointly edited and written with Dr. Toru Morotomi (Kyoto University). (Japanese. Published by Nihon Hyoronsha, October, 2007) Translation of ―The MOX Industry or The Civilian Use of Plutonium‖ by C. Kueppers and M. Sailer (Japanese, published by Nanatsumori Shokan in 1995) Katsuta, Tadahiro (Meiji University) Tadahiro Katsuta (Tokyo, Japan) has a PhD in plasma physics from Hiroshima University (1997). He is currently a Research Associate at the University of Tokyo. From 1999-2005 he did research on the economics of nuclear power relative to other sources of electrical power as an analyst at the Citizens Nuclear Information Center in Tokyo. 3 Minato, Takayuki (Tokyo University) Department of International Studies, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo. Prior to joining the academic society, he had approximately ten years of working experiences both in Japan and U.S. Also, he was a resident in the U.S. and Thailand for 5 and 2 years From 1997-1999, he was seconded to the Asian Institute of Technology as a JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency) expert to serve for their academic program. Major research interests include Project Management and Decision-Making. For the last years, he also worked for influences of technology on society from social science point of view. Such studies have shown the aspects of technologies as a medium of technological politics. Recently, he has also got involved in a scenario analysis to discuss technological advancement and society. -University of California at Berkeley, California, U.S.A. Ph.D., Civil Engineering (May, 1994) M.S. , Civil Engineering (May, 1990) -Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan B.Eng., Ocean Civil Engineering (Mar., 1980) Yoshihisa, Ohno (Japan Sustainable Energy Company, Ltd.) Yoshihisa Ohno has a career of 17 years for energy business, with the experiences of electricity, oil, gas, renewable energy, biofuel and global warming. His present occupation is an energy developer, energy researcher, and an energy journalist. In his career history, he served as a project manager, energy business planner, energy market broker, energy analyst and government official. And with subject to technical background, he acquired the Japanese national license of electric engineering. Presently he is the Managing Director of Japan Sustainable Energy Company, Ltd., which focuses on African, Asian and South American energy business. Equally important, he is now serving as an energy researcher at the Institute of Energy Economics Japan (IEEJ). Before he established his energy company, he took on the role of the Japan Promoter of GVEP (Global Village Energy Partnership), which is an energy organization established by the World Bank and the United Nations. He has also experienced a government official at the Ministry of Economy and Technology of Japan, where he had responsibility for C02 emission research. Moreover, he has served as a privatization staff of NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization), an independent Energy Analyst, a marketer and Senior Business Planner at Mitsubishi Electric Corporation , and a crude oil broker at Prudential Financial Japan. -MA Candidate of Tokyo University -BA Holder in Business and Commerce, Keio Univ. 4 Suzuki, Tatsujiro (Tokyo University) Tatsujiro SUZUKI (Tokyo, Japan) has a PhD in nuclear engineering from Tokyo University (1988). He is Associate Vice President of the Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry in Japan as well as a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Energy Economics of Japan and Visiting Professor of Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Tokyo. He was Associate Director of MIT‘s International Program on Enhanced Nuclear Power Safety from 1988-1993 and a Research Associate at MIT‘s Center for International Studies (1993-95) where he co-authored a report on Japan's plutonium program. For the past 20 years, Suzuki has been deeply involved in providing technical and policy assessments of the international implications of Japan‘s plutonium fuel-cycle policies and in examining the feasibility of interim spent-fuel storage as an alternative.