U.S.-JAPAN WORKSHOP ON SUPPORTING DEMOCRACY INTERNATIONALLY Presented by Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA and Freedom House December 8-9, 2014 at the East-West Center in Honolulu, HI

PARTICIPANT BIOGRAPHIES (alphabetical order)

U.S. PARTICIPANTS

Eric Bjornlund is a lawyer and is Co-Founder and President of Democracy International, a U.S.-based firm that provides technical assistance, analytical services, and project management for democracy and governance, conflict-mitigation, transition initiatives and other international development programs. He is also Adjunct Professor in the Department of Government at . Over the past 25 years, Mr. Bjornlund has designed, managed and evaluated development programs in more than 50 countries. At Democracy International, he oversees a rapidly growing organization with more than 200 staff members, five overseas offices, and active programs in more than 20 countries. Mr. Bjornlund worked previously for the National Democratic Institute (NDI), where he served as Program Director, Asia Director, and Country Director in Indonesia and Palestine. He was also Indonesia Director at the Carter Center and a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Earlier in his career, he practiced corporate and international law at Ropes & Gray, one of the largest law firms in the U.S. Mr. Bjornlund has written and spoken extensively about transitional and post-conflict elections, democratization and international democracy promotion. He is author of Beyond Free and Fair: Monitoring Elections and Building Democracy (2004; Arabic edition 2013) as well as numerous book chapters, articles, essays, and reports. He has testified on a number of occasions before the U.S. Congress and at the United Nations. Mr. Bjornlund earned a J.D. from , an M.P.A. from , and a B.A. magna cum laude in Economics from .

Admiral Dennis C. Blair, USN (Ret.) is Chairman of the Board and CEO of Sasakawa USA. He also serves as a member of the Energy Security Leadership Council and the Aspen Homeland Security Council; he is on the boards of Freedom House, the National Bureau of Asian Research and the National Committee on US- China Relations. From January 2009 to May 2010, as Director of National Intelligence, Blair led sixteen national intelligence agencies, administering a budget of $50 billion and providing integrated intelligence support to the President, Congress and operations in the field.

From 2003 to 2006, Dennis Blair was president and chief executive officer of the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA), a federally funded research and development center based in Alexandria, Virginia that supports the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security and the Intelligence Community.

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Prior to retiring from the Navy in 2002, Admiral Blair served as Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Command, the largest of the combatant commands. During his 34-year Navy career, Admiral Blair served on guided missile destroyers in both the Atlantic and Pacific fleets and commanded the Kitty Hawk Battle Group. Ashore, he served as Director of the Joint Staff and held budget and policy positions on the National Security Council and several major Navy staffs.

Admiral Blair has served as a director of both public and private corporations, including Tyco International, EDO Corporation (now part of L-3, Inc.), and Iridium LLC (now a public corporation). He resigned from all board positions when he re-entered government in 2009. He currently is a consultant for Lockheed Martin Space Systems and the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company, North America.

A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Admiral Blair earned a master’s degree in history and languages from Oxford University as a Rhodes scholar, and was a White House fellow at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. He has been awarded four Defense Distinguished Service medals, three National Intelligence Distinguished Service medals, and has received decorations from the governments of Japan, Thailand, Korea, Australia, the Philippines and Taiwan. He co-chaired the Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property, which published a series of recommendations in in May 2013. He is the author of Military Engagement: Influencing Armed Forces Worldwide to Support Democratic Transitions, published in June 2013.

Daniel Calingaert is Executive Vice President at Freedom House. In this role, he oversees Freedom House’s contributions to policy debate on democracy and human rights issues and outreach to the U.S. Congress, foreign governments, media, and Freedom House supporters. He previously supervised Freedom House’s civil society and media programs worldwide. He contributes frequently to policy and media discussions on democracy issues, including internet freedom, elections, authoritarian regimes, and democracy assistance. He also has taught at Georgetown University’s Master of Arts (M.A.) Program in Democracy and Governance, Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, and ’s School of Public Affairs. Prior to joining Freedom House, Dr. Calingaert was Associate Director of American University’s Center for Democracy and Election Management and Associate Director of the Commission on Federal Election Reform, which was co-chaired by Jimmy Carter and James A. Baker, III. He served as Director for Asia and as Deputy Director for Eastern Europe at the International Republican Institute (IRI), where he designed and managed a wide range of democracy promotion programs. These programs strengthened civil society, parliaments, governance, political parties, and elections in more than a dozen countries. Dr. Calingaert began his career as a researcher at the RAND Corporation and later directed programs for the Civic Education Project to reform social science education at universities across Eastern Europe and Eurasia. He graduated with highest honors in International Relations from Tufts University and earned his Master in Philosophy (M.Phil.) and Doctor of Philosophy (D.Phil.) from Oxford University.

Priscilla Clapp is a retired Minister-Counselor in the U.S. Foreign Service. She currently serves as Senior Advisor to the Asia Society and the U.S. Institute of Peace. During her 30-year career with the U.S. Government, Ms. Clapp served as Chief of Mission and permanent Charge d’Affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Burma (1999-2002), Deputy Chief of Mission in the U.S. Embassy in South Africa (1993-96), Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Refugee Programs (1989-1993), Deputy Political Counselor in the US Embassy in Moscow (1986-88), and chief of political-military affairs in

2 the US Embassy in Japan (1981-85). She also worked on the State Department's Policy Planning Staff, in its East Asian, Political Military, and International Organizations Bureaus, and with the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. She speaks Russian, Japanese, French, and some Burmese. Prior to government service, Ms. Clapp spent ten years in foreign policy and arms control research, with the MIT Center for International Studies and as a Research Associate at the Brookings Institution. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Ms. Clapp’s books include: with Morton Halperin, Bureaucratic Politics and Foreign Policy (Brookings, 2006), with I.M.Destler et al., Managing an Alliance: the Politics of U.S.-Japanese Relations (Brookings, 1976), with Morton Halperin, U.S.-Japanese Relations in the 1970's (Harvard, 1974). She is a frequent media commentator and the author of numerous publications on Burma and U.S. Burma policy with USIP, the Brookings Institution, the East-West Center, Australia National University, the Asia Society, the National Bureau of Asian Research and others.

William Ford is a Program Officer for Southeast Asia Program at Freedom House. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from Hamilton College, where he studied Religion and Public Policy. During his career at Hamilton, Billy spent just under a year in Vietnam, where he studied at the University of Economics in Ho Chi Minh City and conducted field research to produce a 50-page assessment on the state of religious freedom in Vietnam. After graduating from Hamilton College, Billy spent a year in Malaysia as a Fulbright Fellow. During his time in Malaysia, he studied the relationship between Islam and democratic liberalization and taught at a Muslim secondary school in the state of Terengganu. Billy joined Freedom House in 2012. Since working at Freedom House Billy has managed a number of projects including a global program that provided emergency support to survivors of religious persecution. Billy currently works on the Southeast Asia program at Freedom House, managing programs in and Myanmar. Billy has been published in the Huffington Post and has been interviewed by Al-Jazeera. He has spoken publicly at the Library of Virginia and John’s Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, as well as for the British Council.

Abigail Friedman is the Founder and CEO of The Wisteria Group, an international advisory firm whose mission is to expand the international presence and effectiveness of business and not-for-profit clients. The Wisteria Group's four lines of effort promote strategic partnerships, civilian-military relations, women's economic empowerment, and international cultural connectivity. Ms. Friedman is also Senior Advisor to The Asia Foundation where she directs the Foundation's cooperation with Japan in support of Asian development.

Prior to founding The Wisteria Group, Ms. Friedman served over twenty-five years as a U.S. diplomat, including as White House National Security Council Director for Afghanistan, where she helped craft the President's Afghanistan policy and led interagency efforts on the Afghan transition. Before that, she was the senior-most civilian embedded in a U.S. brigade in eastern Afghanistan, where she directed the civilian activities of four Provincial Reconstruction Teams and several District Support Teams. Earlier diplomatic assignments include several tours in Tokyo where her responsibilities included aligning U.S. and Japanese policy towards North Korea, and subsequent participation in the Six Party Talks on North Korea. Her involvement in peace negotiations also extends to the Balkans. At the 1995 Dayton Peace negotiations for Bosnia and Herzegovina, she negotiated with the international Contact Group to stand up an international police task force and to create an international governance structure for Bosnia. As U.S. Consul General in Quebec (2004-7), she addressed environmental challenges in particular the impact of climate change on the

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Arctic territory of Nunavut.

Ms. Friedman received her B.A. with honors from Harvard University, and her J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center. She is fluent in Japanese, French, Portuguese, and Spanish.

Robert Herman is Vice President for regional programs at Freedom House, where he oversees a range of programs in the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, Eurasia and Asia. He has more than twenty-five years of experience in democracy promotion and human rights. Before joining Freedom House he was Senior Technical Director for Democracy and Governance at Management Systems International. He was the co- founder and co-director of the Democracy Coalition Project, a global democracy promotion initiative of the Open Society Institute and previously served on the State Department's Policy Planning staff working on democracy and human rights and playing an instrumental role in launching the Community of Democracies, the first ever gathering of democratic states dedicated to strengthening democratic institutions, practices and values worldwide. As Senior Social Scientist with USAID's Bureau for Europe and the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union, Dr. Herman helped to craft U.S. assistance strategies to countries making the transition from communist rule. He has held positions with the Brookings Institution, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, U.S. Mission to NATO in Brussels and served as a staff member in the U.S. Congress. He earned his Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University having written his dissertation on the political and intellectual origins of the Gorbachev Revolution. He received a Master's degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (Princeton University) and a Bachelor's degree from Swarthmore College.

Brian Joseph is Senior Director for Asia and Global Programs at the National Endowment for Democracy, a Congressionally-funded nonprofit grant-making organization. He has over 20 years of experience working to advance democracy and human rights in Asia. At the Endowment, he directs an 11-person professional staff that manages more than $34,000,000 in grants to over 325 organizations. Prior to assuming his current job, Brian was responsible for the development and management of the Endowment’s grants programs in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Tibet and Burma, among other countries. Brian has spoken widely and written about Burma, Pakistan, Thailand, human rights in Asia, and democracy promotion in closed societies. His areas of interest include philanthropy, opposition movements, independent media, and minority rights. He appears regularly in the media, including on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, the Diane Rehm Show, The World, CNN and Aljazeera and his articles have been published in the Journal of Democracy, The Chronicle Review, The International Herald Tribune, and the SAIS Review.

Brian has testified before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations’ Subcommittee on East Asia and Pacific Affairs, the Congressional Human Rights Caucus, and the Canadian Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs and International trade, provided high-level briefings for State Department officials, and taught at the Foreign Service Institute. He has also participated in pre-assessment and short-term election monitoring missions. Brian formerly served as a volunteer South Asia regional coordinator for Amnesty International USA and he is a member of the International Human Rights Funders’ Group and the Burma Donors’ Forum. He has a BA in History from Colorado College and an MA in South Asian Studies from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

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Bridget Welsh is a Senior Research Associate of the Center for East Asia Democratic Studies of National Taiwan University. She specializes in Southeast Asian politics, with particular focus on Malaysia, Myanmar and Singapore. She has edited/written numerous books including, Reflections: The Mahathir Years, Legacy of Engagement in Southeast Asia, Impressions of the Goh Chok Tong Years, Democracy Takeoff? The B.J. Habibie Period, Awakening: The Abdullah Badawi Years (a Malay edition Bangkit was published in 2014). Two single-author books are forthcoming, Democracy Denied? Malaysia’s GE13 and Embracing Democracy: Political Attitudes in Malaysia as well as three edited collections, Does Democracy Matter?: Regime Support in Southeast Asia, Democratic Citizenship and Youth in East Asia and UMNO at 60: A Changing Party?. She is the Asia Barometer Survey Southeast Asia core lead, and is currently directing the survey project in Malaysia and advising the project in Myanmar. Prior to joining NTU, she taught at Singapore Management University, the School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University in Washington DC and Hofstra University in . She received her doctorate in political science from Columbia University, her language training at Cornell University (FALCON) and bachelor’s degree from Colgate University. She is a Senior Advisor for Freedom House and a member of the International Research Council of the National Endowment for Democracy.

JAPANESE PARTICIPANTS

The Honorable Yasushi Akashi is currently Chairman of the International House of Japan. Concurrently, he is Representative of the Government of Japan on Peace-Building, Rehabilitation, and Reconstruction in Sri Lanka, President of the Japanese Organization for International Cooperation in Family Planning (JOICFP), Distinguished Professor at Kobe University.

After graduating from the University of Tokyo in 1954, Mr. Akashi studied as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Virginia, and later at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He became the first Japanese citizen to join the United Nations Secretariat in 1957. He served as Counsellor, Minister and Ambassador at the Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations in the 1970s. In 1979-1997, he was UN Under- Secretary-General for Public Information and for Disarmament Affairs, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Cambodia and later for the former Yugoslavia, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs. From 1998 to 1999, he was President of the Hiroshima Peace Institute. Mr. Akashi is author of many books including Memoirs (Chuokoron Shinsha, 2001), The United Nations– Its History and Prospects (Iwanami Shinsho, 2006), In the Valley between War and Peace – Personalities I met (Iwanami Shoten, 2007), and How to negotiate with Dictators (Shueisha Shinsyo, 2010).

Junko Chano is the Executive Director at the Sasakawa Peace Foundation (SPF) and the President of Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA. Prior to joining SPF, Ms. Chano worked at several foundations including the Japan Foundation, Philadelphia Foundation and the Ford Foundation’s New York Office. At the Ford Foundation, she helped strengthen the capacity of community foundations that emerged around the globe. She later joined the Office of the Organizational Services of the Ford Foundation and developed a series of Grant Craft videos that would enhance critical thinking of grant makers for their program development activities. Ms. Chano graduated from Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo with a degree in Social Sciences. She also received her Master of Government Administration from the University of Pennsylvania.

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Maiko Ichihara is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at Kansai Gaidai University in Japan, and a member of the “Rising Democracies Network,” a research network on non-Western countries’ democracy support, hosted by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She earned her Ph.D. in political science from George Washington University and a Master’s degree in political science from Columbia University. Her research focuses on Japan’s democracy support and civil society. She also studies the roles and influence of the Asia Foundation in Japan during the early Cold War period. Her recent publications include: “Understanding Japanese Democracy Assistance,” The Carnegie Paper, 2013; “民主化 支援の対象決定要因 ―ドナー国としての日米比較試論― (What Determines the Targets of Democracy Assistance?: Comparative Study of Japan and the United States),” Cosmopolis, 2013; “Japan's Strategic Approach to Democracy Support,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2014; “アジア財団を通じ た日米特殊関係の形成？ －日本の現代中国研究に対する CIA のソフトパワー行使－(Japan-US Special Relations through the Asia Foundation?: CIA’s Exercise of Soft Power over Contemporary China Studies in Japan),” Nagoya Daigaku Hosei Ronshu, 2015. She is currently working on a comparative study of democracy assistance provided by different developed democracies.

Keiichiro Nakazawa currently serves as the Executive Advisor to the Director General and Deputy Director General for Cambodia, Myanmar and Vietnam, Southeast Asia and Pacific Department, of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). He came to this position in spring of 2014 after serving for four years as the Chief Representative of the U.S. office of JICA in Washington D.C. Prior to this role, Mr. Nakazawa had a 20-year-long career at the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) and the Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund of Japan (OECF), where he mainly focused on Japan’s ODA loan operations in Asia and on operational policies of Japan’s ODA. Between 1991 and 1994, Mr. Nakazawa served as the OECF Representative in New Delhi, India. Mr. Nakazawa won a World Bank Graduate Scholarship to study at of Government, where he graduated with a Master’s degree in Public Policy in 1991. He was a visiting lecturer at Tokyo University and Aoyama Gakuin University, both in Japan, in the early 2000s and lectured on Development Economics, with a particular focus on Asian economics. Since 2002, Mr. Nakazawa has served as a government-authorized advisor on management for small to medium-sized enterprises.

Yasonobu Sato is Professor of the Graduate Program on Human Security and Graduate School of Arts and Science at the University of Tokyo. Within the school, he is the Director of the Research Center of Sustainable Peace at the Institute of Advanced Global Studies. He is also an attorney-at-law certified in Tokyo and New York. Mr. Sato’s areas of expertise include human security, peacebuilding, law and development, and dispute processing. He has researched extensively in human rights and governance of law in conflict-affected developing countries, particularly in Cambodia and Vietnam. Some of his recent publications include “The UN Global Compact as a catalyst for human security: proposal from Japan for CPR (corporate peace responsibility)” (2010) in Malcolm McIntosh, et al (eds.), New Perspectives on Human Security and A Report on the Local Integration of Indo-Chinese Refugees and Displaced Persons in Japan (2009) for UNHCR, Japan. Mr. Sato has previously held positions at the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), the European Break for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), and the United Nationals High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). He received a B.A. in Political Science from Waseda University and a Ph.D. in Law from Harvard Law School.

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Yoichiro Sato is Professor at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University and Director of the Democracy Promotion Center. Professor Sato holds a B.A. (Law) from Keio University, M.A. (International Studies) from University of South Carolina, and Ph.D. (Political Science) from University of Hawaii. His previous affiliation was the U.S. Department of Defense’s Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, where he taught mid-rank military and diplomatic officers. He has also taught at Auckland University (New Zealand), Kansai Gaidai Hawaii College, and University of Hawaii. His main research areas include Japanese foreign policy, Asia-Pacific security and political economy, maritime security, and fishery issues. His major works include Norms, Interests, and Power in Japanese Foreign Policy (co-edited with Keiko Hirata, Palgrave, 2008), and The Rise of China and International Security (co-edited with Kevin Cooney, Routledge, 2008), The U.S.-Japan Security Alliance (co-edited with Takashi Inoguchi and G. John Ikenberry, Palgrave, 2011). He has appeared and been quoted in numerous international media, including Time Magazine, Bloomberg Television, MSNBC, National Public Radio, Defense News, New Zealand Herald, TVNZ (New Zealand), Radio Australia, Agence France-Presse (France), Strait Times (Singapore), and Al Jazeera.

Tomohiko Taniguchi is Professor at Keio University Graduate School of System Design and Management (SDM), reading international political economy and Japanese diplomacy. He is also Special Advisor to the Cabinet of Shinzo Abe. Between February 2013 and March 2014 he was Councillor at the Prime Minister's Office. His responsibilities have included coordinating strategic communications for PM Abe. After spending 20 years with Nikkei Business, a weekly magazine, he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2005 as Deputy Press Secretary and Deputy Director General for Public Diplomacy. Until he left the ministry three years later he addressed the English speaking press and wrote speeches for Foreign Minister Taro Aso and other national leaders including then PM Shinzo Abe. While with the magazine he spent a stint in London, 1997-2000, as the magazine's correspondent. In 1999 the Foreign Press Association in London elected him President, the first from Asia. He spent sabbaticals at Princeton University as Fulbright Visiting Fellow, at the Shanghai Institute for International Studies, and at the Brookings Institution as a CNAPS Fellow.

For five years till 2013 he was Executive Advisor to the then Chairman of the Central Japan Railway Company, Yoshiyuki Kasai, while holding visiting professorships at Keio SDM and Meiji University School of Global Japanese Studies. He has an LL.B. from the University of Tokyo and has authored more than 10 books on international affairs. He has appeared live more than 200 times on BBC, Al-Jazeera English, etc.

Gabriel Kazuo Tsurumi is the Executive Managing Director and National Director for Plan Japan. Born in Tokyo, Kazuo ‘Gabe’ Tsurumi joined Plan Japan in 2001as National Director and in 2002 was appointed as Executive Managing Director with holding the responsibility as National Director. In 2011 he was appointed as a Representative Director in addition to his current designation as Executive Managing & National Director. He has also served on the Global Leadership Team of Plan International, the decision making body for the international organization and newly appointed as Executive Representative from Asia to GMC (Global Management Committee for next 2 Years,) substantial global decision making body in Plan's global governance. Concurrently, he is acting as the Vice Chairman of Networking NGO, Japan NGO Center for International Corporation (JANIC) which has approximately 100 Japanese NGO members; Chairperson of the GCAP Japan; and a Board of Council, the Japan Association of Charitable Organization. Prior to Plan Mr. Tsurumi worked with the International Conglomerate, Mitsubishi Corporation for 28 years. He served as General Manager, PR and Marketing Business Unit, mainly focusing on the Sport Marketing, Satellite

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Broadcasting and Internet related Hub Business in Information System & Service Group. During his time with Mitsubishi he lived and worked in India, Taiwan and New York.

Hideki Wakabayashi is Executive Director of Amnesty International Japan since March 2011 and Board Member of the U. N. Global Compact Japan Network. He worked on issues of international affairs as visiting fellow at the Center for Strategic International Studies (CSIS) in 2008 after serving as a Member of Parliament (House of Councilors, Democratic Party of Japan) from 2001 to 2007. Mr. Wakabayashi’s other working experiences include being a diplomat at the Japanese Embassy in Washington, DC, dealing with the Official Development Assistance, and working as labor union activist of Yamaha Corporation and Japanese Electric and Electronics Union. He has a B.A. in business at Waseda University and M.S. in forestry at Michigan State University.

Mitsuru Yamada is currently Professor of School of Social Sciences and Director of Institute for Asian Human Community, Waseda University. He was formerly chairperson of InterBand, an active NGO for post- conflict peacebuilding and democratization; chairperson of LoRo SHIP, an NGO for supporting the lives of people in Timor-Leste; and a board member of the Association of UNHCR in Japan. Dr. Yamada has an extensive background in election monitoring in Asian countries as a member of the NGO ANFREL, PKO from Japanese Government and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Japan. He is also a lecturer of JICA deployed experts.

Born in Hokkaido in 1955, Dr. Yamada graduated from Chuo University (Bachelor of Law) and Graduate School of Southeast Asian Studies of Ohio University Center for International Affairs (MA), USA; he was also a Ph.D. candidate of Graduate School of Social Science Studies of Tokyo Metropolitan University. He received a Doctor Degree of Political Science from Kobe University in 2000. Dr. Yamada was formerly an Associate Professor at Wakayama University, Visiting Research Fellow of National University of East Timor (UNTL), and a Professor at Saitama University and Toyo Eiwa University.

Dr. Yamada’s specializations include peacebuilding, international cooperation, and Southeast Asian politics. He is the author of many Japanese books including The National Integration of Multiethnic State Malaysia, What is the concept of “Peace Building,” The New Framework of Peace Building, The 50 Chapters for knowledge of Timor Leste, and “The Role of International NGOs in Democratization Assistance in Southeast Asia: Cooperation with Local NGOs through Election Monitoring Activities” published in English. He has also edited The "Asian Movement" from the Perspective of "Civil Society" in INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, The Japan Association of International Relations.

OBSERVERS & PARTICIPANTS OF THE OPEN FORUM (9TH)

Shabbir Cheema, born into a large family in rural Pakistan, came to Honolulu in August 1969 to study on an EWC grant. After obtaining a Ph.D. in political science from UH, he taught at the University of Science in Malaysia. Then he began his long career with the United Nations, starting at the UN Centre for Regional Development in Nagoya, Japan. In 1988 he returned to Honolulu to hold a joint appointment with the UH’s Department of Urban Planning and the East-West Center. After a year he went to United Nations

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Headquarters in New York where he spent the next 18 years working on issues of governance, urban management and democracy. During that time he served as the Director of Governance of the UN Development Program. In 2008 he returned to EWC as a senior fellow heading up the Asian Governance and Democracy Initiative (AGDI). Dr. Cheema is contributor and co-editor of the three volume series onTrends and Innovations in Governance (United Nations University Press, 2010) and author of Building Democratic Institutions: Governance Reform in Developing Countries (Kumarian Press, 2005) and Urban Shelter and Services: Public Policies and Management Approaches (Praeger, 1987). He is also contributor and co-editor of Decentralizing Governance: Emerging Concepts and Practices (Brookings Institution Press, 2007) and Reinventing Government for the Twenty-First Century (Kumarian Press, 2003).

CAPT Barry K. Choy is the first National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Commissioned Officer to be permanently assigned to the J9, Pacific Outreach Directorate, at U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM). Prior to reporting to PACOM, CAPT Choy served as the Director for the Office of Hydrologic Development at the National Weather Service’s Headquarters, in Silver Spring, MD. During this tour in the Washington D.C. area he also served as the Chief Science Officer for the National Centers for Environmental Prediction which oversees nine national centers producing forecast guidance globally from the sun to the sea with a $100 million annual budget. He also served as the Chief of the Sub-surface Monitoring Unit during a portion of the Deep Water Horizon oil spill response and recovery effort. Previously, CAPT Choy enjoyed a 14-yr operational aviation career ultimately serving as the Chief of Flight Operations for NOAA. He has accumulated over 4500 flight hours and is a qualified Aircraft Commander on both NOAA and U.S. Navy P-3s and flight instructor on the Twin Commander aircraft. He’s flown into many notable major hurricanes including hurricanes Katrina and Rita. CAPT Barry K. Choy is a Hawaii native graduating from the University of Hawaii with a B.S. in Meteorology with graduate studies in Aeronautical Science at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. He has conducted field work in the main and Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and authored or co-authored over 20 scientific publications covering a diverse range of topics in biology and meteorology. His decorations include NOAA Bronze Medal Award, Navy Commendation Medal, NOAA Special Achievement Award with four stars, and five NOAA Unit Citation Awards. He is also authorized to wear NOAA Aviator, Deck Officer and Diver Insignia.

Gerard "Jerry" Finin is resident co-director of East-West Center's Pacific Islands Development Program. He conducts research on contemporary social and economic issues in the Pacific islands region, with ongoing projects focusing on governance and globalization. Finin is also engaged in research and teaching related to the Philippines, particularly northern Luzon. His areas of interest include public policy, social change, development, and urbanization. Finin received his PhD from Cornell University. His recent publications include: One Year into Fiji's Fourth Coup; Artifacts and Afterthoughts of American Colonial Policy: 'Igorotism,' Rebellion, and Regional Autonomy in the Philippines' Gran Cordillera; Salaam Manoa, Aloha Mindanao: Creating a Student-Centered, Real Time Virtual Classroom; The Making of the Igorot: Contours of Cordillera Consciousness; Coups, Conflicts, and Crises: The New Pacific Way?; Gambling on a Gambler: High Stakes for the Philippine Presidency and Small is Viable: The Global Ebbs and Flows of a Pacific Atoll Nation.

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David Fouse is an Associate Professor at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, where his research and teaching have focused on Northeast Asian foreign policy and security issues. Prior to joining the center in 2002, Dr. Fouse received both a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Hawaii and a Ph.D. in applied statistical science at the Graduate University for Advanced Studies in Tokyo, Japan. Dr. Fouse received an M.A. in political science from the University of Hawaii and a B.A. in political science at the California Polytechnic University at Pomona. In 2005 Dr. Fouse was a visiting lecturer at the Japanese National Defense Academy, Yokosuka, Japan. In 2007 Dr. Fouse organized a yearlong workshop on Trilateral Confidence and Security Building Measures (U.S.-Japan-China) co-sponsored by the Stanley Foundation and Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies. Some recent publications include: “Enhancing Trilateral Disaster Preparedness and Relief Cooperation between Japan, the U.S. and Australia: Approaches from Various Civil- Military Perspectives,” Joint Research Report of The Association for Cooperation between Japan, Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies and Queensland University of Technology (July 2013); “Japan and the Emerging Powers: Toward Middle Power Realism?” in Vidya Nadkarni and Norma Noonan eds., Emerging Powers in Comparative Perspective: The Political and Economic Rise of the BRIC Countries, London, Continuum (November 2012); and “Japan’s New Defense Policy for 2010: Hardening the Hedge,” Korean Journal of Defense Analysis (December 2011).

James A Kelly’s interests over the last 30 years have involved political and economic issues of the countries of East Asia and the Pacific. Mr. Kelly was the Assistant Secretary of State (East Asian and Pacific Affairs) from 2001-2005. Earlier, Mr. Kelly served under President Reagan as Special Assistant for East Asia on the NSC Staff and earlier as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense. From 1994-2001, Mr. Kelly was President of the Pacific Forum CSIS in Honolulu. From 1989 to 1994, and at present, Mr. Kelly is President of EAP Associates, LLC in Honolulu. He is retired as a Captain, Supply Corps, U.S. Navy, and was on active duty from 1959-1982. Mr. Kelly now serves as a member of the Advisory Board of Marvin & Palmer, Inc. an equity management firm located in Wilmington, Delaware. He is also Counselor of Pacific Forum, and a Trustee of The Asia Foundation. He earned an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School and is also a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and the National War College. Mr. Kelly lives in Honolulu with his wife, Sue.

Masatoshi Sugiura is currently Director of the Policy Planning Division and Division for Promotion of Emerging Countries Policy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA). He is also a member of the Committee on Budget and Finance at the International Criminal Court and lecturer at Chuo University and Senshu University. Mr. Sugiura was formerly Director of the International Peace Cooperation Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; he held various positions in the Second North America Division and Japan-U.S. Security Treaty Division at MOFA. He has previous served at the Embassy of Japan in Nigeria and the Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations. Mr. Sugiura holds degrees from the University of Tokyo (Law) and the University of Oxford (Modern History).

SASAKAWA USA STAFF

Kazuyo Kato joined SPFUSA as Senior Program Officer in June 2014. From 2010 to May 2014, Ms. Kato was in charge of the U.S.-Japan Exchange Program at the Sasakawa Peace Foundation in Tokyo, Japan, first as Associate Program Officer and then as Program Officer. From 2007 to 2009, she was Associate at Armitage International, L.C., an international business consulting firm headed by former U.S. deputy

10 secretary of state Richard L. Armitage. From 2003 to 2007, she worked on a number of Asia projects as Research Associate of the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). She began her professional career in 2001 as an analyst at KPMG Japan. Ms. Kato is a native of Japan, and grew up in Tokyo, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. She was born in Australia and has also lived in Egypt as a child. She graduated from Stanford University in California with a B.A. in international relations and an M.A. in international policy studies.

Nora Scullin is Communications Coordinator at Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA, which she joined in 2014 after spending two years in DC working and volunteering at various organizations such as the U.S.- Japan Council, the Asian & Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund, and the Japanese-American Citizens League. Her involvement in the U.S.-Japan relationship stems from a passion for learning languages. Ms. Scullin graduated from Case Western Reserve University with majors in French and Francophone Studies and Japanese Studies and a minor in modern dance. She has studied at Meikai University and Kanda University of International Studies in Chiba, Japan and has participated in a city-wide research project on public perceptions of immigration on location in Paris, France. Ms. Scullin is fluent in Japanese and French languages and can speak basic Arabic.

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