No longer satisfied with China's role as the "world's factory", Chinese government leaders have launched a campaign for 2010 focused on "independent innovation". The goal is to reduce dependence on foreign technology by creating higher value-added home-grown products, services, and technologies.
From an unprecedented number of start-ups to a rising class of billion-dollar giants going global, high technology companies in China have a dramatically increasing need for effective leadership. Since 1999, founders have led 24 Chinese firms to IPOs on NASDAQ, ranging from portals such as Sina and AsiaInfo in 2000 to mobile hardware makers and service providers like Hurray!, Vimicro, and Techfaith in 2005.
Kumiko Yoshioka is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at Shorenstein APARC for 2006-07. Prior to joining Shorenstein APARC, she has worked for the Asahi Shimbun, a Japanese newspaper company. She has belonged to the electronic media and broadcasting division and engaged in editing the news website, "asahi.com", and managing news services via internet to cell phones. Yoshioka completed her undergraduate study at Hosei University in Tokyo where she majored in business administration.
Takashi Yamada is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at Shorenstein APARC for 2006-07. Prior to joining Shorenstein APARC, he held positions at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), government of Japan, for about ten years, where he took charge of policymaking. His latest position at METI was as deputy directory in the public relations office, MInister's Secretariat. He did his undergraduate study at Osaka University, in the faculty of Engineering Science.
Seigo Yagi is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at Shorenstein APARC for 2006-07. Prior to joining Shorenstein APARC, he has worked at the Kansai Electric Power Company, Inc. (KEPCO) since 1998. He has been in charge of developing new business regarding renewable energies such as solar, wind, biomass, in the Renewable Energy Generation and ECO-Business Strategy Group. His experience at KEPCO also includes working in some construction projects on electric power plants in Japan and other Asian country as a civil engineer. He received bachelors and masters degrees in civil engineering from Osaka University.
Jun Wang is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at Shorenstein APARC for 2006-07. He is a deputy chief engineer of Refining & Marketing Company, Petrochina, where he has worked for thirteen years, focusing on development plan and project investment of refining & marketing. Wang is a PhD candidate on Refining Engineering from Petroleum University of China.
Qingkun Ma is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at Shorenstein APARC for 2006-07. He is the President Assistant / Prime Engineer of Huabei Oilfield Company. Ma received his Bachelor's degree on Exploit Oil Process from China Petroleum University in 1982. He is currently a PhD candidate of Chinese Academy of Science.
C. K. Liu was a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at Shorenstein APARC for 2006-2007 (June - December 2006). He received his Ph.D. degree in political science at National Chengchi University. He has served in Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs for 20 years and has been posted in Pretoria (South Africa), Washington, D. C. and Boston (twice). His last position was Director General of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Boston.
Akira Kimura is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at Shorenstein APARC for 2006-07. Prior to joining Shorenstein APARC, he worked at the Development Bank of Japan (DBJ) for sixteen years. Kimura's experiences at DBJ included policy-based financing, finance planning and coordination. He was also assigned for a time at the Ministry of Transport.
Kimura's latest position at the DBJ was as director in the information resources department. He completed undergraduate studies in economics at Tohoku University.
Masao Hoshino is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at Shorenstein APARC for 2006-07. Prior to joining Shorenstein APARC, he has worked for the Asahi Shimbun, a Japanese newspaper company, as a journalist for twelve years. For the past six years, Hoshino has belonged to the economic news department and has been mainly responsible for the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, the Bank of Japan, and the Financial Services Agency. Hoshino has covered many economic issues, such as the highway public corporation privatization, the government investment, monetary policy, and banking systems.
He graduated from Waseda University with a major in journalism.
