Ichiro Aoki is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at Shorenstein APARC for 2005-06 and 2006-07. He is also an official of the Ministry of Finance (MOF) in the Japanese government.

Aoki graduated in law from Tokyo University. He subsequently engaged in planning the tax system and the banking system in the MOF. He was involved in planning the pension system in the Ministry of Health and Welfare. He worked at the office of a Finance minister. He joined the task force in the Cabinet Office to promote decentralization. He also worked at the Financial Supervisory Agency as director for supervising financial companies. He participated in policymaking and submitting bills on these themes to the Diet.

Aoki's latest post was as director of the Cabinet Office, in charge of making the draft budget.

Kenjiro Aiba is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at Shorenstein APARC for 2005-06. Prior to joining Shorenstein APARC, he worked at the Development Bank of Japan (DBJ) for seventeen years. Aiba's experiences at DBJ included policy-based financing and cash-flow management. He was also assigned for a time at the Ministry of Transport.

Aiba's latest position at the DBJ was senior adviser, planning and research, of Tohoku Branch. He completed undrgraduate studies in public administration and political science at Kyoto University.

A doctoral candidate in environmental engineering, Daniel Rutherford's research interests concern the design and implementation of environmental policy in Japan. His dissertation entails a detailed interdisciplinary case study of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's regulation of diesel pollution under Governor Shintaro Ishihara. Tokyo's local regulations, which catalyzed substantial changes in central policy, structured a new domestic market for clean diesel technologies, and led to substantial improvements in local air quality, serve as one of the premiere examples of dramatic policy change in recent years in Japan.

Dan is currently affiliated with Shorenstein APARC as a Takahashi Predoctoral Fellow. During his graduate career, he has received support as a U.S. EPA STAR Fellow, an IIE-Fulbright Graduate Fellow, a Stanford Graduate Fellow in Science and Engineering, and from the Japan Fund. He received his BA in chemistry from the University of Minnesota-Morris and his MS in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Stanford.

Stella Quah, (PhD, University of Singapore; M.Sc [sociology], Florida State University) is professor of sociology at the National University of Singapore. She was a Fulbright Hays scholar from 1969 to 1971. Since 1986 she has spent academic sabbaticals as research associate and visiting scholar at the Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California Berkeley; the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; the Department of Sociology at Harvard University; the Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard University; the Stanford Program in International Legal Studies, Stanford University; and the National Centre for Development Studies, Australian National University.

Professor Quah was elected vice president for research of the International Sociological Association (ISA); chairperson of the ISA Research Council for the session 1994-98; and served as associate editor of International Sociology (1998-2004).

Among her professional activities, Professor Quah serves on two institutional review boards; is member of the Society for Comparative Research; member of the International Advisory Board of the British Journal of Sociology; member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Health Sociology Review, the journal of the health section of the Australian Sociological Association; member of the editorial board of Marriage & Family Review; member of the International Advisory Board of Asian Population Studies; editor of the Sociology in Asia Series; and editor of the Health Systems Section, Encyclopedia of Public Health (Elsevier Inc).

Professor Quah's main areas of research are medical sociology, social policy, and family sociology. The complete list of her publications is at http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/socquahs.

Takeshi Kawanaka is a 2005-06 visiting scholar at Shorenstein APARC, and a senior research fellow at the Institute of Developing Economies (IDE), Japan. He was a visiting research associate at the University of the Philippines from 1996 to 1998.

Since Kawanaka joined IDE in 1993, he has been working on politics in developing countries. He did field research mainly in the Philippines. He wrote a book on local politics, Power in a Philippine City (Chiba: IDE) and edited a book on post-democratization politics, The Philippines in the Post EDSA Period (in Japanese, Chiba: IDE). Now, he works on political institutions and policy outcomes in new democracies.

Kawanaka received BA and MA in Law from Waseda University and a PhD in political science from Kobe University. He taught courses on Southeast Asian Politics at Komazawa University and Seijo University. Aside from Japanese and English, he speaks Tagalog.

Songhua Hu is currently a PhD student in sociology at Stanford University. His research interests include social stratification, elite transition and life courses in China. Under the supervision of Professor Andrew G. Walder, he is working on his dissertation, which focuses on the impact of family background on life chances (including education, occupation and political affiliation) in urban China from 1950 to 1996. Originally from China, he attained a BA degree in sociology from Renmin University of China and an MA degree in sociology from Stanford University.

Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu received his doctorate from Harvard in psychology. He was a Fulbright scholar in Okinawa before becoming tenured professor at the University of Tokyo. At Stanford he is consulting professor in the School of Medicine and teaches in the Program in Human Biology, Anthropology, and in the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity.

His books in Japanese and English include: Multicultural Encounters, Amerasian Children, and Narratives of Multicultural Counseling. His most recent book is When Half is Whole: Multiethnic Asian American Identities (2012, Stanford University Press). Another co-authored book, Synergy, Healing, and Empowerment: Insights From Cultural Diversity, will be published in 2012 (Brush Education).

George Krompacky received a BA in English literature from Rutgers University; an MA from Cornell University in East Asian studies; and an MA in East Asian languages and literatures from Yale University, where his PhD work centered on Chinese fiction and drama of the Ming dynasty. He has taught Chinese language at Yale University and Hamilton College.

Krompacky joined the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center in 2005 and served as program coordinator of the Stanford Program on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship until January 2011. Prior to coming to Stanford University he was associate director of international education and fellowships and the Light Fellowship coordinator at Yale University from 1999 to 2002.

Jeongsik Ko is a visiting scholar at Shorenstein APARC. Since 1998, he has been a professor in the Department of China Studies at Korea's Paichai University. He has also held senior positions at the Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and Trade (Beijing branch), the Modern Chinese Association of Korea, and the Northeast Asian Economic Association of Korea. Professor Ko has published a number of books and articles on economics, politics, and trade competitiveness between China and Korea. He received his PhD in economics from Yonsei University.

David Kang is associate professor of government, and adjunct associate professor and research director at the Center for International Business at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. He has scholarly interests in both business-government relations and international relations, with a focus on Asia. At Tuck he teaches courses on doing business in Asia, and also manages teams of MBAs in the Tuck Global Consultancy Program that conduct in-country consulting projects for multinational companies in Asia.

Kang's book, Crony Capitalism: Corruption and Development in South Korea and the Philippines (Cambridge University Press, 2002), was named by Choice as one of the 2003 "Outstanding Academic Titles". He is also author of Nuclear North Korea: A Debate on Engagement Strategies (co-authored with Victor Cha) (Columbia University Press, 2003). He has published scholarly articles in journals such as International Organization, International Security, Comparative Politics, International Studies Quarterly, and Foreign Policy. He is a frequent radio and television commentator, and has also written opinion pieces in the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Los Angeles Times, Chosun Ilbo (Seoul), Joongang Ilbo (Seoul), and writes a monthly column for the Oriental Morning News (Shanghai). Kang is a member of the editorial boards of Political Science Quarterly, Asia Policy, IRI Review, Business and Politics, and the Journal of International Business Education.

Professor Kang has been a visiting professor at Stanford University, Yale University, Copenhagen Business School (Denmark), the University of Geneva IO-MBA program (Switzerland), Korea University (Seoul, Korea) and the University of California, San Diego. He received an AB with honors from Stanford University and his PhD from University of California, Berkeley.