Hideaki Tamori is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) for 2015-16.  Prior to joining Shorenstein APARC, Tamori worked as a computer engineer and researcher for The Asahi Shimbun, the national leading newspaper in Japan.  He developed some applications such as a web-based DTP system and augmented reality application for newspapers.  While at Stanford, Tamori is researching the technology necessary for future media, especially the natural language processing and security.  He received his Ph.D. in Information Science from Hokkaido University.

Mariko Takeuchi is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) for 2015-16.  Takeuchi has over eight years of experience in the information technology business field at Sumitomo Corporation, one of the major trading and investment conglomerates in Japan.  Her experience in the IT industry includes business development and marketing for Silicon Valley Venture Company as a master distributor in Japan, accounting & budget control, and management.  Takeuchi is interested in applying her knowledge gained here to her work and overall helping to grow the economy in Asia.  Takeuchi graduated from the School of Commerce in Waseda University.

Aki Takahashi is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) for 2015-17.  Takahashi is the CEO of the Musashisakai Driving School in Tokyo as well as an assistant lecturerer with Nissoken.  For over 15 years, she has provided an operational excellence in the Japanese service industry from her experience and research.  While at Shorenstein APARC, Takahashi will research the ways Design Thinking is connected to culture and how Design Thinking can become more widespread in Japan.

Qi-Hong Sun is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) for 2015-16.

Ravishankar Shivani is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) for 2015-16.  Shivani has more than 16 years of experience in handling pharmaceuticals quality management systems and has been with Reliance Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd., India since 2007.  Currently, Shivani is Deputy General Manager in the Quality Management group and is accountable for pharmaceutical quality control and validation functions including laboratory controls, change control, deviation/OOS handling, process and cleaning validation, facility and equipment qualification, stability programs, technology transfer, investigations, documnetation control and supporting regulatory filing.  Prior to joining Reliance Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd., he worked in different capacities involving quality management with AstraZeneca Pharma India Limited, Wintac Limited and MicroLabs Limited at Bangalor.  Shivani received his post graduate degree in microbiology from Kuvempu University, Karnataka, India in 1998.

Tsuneo Sasai is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) for 2015-16.  He has worked as a news reporter for The Asahi Shimbun, the national leading newspaper in Japan, for ten years, focused mainly on covering economic policy and business news.  His specialty is the financial sector, such as financial institutions, the Financial Services Agency, and the Bank of Japan.   Sasai also conducted investigative reporting with a record of success in breaking stories, in the fields of corporate management and financial scandal.  His research at Stanford will examine how financial systems in Silicon Valley play a role in developing startups.

Tsuzuri Sakamaki is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) for 2015-16.  From 2008 to 2013, Sakamaki was a chief advisor seconded from Japan’s Ministry of Finance (MOF) to the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) to carry out a technical assistance project to enhance the nation’s central bank’s banking supervision capacity.  During this time, Sakamaki instructed the SBV supervisors in methodologies and techniques regarding CAMELS off-site monitoring of the financial conditions of Vietnamese credit institutions and demonstrated Japan’s newly launched bank rating system (FIRST) to help the bank supervisors utilize the financial monitoring results and evaluate the banks’ risk management in an efficient and effective manner.   Prior to joining Shorenstein APARC, Sakamaki managed an office of MOF to oversee the development, implementation and maintenance of procedures and practices for measuring, monitoring and managing information security risk incurred by the MOF’s Local Finance Bureaus’ information systems and networks.

Yuichiro Muramatsu is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) for 2015-16.  He started his career as a software engineer for Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, Japan.  Muramatsu has been engaged in system engineering designing and consulting tendency analysis for many companies, as well as bridge system engineering that brings and localizes the off-shore software product to Japan and aboard.  Muramatsu graduated from Chiba University with a B.S. in electric engineering.

An Ma is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) for 2015-16.

Satoshi Koyanagi is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) for 2015-16.  Prior to joining Shorenstein APARC, he served as deputy director for policy making at the Government of Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade & Industry (METI), where he was in charge of electricity market reform policy, defense industrial policy, and trade control policy.  Koyanagi received his bachelor's degree of economics from Kyoto Univeristy in 2005.