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

Adam Martyn was the program coordinator of the China Program at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center. He earned a bachelor's degree in international studies from New York University. As a student at NYU, Martyn researched infanticide in rural West Africa. He also spent a semester studying at Eastern China Normal University in Shanghai. Prior to attending NYU, Martyn served as a volunteer with the United States Peace Corps in Ghana, West Africa. As a Peace Corps volunteer, he coordinated several technical training events and developed health and education outreach programs.

Hung-Jen (Fred) Yang is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) for 2015-17.  Dr. Yang is a physician executive and is currently Chairman of MissionCare Inc., and President of Healthcare Corporation of Asia, a company that owns and operates four community hospitals and seven long-term care facilities in northern Taiwan.  After graduating from National Taiwan University Medical School with an MD degree in 1994, Yang pursued a career in healthcare management.  He earned a Master of Public Health (PH) degree from Harvard in 1995 and an MBA from the Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University, CA in 1997.  Before going back to Taiwan in 1998, he worked as a financial analyst for Tenet Healthcare System, the second largest hospital chain in the U.S. Since 1998, Yang has been actively serving the MissionCare Group in many capacities, such as Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operation Officer and Chief Executive Officer.   Over the past ten years. Yang has made significant contributions not only to his company but also to the healthcare industry in Taiwan.  Under his leadership, MissionCare became Taiwan's first JCI accredited hospital, hence helping to elevate Taiwan's healthcare quality to a higher level.  In addition to hospital management, Yang also excels at health economics, financial engineering and strategic management.  In 2010, he received  an Ernst & Young Taiwan Entrepreneur Award for conducting the successful listing of his company on the Taipei OTC, making it the only hospital group listed in Taiwan.

Ryo Washizaki 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 Patent Examiner at the Japan Patent Office, where he was in charge of civil engineering technology.

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.