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. 

Avni Jethwa is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) for 2015-16.  Jethwa has eight years of experience in handling pharmaceutical manufacturing & quality management systems and has been with Reliance Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd., India since 2007.  Currently, Jethwa is a Manager in the Quality Assurance group and is accountable for quality assurance function handling in-process quality checks for the entire manufacturing process - drug substance & drug product, batch release, handling of deviations, out of specifications, investigations, corrective & preventative actions, change controls, technology transfer, process validation, cleaning validation, internal & external audits, vendor & contract testing laboratory audits, annual produce quality reviews, product stability studies, document & data control and supporting for regulatory filing.  Jethwa received her post graduate degree in microbiology from the University of Mysore, India in 2007.

Huang (Catherine) Huang is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) for 2015-16. Huang is the Founder and Managing Director of Beijing Shanghe Shiji Investment Co. Ltd. and has over 13 years of experience in private equity investment, equity/fund portfolio management and investment banking business.  Previously, she worked as Vice President at JP Morgan Securities in HK, Division Chief of equity investment at China Reinsurance Group and Portfolio Manager at CITIC Fund.  Huang received her EMBA degree from Peking University, Master of Economics from Tsinghua University and Bachelors of Finance & Literature from Xiamen University in China.

Yuta Aikawa 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 and implementation at the Government of Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade & Industry (METI), where he was in charge of security export control, developing retail industry and consumer credit industry, and financial policy for small and medium companies.  Aikawa received his master's degree of science from the Graduate School of Science and Technology at Keio University in 2005.