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.

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).

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.

Scott Snyder is a senior associate in the International Relations program of The Asia Foundation and Pacific Forum CSIS, and is based in Washington, DC. He spent four years in Seoul as Korea Representative of The Asia Foundation between 2000 and 2004. Previously, he served as a program officer in the Research and Studies Program of the U.S. Institute of Peace, and as acting director of the Asia Society's Contemporary Affairs Program. He has recently edited, with L. Gordon Flake, a study titled Paved With Good Intentions: The NGO Experience in North Korea (2003), and is author of Negotiating on the Edge: North Korean Negotiating Behavior (1999).

Snyder received his BA from Rice University and an MA from the Regional Studies East Asia Program at Harvard University. He was the recipient of an Abe Fellowship, administered by the Social Sciences Research Council, in 1998-99, and was a Thomas G. Watson Fellow at Yonsei University in South Korea in 1987-88.