Lieutenant Colonel Patrick Winstead is a Senior Military Fellow at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC), Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) at Stanford University.  Prior to his current fellowship, Lt Col Winstead served in various leadership roles on the staff of the United States Pacific Command's Operations Directorate (J3) in Hawaii.  He led a team of cross-functional experts in analyzing various complex strategic and operational challenges in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region, then recommended U.S. military capabilities and strategies to meet those challenges.  Lt Col Winstead also served as the Executive Assistant to U.S. Pacific Command's Director for Operations (the 2-star officer responsible for all military operations in the Pacific theater).  Before his headquarters assignment, Lt Col Winstead commanded a C-17 airlift squadron in Hawaii, where he led over 110 military personnel in operations conducting the worldwide airlift and airdrop of cargo and people.  He is a pilot with over 3,400 flying hours in the C-17, having completed three other operational flying assignments as an instructor and evaluator pilot.  Lt Col Winstead spent the previous nine years of his 20+ year Air Force career stationed in the Asia-Pacific theater, gaining valuable tactical, operational, and strategic expertise in military operations.

Lt Col Winstead earned a B.S. in Environmental Engineering and a B.S. in Multidisciplinary Studies from North Carolina State University and a M.A. in Organizational Management from The George Washington University.

At Stanford, Lt Col Winstead seeks to examine the strategic implications of unmanned systems operations (air, sea, undersea) in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region, including the impact of using these systems by all capable governments on the balance of security and escalation control calculations.  More broadly, Lt Col Winstead seeks to understand factors contributing to escalation control in a multi-lateral, multi-alliance security environment.  He is also interested in strategic messaging and information control in the Indo-Asia-Pacific.

Dr. Ke Wang is visiting APARC for the fall semester in 2016-2017 school year during her sabbatical leave from her current post at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington D.C. where she serves as a Senior Economist in the Division of Banking Supervision and Regulation.

At the Fed, Dr. Wang is responsible for policy analysis and regulation oversight of U.S. bank holding companies as well as conducting academic research in economics and finance fields. In her five-year tenure as a Fed staff economist, she participated in international Basel framework of capital regulation, quantitative credit model assessment for U.S. Stress Testing practice, and policy initiatives on liquidity regulation for Systemically Important Financial Institutions.

Dr. Wang’s research interests span from credit analysis to monetary policy. She has published in top academic journals such as Journal of Financial Economics and has wide citations for her previous works which covered topics such as corporate bond default prediction, impact of banking structure on monetary policy, and relationship banking in pre-war Japan.

Her current working papers focus on how liquidity in Over-The-Counter market is impacted by broker-dealers’ funding costs and information asymmetry. She provides empirical evidence using comprehensive bond transaction data that broker-dealers’ own financial health will quantitatively impact the liquidity and price discovery process of distressed assets. At Stanford, Dr. Wang will collaborate with other APARC research fellows on studies about both U.S. and Japan banking regulations, particularly the impact of regulation on systemic risk of financial institutions. 

Dr. Wang holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University and a B.A. in International Economics from Peking University. She once worked as an Assistant Professor in Finance in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Tokyo, teaching graduate courses on Money and Banking as well as Corporate Finance. 

Anju Patwardhan is a Fulbright Fellow and Visiting Scholar at Stanford. Her research is focused on the use of technology and innovation to support financial inclusion, especially small business lending.

She is also a Venture Partner with CreditEase Fintech Fund from China (fund of c.USD 1 billion). She is a member of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Future Council on Blockchain and on the WEF steering committees for “Internet for All” and “Disruptive Innovation in Financial Services”. 

She has been appointed as a FinTech Industry Expert with UC Berkeley (SCET) and an Innovation Fellow with the NUS.  She serves on the advisory board of Government of Estonia’s e-residency program

She was in banking until July 2016 and has over 25 years of experience with Citibank and Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) in global leadership roles across Asia, Africa and Middle East.  She was a member of SCB’s global leadership team, global risk management group and global technology & operations management group. She was also a Director on various banking subsidiaries and non-profits boards.

She is an alumnus of the IIT Delhi and IIM Bangalore, and holds further professional qualifications is board directorship and art appreciation.

She moved from Singapore to the Bay Area in August 2016 with her family. 

Dr. GUO Lei is an associate professor at School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Peking University where she is responsible for the innovative and entrepreneurial education and research.  She is the Deputy Dean of School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Deputy Director of Office of Science and Technology Development at Peking University.

Dr. GUO Lei leads the entrepreneurial and innovative education programs and incubation programs, which provides PKU students, professors and alumni courses, mentorship, seed funding, incubation space and network connections to early stage investors.  She has successfully set up Entrepreneurial Talent Development Program for the youth in 2012, both in campus and off campus.  And she always keeps scaling up the program over China.  Till now, more than 4,000 young entrepreneurs take part in the program on-line and off-line, and over 30 star-ups come out from the program.  She set up a fund which aims to support the entrepreneurial education activities and help the students to commercialization their ideas in 2014 at PKU.  She is working on China Entrepreneurship MOOC Platform by the support of Shandong Province.  She and her colleagues initiated the first Train the Trainer Program in entrepreneurship courses at PKU in 2016, which teaches the teachers all over the nation how to teach and mentor their students to know what is entrepreneurship and how to be an entrepreneur.

Dr. GUO Lei is the coordinator scholar for Global Innovation Index Program of World Intellectual Property Organization at Peking University.  She is the co-founder of China Innovation Index Research Center at SIE, PKU, which aims to support local governments to build the innovation-driven economic growth system and to evaluate the innovation efficiency.  She is the co-champion of China Cohort of MIT Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program from 2015 to 2017.  The team is made up of different stakeholders who come from university, government, risk capital, corporate and entrepreneur.  The goal is to give the scientific and professional consultant to Hebei Province on how to build an innovative national agriculture park.  She has published over 20 papers in The Global Innovation Index 2015, The Development of Research and Management (in Chinese), Peking University Education Review (in Chinese), Bulletin of National Natural Science Foundation of China (in Chinese), Academic Degree and Graduate Education (in Chinese) and Guangming Daily (in Chinese).