Tetsuro Yogo is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at Shorenstein APARC for 2005-06. Prior to joining Shorenstein APARC, he has worked at Sumitomo Corporation. He is senior staff in the Network Systems Department, which creates businesses and makes investments with/in IT companies worldwide. Since joining Sumitomo in 1999, he has been deeply involved in Linux and open source business. He was one of the start-up members of VA Linux Systems Japan (VAJ), which was established in 2000 by Sumitomo and VA Software, a venture company based in the Bay Area. He worked at VAJ for over four years as an assistant manager of sales and marketing.

Yogo did his undergraduate study at Keio University in Tokyo, where he majored in electrical engineering. He also received a masters in media and governance from Keio University in 1999.

Yo Yamaguchi is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at Shorenstein APARC for 2005-06. Prior to joining Shorenstein APARC, he has been with Sumitomo Corporation for seven years. He currently serves as senior staff in the net business department, which is responsible for incubating, developing, and investing in the business-to-consumer (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B) sectors of the e-marketing andmedia contents business areas. Yamaguchi completed his undergraduate study at Keio University in Tokyo where he majored in politics, with a focus on China.

Hideyuki Sato is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at Shorenstein APARC for 2005-06. His research field is the management of technology in utility companies. He has been working as a system engineer in Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the world largest private utility company, for eleven years. His experience at TEPCO includes corporate systems development, IT business development, IT venture company evaluations, and IT compliance for deregulation. He received bachelors and masters degrees in information science from the University of Tokyo, where he specialized in computer graphics and modeling.

Naohisa Kurita is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at Shorenstein APARC for 2005-06 and 2006-07. Prior to joining Shorenstein APARC, he worked for Shizuoka Prefectural Government in Japan, where he took charge of coordination and international business affairs. His research interests are in competitive strategy, and cluster-based theory for regional economic development. He graduated from Waseda University in Tokyo, where he majored in sociology.

Yasuhiro Kanda is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at Shorenstein APARC for 2005-06. Prior to joining Shorenstein APARC, he held positions at the Kansai Electric Power Company (KEPCO) for thirteen years, in their nuclear fuel purchasing and business developing departments. Kanda's experiences at KEPCO included forwarding nuclear-fuel-recycling-system in Japan according to national policy, handling new-business planning, and launching a new business as a manager in a KEPCO subsidiary. His latest position at KEPCO was as manager.

Kanda did his undergraduate study at Kobe University in Kobe, where he majored in business administration.

Takashi Kadomatsu is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at Shorenstein APARC for 2005-06. Prior to joining Shorenstein APARC, he held positions at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), government of Japan, for about eleven years, where he took charge of policymaking. His latest position at METI was as deputy director in the public relations office, Minister's Secretariat. He did his undergraduate study at Keio University, in the faculty of environmental information.

Kyoko Ii is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at Shorenstein APARC for 2004-05 and 2005-06. Since 1999, she has worked for the industrial recruitment and location division of the Kumamoto Prefectural Government in Japan, with a mission to promote foreign direct investment into the country. In this capacity, she has worked with foreign companies who succeeded in establishing operations in Kumamoto. Prior to this position, she worked at the Kumamoto Prefectural Government in international affairs, planning, welfare, and distribution. She received BA and MA degrees in foreign studies from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.

Masaaki Awano is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at Shorenstein APARC for 2005-06. He currently works for the Japan Patent Office (JPO), one of the agencies of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), in the Japanese government. Awano has worked for the JPO as a patent examiner for more than twelve years, handling patent applications in the field of semiconductor devices. In 2000, he also took in charge of international affairs at the office, especially with respect to trilateral cooperation among the European Patent Office (EPO), the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), and JPO.

Awano completed his undergraduate study in physics at the University of Tokyo. He received an MS in the graduate school of science of the University of Tokyo, where he concentrated on plasma physics.

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.