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.

Lidong Wei is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at Shorenstein APARC for 2005-06. He is a deputy general manager of a department of PetroChina, where he has worked for twenty years, focusing on equipment, purchasing, and refinery. Wei received his PhD from Dalian University of Science and Technology in 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.

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.

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).

George Krompacky received a BA in English literature from Rutgers University; an MA from Cornell University in East Asian studies; and an MA in East Asian languages and literatures from Yale University, where his PhD work centered on Chinese fiction and drama of the Ming dynasty. He has taught Chinese language at Yale University and Hamilton College.

Krompacky joined the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center in 2005 and served as program coordinator of the Stanford Program on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship until January 2011. Prior to coming to Stanford University he was associate director of international education and fellowships and the Light Fellowship coordinator at Yale University from 1999 to 2002.

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.