Mr.
Kinoshita Toshihiko is a Professor at the School of International Liberal
Studies, Waseda University. He transferred to this position in
2004 after teaching at Waseda’s Graduate School of Commerce
from 2000. Previously, he served as Executive Director of the Research
Institute for International Investment and Development, Export-Import
Bank of Japan (renamed the Japan Bank for International Cooperation),
where he began working in 1963. He has been a visiting research
fellow at the Japan Center for Economic Research, has served as
special advisor for A.T. Kearney, and was a visiting associate
at the Harvard Institute for International Development. Professor
Kinoshita is a member of various committees and study groups sponsored
by Japan’s Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of International
Trade and Industry, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and has
acted as an advisor to the government of Indonesia. Professor Kinoshita
holds a B.A. from Keio University in Economics. He is the author
of numerous publications, including “Japan in East Asia:
Asia as an Economic System-How Do We Meet the Globalization Challenge
Together?” in International Workshop Report (co-author, 2003), “East
Asia’s Economy in the 21st Century: from Crisis to Recovery,” in
Toyo Keizai Shimposha (co-editor, 2000), and “Crisis in Asia:
Who’s to Blame?” in Look Japan (1998).
Mr. Richard Katz is Senior Editor at The Oriental Economist
Report, a monthly English language newsletter about Japan and a special
correspondent for Shukan Toyo Kezai. He has reported on Japan-related
issues for over two decades for the printed press, including Diamond
Weekly, one of Japan's leading business magazines. As a visiting
lecturer in economics, he taught a course for several years on the
postwar Japanese economy at the State University of New York (SUNY)
at Stony Brook. Mr. Katz received his B.A. in history from Columbia
University and his M.A. in economics at New York University. He is
author of Japan: the System that Soured (1998), published in Japanese
as Kusariyuku Nihon to iu System (1999). His latest book is Japanese
Pheonix: The Long Road to Economic Revival (2002), published in Japanese
as Fushicho no Nihon Keizai (2002).
Dr. Adam Posen is a Senior Fellow at the Institute
for International Economics where he focuses on macroeconomic policy
in the industrial democracies, G3 economic relations, and central
banking issues. Previously he was an international affairs fellow
of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Okun Memorial Fellow in
Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution, and an economist in
international research at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He
is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, serving on
its Independent Task Force on U.S.-Japan Economic Relations. Dr.
Posen received his Ph.D. in political economy and government and
his A.B. from Harvard University. He is the author of Germany
in the World Economy (forthcoming), co-author of Japan's
Financial Crisis and its Parallels to U.S. Experience (2000), and author of Restoring
Japan's Economic Growth (1998).
