Dr. Nagesh Kumar is Director-General
of the Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS).
He joined the faculty of RIS in 1985. He
has also taught at the United Nations University – Institute of New
Technologies in the Netherlands and directed its research program on Globalization,
FDI and technology transfers in developing countries. Dr. Kumar has been
a consultant to the World Bank, ADB, and UNDP, among others. He serves on
numerous government committees and expert groups and on the Governing Boards
of the International Center for Trade and Sustainable Development, Geneva,
and the South Asia Centre for Policy Studies, Dhaka. Dr. Kumar received his
Ph.D. from the Delhi School of Economics. His most recent publications include
Towards an Asian Economic Community: Vision of a New Asia (editor, 2005),
Protecting Foreign Investment: Implications of a WTO Regime and Policy
Options (co-author, 2003), and Globalization and the Quality
of Foreign Direct Investment (2002).
Dr. Ed Lincoln is Senior Fellow for Asia and Economic Studies at
the Council on Foreign Relations and Project Director of the
Council-sponsored Independent Task Force on Japan. An expert
on the Japanese economy and U.S. economic relations with Japan
and Asia, he was a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution
and a Special Economic Advisor to Ambassador Walter Mondale at
the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo. Dr. Lincoln received his B.A. from
Amherst College and his Ph.D. from Yale University. He is the
author of Arthritic Japan: the Slow Pace of Economic Reform (2001)
and several other books. He writes a regular column for Newsweek
Japan, and his articles have appeared in Foreign Affairs, Nihon
Keizai Shimbun, The Brookings Review, and elsewhere.
Dr. Catherine Mann is Senior Fellow at the Institute for International
Economics. Previously, she was Assistant Director of the International
Finance Division at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, an
international economist on the President’s Council of Economic
Advisers, and advisor to the chief economist at the World Bank.
She was also Adjunct Professor at Vanderbilt University for ten
years, and taught for two years at SAIS, Johns Hopkins University.
Dr. Mann received a B.A. from Harvard University and a Ph.D.
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She co-authored
The New Economy and APEC (2001), Global Electronic
Commerce: A Policy Primer (2000) and Is the U.S Trade
Deficit Sustainable? (1999).
This event is supported in part by a grant from The Sasakawa Peace Foundation, Japan.
