Fellows

Nobuhiro Hiwatari (PhD, University of California, Berkeley) is a professor of political economy/international political economy at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Tokyo. He has also taught at Columbia University and at the University of California, Berkeley and has conducted research at Harvard, Yale, and Cambridge Universities. His research interests are the party politics of “neo-liberal” reforms in OECD countries, and the impact of political regime heterogeneity on economic cooperation in the Asian-Pacific region; his works on these topics have appeared in academic journals as well as edited volumes. Currently, he is finishing a project examining how party competition

James Marsh retired from the Shidler College of Business, University of Hawaii in 2015. He continues to work with the Pacific Congress on Marine Technology and a couple of other specialist professional associations.

Ulrike Schaede is Professor of Japanese Business at the University of California, San Diego, School of Global Policy and Strategy. She is the Director of JFIT (Japan Forum for Innovation and Technology) where she organizes a weekly “Japan Zoominar” on current issues on Japan. Schaede works on Japan’s changing corporate strategies, including business culture, change management, employment practices, the rise of private equity, corporate governance, and manufacturing and innovation under the digital transformation. She has written extensively on Japanese business organization, and is the author of The Business Reinvention of Japan: How to Make Sense of the New Japan (Stanford University Press, 2020)