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Ambassador Stephen Bosworth is the Dean of The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, a position he assumed in February 2001.  Prior to his appointment at The Fletcher School, he served as the United States Ambassador to the Republic of Korea from November 1997 to February 2001.

From 1995-1997, Ambassador Bosworth was the Executive Director of the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization [KEDO], an inter-governmental organization established by the United States, the Republic of Korea, and Japan to deal with North Korea.  Before joining KEDO, he served seven years as President of the United States Japan Foundation, a private American grant-making institution.  He also taught International Relations at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs from 1990 to 1994.  In 1993, he was the Sol Linowitz Visiting Professor at Hamilton College.  He has co-authored several studies on public policy issues for the Carnegie Endowment and the Century Fund, and, in 2006, he co-authored a book entitled “Chasing the Sun, Rethinking East Asian Policy.”  

Ambassador Bosworth has had an extensive career in the United States Foreign Service, including service as Ambassador to Tunisia from 1979-1981 and Ambassador to the Philippines from 1984-1987.  He also served in a number of senior positions in the Department of State, including Director of Policy Planning, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Affairs.  Most recent, from March 2009 through October 2011, he served as U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Policy for the Obama Administration. 

He is the recipient of many awards, including the American Academy of Diplomacy’s Diplomat of the Year Award in 1987, the Department of State’s Distinguished Service Award in 1976 and again in 1986, and the Department of Energy’s Distinguished Service Award in 1979.  In 2005, the Government of Japan presented him with the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star.  In 2010, he was the recipient of the Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award which challenges and inspires those whose moral courage, personal integrity, and passion for scholarship, research, and teaching be dedicated to solving the most pressing problems facing the world. 

Ambassador Bosworth currently serves as a member of the Board of the Japan Society of Boston and is a director of the International Textile Group.  In addition, he is a member of the International Advisory Board for Olympus Capital.  He is a director of the Franklin Templeton Investment Trust Management Co. (Korea) and the Franklin Templeton Sealand Fund Management Co., Ltd. (China).  He is also a member of the Trilateral Commission. 

Ambassador Bosworth is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an honorary society with members who are leaders in the academic disciplines, the arts, business, and public affairs, which recognizes achievement in the natural sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.  It is an independent policy research center that conducts multidisciplinary studies of the world’s complex and emerging problems.

Ambassador Bosworth is a graduate of Dartmouth College where he was a member of the Board of Trustees from 1992 to 2002 and served as Board Chair from 1996 to 2000.  

Mr. Cao has over 30 years' experience in financial institutions in China. He served as the Managing Director and Head of Global Investment Banking Division, BOCI Asia Limited (the Hong Kong based investment banking platform for the Bank of China) from 2003 to 2007.  He served as the President of Citic Bank, Shenzhen Branch from 1999 to 2003. He commenced his career in banking in 1981 at the Bank of China, during which time he served as Deputy General Manager of the Hunan and Singapore branches from 1993 to 1999.

Mr. Cao currently serves as an independent director of a number of listed companies in Hong Kong.  He obtained his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Hunan in 1981 and Master of Science in Financial Management with the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London in 1998. 

Mr. Cohen has more than 20 years experience in private equity investment and M&A experience, covering a wide range of industries.  He was previously a partner at Lindsay, Goldberg & Bessemer and Behrman Capital.

Mr. Cohen holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and both undergraduate and postgraduate degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa.

Mr. Colayco is the Managing Director of Argosy Partners, a leading independent financial advisory firm based in Manila and active throughout Asia, with strategic partners and relationships in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, India and Japan. Previously, he spent 15 years as a senior executive of AIG, including serving as President of AIG Investment Corporation (New York), responsible for AIG investment portfolios in Europe, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa, over US$25 billion in total. Mr.  Colayco is currently Country Chairman, Jardine Matheson Philippines; a member of the JM Asia Pacific Regional Board; Chairman of Republic Cement (Lafarge affiliate in Philippines); Member of the Advisory Board of JG Summit Holdings, Inc.; and Member of International Advisory Group of the Fletcher School, Tufts University. He is also serving as Director of Aboitiz Transport Group and Genesis Emerging Markets Fund (London). Mr. Colayco holds an MBA from Ateneo de Manila Graduate School of Business.

Mr. Goldman oversees finance at GreatPoint Energy, Inc., a venture-backed company developing disruptive catalytic gasification technology to convert coal to methane (natural gas) at a highly competitive cost while also sequestering CO2. GreatPoint’s investors include Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Advanced Technology Ventures and Khosla Ventures. Prior to joining GreatPoint Energy in 2006, he was a founder, Chief Financial Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of New Energy Capital Corp., a financial company focused on investments in renewable energy, renewable fuels and distributed generation assets. Mr. Goldman oversaw New Energy Capital’s eight investments including ethanol projects, a biodiesel production facility, a biomass-fired power plant acquisition and a portfolio of cogeneration projects. From 1996-2001, Mr. Goldman held regional and corporate senior management positions in Hong Kong and Boston at InterGen, a leading power generation company co-owned by the Bechtel Group and Royal/Dutch Shell. Prior to InterGen, he was a senior member of the energy consulting team at Arthur D. Little in Cambridge and Singapore from 1989-1996. In addition to his executive role at GreatPoint Energy, Mr. Goldman recently co-founded and launched an energy efficiency investment fund, based in California, in combination with an established renewable energy investment firm and he serves as an executive advisor to the firm. He received a B.S. from Cornell University and a M.Sc. from the London School of Economics.

Dr. Michael Green is a senior adviser and holds the Japan Chair at CSIS, as well as being an associate professor of international relations at Georgetown University. He previously served as special assistant to the president for national security affairs and senior director for Asian affairs at the National Security Council (NSC), from January 2004 to December 2005, after joining the NSC in April 2001 as director of Asian affairs with responsibility for Japan, Korea, and Australia/New Zealand. His current research and writing is focused on Asian regional architecture, Japanese politics, U.S. foreign policy history, the Korean peninsula, Tibet, Burma, and U.S.-India relations.

Dr. Green speaks fluent Japanese and spent over five years in Japan working as a staff member of the National Diet, as a journalist for Japanese and American newspapers, and as a consultant for U.S. business. He has also been on the faculty of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, a staff member at the Institute for Defense Analyses, and a senior adviser to the Office of Asia-Pacific Affairs in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. He graduated from Kenyon College with highest honors in history in 1983 and received his M.A. from Johns Hopkins SAIS in 1987 and his Ph.D. in 1994. He also did graduate work at Tokyo University as a Fulbright fellow and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a research associate of the MIT-Japan Program. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and the Aspen Strategy Group. He is also vice chair of the congressionally mandated Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission and serves on the advisory boards of the Center for a New American Security and Australian American Leadership Dialogue and the editorial board of The Washington Quarterly.

Ishikawa-san has held various executive positions within the facility management industry.  He served as the chairman of Tokyo Bisoh after serving as Executive Vice President of Johnson Controls Japan.

Ishikawa-san graduated from the University of Hokkaido with a degree in Law.

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Matsushita-san has over 45 years of experience as a former senior executive director with Showa Denko which is one of the largest Chemical companies in Japan. After he left Showa Denko, he served Japan Polyethylene as CEO. Most recently he was a industrial partner in RHJ international Japan.

Matsushita-san graduated from Tokyo University with a degree in Pharmaceutical Science and Physical Chemistry.

Mr. Shih was the Project Director of AES China Generating Co., Ltd in charge of development of wind power in China from 2007 to 2009, during the period he was the leading effort in closing four wind joint ventures each of 50 MW installed capacity in China. He was also responsible for formulating and executing market entry and development strategy for AES wind projects in China. Mr. Shih was an electrical power engineer by education and experience in Hong Kong until 1994 when he shifted his main career focus in developing power plants in China and Asia. He helped closing most of the seven projects in China that AES concluded in 1990’s. In addition to his electrical engineering professional status, Mr. Shih also received education in financial management and economics with the University of London in 1990’s. He is the founder of The WHI Limited in late 2009 which focuses on project development and provision of consultancy services in wind and hydro power in Asia region. Currently, he is actively developing an offshore wind farm in Taiwan with Taiwan Generations Corporation.

Sugiyama-san is currently serving as CEO of FM Port (management consulting firm), as well as serving as an independent Director of SBJ Bank. After serving as Executive Director of UFJ Holdings, he served as Advisor, CEO, and Chairman of Aplus, and later served on the Board of Directors of Shinsei Bank.

Sugiyama-san graduated from the University of Tokyo with a degree in Law.

Mr. Van Anh is the President and Founder of Asian International Development Company, a Beijing based consulting firm with a strong involvement in the building material sector, especially for cement. He is involved with both strategic/operational consulting work for the industry players as well as for financial investors.

Mr. Van Anh has extensive experience with managing existing operations, designing business development strategies, and implementing mergers and acquisitions of cement companies in China.

From 2005 to 2007, Mr Van Anh was Chief Representative for Lafarge in China, representing Lafarge for all its activities. Lafarge is a global producer of cement, aggregates & concrete, and gypsum. From 1999 to 2005, Mr Van Anh was the Chief Executive Officer of Lafarge’s cement operations in China. Under Mr. Van Anh's management Lafarge's cement operations in China grew from a 0.5 Mt operation to a 20 Mt operation, and have become one of the largest country operations for Lafarge. In 2006, Mr. Van Anh was selected by a panel of Chinese cement professionals in the China Cement Association as one of the persons who has contributed to the development of China’s cement industry during the 10th 5-year plan period.  Before coming to China, Mr Van Anh was head of the Cement Strategy department in Lafarge’s headquarters in Paris from 1998 to 1999.

Prior from joining Lafarge, Mr Van Anh was working for the French Ministry of Industry, and was in charge of international relations.

Mr. Mannil Venugopalan is the former Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Bank (May 2005 till July, 2010). He was also been the Chairman & Managing Director of Bank of India since August, 2003 till April, 2005. He started his career as a Probationary Officer with Bank of India in 1966 and within a stint for 3 years in between with Union Bank of India as Executive Director rose to the position of the Chairman and Managing Director of Bank of India. His tenure at Federal Bank for half decade is memorable for the transformational initiatives that he launched in the Bank and today it is one of the best banks in the country in efficiency parameters and in coping with the inevitable process of adapting to the rapidly changing business environment.