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2007/IEG/SYM/002

Speakers’ Biodata

Submitted by: Japan

Symposium on Investment Liberalization and Facilitation

Tokyo, Japan 29 May 2007

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Shujiro Urata is Professor of Economics at Graduate School Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University,

Faculty Fellow at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry, Research Fellow at the

Japanese Centre for Economic Research. Professor Urata received his B.A. in Economics from Keio

University in 1973 and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics at Stanford University in 1976 and

1978. He is a former Research Associate at the Brookings Institution and an Economist at the World

Bank. He specializes in International Economics and Economics of Development. He has held a

number of research and advisory positions including senior advisor to the Government of Indonesia,

consultant to the World Bank, OECD, the Asian Development Bank. and the Government of Japan. He

published and edited a number of books on International economic issues and is an author and

co-author of numerous articles in professional journals. His publications in English include

Competitiveness, FDI and Technological Activity in East Asia, co-editor, Edward Elgar, 2003, Bilateral

Trade Agreements: Origins, evolution, and implications, co-editor, Routledge, 2005, Multinationals and

Economic Growth in East Asia, co-editor, Routledge, 2006

Andrew Stoeckel, Executive Director of the Centre for International Economics, is one of Australia's

leading economists. He received his PhD from Duke University in 1978 and his thesis involved

building a small general equilibrium model of the Australian economy. He is a specialist in trade and

investment policy and the international economy. Before setting up the CIE in 1986 he was Director

(Head), Australian Bureau of Agricultural Economics (ABARE), Canberra — the largest economic

research agency in Australia and one of the largest in the world. He is a specialist in policy analysis

and the international economy, and has initiated and directed programs of research, which have

included studies of European policies and international trade that received world acclaim.

Dr. Andrew Baird Stoeckel

Executive Director

Center for International Economics

Dr. Shujiro Urata

Professor

Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University

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Alan Moody is a Senior Investment Policy Officer with the World Bank Group, based in the Sydney

office. He joined the Bank in June 2006 from Indonesia, where he worked as Program Coordinator of

the International Labour Organisation's tsunami response program in Aceh, and prior to that as the

Deputy Head of AusAID's development assistance program to Indonesia.

Alan’s previous positions include periods as Head of the aid component of the Regional Assistance

Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) in 2003, as an Advisor to the Solomon Islands Peace Monitoring

Council in 2002, and in various Program Manager and Director-level positions in the AusAID over the

last decade. During the mid 1990's he was the economist for the Chamber of Commerce and Industry

in Western Australia. Alan holds a master's degree in economics.

Worked for over 25 years in the Australian Treasury in a number of areas including banking policy,

competition policy, foreign investment and trade policy. Spent 2 years in the UK working in their

Monopolies and Mergers Commission. My education and training were in the UK and I have an

honours degree in Economics and Economic History from the University of Wales. My principal area

of expertise covers issues in international investment agreements and FTA negotiations. Worked

extensively on major multilateral agreements including the OECD MAI and the WTO GATS and many

bilateral and plurilateral BITs and FTAs including Australia's agreements with the US, Singapore and

Thailand. I have had a long association with APEC including the original negotiation of the APEC

Non-Binding Investment Principles in 1994 and have been the Chair of the APEC Investment Experts

Group since February 2005.

Mr. Alan Andrew Moody

Senior Investment Policy Officer

World Bank Group

Mr. Roy Nixon

Senior Adviser, Foreign Investment and trade Policy

Division, Department of the Treasury

Australian Government

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Rupert Holborow is a career diplomat and is currently New Zealand’s Senior Official for APEC. He

started his career in New Zealand’s Department of Trade, going on to join the Ministry of Foreign

Affairs and Trade in 1988. He has spent most of his career on Asia-Pacific issues having served as

Deputy Ambassador in Indonesia, Deputy High Commissioner in Australia, and Deputy in both the

Foreign Ministry’s North Asia and South/South East Asia Divisions. He has served as Private

Secretary to a former Ministry of Trade Negotiations, and headed up the Foreign Ministry’s Economic

Division.

Prior to his present position, Mr. Virachai has served as Director of the Treaty Division, Department of

Treaties and Legal Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Thailand. A career diplomat, he has been

posted at the Permanent Mission of Thailand to the World Trade Organization, Geneva, and at the

Royal Thai Embassy in London. In addition, as a Member of Legal Counsel to the Royal Thai

Government, Mr. Virachai has experience in international litigation for Thailand for a number of WTO

cases. He has also served as Panelist for several WTO Disputes.

Education

- Licence en Droit Public, Université de Paris X (Nanterre), France.

- Maîtrise, UER Droit, Université de Paris X (Nanterre), France.

- Doctorat de 3ème cycle, Université de Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne), France

Dr. Virachai Plasai

Director-General

Department of International Economic Affairs

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Thailand

Mr. Rupert Thomas Holborow

New Zealand Senior Official for APEC

New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade

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Yoshio Ishizaka is Senior Advisor to the Board of Toyota Motor Corporation. His career has centered

on overseas business, and he has served two, extended stints at Toyota’s operations outside Japan: six

years in Australia in the late 1970s and four years in the United States in the late 1980s.

Mr. Ishizaka served as senior vice president and chief coordinating officer of Toyota Motor Sales,

U.S.A., Inc. from 1986 to 1990, while helping to develop the special project that became the Lexus

Division. Mr. Ishizaka then became general manager of the Europe division at Toyota in 1990. In

that position, he supervised accelerating efforts to build an integrated, local organization in Europe to

support expanded manufacturing, marketing and product development there. Named to Toyota's

Board of Directors in 1992, Mr. Ishizaka returned to the U.S. sales arm to serve as president from 1996

to 1999. He returned to Japan in 1999, whereupon he was promoted to senior managing director in

charge of overseas operations. In 2001, he became an executive vice president in charge of Toyota’s

overall overseas operations. In 2005, he became senior advisor to the board. In June 2005, he became

a corporate auditor at Kanto Auto Works, Ltd., while also gaining the same post at Hino Motors, Ltd.

and Aioi Insurance Co., Ltd.

Mr. Ishizaka earned a degree in law from Hitotsubashi University.

Born in Lynn, Massachusetts, Tom Clark holds a Bachelor’s degree from Harvard College and a J.D.

from Columbia University School of Law, where he was Notes Editor of the Columbia Law Review.

Before taking on his current role as Vice President – Government Relations for GE Money Asia, Mr.

Clark served as Chief Legal Counsel of GE Consumer Finance in Japan for nearly six years. Prior to

coming to Japan, Mr. Clark served as Legal Counsel for GE Capital Card Services in the US and

worked in private law practice at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington D.C., and prior to that at

Sullivan & Cromwell in New York City. Prior to that, Mr. Clark was a law clerk for Circuit Judge

James L. Buckley in the US Court of Appeals for the District of Colombia Circuit in Washington D.C.

Tom currently serves as co-chair of the Banking & Finance Committee of the Financial Services

Committee for the US Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ACCJ).

Mr. Thomas Michael Clark

Vice President

Government Relations GE Money Asia

Mr. Yoshio Ishizaka

Senior Advisor

Toyota Motor Corporation

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Nobuhiko Sasaki is mainly in charge of APEC, ASEAN and Oceania. He has experienced various

FTA negotiations including Japan – Singapore, Japan–Thailand, Japan–Korea, Japan–ASEAN. Mr.

Nobuhiko Sasaki has been appointed as Director of various Bureaus in the Ministry of International

Trade and Industry (MITI) since joining in 1979, which include the Trade Policy Bureau in 1996 and

2002, the Environment Bureau in 1998, the Manufacturing Industries Bureau in 2000, and he was also

appointed as Director of Policy Coordination, Manufacturing Industries Bureau in 2004. He served as

First Secretary and Counselor to Permanent Delegation to the OECD in 1993-96.

He graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Tokyo in 1979 and received M.A. Political

Science from Graduate School of U.C. Berkeley in 1986.

Mark Johnson is Deputy Chairman of Macquarie Bank Limited. Macquarie is Australia’s leading

investment bank, with about 10,000 staff in twenty five countries. He has spent most of his career with

Macquarie working in corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions and underwritings and, more

recently, helping to establish Macquarie’s world wide resources group.

Mark is chairman of Macquarie Infrastructure Group, one of the world’s largest private toll road

owners, with operations in Australia, North America and Europe, and chairman of AGL Energy, the

largest electricity and gas distributor in Australia.

Mark is chairman of the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) and

chairman of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. He is member of the Board of Governors of the

Institute for International Trade at the University of Adelaide and is a Life Governor of the Victor

Chang Cardiac Research Institute.

Mr. Nobuhiko Sasaki

Deputy Director-General

Trade Policy Bureau, Ministry of Economy, Trade and

Industry (METI), Japan

Mr. Mark Johnson

Chair, ABAC 2007

Deputy Chairman, Macquarie Bank Limited

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Michael W. Michalak, a career Foreign Service Officer with extensive knowledge and experience in

Asia, was appointed U.S. Senior Official to APEC, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, in July

2005. Prior to his current position, he was Deputy Chief of Mission to the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo and

had served for almost four years as the Minister-Counselor in the Embassy's Economic Section.

In his over 30 years of service with the U.S. Department of State, Mr. Michalak has worked in Sydney,

Australia; Islamabad, Pakistan; Beijing, China; as well as Washington, D.C., where he was assigned to

the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, the Office for Japan and the Office of Chinese and

Mongolian Affairs. He received a group award for valor for his actions in time of crisis when the U.S.

Embassy in Islamabad was burned down.

Born in Detroit, Michigan, Mr. Michalak received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science

degrees in Physics from Oakland University in Rochester, MI, and Catholic University of America in

Washington, D.C., respectively. He received a second Master's degree in Public Administration from

the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA. He speaks

Chinese, Japanese and French.

Mr. Michalak and his wife have a 14 year-old daughter. He also has two grown daughters from a

previous marriage.

Ambassador Michael W. Michalak

U.S. Senior Official to APEC

U.S. Department of State

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Kotaro Tanaka was awarded his bachelor’s degree in economics from Tokyo University and his MBA

degree from Georgetown University.

After he joined MITI (METI), he has dealt with industrial policy, machinery industry policy,

intellectual property rights policy, nuclear security policy and international trade administration policy.

He also worked at Cabinet Secretariat for national security and crisis management.

Before he was assigned his current position, he was a deputy director general at JETRO Vienna office

and provided various assistances to Japanese companies investing into Central and Eastern Europe

area.

He is currently in charge of EPA and Investment Treaty negotiations, especially with India and China.

He speaks Japanese, English and German.

Mr. Kotaro Tanaka

Director

Economic Partnership, Trade Policy Bureau

Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), Japan

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John A. Prasetio is the Chairman of CBA Asia, a firm engaged in investment and business advisory

activities. He is also currently Vice President of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry,

and the Chairman of its International Cooperation Department. In addition, he serves as a Board

Member of PT Global Mediacom Tbk as well as non-governmental organisations such as National

Committee on Good Governance, Indonesia Forum etc.

He was previously Asia Pacific Senior Advisory Partner of Ernst & Young (up to June 2005), the Asia

Pacific CEO/Area Managing Partner of Andersen Worldwide, Singapore (1999-2002) and ASEAN

CEO/Regional Managing Partner of Andersen Worldwide (1998-1999).

His international exposure includes membership at APEC Business Advisory Council, UNESCAP

Business Advisory Council, Global Practice Council of Ernst & Young, London (2002-2004), Global

Executive Board of Andersen Worldwide, New York (1999-2002), Board of Partners of Andersen

Worldwide SC, Geneva (1994-1998), Executive Board of the SGV Group, Manila (1983-1986),

International Business Leader Advisory Council of Tianjin Minicipality Government, China

(2000-2001), etc.

Past and current Board Membership includes: Executive Center for Global Leadership, National Foster

Parents Movement, Sampoerna Foundation, Association of Publicly Listed Companies, MOF’s Tax

Review Board, WWF for Nature, Red Cross Indonesia, etc.

Mr. John A. Prasetio

Chairman/ Vice President, CBA Asia/ Indonesian Chamber

of Commerce and Industry

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Teng Theng Dar joined Intraco Ltd., on 9 December 2002 as Chief Executive Officer. Established in

1968, Intraco is an international trading company listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange (SGX) since

1972.

He has over twenty-seven years of management experience in Asia, Australia and the Middle East.

Mr. Teng is a member of APEC Business Advisory Council, Singapore Institute of Management,

Singapore Institute of Directors, Marketing Institute of Singapore, Action Committee for

Entrepreneurship Financing Crucible, Internationalisation Financing Committee, Singapore Customs

Advisory Committee, Singapore-Liaoning Economic and Trade Council, Singapore-Zhejiang

Economic & Trade Council, Vice Chairman of Foreign Trade Committee-China Council for the

Promotion of International Trade, Steering Committee Member of Network China, Vice Chairman of

Middle East Business Group – Singapore Business Federation and Special Advisor to Singapore

Plastic Industry Association. He was also a member of the Food & Beverage Sub-Group, Singapore

Economic Review Committee, Food Industry Advisory Committee, Victoria State, Australia (1999 -

2001).

He graduated from the School of Commerce, Waseda University, Japan in 1979 and he is currently

serving as Exco member of Japanese University Graduates Association of Singapore (Jugas).

Mr. Teng Theng Dar

Chief Executive Officer

Intraco Ltd

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Fukunari Kimura is Professor, Faculty of Economics, Keio University. He was born in Tokyo in

1958 and received his Bachelor of laws from the Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo in 1982, his

Master of Science and Ph.D. in economics from the Department of Economics, University of

Wisconsin-Madison in 1990 and 1991. His major is international trade and development economics.

His major publications include Asia & Europe: Beyond Competing Regionalism, Brighton: Sussex

Academic Press, 1998 (edited with Kiichiro Fukasaku and Shujiro Urata), New East Asian

Regionalism: Causes, Progress and Country Perspectives, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2005 (edited

with Charles Harvie and Hyun-Hoon Lee), and Multinationals and Economic Growth in East Asia:

Foreign Direct Investment, Corporate Strategies and National Economic Development, London:

Routledge, 2006 (edited with Shujiro Urata and Chia Siow Yue).

Dr. Fukunari Kimura

Professor

Faculty of Economics, Keio University