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Barry Blechman PHD,
Dr. Barry M. Blechman founded DFI International in 1984. Today, he drives the corporate strategy and vision for the DFI family of companies, including DFI International’s two operating units, DFI Corporate Services and DFI Government Services, and SwannStreet Ventures, LLC, which provides a unique combination of early seed-stage capital and strategic planning for high-tech start-ups in the Washington, D.C., region.
Dr. Blechman has over 30 years of experience in the defense, foreign policy, and advanced technology sectors. An expert in political-military affairs, defense planning, national security strategy, and high technology markets, Dr. Blechman has been providing expert advice and analyses to government and industry officials since the 1960s.
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Ambassador Lilley researches China, Taiwan, and
Korea. He was U.S. ambassador to the People's Republic of China from
1989-1991, and to the Republic of Korea, 1986-1989. |
Professional Experience
-Director, Institute for Global Chinese Affairs,
University of Maryland, 1996-1997; senior adviser, 1998-1999
-Philip M. McKenna Visiting Scholar, Claremont McKenna College, 1995
-Assistant secretary of defense for international affairs, 1991-1993
-Fellow, Harvard University, Institute of Politics, 1991
-U.S. Ambassador to the People's Republic of China, 1989-1991, and to the
Republic of Korea, 1986-1989
-Deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asian Affairs, 1985-1986
-Director, American Institute in Taiwan, 1982-1984
-Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies,
1978-1980
-National intelligence officer for China, 1975-1978
Education
M.A., international relations, George Washington
University
B.A., Yale University |
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Tom Keaney PhD -
Executive Director of the Foreign Policy Institute and of SAIS's
Philip Merrill Center for
Strategic Studies
Senior Adjunct Professor of
Strategic Studies .Former
professor of military strategy at National War College and director of its core
courses on military thought and strategy; during a career in the U.S. Air Force,
served in positions including associate professor of history at the U.S. Air
Force Academy, planner on the Air Staff, forward air controller in Vietnam and
B-52 squadron commander; Ph.D., history, University of Michigan . |
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Stew Russell, Retired Naval Officer, former N. Korea POW |
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John Mitchell, Retired Naval Officer, former N. Korea POW |
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Steven Spiegel PHD studies
international relations with a focus on the Middle East. He has authored
several books on world politics, including At Issue: Politics in the
World Arena, now in its seventh edition. His articles on the
relationships between Israel, the Arab nations, and the United States have
appeared in leading academic journals and mainstream newspapers. Professor
Spiegel serves as a Fellow of the Institute of War and Peace Studies, the
Brookings Institution, and the Washington Center of Foreign Policy Research
at SAIS. Dr. Spiegel's recent activities include the position of
international chair of the Middle East cooperative security program for the
statewide
Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation
of the University of California, San Diego. In addition, he sits on the
editorial board of Middle East Quarterly, and is the assistant
director of the
Burkle Center for International Relations.
Dr. Spiegel offers courses in world politics and an honors seminar on
American foreign policy. He has won the Department's Professor of the Year
award twice. |
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Sebastian Edwards PHD is the Henry Ford II Professor
of International Business Economics at the Anderson Graduate School of
Management at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). From 1993
until April 1996, he was the Chief Economist for the Latin America and
Caribbean Region of the World Bank. He is also a research associate of the
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a member of the advisory board
of Transnational Research Corporation and co-chairman of the Inter American
Seminar on Economics (IASE). He has been President of the Latin
American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA), an international
professional association of economists with academic interests in Latin
America and the Caribbean region. He is a member of the Scientific
Advisory Council of the Kiel Institute of World Economics, Kiel-Germany, and
a member of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Council of Economic
Advisors. |
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Khaled Abou El Fadl is one of the leading authorities
in Islamic law in the United States and Europe. He was named as a 2005
Carnegie Scholar in Islamic studies. His personal library contains over 6500
Islamic books and manuscripts, some dating from the thirteenth century. He
teaches Islamic law, Middle Eastern Investment Law, Immigration Law, and
courses related to human rights and terrorism. He works with various human
rights organizations, such as Human Rights Watch and the Lawyer's Committee
for Human Rights. He often serves as an expert witness in international
litigation involving Middle Eastern law, and in cases involving immigration
law and political asylum claims.
Professor Abou El Fadl was trained in Islamic legal sciences in Egypt,
Kuwait, and the United States. After law school, he clerked for Arizona
Supreme Court Justice J. Moeller. While in graduate school, he also
practiced immigration and investment law in the United States and the Middle
East. He previously has taught at the University of Texas at Austin, Yale
Law School, and Princeton University. He is an avid fan of the Egyptian diva
Umm Kulthum.
Professor Abou El Fadl's books include: Conference of the Books: The
Search for Beauty in Islam (2001); Rebellion in Islamic Law (2001); Speaking
in God's Name: Islamic Law, Authority and Women (2001); and And God Knows
the Soldiers: The Authoritative and Authoritarian in Islamic Discourse (2nd
ed. revised and expanded, 2001).
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North Korean Dissident - Requested to remain anonymous due the
fear of persecution of his mother and siblings. |
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Mr. Cheol-Hwan Khang Noth Korean Refugee, Gulag
Survivor living in South Korea for the last 12 years. Author of books and
articles on the state of North Korea. Staff Writer for the Research
institute for Korea Reunification. |
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Colonel RICHARD H. PARKER
Chief Force Development and Planning US Army, South Korea |
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John M. Shin South Korean Businessman, Staff writer of
Veritas Books of Seoul. |
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Jay Kun Yoo, Chairman of the URI Party of South Korea. He is also
the Chairman of the South Korean Defense Committee, and future candidate to
the Presidency of South Korea. Career Highlights
1995-2000 Vice President, The National Congress for New Politices(NCNP)
1997-1999 Chief of staff to the President of NCNP
1992- Board Member, World Vision Korea
1996- Member of the 15th and 16th National Assembly
Republic of Korea
1999-2002 Chairman, Korea-US Cultural Foundation
2000-2002 Chairman of National Convention, Millennium Democratic Party
2000- Chairman, The Korea-US Inter-Parliamentary Exchange Council
2003-2003 Chairman, The New Strategy Institute of Korea
2003-2003 Member, Standing Central Committee, URI Party
2004- Chairman, Special Committee on Foreign Relations and Cooperation of
the URI Party
2004.4- Member of the 17th National Assembly, Republic of Korea
2004.7- Chairman, National Defense Committee of the National Assembly
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Hideshi Takesada PHD Employment 1972-75 Keio University:
Teaching Assistant
1975- 82 The National Institute for Defense Studies
1982 - 92 Chief, Second Research Department
1993-present: Chief, Third Research Office, Second
Research Department.
Research : Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawaii, USA:
Visitor, Feb. 1978-Apr. 1978
The Korean Institute of International Studies, ROK:
Visiting Scholar 1978-79
Center for International Security and Arms Control,
Stanford University, USA: Visiting Scholar:
Institute for Sino-Soviet Studies, George Washington
University, USA: Visiting Scholar
Chung-an University, ROK: Visiting Professor (Japan
Foundation Fellowship Program)
Yongbyong University, Jilin, PRC: Visiting Professor
1999-2001
Major : Korean Politics, International Relations in the Korean
Peninsula
Author : Deep Analysis on North Korea (KK Best Sellers, 1998)
Coauthor : Analysis on Process of Japan's Foreign Policy Decision
Making (PHP Institute, 1999)
Northeast Asian Strategic Review (National Institute for
Defense Studies, 1997)
Soviet Policy toward the Korean Peninsula (Seoul, 1987)
Prize: The Saeki Kiichi Prize (Prize from Japan Defense Society)
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Hideyoshi Kase PHD Professor of Political Science at Tokyo
University, former Foreign Policy advisor to Premier Nakasone, author of
over 50 books, expert in Japanese history. |
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Akiko Fukushima PHD Is currently Director of Policy Studies and
Senior Fellow at the National institute for Research Advancement (NIRA), a
semi-governmental think thank of Japan. Previously she has been Adjunct
Professor at Keio University and visiting professor at Center on
international relations, University of British Columbia,- Canada.
Book Author:
- Japanese Foreign Policy: The Emerging Logic of Mulitlaterism
- Alliance for Engagemnet
- Lexicon: Asia Taiheiyo Anzenhosho Taiwa.
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Admiral Yeong-Kang Chen (Center) and the some of the staff of the
Taiwanese Navy. |
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Chich-Chen Lo Ph D. Executive director of the Institute for National
Policy Research. |
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George W. Tsai ph.D
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Associate Research Fellow, Institute of International Relations,
National Chengchi University
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Chief, Cooperation and Exchange Section,
Institute of International Relations, National Chengchi University -
Adjunct Professor, National Chengchi University, University of
Chinese Culture -
Adjunct Associate
Professor, Soochow University, Fu Jen Catholic University,
University of Chinese Culture -
Visiting Research Fellow,
Department of Political Science, East Tennessee University -
Senior Visiting Research Fellow, East Asian Institute, National
University of Singapore -
Advisor, Mainland Affairs Council, Executive Yuan, ROC -
Specialist, Government Information Office, Executive Yuan -
Investigator, Bureau of Investigation, Ministry of Justice, ROC -
Staff Writer, United Daily
News, China Times, Lienhe Zaobao (Singapore)
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Editor-in-Chief, Win-Win
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Legislator Bi-Khim Hsiao, one of the youngest congresswomen in
the Taiwanese parliament, from the DPP Party. Bi-khim Hsiao, a member of
Taiwan 's Legislative Yuan, has been active in Taiwan politics for over a
decade. Having lived and studied abroad, Hsiao began her political career
with deep involvement in the international affairs of the Democratic
Progressive Party. She was involved in President Chen Shui-bian's 2000 and
2004 election campaigns as a spokesperson and international affairs
director, became Advisor to President Chen in 2000, and was first elected to
the legislature in December, 2001. Born in Kobe , Japan , Ms. Bi-khim Hsiao
grew up in Tainan , a city in southern Taiwan . She received an MA in
Political Science from Columbia University and a BA in East Asian Studies
from Oberlin College . |
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