Abraham Newman

Abraham L. Newman is the John Powers Chair in International Business Diplomacy in the School of Foreign Service and Government Department at Georgetown University and Director of the BMW Center for German and European Studies. His research focuses on the politics generated by globalization and is the co-author most recently of Underground Empire: How American Weaponized the World Economy (Holt 2023), which received the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Bronze Medal and was named one of Foreign Affairs’ best Books of the Year, and co-author of Of Privacy and Power: The Transatlantic Struggle over Freedom and Security (Princeton University Press 2019), which was the winner of the 2019 Chicago-Kent College of Law / Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize and the 2020 International Studies Association ICOMM Best Book Award. He is the winner of the 2022-2023 Berlin Prize and has published over forty peer-reviewed articles in journals including Comparative Political Studies, International Organization, International Security, Nature, Science, and World Politics. He is a regular commentator on international affairs with pieces appearing in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Foreign Affairs.

Mireya Solís

Mireya Solís is Director of the Center for Asia Policy Studies (CAPS), Philip Knight Chair in Japan Studies, and senior fellow in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings. Dr. Solís is an expert on Japanese foreign economic policy, economic security, and U.S. economic statecraft in Asia.

Her most recent book “Japan’s Quiet Leadership: Reshaping the Indo-Pacific" was named among Foreign Affairs’ best books of 2024. The Japanese edition ネットワークパワー日本の台頭 ―「失われた30 年」論を超えて was published by Nikkei Press in July 2024.

Her book, “Dilemmas of a Trading Nation Japan and the United States in the Evolving Asia-Pacific Order” (Brookings Press, 2017) received the 2018 Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Award.

Solís has offered expert commentary to The New York Times, Financial Times, Washington Post, LA Times, Politico, The New Yorker, Nikkei, Kyodo News, Asahi Shimbun, Jiji Press, Japan Times, NHK World, Bloomberg, CNN, and BBC, among others.

Satoshi Inomata

Satoshi Inomata is a Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of Developing Economies, JETRO, Japan. He was a visiting researcher at the University of London for 2000-02, and at the OECD the Science, Technology and Innovation Directorate for 2020-23.

He is a former president of the International Input-Output Association (IIOA), and an editorial board member of Cambridge University Press Elements Series and Economic Systems Research.

Inomata received his BA in Politics and Economics from the University of London, MSc in Development Economics from the University of Oxford, and PhD (Economics) from the Hitotsubashi University, Japan. His recent research includes in-depth studies of global production networks using input-output techniques. He has been awarded three most prestigious academic prizes in Japan for his recent book Geopolitics of Global Value Chains (2023) and for the previous book Global Value Chains (2019), both from the Nikkei Press, Japan.

He also wrote a chapter on a compilation method of multi-country input-output table in the United Nations Handbook on Supply and Use and Input-Output Tables with Extensions and Applications.

Takashi Shiraishi

Born in 1950, Shiraishi Takashi graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1972, and obtained Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1986. He taught at the University of Tokyo (1979-1987), Cornell University (1987-1998), Kyoto University (1996-2005), and National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS, 2005-2009). He served as Executive Member of the Council for Science and Technology Policy (CSTP), Cabinet Office in 2009-2012 and President of GRIPS in 2011-2017. He taught at Ritsumeikan University as University Professor in 2017-2018 and served as President of the Institute of Developing Economies-Japan External Trade Organization between 2007 and 2017. He served as Chancellor of Kumamoto Prefectural University between 2018 and 2024. He also served as editor of Indonesia, journal of the Cornell Southeast Asia Program (1987-1998), and editor-in-chief of Japan Echo and its successor, nippon.com (2007-2014). He was awarded the Japanese Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon in 2007. He was designated to the Order of Cultural Merit with special stipend for life in 2016. He has published numerous books, including three award-winning works: An Age in Motion (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990, Ohira Masayoshi Asia Pacific Award, Indonesia: Kokka to Seiji ([Government and Politics in Indonesia] Tokyo: Libroport, 1990, Suntory Academic Award), and Umi no Teikoku (Tokyo: Chuokoron, 2000, Yomiuri-Yoshino Sakuzo Award; translated in English as Empires of the Seas).