We will host our Policy Seminar on June 26. Details below. Thanks very much!

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NEMOTO, Kuniaki (Ph.D)
Research Fellow / Assistant Professor
Organization for Japan-US Studies, Waseda University http://sites.google.com/site/knemoto1978/

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Waseda University Organization for Japan-US Studies
(WOJUSS) Policy Seminar

"The Great New Search for Global and Regional Economic
Governance: What is Japan's Role?"
Speaker: Yves Tiberghien (University of British
Columbia)
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Waseda University Organization for Japan-US Studies
(WOJUSS) would like to invite you to a policy seminar (please see the details below) on June 26.
Please RSVP at info-wojuss[at]list.waseda.jp by June 21.
(Your personal information will be appropriately managed.
It is only used for this seminar's preparation and will not be utilized for other purposes.)

Title: "The Great New Search for Global and Regional Economic Governance: What is Japan's Role?"
Date/Time: June 26 (Wed), 12:00-14:00
Place: Multipurpose Lecture Room, Okuma Memorial Tower (Bldg.#26), Waseda Campus
(MAP) http://www.waseda.jp/eng/campus/map.html

Speaker: Yves Tiberghien
Associate Professor of Political Science, Director of Institute for Asian Research (IAR) University of British Columbia

Biography: Yves Tiberghien (Ph.D. Stanford University) is Associate Professor of Political Science and the Director of the Institute of Asian Research at a UBC.
As well, he is a Faculty Associate of the Center for Chinese Research and at the Center for Japanese Research at UBC.

Yves is a former Japan Foundation Fellow (as Visiting Scholar at the Ministry of Finance of Japan and at Keio in 1999-2000). In 2004-2006, Yves was an Academy Scholar at Harvard University. In 2010-2011, he was a Visiting Associate Professor at National Chengchi University in Taiwan. In April-July 2011, as an East Asian Institute Peace Fellow, he was a visiting scholar at Peking University, Fudan University, Taiwan University, Keio University, and the EAI (Seoul, Korea). In May-July 2013, Yves was a visiting Assciate Professor at Tokyo University's Graduate School of Public Policy (GRASPP).

He specializes in international and comparative political economy with empirical focus on Japan, China, and Europe.

In 2007, he published Entrepreneurial States: Reforming Corporate Governance in France, Japan, and Korea (Cornell University Press in the Political Economy Series). He has also published several articles and book chapters on the Japan's bubble economy, crisis period, and reform process; as well, he has written articles and chapters on Japan's climate change policy and genetically-modified food regulations. He recently published "the global economic crisis and the politics of regime change in Japan" (in Coping with Crisis:
Government Reactions to the Great Recession. 2012.
Nancy Bermeo and Jonas Pontusson, ed. Russell Sage Foundation).

Dr. Tiberghien is working on a new multi-year project on the roles of China and Japan in global governance (with focus on global financial regulations, G20, and global environmental issues), funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).

The project has led to two books on Asia's role in global governance (L'Asie et le future du monde, Paris:
Science Po Press, 2012; and Leadership in Global
Institution-Building: Minerva's Rule, edited volume, Palgrave McMillan, February 2013). He has written several articles on the G20 geopolitical chessboard and on the East Asian role in the G20.

Commentator: Hideaki Miyajima (Professor of Japanese Economy, Director of WIAS, Waseda University)

Moderator: Kuniaki Nemoto (Assistant Professor, WOJUSS)

Language: English

* If you have any questions, please contact us at info-wojuss[at]list.waseda.jp