Professor Fujita served as Professor of the Institute of Economic Research at Kyoto University; President of the Institute of Developing Economies - JETRO (2003-07); and Professor in the Department of Economics/Regional Science at the University of Pennsylvania. His research and teaching interests are urban economics, regional economics, international trade, and spatial economics. He holds a Ph.D. in Regional Science from the University of Pennsylvania. His major works include The Spatial Economy: Cities, Regions, and International Trade (with P. Krugman and A.J. Venables), MIT Press, 1999; Economics of Agglomeration: Cities, Industrial Location, and Regional Growth (with J. Thisse), Cambridge University Press, 2002; Spatial Economics, vol. 1, 2 (editor), The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics, Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., 2005; Regional Integration in East Asia: From the Viewpoint of Spatial Economics (editor), Macmillan, 2007.
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Hiroyuki Odagiri studied at Kyoto University (B.A.), Osaka University (M.A.), Northwestern University (Ph.D.), and since 1998 has been teaching in the Department of Economics at Hitotsubashi University. He previously taught at Oberlin College and the University of Tsukuba. He also has ample research experience abroad, having served as a Senior Research Fellow at the International Institute of Management (IIM) of Science Centre Berlin (1982-83) and at the Centre for Business Strategy of London Business School (1988-90). During 2001-04, he directed research at the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP), a research institute of Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology; and since April 2008 he has been the Director of Competition Policy Research Center, Japan Fair Trade Commission. His fields of specialization are the theory of the firm, industrial organization, and economic studies of innovation. His major works include The Theory of Growth in a Corporate Economy, Cambridge University Press, 1981; Growth through Competition, Competition through Growth, Oxford University Press, 1992; Technology and Industrial Development in Japan (with A. Goto), Oxford University Press, 1996.

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Dr. Nelson is the George Blumenthal Professor of International and Public Affairs, Business, and Law, Emeritus, at Columbia University; and the Director of the Program on Science Technology, and Global Development at the Columbia Earth Institute. He also is Visiting Professor at the University of Manchester. His research has concentrated on the processes of long-run economic change, with particular emphasis on technological advances and on the evolution of economic institutions. Some of his publications include Technology, Institutions, and Economic Growth, Harvard, 2005; The Sources of Economic Growth, Harvard, 2000, The Sources of Industrial Leadership, Cambridge, 1999, National Innovation Systems: A Comparative Analysis, Oxford, 1993; An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change, Harvard, 1985 (reprint); and many others. Dr. Nelson holds a B.A. from Oberlin College. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1956 from Yale University. From 1956-57 he was an Assistant Professor at Oberlin College, and from 1968-86 he was a Professor at Yale University. He has also served as an Economist at the Rand Corporation (1957-60, 1963-68) and as a Senior Member at the Council of Economic Advisers (1961-63). From 1981-1986 he served as the Director of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies.

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After serving as Research Associate at the Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, Professor Miyajima joined Waseda University's School of Commerce in 1987. He has also served at the Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies, Harvard University, as a Visiting Researcher (1992-94 and 2004-present). He is a Faculty Fellow at RIETI (2002-present), Special Research Fellow at the Policy Research Institute of Japan's Ministry of Finance (2001-present), Adjunct Professor at Chung-Ang University (2001-present), and was a Vice Director of the Waseda Institute of Finance (2004-08). His research focuses on the Japanese economy, economic history of Japan, corporate finance, and corporate governance. He holds a Ph.D. in Commerce from Waseda University. His major works include Corporate Governance in Japan: Institutional Change and Organizational Diversity (with Masahiko Aoki and Gregory Jackson), Oxford University Press, 2007; Changes and Continuity in Japan (with S. Maswood and D. Graham), Routledge Curzon Press, 2002.
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Before assuming his current post at the London School of Economics (LSE) in 2003, Dr. Van Reenen served as a Professor in the Department of Economics at University College London (1994-2003), Senior Advisor to Chief Economist of DG Competition (2003-06) at the European Commission, Partner of Lexecon Ltd. (2001-02), Senior Policy Analyst in the Strategic Unit at the Department of Health (2000-01), reporting directly to the Secretary of State and being involved with the writing and analysis underlying the NHS Plan, which lays out government health policy for the next 10 years. He was also a Policy Adviser to No.10 Downing Street 1999-2000. He obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from University College London in 1993, and his MSc (with distinction and prize) from LSE, and his BA in Social and Political Sciences (with Joshua King prize, College prize and Subject prizes for the highest grade in 10 years) from Queens College, University of Cambridge. His major works include "Measuring and Explaining Management practices across firms and nations" (with Nick Bloom), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2007; "How special is the relationship: Using the impact of US R&D spillovers on British firms as a test of technology sourcing" (with Rupert Harrison and Rachel Griffith), American Economic Review, December 2006, 96(5), 1859-1875; "Skill biased organisational change? Evidence from British and French establishments" (with Eve Caroli), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2001, CXVI, No. 4, 1449-1492.

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Professor Humbert arrived at his current post of Director of the French Institute of Research Abroad in Tokyo UMIFRE 19 CNRS-MAE at MFJ in October 2008. He is also Professor of Economics, University of Rennes 1, France (1984-), where he is also Advisor at University of Rennes 1 presidency (1989-99) and on Sabbatical leave as Fellow of The Japan Foundation and also as Invited Research Fellow University of Tokyo (1999); He is also Vice President of PEKEA, a non profit organization building and running an international network for the project to establish collectively a political and ethical knowledge about economic activities. His research area includes technical change, innovation and globalization, with a recent focus on two points: a) the link between technology and culture within enterprises especially in Japan with international comparisons, b) the link between globalization and local cultures, especially through relationships between city and countryside, in relation on the one hand with SME's and local arrangements and on the other hand with direct sales of farm products in urban and peri-urban agriculture. He obtained his Ph.D.s in Economics and Business from the University of Rennes. His major works include "Un introuvable slogan mobilisateur," Entropia, n°5, Automne 2008, pp. 69-90; "Antagonisme et synergie sino-nippones: quelques observations," La Chine dans la mondialisation-Marchés et Stratégies, pp. 45-70 in Philippe Béraud et Sophie Changeur, dir., Maisonneuve Larose, Paris, 2006.

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