Professor Fujita previously 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. He is currently serving as President of Japanese Economic Association (2009-). He is also Visiting Professor at Nankai University and Shanghai University. 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.Major works: The Spatial Economy: Cities, Regions, and International Trade, MIT Press, 1999 (with P. Krugman and A.J. Venables); Economics of Agglomeration: Cities, Industrial Location, and Regional Growth, Cambridge University Press, 2002 (with J. Thisse);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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Mr. Josef Broich has gained substantial expertise in all forms of cross-border restructurings, M&A and in German corporate law, in particular regarding mergers, transformations, spin-offs and split-ups. He has advised several German and international blue chip clients in connection with their acquisitions, divestitures and restructurings in Europe, Asia and in the U.S. He advises management boards and supervisory boards, particularly regarding modern corporate governance, board compensation and regarding critical German shareholders' meetings. Furthermore, he advises international institutional investors regarding their investments in European public companies as well as in the area of distressed assets.

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Dr. Yoshino is also in charge of Chairman, Fiscal Council, Fiscal Investment and LoanProgram, the Ministry of Finance (MOF). Prior to his current position, he was Associate Professor of Graduate school of Policy Science at Saitama University (1982-90), Visiting Professor of Fondation Nationale Des Sciences Politiques in Paris, New South Wales University in Sydney and Goteborg University in Sweden. He received his Ph.D from Johns Hopkins University in 1975 and an honorary doctorate from University of Gothenburg in 2004. Major works: "Japanese financial service firms in East and Southeast Asia: Location pattern and strategic response in changing economic conditions" (with Patrik Strom), Asian Business and Management, Vol.8, No.1, pp33-58, Macmillan, 2009
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Dr. Kobayashi joined the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI, currently METI) in 1991 and served as Assistant Director (1991-95) and Deputy Director (1998-2001). He was Visiting Fellow atthe Research and Statistics Department, Bank of Japan, (2001-02). His research interests are the macroeconomics of the bad debt problem and the banking system, business cycle models, and endogenous growth theory. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago in 1998.
Major works: "Forbearance Impedes Confidence Recovery," Journal of Macroeconomics, 2007; "Fiscal Consequences of Inflationary Policies," Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2005; "Debt Disorganization in Japan" (with Masaru Inaba), Japan and the World Economy, 2004; "A Theory of Debt Disorganization," Journal of Restructuring Finance, 2004
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Prior to his current position, Mr. Oikawa served as Senior Executive Director, Development Bank of Japan (2003-05); Advisor, Nomura Research Institute, Ltd. (2002-03); Research Counselor, TEPIA (2002-03); Commissioner, Japan Patent Office; Director-General, Bureau of Equipment, Japan Defense Agency; Director-General for Policy Coordination, Minister's Secretariat; Councilor, Cabinet Secretariat; Deputy Director-General for Security Export Control, International Trade Administration Bureau; Director, Coordination Division, Bureau of Equipment, Japan Defense Agency; Director, Small Enterprise Policy Division, Small and Medium Enterprise Agency; Counselor, Japanese Mission to European Community, Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Director, Paper, Pulp & Printing Division, Consumer Goods Industries Bureau. Mr. Oikawa graduated from the University of Tokyo with a B.A. in Economics.
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