the Asia Peace Conference　Panelist Biographies　　　

Japan

Yasushi Kudo
President, the Genron NPO

Yasushi Kudo is the founder and president of the Genron NPO since its establishment in 2001. In 2005, he launched annual civil dialogue (“Tokyo-Beijing Forum”) and the joint opinion poll between Japan and China, which have been conducted over the 15 years since then. In 2013, he newly launched a dialogue, the Japan-Korea Future Dialogue, between Japan and Korea and has conducted a comparative opinion poll on impression of each other’s country. From 2012, Kudo has served as Japanese delegation of the Council of Councils, an international think tank network initiated by the Council on Foreign Relations. “The Asia Forum of Opinion Leaders” has also been established as a venue for open and free debate for intellectuals in Japan and Southeast Asian countries to jointly identify common challenges, and advocate solutions to them, while collaborating to bolster democracy and address challenges to democracy. In 2017,  Kudo launched the "Tokyo Conference," a discussion platform that invites 10 of the world's leading think tanks to exchange views on global issues, and propose recommendations to strengthen the liberal order and democracy.

Yoji Koda
Former Commander in Chief, the Self Defense Fleet

Yoji Koda is Vice Admiral (Retired) of Japan Maritime Self Defense Force with surface warfare specialty. He is a graduate of National Defense Academy (NDA: 1972) and in 1991-1992 he was a student of Naval Command College at the U.S. Naval War College. After 40 years service in NDA and JMSDF, he served as Commander in Chief, Self Defense Fleet, from 2007 until his retirement in 2008. In 2009-11 Koda became a senior fellow at Harvard University's Asia Center, where he worked on the Chinese naval strategy.

Katsutoshi Kawano
Former Chief of Staff, the Japan Self-Defense Force

Admiral Katsutoshi Kawano(Retired) is former Chief of Staff at the Japan Self-Defense Forces. A graduate of National Defense Academy with a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Admiral Kawano was commissioned as a surface warfare officer in 1979. He earned a master's degree in International Relations from Tsukuba University in 1990. He is also a graduate of Command and Staff Course at the U.S. Naval War College. Admiral Kawano's career as a surface warfare officer includes assignments aboard JS Haruna, JS Shirane, and JS Oyodo as Commanding Officer from August 1992 to August 1993. His fleet command assignments include Commander, Escort Division 3; Commander, Escort Flotilla 3; Commander, Marine Warfare Force; Commander Fleet Escort Force; and, Commander in Chief, Self-Defense Fleet prior to assuming his previous post as Chief of Staff, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force on 26 July 2012. Some of the most notable responsibilities he has held ashore are Director General, Administration Department MSO; Director General, Operations and Plans Department MSO; and Vice Chief of Staff. Admiral Kawano had served as the 5th Chief of Staff from October 14, 2014 until his retirement on April 1, 2019.

Masanori NISHI
Former Administrative Vice-Minister of Defense

Masanori Nishi is a former Administrative Vice-Minister of Defense. Mr. Nishi joined Japan Defense Agency (JDA) in 1978. He previously served as; Deputy Director General at Technical Research and Development Institute, JDA,; Director General at Bureau of Finance and Equipment, Ministry of Defense (MOD),; Director General, Bureau of Defense Policy, MOD,; Administrative Vice Minister of Defense, MOD; and Special Adviser to the Minister of Defense.

Yuji Miyamoto
Chairman, Miyamoto Institute of Asian Research, Former Director-General for Arms Control and Scientific Affairs, MOFA,Former Ambassador to Myanmar,　Ambassador in charge of Okinawa,Former Ambassador to the People's Republic of China

Yuji Miyamoto is the chairman of the Miyamoto Institute of Asian Research. At the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he served as the Director of China Division, Fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), Consul General of Japan in Atlanta, Director-General of the Disarmament, Non-proliferation and Science Affairs Bureau, Ambassador to Myanmar, and Ambassador to China between 2006 and 2010.

Hitoshi Tanaka
The Special Advisor of the Institute for International Strategy at the Japan Research Institute, Ltd.,

Hitoshi Tanaka is Special Advisor of the Institute for International Strategy at the Japan Research Institute, Ltd., and a senior fellow at the Japan Center for International Exchange. Prior to joining JCIE in September 2005, Hitoshi Tanaka served for three years as Japan's Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, where he was a top advisor to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on a broad range of issues, including relations with North Korea, China, Russia and the United States. Deputy Director-General of the North American Affairs Bureau. In 2006-2018, he was a visiting professor at the Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Tokyo. Mr. Tanaka holds a BA in law from Kyoto University and BA/MA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) from Oxford University. He is the author of Mienai sensou [The invisible war] (2019: Chuokoron-Shinsha, Inc.), Nihon Gaiko No Chosen [The challenges for Japan's diplomacy] (2015: Kadokawa Ltd.), Reimagining Japan (2011: McKinsey), Purofeshonaru no kosho-ryoku [The logic of strategic negotiation] (2009: Kodansha Ltd.), and Gaiko no chikara [The power of diplomacy] (2009: Nikkei Publishing Inc.), and also JCIE's policy brief series, East Asia Insights.

the United States

Gary Roughead
Admiral, U.S. Navy (Retired)

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Admiral Roughead is a 1973 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy. He became the 29th Chief of Naval Operations in September of 2007, after holding six operational commands.  He is one of only two officers in the history of the Navy to have commanded both the U.S. Atlantic and Pacific Fleets. Ashore he served as the Commandant, U.S. Naval Academy, the Navy's Chief of Legislative Affairs, responsible for the Department of the Navy's interaction with Congress. Admiral Roughead was also the Deputy Commander, U.S. Pacific Command. Since retirement, Admiral Roughead is Robert and Marion Oster Distinguished Military Fellow in the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and serves on the boards of directors of the Northrop Grumman Corporation, Maersk Line, Limited, and the Marinette Marine Corporation. He is a Trustee of Dodge and  Cox Funds, a Trustee of the Johns Hopkins University, and serves on the Board of Managers of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.

Daniel Russel
Former Assistant Secretary of State, the East Asian and Pacific Affairs

Daniel Russel is the Vice President for International Security and Diplomacy at the Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI). Previously he served as a Diplomat in Residence and Senior Fellow with ASPI for a one year term. A career member of the Senior Foreign Service at the U.S. Department of State, he most recently served as the Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. Prior to his appointment as Assistant Secretary on July 12, 2013, Mr. Russel served at the White House as the Special Assistant to the President and National Security Council (NSC) Senior Director for Asian Affairs. During his tenure there, he helped formulate President Obama's strategic rebalance to the Asia Pacific region, including efforts to strengthen alliances, deepen U.S. engagement with multilateral organizations, and expand cooperation with emerging powers in the region.

Prior to joining the NSC in January of 2009, he served as Director of the Office of Japanese Affairs and had assignments as U.S. Consul General in Osaka-Kobe, Japan (2005-2008); Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Hague, Netherlands (2002-2005); Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Nicosia, Cyprus (1999-2002); Chief of Staff to the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering (1997-99); Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1995-96); Political Section Unit Chief at U.S. Embassy Seoul, Republic of Korea (1992-95); Political Advisor to the Permanent Representative to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, Ambassador Pickering (1989-92); Vice Consul in Osaka and Branch Office Manager in Nagoya, Japan (1987-89); and Assistant to the Ambassador to Japan, former Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield (1985-87).

In 1996, Mr. Russel was awarded the State Department's Una Chapman Cox Fellowship sabbatical and authored America's Place in the World, a book published by Georgetown University. Before joining the Foreign Service, he was manager for an international firm in New York City.

Mr. Russel was educated at Sarah Lawrence College and University College, University of London, UK.

Christopher B. Johnstone
Senior Adviser and Japan Chair,the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

Christopher B. Johnstone is senior adviser and Japan Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Prior to joining CSIS, Mr. Johnstone served in government for 25 years in a variety of senior positions with a focus on U.S. policy toward Japan and the Indo-Pacific. He served twice on the National Security Council, as director for East Asia under President Biden and director for Japan and Oceanian affairs under President Obama (2014-2016). In the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Mr. Johnstone led offices with responsibility for South and Southeast Asia (2017-2021) and East Asia (2016-2017); he was director for Northeast Asia from 2010 to 2014, where he had principal responsibility for developing strategy for the U.S.-Japan alliance. Mr. Johnstone began his career as an intelligence officer in the Central Intelligence Agency, where he worked on national security issues in Northeast Asia and served in an overseas field station. Mr. Johnstone has a master's in public affairs from Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs and a bachelor of arts from Swarthmore College. He speaks fluent Japanese.

Mark Montgomery
Executive Director, the Cyberspace Solarium Commission

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Mark Montgomery serves as the Senior Advisor to the Chairmen of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, and was previously the Executive Director. He is also the Senior Director of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation and a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. He previously served as Policy Director for the Senate Armed Services Committee under the leadership of Senator John S. McCain and completed 32 years as a nuclear trained surface warfare officer in the U.S. Navy, retiring as a Rear Admiral in 2017.

Brad Glosserman
Senior　Advisor,　Pacific Forum

For 15 years, he was the executive director of Pacific Forum. He is the author of Peak Japan: The End of Grand Ambitions (Georgetown University Press, 2019), and co-author, with Scott Snyder, of The Japan-ROK Identity Clash (Columbia University Press, 2015).  He is the editor, with Tae-hyo Kim, of The Future of U.S.-Korea-Japan Relations: Balancing Values and Interests (Pacific Forum, 2004).  His opinion pieces and commentary regularly appear in media around the globe, and he has written dozens of monographs on U.S. foreign policy and Asian security relations. Other articles have appeared in scholarly journals throughout the region, and he has contributed numerous chapters to books on regional security.

Mr. Glosserman is the English-language editor of the journal of the New Asia Research Institute (NARI) in Seoul.  He is a frequent participant in U.S. State Department and US Navy visiting lecture programs and speaks at conferences, research institutes, and universities around the world. He is a guest professor at the Osaka University School of International and Public Policy (OSIPP) and an adjunct lecturer at the Management Center of Innsbruck (MCI).

Prior to joining Pacific Forum, he was, for 10 years, a member of The Japan Times editorial board, and continues to serve as a contributing editor for the newspaper. Glosserman has a J.D. from George Washington University, an M.A. from Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a B.A. from Reed College.

China

Jia Qingguo
Professor and former Dean of the School of International Studies of Peking University, Former Member of the Standing Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference

Jia Qingguo is professor and former dean of the School of International Studies of Peking University. He is also Director of the Institute for China-US People-to-People Exchange and Director of the Center for China and Global Governance at Peking University. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1988. He has taught in University of Vermont, Cornell University, University of California at San Diego, University of Sydney in Australia as well as Peking University. He was a research fellow at the Brookings Institution between 1985 and 1986, a visiting professor at the University of Vienna in 1997 and a CNAPS fellow at the Brookings Institution between 2001 and 2002. He is a member of the Standing Committee and the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He is also Vice President of the Chinese American Studies Association, Vice President of China International Relations Studies Association, and Vice President of Chinese Japanese Studies Association. He is serving on the editorial board of more than a dozen established domestic and international academic journals. He has published extensively on U.S.-China relations, Northeast Asia, relations between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan, Chinese foreign policy and Chinese politics.

Fan Gaoyue
Former Chief Specialist, PLA Academy of Military Science,Retired Senior Colonel

Gaoyue FAN, retired senior colonel, is now Guest Professor at American Studies Center, Sichuan University and Senior Research Fellow at Grandview Institution. He used to be a research fellow, deputy director, director and chief specialist at the PLA Academy of Military Science (AMS), Program Director at China Strategic Culture Promotion Association in Beijing and a guest professor at Collaborative Innovation Center for Security and Development of Western Frontier China, Sichuan University in Chengdu. His research interests include US military affairs, international security and cooperation, international arms control and disarmament. He studied at Jilin University and the Southwest China Normal University where an MA in British and American English Language and Literature was conferred on him. He was trained at PLA National Defense University for a year, and studied as a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania for a year and as a residence WDS-Handa Fellow at the Pacific Forum CSIS for half a year. He had served as an infantry man, staff officer and English instructor before he came to AMS. He has published dozens of books such as Iraq War: The First War That Is Characterized by Information Age, Joint Operations and Joint Training of the US Armed Forces, The US Special Forces, Studies on American Military Affairs and 280 articles such as A Chinese Perspective on the US Third Offset Strategy and Possible Chinese Responses, Iron Curtain Rises with THAAD in South Korea, and New Thinking to Solve North Korean Nuclear Issue.

Ouyang Wei
Vice Chairman of Academic Committee, Grandview Institution,Professor, PLA National Defense University

Professor Ouyang Wei, PhD, is Vice Chairman of Academic Committee of Grandview Institution. He also was former general secretary of National Security Lab, National Defense University in Beijing, P.R China, Sr. Col. (Rt). He concentrates on Regional Security, Defense Strategy, Crises Management, border security, Mobilization, and Non-traditional Security issues. He previously served more than 20 years as a command and staff officer at different level in Armed Forces. He graduated from Armor Command College, Army Command College, National Defense University and Royal College of Defense Studies (UK). Prof. Ouyang Wei has published books and articles, such as Strategic Posture and Deployment; The History of Evolution about Operational Thinking; The Famous Commanders and Campaign in World War II; Strategic Legacy in 20th Century; Security Structure of North East Asia. Disaster Relieve: An Important Mission of Chinese Armed Forces in the New Stage; National Security Decision Making in Western World; The New Operational Form in High Tech Warfare., Non-traditional Security: Emergency Response of Armed Force; Doctrine on National Defense Mobilization; Research on construction and management of border and Coastal defense.

Republic of Korea

Lim Sungnam
Former First Vice Foreign Minister,Former South Korean Ambassador for ASEAN

Ambassador Sungnam Lim spent almost 40 years serving in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of　Korea. Most recently, he served as Ambassador to ASEAN in Jakarta until his retirement in December 2021, and before that assignment, served as First Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs for about three years from October 2015. He also served as Special Representative for Korean Peninsula Peace and Security Affairs, focusing on North Korea, and then offered to become Ambassador to the UK. Other than above, he experienced many overseas assignments include Washington DC, Beijing, New York (UN) and Taipei. Ambassador Lim received BA and MA from Seoul National University and MA from Harvard University. He also served as a visiting fellow at the University of Tokyo and the Sejong Institute. Currently, Ambassador Lim is serving as Global Advisor at Bae, Kim & Lee, a leading law firm in Korea.

Hyoung-zhin Kim
Former Deputy National Security Advisor, Office of National Security, South-Korea, Visiting Fellow, Institute for Future Strategy, SNU / PhD student, National / Graduate Institute for Policy Studies and Visiting Fellow, Waseda University, Japan

Dec.1999 First Secretary, Korean Embassy in the People's Republic of China
Aug.2002 Assistant Secretary, Office of the President
Jul.2003 Director, North America Division 1, MOFAT
Dec.2005 Minister-Counsellor, Korean Embassy in the United States of America
Aug.2009 Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Jun.2010 Director-General, North American Affairs Bureau, MOFAT
Feb.2012 Visiting Fellow, University of Tokyo, Japan
Mar.2013 Secretary to the President for Foreign Affairs, Office of the President
Mar.2015 Deputy Minister for Planning and Coordination, MOFA
Feb.2016 Deputy Minister for Political Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, MOFAJan.
2017 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Kingdom of Belgium
and Korean Mission to the European Union
Jan.2020 Ambassador for International Relations, Seoul Metropolitan Government
Jan.2021 Deputy National Security Advisor, Office of National Security
Jun.2022 Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Future Strategy, Seoul National University (SNU)
Oct.2023 Visiting Fellow, Institute for Future Strategy, SNU / PhD student, National　Graduate Institute for Policy Studies and Visiting Fellow, Waseda University, Japan
AWARDS:
Dec.2013 Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order, UK
Dec.2022 Order of Service Merit, Yellow Stripes, Republic of Korea

Heo　Taekeun
Former Deputy Minister of Defense Policy, ROK MND, Brigadier General, ROK, Retired

□ Military & Civilian Carer
◦ 2022∼2023 Deputy Minister of Defense Policy, ROK MND
◦ 2019∼2021 Deputy Commanding General-ROK, US Eighth Army
◦ 2018∼2019 Deputy DG, North Korea Policy Bureau, ROK MND
◦ 2016∼2017 Deputy DG, Policy Planning Bureau, ROK MND
◦ 2015∼2016 Director, U.S. Policy Division. ROK MND
◦ 2015 Chief, Command Structure Team, Joint Chiefs of Staff
◦ 2014∼2015 Chief of Staff, the 65th Infantry Division
◦ 2012∼2014 Commander, 169th Regiment, the 51st Infantry Division
◦ 2010∼2011 Exchange Officer, U.S. Joint Forces Command
◦ 2011∼2012 Liaison Officer, J7, Joint Staff, U.S. Military
◦ 2008∼2010 Deputy Director, U.S. Policy Division, ROK MND
◦ 2006∼2008 Commander, 4th BN, 93rd RGT, the 31st ID
◦ 2005∼2006 Zaytun DIV. LNO to MNC-I ( Operation Iraq Freedom, Bagdad )
◦ 2003∼2004 Action Officer, U.S. Policy Division, MND
□ Civil / Military Education
◦ 1989 B.A., Korean Military Academy (National Security)
◦ 2000 M.A., Yonsei University (Political Science)
◦ 2008 APCSS (Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies)
◦ 2013 Ph.D, Kyunggi University (International Politics)
□ Foreign Citation
◦ U.S., Legion of Merit (18 Jan. 2022)
◦ U.S., Joint Service Commendation Medal (12 Sep. 2012)
◦ U.S., Army Commendation Medal (1 Aug. 1992)