Asia Fellows
Ryu Ho-Young is currently the the director general for Health Policy, Ministry of Health, Welfare, and Family Affairs, for the government of the Republic of Korea. He is also a professor in the Ministry’s Korean Human Resources Development Institute for Health and Welfare. Mr. Ryu is a career public servant having served as director general for Poverty Prevention Policy in the Ministry of Planning and Budget (2007); coordinator for Welfare and Women Policy in the Prime Minister's Office (2006), and as the vice head of the Planning Group on the Healthcare Industry of the Presidential Committee on Healthcare Industry Innovation (2005). Mr. Ryu has also been the director, Financial Management Reform Team, Investment Management Division of the Ministry of Planning and Budget, and served as the principal administrator, of the Budgeting and Financial Management Group, PUMA, OECD, Paris, France.
Mr. Ryu holds bachelor's and master's degrees from Seoul National University and a master's in public policy from Duke University, Durham, NC. He has completed course work toward a Ph.D in the Department of Public Administration, Graduate School, Sungkyunkwan University. During his fellowship, Mr. Ryu will research the effects of the socio-economic environment on healthy lifestyle.
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Amy Cheng holds positions as managing director and head of the Metal & Mining Team at the Bank of China International Holdings, Limited. She is also the deputy director of China Democratic League Committee for Economic Development. Cheng has led and participated in numerous initial public offerings, private placements, and mergers and acquisitions in Asian capital markets. Cheng holds an EMBA degree from Guanghua School of Management, Peking University in China. During her Asia Programs fellowship, Cheng will study mergers and acquisitions in the minerals industry.
e: amy_cheng@hks.harvard.edu
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Wei Cheng is currently chief managing researcher for the macro strategy research at the Research Center of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council（SASAC). He has long been involved in the reformation of state-owned enterprises. Wei Cheng has chaired and participated in the writing of several policies for SASAC of China and some important research projects. His work has pushed the development in the management framework for monitoring state-owned capital, risk management for state-owned enterprises, the budgeting for the operation of state-owned capital, the governing structure of the state-owned enterprises, assessment of budget management, and the reformation of profit sharing system. Wei Cheng is a Ph.D. candidate of managerial sciences, Beijing University of Science and Technology. Wei Cheng earned a MBA in the School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University. During his fellowship, Wei Cheng will study the regulation of state-owned public assets.
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Dr. Chu is currently an associate professor at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), and a member of the International Communication Association, and the Committee of System Dynamics in Systems Engineering Society of China. At the age of 27, Jianxun was the youngest principal investigator for several academic projects of the National Science Foundation of China, the National Social Science Foundation of China, and the fund of “President’s Prize” of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. While at the Ash Institute, his research will focus on crisis communication policy during large disasters along with knowledge sharing in collaborative social networks, especially for organizational communication in complex systems. He holds a Ph.D. in management science and engineering from USTC, in Hefei, China.
e: chu_jianxun@hks.harvard.edu
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Dr. Chu Songyan is currently a professor of political science at China National School of Administration (CNSA), and her work includes training senior civil servants and delivering consultative reports for both central and local governments in China. As a guest researcher at Center for Civil Society Studies, Peking University, her work includes training senior NPO leaders and doing researches on government-NPO relation. She has been in charge of two youth projects sponsored by the National Social Science Foundation of China. Her research interests focus on government innovation and Chinese administrative reform. During her Asia Programs fellowship, Professor Chu will research public participation in government innovation. Through observing the relationship between NGOs participation and local government innovation both in China and US, she will analyze the future prospect of the local government innovation in China. Professor Chu received her Ph.D. in political science from the School of Government, Peking University in 2001.
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Duan is a senior professor of Philosophy and Strategy Study at the Central Party School in China. He is dean of teaching-research section of strategy study, executive director of Research Center for Social Development and deputy director of Academic Committee of Philosophy Department in Central Party School. His work includes training government officials and entrepreneurs of China. As a guest professor at the National Academy of Education Administration, his work includes training university presidents of China. He received his PhD in Philosophy at Peking University. His current research focuses on social science methodology, strategy theory and development strategy of China. He has written several books, including Methodological Individualism in the Paralogic Perspective of Social Science, and published over a hundred papers about strategy and philosophy.
e: peijun_duan@hks.harvard.edu
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Fu, Liping
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Before joining the Ash Institute, Tomoyuki Fukumoto was a staff member at the Bank of Japan (BOJ) and served as assistant director of the Bank's Center for Advanced Financial Technology. At the Center, he conducted a wide variety of research projects regarding risk management of financial institutions. He has an extensive experience in China serving at the Japanese Embassy in Beijing (2000-2003) and studying the economic and financial systems of the country. Currently, his research focus is directed toward corporate governance and risk management of Chinese banks and the country's financial deregulation. Mr Fukumoto earned a B.A. from the Law Faculty of Kyoto University.
e: tomoyuki_fukumoto@hks.harvard.edu
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Gao, Fei
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Gong, Jianzhong
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Dr. Usha Haley is a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. She was a tenured professor of International Business and founding director of the Global Business Center at the University of New Haven. In addition, Dr. Haley has held full-time faculty positions at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Australian National University, National University of Singapore, and ITESM-Monterrey of Mexico. Her research focuses on business-government relations, FDI, strategic decision-making, sanctions, subsidies, and non-tariff barriers. She has authored more than 150 publications, 22 journal articles, and six books, including Multinational Corporations in Political Environments and The Chinese Tao of Business. She has testified before the Congressionally-mandated U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission and the Committee on Ways and Means, and presented before the U.S. International Trade Commission on U.S.-China trade. Dr. Haley holds a Ph.D. in management and international business from the Stern School of Business, New York University. During her Asia Programs fellowship, Dr. Haley will research governance and strategy in Chinese Outward FDI.
e: usha_haley@hks.harvard.edu
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Xiaojiang Hu is an associate professor in the School of Social Development and Public Policy at Beijing Normal University. Her main research interest is in migration studies, with a focus on migration and health, particularly in China. Another part of her recent research is on the social aspects of natural disasters, such as disaster risk perception, risk estimates, and risk governance. Hu holds a Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard University.
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Dr. Huang is a professor of Information Systems (IS) at the Department of Management of Information Systems (MIS) at Ohio University’s College of Business. Dr. Huang holds a Ph.D. in Information Systems. He is currently a senior editor of the International Journal of Data Base and the executive editor of the International Journal of Internet and Enterprise Management. During his fellowship, Dr. Huang will research China's National "Thousand Hundred Ten (THT) Project and the Ambitious Plan to Globalize its Service Industry: Business Opportunities and Implications to U.S. Corporations.”
e: huang_wayne@hks.harvard.edu
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Jiang, Yaoping
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Kailang Guo is currently a vice governor of the People’s Government of Hunan Province, China. He is in charge of education, science and technology, high-tech industries, culture, public health, sports, and foreign affairs. Previously, he held various positions in the Ministry of Coal Industry of China, the Organization Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), and the General Office of the CPC Central Committee. He received his master’s degree in management from China University of Mining and Technology. During his Asia Programs fellowship, he will do comparative studies in education, training, and innovation between China and America.
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Chunlin (Henry) Liu is currently a professor and chair of the Business Administration Department, School of Business, Nanjing University, China. He is a principal investigator for several academic projects of the National Science Foundation of China. His research interests include emergency management, operations management, and supply chain management. He holds a Ph.D. in systems engineering from Southeast University, in Nanjing, China. He is now conducting research titled "What makes a more efficient denial when facing a rumor? Evidence from Chinese stock market."
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Liu, Xin
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Mao, Jie
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Dr. Munoz is an associate professor at the Tabor School of Business, Millikin University in Illinois. He is chairman and CEO of the international management consulting firm Munoz and Associates International, and works with several clients in emerging markets. He has published several journal articles, book chapters, and four books including A Salesman in Asia. His research focuses on globalization, outsourcing, international ethics, social entrepreneurship, and strategy. During his fellowship at the Ash Institute, Dr. Munoz will research microenterprises and governance.
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Tomoshige Nambu is a government official at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) in Japan. Before joining the Ash institute, he served as the deputy director of the METIʼs Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation Bureau. At the METI, he has lead and participated in several policy initiatives including an overhaul of foreign investment regulations, a review of export and investment insurances, and an introduction of public and private partnership schemes in the economic cooperation. During the Asia Program fellowship, his research will focus on international trade and investment rules in the Asia-Pacific region, especially between Japan and China. He holds a LL.M. from Harvard Law School and a LL.B. from University of Tokyo.
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Pan, Xuejun
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Pillania, Rajesh Kumar
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Mr. Ajmal Qureshi has served as representative (status of Ambassador) of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Uganda and China with multiple accreditations to Mongolia and North Korea. Preceding his assignment with United Nations, he was director/ joint secretary of the Rural Development Academy, Peshawar. He has also served in the diplomatic service as Pakistan’s Consul General (Head of Mission) in Istanbul, Turkey. He has worked extensively in the public sector and government organizations in senior management positions. He holds a M.A. in economics from Boston University. He is recipient of Boston University’s 2007 Most Distinguished Alumni Award. Mr. Qureshi sits on the Board of the United Nations Association of Greater Boston. He is also on the Board of Directors of Boston based NGO, Coalition for a Strong United Nations (CSUN). He is a senior advisor and honorary professor at the Chinese Academy of Agriculture al Sciences in Beijing, PR China. His major research focus is on food security in China.
e: ajmal_qureshi@fas.harvard.edu
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Educated as a political scientist, Dr. Ren Junfeng is currently an associate professor of political theory in the School of International Relations & Public Affairs, Fudan University, Shanghai, CHINA. Dr. Ren holds senior associate membership of St. Antony’s college, Oxford University. His research fields include U.S. politics, western political history, political theory, and early modern western political thought. Teaching courses include U.S. Constitution and politics, western classics, democracy in america, western political history, and western classics from middle ages to modern. His working project is a systematic examination of American township politics in the quest for some insights into the internal dynamics of the federalism of the United States. The research is will address two fundamental questions: First, what is the character of township politics in the context of the whole federal system? Second, in what ways does township politics contribute to the federal democracy of the United States?
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Malcolm Riddell is president of RIDDELLTSENG, a boutique investment bank he established in 1988. As a Mandarin speaker living in China and Taiwan for nearly 20 years, he advises leading international financial services, insurance, and real estate companies on foreign direct investment in China, and represents them directly in negotiating these deals. Before RIDDELLTSENG, Riddell was an investment banker in real estate finance at Salomon Brothers (now part of CitiGroup); a U.S. delegate to the UN; and a CIA case officer in China Operations as well as a CIA Special Operations Group reserve officer. During his Asia Programs fellowship, Riddell will be researching the political economy of capital formation in the Chinese real estate industry.
e: malcolm_riddell@hks.harvard.edu
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Dr. Sun Baohou is the Auditor-in-Chief of the National Audit Office of China (CNAO). In 1987, he received his Ph.D. in economics from Xiamen University and started his career with the CNAO. Since then, he has served in several departments including the Department of Foreign Funds Application Audit, Audit Research Institute, and Law Department. Dr. Sun has acquired other professional designations including senior auditor, researcher, and certified public auditor (non-practicing). He is also an active researcher in the field of government auditing and has published numerous books and articles. In summer 2006, Dr. Sun joined the fifth executive program of China’s Leaders in Development (CLD) held by the Harvard Kennedy School. After this program, he produced a case study titled “Why Private Coffers are Rampant,” which was published in the book Good Governance in China – A Way Towards Social Harmony. While at the Ash Institute in fall 2009, his research will focus on history of auditing and the relationships between federal and state auditing institutions in the United States.
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Mingyang Tao is a senior financial expert at the Postal Savings Bank of China (PSBC). His major responsibilities at the PSBC include daily management, strategic planning, and research on operations and development of the Bank. During his Asia Programs fellowship, Tao will research the enhancement of rural financial services in China with a specific focus on the feasibility of micro-finance, bank management, and investment operations in rural areas. Tao earned a M.A. in art at China’s Remin University and a M.A. in management at the School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University.
e: tao_mingyang@hks.harvard.edu
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Vu Thanh Tu Anh is the director of research at the Fulbright School in Ho Chi Minh City. Dr. Tu Anh's primary research interests include Vietnamese industrial policy; the political economy of reform, especially of state owned enterprises; provincial development policy; and public finance. He recently completed a comparative study of Vietnamese industrial policy with Dwight Perkins. As the Fulbright School's Research Director, Dr. Tu Anh leads the Fulbright School's policy research and analysis efforts, coordinating research teams that often include faculty from both the Fulbright School and Harvard Kennedy School as well as Vietnamese policy analysts from inside and outside government. Dr. Tu Anh frequently comments on economic issues in the Vietnamese media and in recent years has authored several dozen articles for leading Vietnamese newspapers and periodicals. At the Fulbright School, he teaches microeconomics, public finance, and development finance. He teaches regularly in the Fulbright School's executive education and policy dialogue initiatives. Dr. Tu Anh earned a B.S. in economics from the Hanoi Trade University and a Ph.D. in economics from Boston College. He wrote his dissertation on state-owned enterprise reform in Vietnam.
e: anhvt@fetp.vnn.vn
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Professor Luozhong Wang is an associate professor of the Department of Public Administration, School of Management, Beijing Normal University. His research interests focus on public policy analysis and Chinese administrative reform. During his Asia Programs fellowship, Professor Wang will research the mechanisms for orderly civic participation in the policymaking process. Through analysis of Chinese and American situations, he will identify lessons that China should learn from America and propose different kinds of participatory approaches for China. Professor Wang received his B.A. in political science and M.A. and doctoral degrees in public administration from the School of Government, Peking University.
e: wang_luozhong@hks.harvard.edu
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Xiao Guiyu works for Shanghai Municipal People’s Government as a deputy secretary general with the responsibilities for the industrial development and its structural adjustment, the reform of the state-owned enterprises, and the working safety of Shanghai. He previously worked for Shanghai Automotive Industrial Corporation (SAIC) as the assistant president. Since 1998, he has worked in different departments and organizations both in various government sectors and enterprises including the Economic Commission, the Commercial Commission, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, the Personnel Bureau of Shanghai Municipal People’s Government, and the Public Administration College of Shanghai, and Shanghai Huayi Group Corporation, one of the biggest chemical manufacturers in China. He also has experience with the Shanghai Textile Holding Company, one of the oldest and biggest textile manufacturers and exporters in China. Xiao Guiyu holds a master's degree of economics from Fudan University and a Ph.D. in marketing from the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics.
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Yizhi Xiong is an assistant professor of School of Public Policy and Management (SPPM), Tsinghua University, China. He is also the Executive Director of the China Center of Public Leadership (CCPL) at SPPM. His research interest focuses on Chinese public leadership and public policy. Currently, he is engaged in the research on the provincial leadership transformation in China. He received his bachelor's degree in Engineering, master and PhD in Management from Tsinghua University. He and his wife have one daughter.
e: yizhi_xiong@hks.harvard.edu
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Nguyen Xuan Thanh is an Asia Programs Fellow and the Director of the Public Policy Program at the Fulbright School in Ho Chi Minh City. He has been a permanent member of the Fulbright School faculty since 2002. Mr. Thanh's work is focused on public investment, infrastructure development, and energy. His recent or ongoing research projects include a study of Ho Chi Minh City's transportation infrastructure (conducted with Tony Gomez Ibanez) and an examination of the role of state owned enterprises in infrastructure and real estate development. Prior to joining the Fulbright School, Mr. Thanh served as an official in the municipal government of Ho Chi Minh City. At the Fulbright School, Mr. Thanh teaches courses on case studies for policy analysis, financial analysis, and the appraisal of public investment decisions. He directs the Fulbright School's Master's in Public Policy program, the first degree program in public policy to be offered in Vietnam. He teaches regularly in the Fulbright School's executive education and policy dialogue initiatives. Mr. Thanh earned a BA (hons) in Economics from the University of New Delhi, an MSc in Economics in Finance from the University of Warwick, and an MPA from the Kennedy School. In 2003 he was a fellow in residence at the Kennedy School's Center for Business and Government.
e: xuan_thanh_nguyen@hks.harvard.edu
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Gang Xue is a joint Ph.D. candidate sponsored by the China Scholarship Council. He is a doctoral candidate in the School of Management from Central University for Nationalities, China. Mr. Xue received his B.A. and M.A. in administrative management. He had worked as civil servant in township government, county government, and provincial government in China for five years. His research focuses on governance and reform of Chinese government.
e: gang_xue@hks.harvard.edu
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Dan Yang is a joint Ph.D. candidate at the School of Public Policy and Management (SPPM), Tsinghua University in China, sponsored by China Scholarship Council. She works at the Center for Employment and Social Security Studies at SPPM. Her research focuses on public governance and social security, with a specific focus on pensions and healthcare. She holds a M.A. in economics from Renmin University, China. During her fellowship, she will study the service-oriented government and social security reforms in China, and also research the comparison of the United States' social security system with that of China.
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Yao, Yu
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Zhan, Weiping
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Zhang Hanwei is a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Public Policy and Management of Tsinghua University in China. Hhe is a joint Ph.D. program participant sponsored by China Scholarship Council. He is researching public policy and management and specializes in renewable energy technology innovation policy. Mr. Zhang holds a bachelor's degree in science in engineering from the Department of Industrial Engineering at Tsinghua University, and a master’s degree in science of management from the School of Public Policy and Management at Tsinghua University. Presently, he is researching the impact government policies - including government funding of research, development and demonstration, regulations, and financial policies – have had on the development of renewable energy technologies, and the role that governments should play in the future to advance the adoption of those technologies.
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Professor Zhang is an associate professor of the School of Social Development and Public Policy, Beijing Normal University (BNU). Dr. Zhang earned his Ph.D. from the School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University. His research interests focus on emergency management and policy processes. He is a member of the editorial board of China Emergency Management. In May 2008, he founded the Wenchuan Earthquake Taskforce (WET) with the mission to promote links and synergies between, and the coordination of, Wenchuan earthquake rehabilitation, reconstruction, and redevelopment activities in the socio-economic, humanitarian, and development fields, as well as to support policy integration in all functional areas with his colleagues at BNU. WET operates as a think tank in research, training, policy and regional counsel, and international programs. At WET, Dr. Zhang worked in the Sichuan disaster area for more than four months. Dr. Zhang was also a member of State Wenchuan Earthquake Experts Council. During his Asia Programs fellowship, Dr. Zhang will research the emergency capabilities of China’s township management.
e: zhang_huan@hks.harvard.edu
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Yuwen Zhang is an associate professor at the School of Public Administration at Renmin University, China. Zhang earned his master's degree in economics from Anhui University in eastern China and his doctoral degree in economics from Renmin University. After graduation, he entered into China Academy of Social Science (CASS) and worked in the Institute of Industrial Economy, then moved to the School of Public Administration, Renmin University. His main interest fields include public finance and corporate finance, the transitional structure of regulation on public finance in China, and the financing of public health. During his stay at Harvard, Zhang is working on the mechanism of U.S. local public debts and its implications for China, as well as the financing of public health and its implications for China.
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