Fellows

Arthur Alexander is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, teaching on the Japanese economy. He was president of the Japan Economic Institute in Washington, DC from 1990 to 2000. His other experience includes 22 years at the Rand Corp. and consulting to industry and government. He was an original faculty member of the Rand Graduate School for Policy Analysis and a member of its advisory committee. His most recent books are on the Japanese economy: The Arc of Japan’s Economic Development, Routledge, 2007; and In the Shadow of the

Marie Anchordoguy is a professor in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington and specializes in the political economy of Japan. She received her undergraduate, masters and PhD degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research is focused primarily on the key institutions and policies of Japan’s capitalist system. Her book, Reprogramming Japan: The High Tech Crisis Under Communitarian Capitalism (Cornell University Press, 2005), was published in Japanese in 2011 as “Nihon Keizai no Sai-Sekkei: Kyodotai Shihon Shugi to Haiteku sangyo no mirai.” Anchordoguy is currently researching the political economy of entrepreneurship, venture

Paul Evans (PhD Dalhousie) has been a professor at the University of British Columbia since 1999 teaching Asian and trans-Pacific affairs. His academic appointments have been as Assistant, Associate and Professor, Department of Political Science, York University, 1981-97; Director, University of Toronto – York University Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies, 1991-96; Visiting Professor, Asia Center, Harvard University, 1997-99; Acting Director, Liu Institute for Global Issues, 2004-5; Director, Institute of Asian Research, 2008-11. Between 2005 and 2008 he was on leave from UBC to serve as the Co-CEO and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Asia Pacific Foundation of

Eric Feldman’s expertise is in Japanese law, comparative public health law, torts, and law and society. His books and articles explore the comparative dimensions of rights, dispute resolution, and legal culture, often in the context of urgent policy issues including the regulation of smoking, HIV/AIDS, and natural and nuclear disasters. Feldman has twice been a Fulbright Scholar in Japan and has received grants and fellowships from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the American Bar Association, the National Science Foundation, and the Social Science Research Council, among others. He is the author or editor of books published by Cambridge University Press,