Panel A: US, China, and Trade & Investment in Asia

Trade organizations representing Japan, Korea and Hong Kong provide perspectives on US-relations, China-relations, and conflict of interest among Asia-pacific nations (partnership vs. competition).

Panelists:

Eddie Kim Foreign Business Development Manager Korea Trade Investment Promotion Agency
	Eddie Kim is working for KOTRA in the Invest Korea division. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has also studied at Yonsei University. Past work experience includes operating Kosdaq stock exchange as part of Korea Securities Dealers Association (KSDA), the Korean equivalent of NASD and NASDAQ respectively.
Takashi Tsuchiya Chief Executive Director Japan External Trade Organization
	Taka Tsuchiya was appointed Chief Executive Director of JETRO Chicago in March 2005. As Chief Executive Director, he oversees the Chicago office in its activities designed to facilitate business development between Japan and companies in the 12-state Midwest region. He has served as Director of the Public Affairs Department at JETRO New York from 1985-1989, and was Vice President of JETRO Bangkok from 1997-2000. Immediately prior to his current post, Mr. Tsuchiya was Director of the Research Planning Division, Overseas Research Department, at JETRO headquarters in Tokyo, a position he assumed in 2003. Mr. Tsuchiya joined JETRO in 1975, after earning his Bachelor's Degree in American Studies from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. He also holds a Master's Degree in American Studies from the University of Hawaii.
Sean King Vice President Park Strategies LLC
	Sean King, 36, joined Park Strategies in February 2006, a strategic advisory firm run by former U.S. Senator Alfonse M. D’Amato of New York. Mr. King heads up the firm’s burgeoning Asia-Pacific business. Before joining Park Strategies, Mr. King spent five years at the United States Department of Commerce, where he served as Senior Advisor for Asia in the U.S. & Foreign Commercial Service. From 1999-2001, Mr. King was based in Singapore for both PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and Citibank. While at PwC, his consulting engagements included, among others, creating a Southeast Asian government export finance blueprint and launching a credit card in Thailand. Mr. King also worked for the New York State Department of Economic Development, on whose behalf he led a February 1997 trade mission to Taiwan. Mr. King has an MBA from the University of Notre Dame and an undergraduate degree from the American University in Washington, D.C. As part of his MBA, he did a 1998 summer internship for Citibank in Taipei.

Moderator:

Hoyt Bleakley
Assistant Professor of Economics and the Richard N. Rosett Faculty Fellow
University of Chicago Graduate School of Business

Professor Hoyt Bleakley is Assistant Professor of Economics and the Richard N. Rosett Faculty Fellow at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business where he currently teaches a course on Microeconomics and a Ph.D. course on Applied Economics Workshop. He has written articles about labor economics, international macroeconomics, development, and corporate finance. His articles have been published in Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of European Economic Association, and New England Economic Review.

Prior to joining the GSB, Professor Bleakley taught at the University of California, San Diego from 2003 to 2005. He was a visiting researcher at Universidad de Los Andes in 2005. He was a postdoctoral researched at the University of Chicago Population Research Center from 2002 to 2003. Professor Bleakley worked as a consultant with Corporación Andina de Fomento in 2002. He has also worked as a research associate (1995-98) and visiting scholar (1998-2002) for the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

Professor Bleakley earned SB in Economics in 1995 and his PhD in Economics in 2002 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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