Editors

Shiro Armstrong is Program Manager, East Asian Bureau of Economic Research, and Research Fellow at the Crawford School of Economics and Government, Australian National University. His research areas are Japan-China trade and politics, and East Asian economic integration. [Homepage]

Peter Drysdale is Head of East Asian Bureau of Economic Research, Emeritus Professor of Economics and Visiting Fellow in Policy and Governance at the Australian National University. Research expertise includes international economic diplomacy, Asia Pacific economic cooperation, Japanese economy and economic policy, international trade, East Asian economics. [Homepage]

Contributors

Kent Anderson is a comparative lawyer specialising in Japan. He is Director of the Faculty of Asian Studies in the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific and holds a joint appointment with the ANU College of Law. His research has focused on Japanese insolvency, conflict of laws, and recently the introduction of Japan’s new quasi-jury system (saiban-in seido). [Homepage]

Geoffrey Barker is a Visiting Fellow at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University. He was formerly senior security and defence columnist with the Australian Financial Review.

Aaron Batten completed his Economics PhD at the Australian National University on the fiscal effects of foreign aid in Papua New Guinea. He currently works in the Malawi Ministry of Finance within the Aid and Debt Management Division. Previous work experience includes the Australian Commonwealth Treasury, the National Research Institute in Port Moresby and the East Asian Bureau of Economic Research in Canberra.

Suman Bery is Director-General of the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), New Delhi. His research interests include India’s economic growth in the world economy, India’s drivers for growth, India’s reform process, India’s demographics trends and consumer market opportunities, India’s opening of its capital account, and China’s relationship with India. [Homepage]

Bruce Chapman is a Professor of Public Policy at Crawford School of Economics and Government at the Australian National University. His research interests include labour economics, the economics of education, applied econometrics, and industrial relations and economic policy issues.
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Philippa Dee is a Visiting Fellow at the Crawford School of Economics and Government, at the Australian National University. Her research interests include trade policy, barriers to services trade and investment, regulatory policy, microeconomic reform, quantitative techniques, computable general equilibrium modeling, and econometrics.[Homepage]

Andrew Elek is a Research Associate of the Crawford School of Economics and Government at the Australian National University. He has worked in the World Bank and has worked extensively on economic development in South Asia, the South Pacific and regional arrangements.

Christopher Findlay is a Professor of Economics and Head of School at the University of Adelaide. Australia’s economic relations with Asia, services trade and services liberalisation are the main themes of his research. A special interest is the reform and industrialisation of the Chinese economy. [Homepage]

Yoichi Funabashi is Editor-in-Chief of the Asahi Shimbun, a leading Japanese daily, and one of Japan’s foremost commentators on foreign affairs and public policy.

Ross Garnaut is a Professor of Economics in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University. Most recently he was also Head of the Garnaut Climate Change Review 2007-2008. His research interests include China’s economic reforms and internationalisation, Asia-Pacific economies’ development and international economic relations, Australia’s economic relations with the Asia-Pacific region, and domestic economic adjustment to Asia-Pacific economic development. [Homepage]

Aurelia George Mulgan is a Professor at the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, and a Research Associate at the Australia-Japan Research Centre, Crawford School of Economics and Government, Australian National University. [Homepage]

Jane Golley is a Senior Lecturer in the China Economy and Business Program of the Crawford School of Economics and Government at the Australian National University. She has published a book on Chinese regional development and articles on Chinese industrial agglomeration and regional policy; Chinese demographic change, economic growth and the real exchange rate; Chinese household consumption and emission patterns; and cross-country comparisons of trade openness and growth. [Homepage]

Tobias Harris is a PhD candidate in political science at MIT. He also blogs at Observing Japan

Gary Hawke is a Professor at the Victoria University of Wellington, and a member of the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research. His research interests include New Zealand trade policy in the 1960s and 1970s, Economic History, and Treaty claims. [Homepage]

Stephen Howes is a Professorial Fellow at the Crawford School of Economics and Government, Australian National University. He is currently working on the Garnaut Review on climate change. [Homepage]

Yiping Huang is an Adjunct Professor at the Crawford School of Economics and Government and Asia Chief Economist for Citigroup.

Raghbendra Jha is a Professor of Economics, Australian National University. His research interests include macroeconomic problems of developing countries, optimal tax and price policy, fiscal federalism, and Indian economic problems – in particular, poverty, undernutrition, functioning of agricultural markets and financial sector reforms. [Homepage]

Frank Jotzo is an environmental and resource economist, and a Research Fellow with the Resource Management in Asia-Pacific Program (RMAP) at the Australian National University. His research interests include development and environment, international climate policy, economic mechanisms for greenhouse gas control and adaptation to climate change, and resource management in Indonesia and other areas of the Asia-Pacific.
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Kaliappa Kalirajan is a Professor with the GRIPS-FASID Joint Program. His current research interests include sources of productivity growth in Asia, particularly in East Asia; trade among the member countries of the Indian Ocean Rim-Association for Regional Cooperation; and impact of Indian economic reforms on the performance of the Indian economy. [Homepage]

Rajiv Kumar is the Director and Chief Executive of the Indian Council of Research in International Economic Relations (ICRIER). He also is a Part-time Non-official Director on the Central Board of Directors of the State Bank of India, a member of the National Security Advisory Board, and a member of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India. [Homepage]

Suiwah Leung is a Senior Lecturer in International and Development Economics at the Crawford School of Economics and Government at the Australian National University. Research interests include International finance, Financial sector developments, Open economy macroeconomics, and postgraduate economics education. [Homepage]

Andrew MacIntyre is Professor of political science and Director of the Crawford School at the ANU. His priorities are building a globally significant professional policy school in Australia and research which focuses on the political economy of Southeast Asia and Australian foreign policy interests in the Asia-Pacific region. [Homepage]

Ryan Manuel is a doctoral student and Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford. His principal research interests are Chinese public policy and international relations within the Asian region.

Dominic Meagher is PhD candidate in Economics at the Australian National University and is Project Manager of the China Economy and Business Program of the Crawford School of Economics and Government. Research areas are Chinese economy, East Asian energy and environment.

Chung In Moon is a professor of political science at Yonsei University, and Ambassador for International Security Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Republic of Korea. His research is focused on security issues relating to the Korean peninsula. [Homepage]

Luke Nottage is an Associate Professor at Sydney University Law Faculty. His research interests include contract law, product liability, civil dispute resolution (especially arbitration), corporate governance, cyber-law, and legal education, mostly comparing developments in Japan or transnationally. [Australian Network for Japanese Law (ANJeL), homepage]

Charles Prestidge-King is a Bachelor of Philosophy candidate at the Australian National University and Publishing Editor of East Asia Forum. His research interests include media and governance issues, and international relations. [Email: charlespk at gmail dot com]

Benjamin Reilly is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Director of the Centre for Democratic Institutions, Crawford School of Economics and Government, Austalian National University. His research interests include democracy and democratization, elections and electoral systems, Australian foreign policy and regional security in the South Pacific, ethnic conflict and conflict management, and governance and development in the Asia-Pacific. [Homepage]

Richard Rigby is Executive Director of the ANU China Institute. He has also worked for the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFAT) and the Office of National Assessments (ONA), specializing in China and Asia more generally. [Homepage]

Amin Saikal is the Director of the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, and Professor of Political Science, at the Australian National University. He has specialised in the politics, history, political economy and international relations of the Middle East and Central Asia. [Homepage]

Hadi Soesastro is the Executive Director, as well as a senior economist, at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Jakarta. His research interests include international trade, regional cooperation, and international political economy. [Homepage]

Vo Thi Tranh is the Director of the Department for International Economic Integration Studies of the Central Institute of Economic Management, Vietnam. He is recognised for his work on economic policy and development with ASEAN. His research interests include macroeconomic policy, market analysis, and poverty alleviation.

Michael Wesley is the Executive Director of the Lowy Institute for International Policy and was previously the Professor of International Relations and Director of the Griffith Asia Institute at Griffith University. Dr Wesley is also a member of the East Asia Forum Advisory Board. His research interests include Australian foreign policy, transnational security threats and state responses, Asia Pacific regional institutions, and international security. [Homepage]

Hugh White is a Professor of Strategic Studies, Head of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University, and a Visiting Fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy. His principle research interests are Australian strategic and defence policy, and the regional and global security issues that most directly affect Australia. [Homepage]

George Williams is the Anthony Mason Professor of Law and Foundation Director, Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law, Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales. His research interests include constitutional law and reform, human rights, and electoral law. [Homepage]

Yongsheng Zhang is Senior Research Fellow at the Development Research Center of the State Council (DRC), PRC and Professor of Renmin University of China. His research interests mainly focus on theory of division of labour and specialisation, theory of property, theory of firm, development economics, and Chinese economy. [Email:zys@drc.gov.cn]

ANU Indonesia Project, RSPAS

Peter McCawley was the Dean of the Asia Development Bank Institute from 2003 to 2006 and is currently in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the ANU. He has published extensively on Asian economic affairs, especially on issues concerning the Indonesian economy.
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Ross McLeod is the Editor of the Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies. Much of his work in recent years has been related to the economic crisis that began in Indonesia in mid-1997, with particular emphasis on analysing its causes, how it was handled (particularly the role of the IMF), and how similar occurrences might be prevented in the future. He also has a strong interest in monetary and exchange rate policy, financial sector policies, rivatisation, corruption and public sector reform in Indonesia.
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Centre for Strategic and International Studies · Jakarta (CSIS) is an independent, non-profit organisation. CSIS undertakes research in economics, politics and social change, and international relations, with topics selected on the basis of their relevance to public policy. CSIS is a member of EABER.

Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) is an autonomous, policy-oriented, not-for-profit research institute. The focus of their work is to support India’s interface with the global economy.

The Malaysian Institute of Economic Research (MIER) undertakes independent and high quality problem-oriented research on economic, financial and business issues facing Malaysia and provides advice on macroeconomic management, development and future economic perspectives. MIER is a member of EABER.

New Mandala is a blog run by Andrew Walker and Nicholas Farrelly out of the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, at the Australian National University. New Mandala provides analysis and “new perspectives on mainland Southeast Asia.” Particularly, New Mandala comments on political turmoil in Thailand, and the ongoing stalemate in Burma.

Pacific Policy Project, Crawford

Satish Chand is an Associate Professor at Crawford School of Economics and Government, Australian National University. Research interests include Economic growth, International trade, and Development. [Homepage]

Aaron Batten, Benjamin Reilly and Stephen Howes are also associated with the Pacific Policy Project

Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) is one of the Philippine’s premier think tanks which provides research input for government planners and policy-makers in the executive and legislative branches of government. PIDS provides monthly Policy Notes to the EAF blog which are policy briefings based on current and ongoing deep research at PIDS. PIDS is a member of EABER.