President Ranil Wickremesinghe was elected by Parliament as the ninth President of Sri Lanka in July 2022. This was following the premature resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa following a public uprising.

President Wickremesinghe has been sworn in as the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka on six previous occasions. He was first appointed PM from 1993 – 1994 after the assassination of President Ranasinghe Premadasa. Subsequently, from 2001 to 2004, he was elected as the Prime Minister to lead the United National Front Government during the Presidency of Chandrika Kumaratunge. In January 2015, he was appointed as the Prime Minister of the coalition Government after the election of President Maithripala Sirisena. His appointment was sanctioned by the Sri Lankan people at the general election of August 2015. Once again, in December 2018, President Sirisena was compelled to reappoint him as PM after illegally dismissing him in October 2018. In November 2019, after the defeat of the UNP presidential candidate, he resigned from his position as Prime Minister. In May 2022, he accepted the invitation made by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to be appointed the Prime Minister of an interim government to extend his expertise and experience to mitigate the economic and political meltdown in the country.

A lawyer by profession, he was elected to Parliament in 1977 (aged 28), having worked in the Youth League of the UNP from his university days. As the youngest Minister in Sri Lanka at the time, he held the post of Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs under President Jayewardene. Very soon, in recognition of his exceptional talents and unique capacity for work, he was appointed to the Cabinet of Ministers as the Minister of Youth Affairs and Employment. Later on, he was given the portfolio of Education. Then in 1989, as a seasoned legislator, he was made the Leader of the House under President Premadasa. He also served as the Minister of Industries, Science and Technology.

President Ranil Wickremesinghe is also the current Leader of the United National Party, the oldest political party in Sri Lanka.

Date of birth: 10 November 1945

Marital status: Married to Madam Naly SISOULITH with 3 children.

Religion: Buddhism.

Position: President

Foreign Languages: Russian, Vietnamese, English

H.E. Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad was Prime Minister of Malaysia from 1981 to 2003. During this period he opened up the country to foreign investments, reformed taxation, reduced trade barriers, oversaw the privatisations of numerous state-owned enterprises and created a world-class physical infrastructure. He also sought to bridge Malaysia’s ethnic divide by increasing general prosperity.

In 1991, he launched the New Development Policy, which emphasised industrial and commercial development and the elimination of poverty. Under Tun Dr. Mahathir’s leadership, Malaysia developed into one of the most prosperous and dynamic economies in Southeast Asia, with a burgeoning industrial sector, an expanding middle class and enhanced quality of life.

In 1995, the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) initiative was introduced to make Malaysia a global player in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) industry.

Malaysia also played a more active role in the international arena, acting as the voice for developing nations in Asia and Africa. Always with one eye on the future, Tun Dr. Mahathir unveiled Vision 2020 in 1991, a blueprint for Malaysia’s journey towards becoming a developed economy and a mature democracy by the year 2020.

Despite his retirement, Dr Mahathir has been kept busy with numerous invitations and speaking engagements locally and abroad.

He is the Honorary President of Perdana Leadership Foundation (PLF), a think-tank set up to preserve, develop and disseminate the intellectual heritage of past leaders. Tun Dr Mahathir is also the Chairman of Kuala Lumpur Foundation to Criminalise War (KLFCW) and President of Perdana Global Peace Foundation (PGPF). Both these organisations aim at promoting global peace and criminalising war.

In 2015, Tun Dr. Mahathir decided to come out of his political retirement and spearheaded a campaign to oust Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak from office. Following that, Tun Dr. Mahathir and several like-minded political leaders had formed Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (PPBM) in which he is the chairman.

Other political parties opposed to the Prime Minister had also rallied around him and elected Tun Dr Mahathir to be the chairman of Pakatan Harapan (Coalition of Hope) as well as naming him as the Prime Minister designate if they won the 14 th general election.

On 9 th May 2018, the result of the 14 th Malaysian General Election declared the Pakatan Harapan as the winner. Tun Dr Mahathir wins sworn in as the 7 th Prime Minister the following day.

In February 2020, Tun Dr. Mahathir resigned Prime Minister.

Tun Dr. Mahathir is married to a doctor, Tun Dr. Siti Hasmah Mohd Ali, and they have seven children and sixteen grandchildren.

Kristin is one of the co-founders of Saathi. Kristin has a passion for sustainable manufacturing and women’s issues. As an undergrad, she worked on multiple projects including plastic bottle recycling, waste management, and natural product development with the MIT Design Lab (D-Lab) in Brazil, Nicaragua, and India. Her first product launch was of a set of natural dye crayons that she developed with an NGO in Uttarakhand. Since its founding, Saathi has been recognized globally by Time Magazine, Fast Company, Business Insider, UN Environment Program, UNIDO, ALLURE, VOGUE, NIKKEI and others, for its social impact, innovation and sustainability. She has spoken at the New York Times Climate Hub at COP26, World Economic Forum, and CSW67. She is an MIT DLab ScaleUps Fellow, Asia Society Young Leader and Game Changer Award recipient, TEDx speaker, Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia Fellow, Cartier Women’s Initiative Finalist, and recognized by the Indian Department of MSME.

Chairman and Senior Partner, PwC Japan Group

Vice Chairman, PwC Asia Pacific

Koichiro Kimura has a wide range of professional experience from financial statement audits based on US and Japan Generally Accepted Auditing Practices (GAAP) to accounting system implementation projects. He often speaks at industry conferences and panels, including the International Symposium on Audit Research, meetings of the Japanese Association for International Accounting Studies and more. Koichiro has recently been focussed on global social issues such as sustainability. In November 2022, the PwC Japan Group, together with various business leaders actively engaged in sustainability management, launched the Executive Sustainability Forum, which aims to conduct fact-finding surveys on sustainability trends in Japan and the rest of Asia, discuss issues on how to make business sustainable and share ideas and proposals with the public.

Dr. Dino Patti Djalal is the Founder and Chairman of Foreign Policy Community of Indonesia (FPCI), Chairman of the Board at World Resources Institute (WRI) Indonesia, Vice President of Paris Peace Forum, a retired career diplomat, former Presidential spokesperson, speech writer and special staff, former Indonesian Ambassador to the United States, youth activist, academic, author of a national best seller, talk show host, and former Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs (2014).

He is known in Indonesia as a Presidential Spokesperson for President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono – a position he held for 6 years from October 2004 to October 2010, which makes him the longest serving Presidential spokesperson in Indonesia's modern history. In September 2010, Dr. Dino was appointed Ambassador to the United States and in mid-2014, Dr. Dino served briefly as Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs. Dr. Dino retired early from Government in 2015 at the age of 50 years old.

In 2015, he founded the Foreign Policy Community of Indonesia, an independent non-government, non-political forum on international relations which aims to promote positive Indonesian internationalism. FPCI has grew quickly to become the largest foreign policy organization in Indonesia and Southeast Asia, boasting some 100,000 people in their network. FPCI has also convened the world's largest foreign policy conference: in October 2019, FPCI's Conference on Indonesian Foreign Policy was attended by over 11,000 participants.

Kori Schake is a senior fellow and the director of foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI).

Before joining AEI, Dr. Schake was the deputy director-general of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. She has had a distinguished career in government, working at the US State Department, the US Department of Defense, and the National Security Council at the White House. She has also taught at Stanford, West Point, Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, National Defense University, and the University of Maryland.

Dr. Schake has been widely published in policy journals and the popular press, including in CNN.com, Foreign Affairs, Politico, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. She is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and War on the Rocks.

Dr. Schake has a PhD and MA in government and politics from the University of Maryland, as well as an MPM from the University of Maryland School of Public Policy. Her BA in international relations is from Stanford University.

Jia Qingguo is professor and former Dean of the School of International Studies of Peking University. He is also Director of the Institute for Global Cooperation and Understanding and Director of 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 of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC). 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 well-known domestic and international academic journals.

He has published extensively on U.S.-China relations, relations between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan, Chinese foreign policy and Chinese politics.

Phloeun is the Executive Director of Living Arts International. He started his career as one of the co-founders of a vocational training program called ‘Artisans d’Angkor,’ which teaches young artisans in rural areas to develop skills in traditional handicrafts, and creates a marketplace for their work. In 2010, he became Director of Cambodian Living Arts. In the last decade he has led the transformation of Cambodian Living Arts (CLA) into Living Arts International, initiating policy-driven, collaborative, and transnational cultural actions, inspired by the resilience of arts communities in post-conflict contexts. Five years ago, Living Arts International launched a regional organization, Mekong Cultural Hub, the mission of which is to empower diverse cultural practitioners to bring to life their visions for an inclusive, sustainable Asia.

G-Yu Creative Co., Ltd. is a company founded by a team of experienced professionals and experts working with Japan-related contents that provide comprehensive services including the planning and management of Japan-related events. Yupharet founded the Mainichi Academic Group in Thailand in 1997 in response to the increasing number of Thai people learning Japanese and opened a Japanese-language school the following year. In 2005, she held the first "JAPAN FESTA" as a venue for Japan lovers to interact with one another. The event has since developed into the "JAPAN EXPO THAILAND," which comprehensively introduces a wide range of Japanese culture through live performances and exhibition booths and has expanded to become one of Asia's largest events, attracting more than 500,000 visitors over the three-day period. Yupharet established a business model characterized by a "localized" strategy to introduce the appeal of Japanese culture from the Thai perspective and has successfully launched a similar event in Malaysia. Having a BA from Mahidol University International College (Tourism and Hotel Management) and MSc (International Business and Marketing) from London South Bank University, Yupharet received the Executive of the Year for the CEO Thailand Award 2023, the award given to Thai leaders/executives who are responsive to changes in Thailand and global society.

Tomoko Katsurayama is the President & CEO of GLOBIS Asia Campus Pte. Ltd., the Southeast Asian headquarters of GLOBIS, where she has been stationed since 2014. She is also a member of the Executive Committee at GLOBIS.

In her current role, she is engaged in realizing the GLOBIS vision in the Southeast Asian region, which is to build an ecosystem to create and innovate society.

Prior to joining GLOBIS, Tomoko Katsurayama gained valuable experience working at Nike Japan, Amazon Japan, and a foreign consulting firm. At GLOBIS, she was instrumental in developing research and programs related to strategy and marketing, and she was also involved in launching and operating the G1 Global Conference. The conference brings together leaders from diverse fields including politics, economy, business, science, technology, and culture to discuss future visions and global challenges, and explore potential solutions.

Tomoko Katsurayama earned her Bachelor's degree from Nagoya University, and her MBA and MSA (Master of Sports Administration) from Ohio University in the United States.

Woojune Kim was named the Corporate President and Head of Networks Business at Samsung Electronics in 2022.

Previously, as the Head of Global Sales & Marketing, Woojune expanded Samsung's 4G/5G collaboration with leading carriers around the globe across North America, Europe, Asia, Oceania and beyond. Starting with the commercial launch of 5G in the US and Korea, he has lead commercialization of 5G by developing strategic partnerships with global operators and partners to drive innovation.

Since 2011, he has held key positions at Samsung, leading Global Product Strategy, Next Generation Network Strategy and America Business teams.

Under his leadership, Samsung Networks has made significant gains in the global market, especially with the introduction of 5G and virtualization technology.

Woojune has over 20 years of extensive experience in the telecommunications industry, starting his career as a system engineer at Lucent Technologies Bell Labs (Murray Hill), where he worked on the first ATM PON/FTTH networks. He joined Samsung in 1999 and helped develop the world’s first commercial CDMA2000 3G system. Later he joined Airvana Inc., where he served as Vice President of Technology and CTO of Femtocells. In this role, he led the company’s marketing and development teams to develop new and innovative wireless products including 4G LTE RAN, small cells, and security and access gateways.

He earned a Bachelor of Science, Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Seoul National University in Korea.

She received a Ph.D. from the University’s Graduate Program in International Relations, which constitutes part of the Graduate School of Foreign Studies, after having earlier obtained a Master’s degree in the same Graduate Program. Her doctoral thesis is entitled“A Study on Self-Governance of Ethnic Minority: Korean-Chinese Migration and Formation of Networks in Northeast Asia”(2007).

Her current research includes Sociocultural Studies of East and Northeast Asia (particularly Northeastern China, South Korea and Japan) based on fieldwork. She conducts research on transnational Korean-Chinese families over three Generations in these regions. Another of her areas of focus is the specificities of settlement and community formation of Korean Chinese in Japan and South Korea.

Zhu Min is Vice Chairman of China Centre for International Economic Exchanges, and Envoy of Sino-UK Professional and Financial Service for the Belt and Road Initiative. He services as a member of the "14th Five-Year Plan" Expert Committee, a member of the Foreign Policy Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and a member of the Expert Advisory Committee of the State Internet Information Office. He is also a Board Trustee member for World Economic Forum (WEF), and for Peterson Institute for International Economics. He previously served as the Chairman of the National Institute of Financial Research at Tsinghua University (2017-2022), a Deputy Managing Director at the IMF (2011-2016) and as a Deputy Governor of the People’s Bank of China, and as an Executive Vice President of Bank of China. He also worked at the World Bank and taught economics at both Johns Hopkins University and Fudan University.

Zhu Min received his Ph.D and M.A. in Economics from Johns Hopkins University, a M.P.A. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public International Affairs at Princeton University, a BA in Economics from Fudan University.

Jennifer is a social worker, lesbian feminist, author, and Taiwanese. Based in Taipei, she has been devoted to LGBT rights and political reform movements for 20 years nationally and internationally. Before joining Outright as the Director for Asia Programs, she was the executive director of Taiwan Equality Campaign, known as Marriage Equality Coalition Taiwan - an organization that pushed Marriage Equality in Taiwan.

Jennifer was born in Taipei, and she had a younger sister who was the most severe heart disease patient. Her younger sister's struggling life taught her to rethink the most crucial thing in our lives, leading her to join the social movement. She graduated from National Taiwan University with a social worker bachelor and from Sydney University with her policy studies master's degree.

Jennifer focused on establishing an LGBT community support system, services, and gender equality education for ten years while working with Taiwan Tongzhi Hotline Association. She had over 1,000 speeches, and the number is still increasing nowadays. In January 2016, Jennifer represented the Social Democratic Party and ran for a parliamentary seat in general elections as one of the first lesbian candidates in Taiwan. During her election campaign, she and her team successfully raised the visibility of LGBT issues in politics. They pushed to include equal rights issues and the young generation's political participation on the agenda of the Taiwan parliament.

When Jennifer was chief coordinator of Marriage Equality Coalition Taiwan and senior research fellow at Taiwan Tongzhi(LGBTQ+) Hotline Association, her team organized several successful rallies, one of which was on Human Rights Day in December 2016, in which over 250,000 people stood up to support marriage equality.

Jennifer is also on one of the executive boards in International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association Asia and an East Asia representative, trying to build more connections for Asia civil society.

As Chief of Staff for Microsoft Asia, Imane Jamal Eddine partners with Microsoft Asia President Ahmed Mazhari and the Asia Leadership Team to support Microsoft Asia’s business operations, lead strategy execution, and promote organizational health through customer and employee engagement.

Appointed in 2022, Imane is responsible for driving thought leadership, spearheading transformation of businesses, unlocking new ways of working, introducing new business models, and helping to shape the future of organizations throughout Asia. As a leader who has lived and worked in France, Japan, Morocco, and Singapore, Imane’s inspiration to innovate stems from her deep cultural integration and inclusive approach to people across different business functions.

Imane is also a strong advocate for inclusivity in the workplace. She is the founder of Lean In Women In Tech, Singapore, where she hosts annual conferences and leads a community to provide coaching, mentoring and support for women in tech, those in their early careers, and mothers returning to work. Imane also regularly delivers keynote talks at schools and universities to encourage girls to pursue opportunities in STEM. She was previously a regional leader for Oracle Women Leadership and currently works closely with Women@Microsoft groups across Asia to empower female talent.

Prior to her role at Microsoft, Imane had over 17 years of consulting, customer success, engineering, and product management experience. She was previously the Head of Solution Engineering, ISV ASEAN and Head of Customer Success, Asia Pacific & Japan at Oracle, where she led Solution Engineers and Architects to serve ASEAN ISV Customers.

She has also held senior leadership positions in Axway, where she built their customer success organization across Asia Pacific while leading their pre-sales, consulting, and support organizations.

Imane is a Japanese citizen of Moroccan descent and graduated from Tohoku University in Japan with a Master’s Degree in Electrical and Communication Engineering. Outside of work, she enjoys writing and spending time with her two children.

Date of Birth: 25 January 1950

Yang Bojiang, professor and doctoral supervisor, serves as the director-general, the Institute of Japanese Studies, and the director, Research Center for East China Sea Studies, CASS; executive vice president, the Chinese Association of Japanese Studies; vice president, the Chinese Association of Asia-Pacific Studies and executive member of the council, Pacific Society of China (PSC). He has been a visiting scholar at the Fairbank research center, Harvard University, Brookings Institution, the Japan Forum on International Relations and the National Institute for Research Advancement (NIRA). His academic interests include relations among major powers in the Asia-Pacific region, Northeast Asia and Japan.

Chisako T. MASUO is a Professor of international relations at the Faculty of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University. She was given the Nakasone Yasuhiro Award of Excellence in 2021 for her contribution to China studies and for the policy discussions regarding China's Coast Guard Law. She currently serves as an Adjunct Fellow at the Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA) and as a "Think!"" expert for Nikkei newspaper.

Professor Masuo is interested in Chinese domestic politics, foreign policies, maritime and science strategies and international relations with regards to China. In 1996-97, she was dispatched to Peking University from the University of Tokyo for an exchange program. In 2008, she obtained the Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo. She has worked for late Harvard professor Ezra F. Vogel as his research assistant and translated two of his last books into Japanese. She was a visiting scholar at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and China Foreign Affairs University in 2019, and a coordinate research scholar working with Professor Vogel at the Harvard-Yenching Institute in 2014-2015. She has written papers and conducted extensive research activities not only in Japanese, but also in English and Chinese.

Ambassador Park Joon-woo, former Chairman of The Sejong Institute and former Senior Secretary to the President for Political Affairs, was a career diplomat. He served as Korean Ambassador to the European Union and Belgium, and to Singapore respectively. His overseas assignments include Washington, D.C., Tokyo, Beijing and Helsinki.

After retirement, he was a visiting fellow of the Walter Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University, USA, teaching a graduate class for a year. He was also a visiting professor at the Institute for State Governance of the Yonsei University, Seoul.

In 2013, Ambassador Park was appointed as President Park Geun-hye's Senior Secretary for Political Affairs. Later, he served as Chairman of The Sejong Institute, Korea's leading independent think-tank.

Kenichiro Sasae joined the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs after graduating from The University of Tokyo in 1974. His distinguished and illustrious diplomatic career includes prestigious assignments as Executive Assistant to the Prime Minister, Director-General of the Economic Affairs Bureau, Director-General of the Asian & Oceania Affairs Bureau, and Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs. During his period of service in Tokyo, he represented the Japanese Government in the Six-Party Talks on North Korean issues. He also worked as Political Director for the G-8 Summit. From 2012-2018, he was Ambassador of Japan to the United States. Subsequently, in June 2018, Ambassador Sasae was appointed President of The Japan Institute of International Affairs to head Japan's premier foreign affairs think tank.

Salyadi Saputra was appointed as Director of Strategy, Portfolio, and New Ventures of PT Pertamina (Persero) according to No. SK-199/MBU/09/2022 on (September 19, 2022) about Dismissal and Appointment of Members of the Board of Directors of PT Pertamina (Persero).

He earned his Bachelor of Economics from Universitas Indonesia in 1993. He started his career as assistant researcher (Accounting) in Universitas Indonesia and Consultation Division in Amir Abadi Jusuf Public Accounting Firm (1993-1995). He was experienced in loan marketing in multifinance company (Daichi Kangyo Panin) in Jakarta (1995-2000).

He was also assigned as the president director of PT Pemeringkat Efek Indonesia (PEFINDO) since May 2015, and Managing Director of PT Henan Putihrai Asset Management from 2014 to 2015.

Toyoaki Fujiwara is the editor-in-chief of the Editorial Headquarters for Asia, based in Bangkok. He previously earned an undergraduate degree in nuclear engineering from Kyushu University and joined Nikkei as a staff writer in Tokyo, where he covered a range of topics including technology companies, monetary policy, fiscal policy, and politics. In 2014, he was transferred to Bangkok to serve as Deputy Editor at the editorial headquarters for Asia, which was established in response to the launch of Nikkei Asia, Nikkei's new English publication. In 2017, he relocated to Tokyo to join the main newsroom as the Business News Editor and the Politics and Economy News Editor at Nikkei Asia.

Shin Nakayama is the editor-in-chief of Nikkei Asia. He started as a political news reporter at Nikkei in 1997, where he covered various news at the Prime Minister's Office, the Liberal Democratic Party, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, among others. After spending three years as the Washington correspondent, covering the Obama administration, he served as the chief correspondent covering the PM Office and LDP, as well as deputy editor of the political news department. He was the news editor of Nikkei Asian Review (now Nikkei Asia) from 2019 to 2023.

Kiyoshi Ando is currently a Senior Staff Writer for Nikkei. He is a member of NIKKEI Carbon Zero Project, organized in conjunction with leading Japanese companies. Areas of interest are environmental issues including climate change, natural disasters and de-carbonization as well as innovation in life sciences and biomedical technologies. Joined Nikkei in 1987, covered science & technology news and business news, before becoming Washington DC correspondent (1998-2002) where he has seen devastating terrorist attack of 2001, and Paris Bureau Chief (2003-07). He has also served as an Editorial Writer (2016-23). He earned master's degree in environmental sciences after having majored in physics at Tsukuba University. Accredited and registered meteorologist of Japan.

Yuji Nitta specializes in industrial news. He joined Nikkei inc. in 2008. Working out of two locations, Tokyo and Osaka, he mainly covered electronics, chemistry, and media & entertainment and became Hanoi bureau chief in April 2023. He also has worked as expert on representing news in digital content and won a silver award of Digital Media Award Asia from the WAN-IFRA for "How the Northern sea routes will change the world's major traffic flows".

Graduated from Ochanomizu University, She joined Nikkei as a journalist in 1993 to cover various corporations in Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya, concurrently to write stories on consumer trends. From January to July 1998, She was nominated to be a member of a project team to run a series of front page stories focusing on women. The column, "Quiet Revolution of Women," was the first of its kind and Ms. Nakamura found her own position in reporting on women and women related issues. From2017 to 2019, she was the founding Editor-in-Chief for NIKKEI The STYLE, Nikkei’s lifestyle magazine. From 2019 to 2021, she was the Chief Editor of Working Women's section. Since April 2021,she has been the senior staff writer. Mainly covers career development, Diversity, consumption, and marketing. She is also a consumer life advisor and career consultant.

Hiroyuki Akita is a Commentator of Nikkei. He regularly writes commentaries and columns, analysis mainly on foreign & international security affairs. He joined Nikkei in 1987 and worked at Political News Dept.(98-2002) where he covered Japanese foreign & security policies, domestic politics. He was Senior & Editorial Staff Writer (2009-17), and he also worked at "Leader Writing Team" of the Financial Times in London (Oct-Dec, 16).

He was Beijing Correspondent (94-98) and Washington Chief Correspondent (2002-06). In Beijing, he reported major news events such as death of Deng Xiaoping, Hong Kong handover to China. In Washington DC, he covered White House & Pentagon, State Department during Bush administration.

He graduated from Jiyu Gakuen College in 1987 and Boston University (M.A.). From 2006 to 07, he was an associate of US-Japan Program at Harvard University, where he conducted a research on US-China-Japan relations. In March 2019, he won the Vaughn-Ueda International Journalist Award, a prize for outstanding reporting of international affairs. He is an author of two books in Japanese: "Anryu (Power Game of US-China-Japan)"(2008), "Ranryu (Strategic Competition of US-Japan and China)"(2016).

Graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1991 and joined Nikkei Inc. After working to cover the Economy and Politics news. He was involved in the launch of The Nikkei Asian Review (now Nikkei Asia) as its first editor-in-chief in 2011 and became its second editor-in-chief in April 2019 after serving as Manager, International Business Bureau. Chief of International News Center in April 2023. Born in Tokyo.

Lead Economist, Japan Center for Economic Research (JCER) After joining Nikkei in 1985, Mr. Ijuin has been assigned in various important domestic and oversea posts including Seoul Bureau, Deputy Manager of Political News Department, China Headquarter Chief and senior staff writer before assuming the current position. He has also served as a visiting scholar at George Washington University. Recent publication includes "The Latest Risk Analysis of East Asia" (co-editor).

He joined Nikkei in 2015 and worked at City News Department where he covered criminal case, natural disaster, and local economy especially about agriculture. He also worked at Business News Department where he covered Restaurant industry. Now, he works at Editorial Headquarter in Asia where he covers International Politics in Asia and Africa.