Current Visiting Fellows

As of 10 April 2012

• Masahiko Aoki - Japan
• Shin-ichi Fukuda - Japan
• Woosik Moon - Republic of Korea

Masahiko Aoki is the Henri and Tomoye Takahashi Professor of Japanese Studies and Professor of Economics Emeritus and a Senior Fellow of the Stanford Institute of Economic Policy Research and Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. He graduated from the University of Tokyo with BA and MA in economics and earned Ph.D in economics from the University of Minnesota in 1967. He taught at Harvard and University of Kyoto besides at Stanford. He is currently the President of the International Economic Association. He is a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences and Guest Professor of Tsinghua University. He was the President and the Chief Research Officer of the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan (2002-2005). His authored and edited books include The Cooperative Game Theory of the Firm (Oxford University Press, 1984), Information, Incentives and Bargaining in the Japanese Economy (Cambridge University Press, 1988), Toward a Comparative Institutional Analysis (MIT Press, 2001), Corporations in Evolving Diversity: Cognition, Governance and Institutions (Oxford University Press, 2010). He is one of leading scholars in the fields of multi-disciplinary institutional studies and corporate governance.

Shin-ichi Fukuda is a Visiting Fellow (part-time) at the ADB Institute. His full-time position is with the Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo, where he has been Associate Professor (1996-2001) and Professor of Economics (2001-present). His numerous professional appointments have included: Associate Professor, Yokohama National University (1989-92); Associate Professor, Hitotsubashi University (1992-96); Visiting Scholar, University of Washington (1995-96); Visiting Scholar, Australian National University (1998); and Visiting Professor of Economics, Yale University (2002-03).

Mr. Fukuda is a specialist in macro economics and international finance. He is the author of over 50 professional publications. His recent work has dealt with issues related to exchange rate policy, monetary policy, foreign exchange reserve accumulation, and banking problems under crises. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Yale University.

Current Research in ADBI:
Financial Crisis and Policy Cooperation in Asia

Woosik Moon is currently a professor of economics at the Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS), Seoul National University (SNU). He received his Ph.D in economics from the University of Paris-I and then worked as a research fellow at Korea Development Institute. He is also the first Korean Jean Monnet Chair on European Economic Integration. His area of expertise is monetary integration and international finance. He has written many papers and books on East Asian monetary integration. His most recent publication is Coping with a New Monetary Order after the Global Crisis (Edward Elgar, forthcoming).

Woosik Moon serves as an advisor to Korean government. Currently he is a member of the Advisory Committee to Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT) and Ministry of Education, Sciences and Technology (MEST) and a member of the Policy Evaluation Committee of Ministry of Economy and Budget.