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BIOGRAPHY:
Chief Economist, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA), Jakarta, Indonesia.
Professor, Faculty of Economics, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan.
Professor FUKUNARI KIMURA has been working in teaching and research at Faculty of Economics, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan since 2000, Chief Economist, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA), Jakarta, Indonesia since 2008.
He received his Bachelor of Laws from the Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo in 1982 and M.S. and PhD from the Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1990 and 1991.
He worked for the Department of Economics, State University of New York at Albany as Assistant Professor in 1991-1994, and the Faculty of Economics, Keio University as Associate Professor in 1994-2000. He served as President, Japan Society of International Economics (JSIE) in 2010-2012, Representative Director, Tokyo Center for Economic Research (TCER) in 2012-2014, Dean, Graduate School of Economics, Keio University in 2015-2017, Program Officer, Research Center for Science Systems, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science in 2016-2019, and Director, Center for International Economics, Keio University since 2017.
He majors in international trade and development economics. He has recently been active in academic/semi-academic writing on production networks, economic integration, and the digital economy in East Asia.
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BIOGRAPHY:
Department of International Economics, Government and Business, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Professor ARI OLAVI KOKKO has rich theoretical and practical experiences not only in Western but also in Asian countries. During his nearly-40-year working and researching, professor has been appointed as a lecturer and a visiting professor at Denmark, Australian, Swedish, Finland and many more Asian universities.
He is interested in a wide range of issues in economic development, international trade, and international business, both in a Nordic and an international context. Although his primary competence is in international economics, he also aims to understand historical and institutional drivers of development. Whenever possible, he try to combine the macro and meso perspectives applied in international economics with insights from international business, where the individual firm is often in focus.
His main research projects focus on FDI spillovers, Economic development and upgrading in Vietnam and China, and The internationalization of Swedish SMEs.
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BIOGRAPHY:
Professor Emeritus, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Director, Data Lab Science, Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics, Vietnam
Professor HO TU BAO completed his PhD degrees in Computer Science at Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris. He has been working in teaching and research at the Institute of Information Technology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST) since 1979, School of Information Science since 1993 and School of Knowledge Science (JAIST) since 2018. From 2018 until now, he has been the Director of Data Science Lab of Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics (VIASM) and Scientific Director of John von Neumann Institute (JVN) of Vietnam National University, Hochiminh city of Vietnam.
His main interests in researching is Machine Learning, data Science and Computational Science.
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