by

Dr. Nagesh Kumar
Director-General
Research and Information System for Developing Countries, India


Discussants:

Dr. Ed Lincoln
Senior Fellow
Council on Foreign Relations


Dr. Catherine Mann
Senior Fellow
Institute for International Economics


Moderator:

Dr. Walter Andersen
Associate Director of South Asia Studies
Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

Wednesday,June 16th, 2005

at

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,
Choate Room (1st Fl.)
1779 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C.



For information or to register for this event please contact Seminar Program at 202-296-6694 or at seminar@spfusa.org

The "Asian Voices: Promoting Dialogue between the US and Asia" Seminar Program is supported by a grant from The Sasakawa Peace Foundation

About the Panelists -Main Speaker

Dr. Ed Lincoln is Senior Fellow for Asia and Economic Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and Project Director of the Council-sponsored Independent Task Force on Japan. An expert on the Japanese economy and U.S. economic relations with Japan and Asia, he was a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institutionand a Special Economic Advisor to Ambassador Walter Mondale at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo. Dr. Lincoln received his B.A. from Amherst College and his Ph.D. from Yale University. He is the author of Arthritic Japan: the Slow Pace of Economic Reform (2001) and several other books. He writes a regular column for Newsweek Japan, and his articles have appeared in Foreign Affairs, Nihon Keizai Shimbun, The Brookings Review, and elsewhere.

Dr. Catherine Mann is Senior Fellow at the Institute for International Economics. Previously, she was Assistant Director of the International Finance Division at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, an international economist on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, and advisor to the chief economist at the World Bank. She was also Adjunct Professor at Vanderbilt University for ten years, and taught for two years at SAIS, Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Mann received a B.A. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She co-authored The New Economy and APEC (2001), Global Electronic Commerce: A Policy Primer (2000) and Is the U.S Trade Deficit Sustainable? (1999).

-Moderator

Dr. Walter Andersen is Associate Director of South Asia Studies and Professor of South Asian Studies at SAIS, Johns Hopkins University. Previously he was Chief of the U.S. Department of State’s South Asia Division in the Office of Analysis for the Near East and South Asia. Dr. Andersen was also Special Assistant to the U.S. Ambassador in New Delhi from 1988-91, among other key positions. He has taught at the University of Chicago and the College of Wooster. Dr. Andersen earned a B.S. from Concordia College and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Brotherhood in Saffron (1987), as well as an extensive number of journal articles and chapters in books analyzing Indian domestic politics and the international politics of South Asia.

About the Seminar Program

The "Asian Voices: Promoting Dialogue between the US and Asia" Seminar Program seeks to provide a forum for Asian voices to be heard within the Washington community-voices on a wide range of regional and global topics. The Seminar Program, however, will not be restricted solely to Asia-Pacific issues, or US-Japan relations, but will focus on the broader global questions that confront both parts of the world.