Principal Investigators
Merit E. Janow  |  Mari Elka Pangestu   | Hugh T. Patrick   | Hadi Soesastro

Consultants
Tubagus Feridhanusetyawan  |  Eleanor Fox  |  Edward Graham  |  Hassan S. Kartadjoemena
 
 
 
 

Merit E. Janow

Merit E. Janow is a Professor in the Practice of International Trade at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and Co-Director of the APEC Study Center. She is also Director of the International Economic Policy concentration in SIPA's Masters Program in International Affairs (MIA).  In that capacity, she is responsible for the design and management of the second largest concentration in the MIA program.  In 1997, Professor Janow was appointed the Executive Director of the International Competition Policy Advisory Committee to the Attorney General and Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust, U.S. Department of Justice.  This Advisory Committee is charged with providing a medium-term policy vision to help guide the U.S. Department of Justice in the years ahead.  Specifically, the Advisory Committee has been asked to give particular attention to three key issues:  the legal, policy and operational challenges stemming from multijurisdictional merger review; the interface of trade and competition issues, i.e., market access problems stemming from private anticompetitive restraints; and future directions in enforcement cooperation between the U.S. and foreign authorities. Professor Janow organized public hearings in November 1998 and in the Spring of 1999, which have brought together the heads of more than 10 foreign competition authorities and many other distinguished experts from academia, law and business around the world. She has also undertaken an extensive outreach questionnaire on key issues and problems facing competition regimes in transition and developing economies, which has been broadly disseminated to experts and practitioners internationally.

At Columbia, Professor Janow teaches on international trade law and international economic policy in both the School of Law and SIPA.  She has written extensively on international trade law subjects, notably on international trade and competition policy and investment.  Before joining the Columbia faculty, Professor Janow had a distinguished career in law, government and research.  She served as Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Japan and China in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, from 1990-1993. In that capacity, she led or was involved in all bilateral negotiations with Japan and China, including some 13 sectoral agreements with Japan and two broad agreements with the Peoples Republic of China.  Professor Janow also participated in APEC Senior Officials Meetings (SOMs) and some areas of negotiation in the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations involving Japan. Prior to her government service, she practiced corporate law in a major Wall Street law firm, specializing in international corporate transactions, particularly between the United States and Asia. She started her career as a researcher at the Hudson Institute, in Tokyo and New York, where she was awarded several major research projects for the U.S. Departments of State, Commerce and the U.S.T.R. on U.S.-Japan and U.S.-Asian trade.  She has testified before the U.S. Congress on a number of occasions and speaks frequently to U.S. and foreign audiences. As a result of this diverse background, Professor Janow brings to this project extensive experience in the AsiaPacific region, in international trade law and economics, and in competition law and policy. She has also had extensive experience managing policy oriented research projects and programs.

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Mari Elka Pangestu

Mari Elka Pangestu is currently on leave from CSIS, but still serves as a Member of the Board of Directors and is involved in its research activities.  Dr. Pangestu joined CSIS in 1986 and has served as Head, Department of Economics and as Executive Director.   She also serves as a Lecturer on the Faculty of Economics at the University of Indonesia.  Dr. Pangestu earned a Ph.D. degree in 1986 from the Department of Economics at the University of  California, Davis, USA.  Since that time, she has specialized in international trade and foreign investment issues, and has written extensively on banking, finance and macroeconomic issues, including several industry studies.   In 1994, together with Dr. Djisman Simandjuntak, she organized a series of papers to be written by Indonesian experts on the results of the Uruguay Round and its implications for Indonesia.  The papers were presented at a public seminar attended by over 200 participants.   She also collaborated with Sherry Stephenson on a paper evaluating "WTO Commitments of APEC Economies" (1996) and "Indonesia and the Emerging Trading Environment" in an ADB Study of the Emerging Trading Environment and Developing Asia (1996).  She has completed a number of studies on foreign investment including a study on: Foreign Firms and Structural Change in the Indonesian Manufacturing Sector (1990), a study on Taiwanese foreign investment in Indonesia (1995); and a broad-ranging review of Indonesia's foreign investment policy completed in 1994 which was input into a IFC, FIAS consultancy and which was later developed as a paper in her book on Indonesia's deregulation and privatization.

Dr. Pangestu is coordinator of the PECC, Trade Policy Forum (TPF).  Under the TPF aegis coordinated by Dr. Pangestu, TPF developed a set of investment principles for the Asia Pacific region (1993) which was later modified and adopted by APEC as the APEC Non Binding Investment Code (1994).  Dr. Pangestu has also been involved in the development of the PECC Competition Principles, which it is hoped will be accepted by APEC this year. Moreover, she has been involved in a number of studies on trade and investment issues prepared for APEC and ABAC.  Recently she organized, with the support of the World Bank, a meeting on East Asian Options for the WTO 200 Round.  She is currently editing these papers together with Dr. Will Martin from the World Bank.  She is also a consultant for the World Bank on trade issues facing developing economies, especially WTO 2000 issues.   In the last three years she has worked on competition policy issues, as well, writing a paper on trade and competition policy in Indonesia (1996) and two papers on corporate governance in collaboration with Dr. Farid Harianto in 1998/99.

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Hugh T. Patrick

Hugh T. Patrick is R.D. Calkins Professor of International Business, Director of the Center on Japanese Economy and Business at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business, and Co-Director of Columbia's APEC Study Center.  He joined the Columbia faculty in 1984 after some years as Professor of Economics and Director of the Economic Growth Center at Yale University.  He is recognized as a leading specialist on the Japanese economy and on Pacific Basin economic relations.  He completed his B.A. at Yale University in 1951, earned M.A. degrees in Japanese Studies (1955) and Economics (1957) and Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Michigan in 1960.  He has been a visiting professor at Hitotsubashi University, University of Tokyo and University of Bombay.

Professor Patrick has been awarded Guggenheim and Fulbright fellowships and the Ohira Prize.  His professional publications include fifteen books and some sixty articles and essays.  His major fields of published research on Japan include macroeconomic performance and policy, banking and financial markets, government-business relations, and Japan-United States economic relations. Representative publications include: Crisis and Change in the Japanese Financial System (with Takeo Hoshi) The Japanese Main Bank System (with Masahiko Aoki); The Financial Development of Japan, Korea and Taiwan (with Yung Chul Park); Pacific Basin Industries in Distress: Structural Adjustment and Trade Policy in Nine Industrialized Economies; Regulating International Financial Markets: Policies and Issues (with Franklin Edwards); Japan's High Technology Industries: Lessons and Limitations of Industrial Policy; and Asia's New Giant - How the Japanese Economy Works (with Henry Rosovsky).

Professor Patrick is actively involved in professional and public service. He served as one of the four American members of the binational Japan-United States Economic Relations Group appointed by President Carter and Prime Minister Ohira, 1979-1981. He has testified before Congressional committees on numerous occasions.  He is a member of the United States National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation and its Board of Directors.  In 1985 he succeeded Dr. Saburo Okita as chairman of the International Steering Committee for the conference series on Pacific Trade and Development (PAFTAD), having served on it since PAFTAD's inauguration in 1968.  He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Japan Society for 22 years.  In November 1994 the Government of Japan awarded him the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold and Silver Star.

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Hadi Soesastro

Hadi Soesastro, is currently the Executive Director, at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Jakarta.  Dr. Soesastro has been with CSIS since 1971 and has served in various positions including Head of Department of Economic Affairs as well as Director of Studies.   He obtained his Ph.D. from the RAND Graduate School, Santa Monica, California in 1978 and has been involved with policy studies and interacting with policy makers from the beginning of his career with CSIS.  Dr. Soesastro was a Visiting Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University,  New York in 1988 – 1989, and has maintained a close relationship with Columbia University since that time.  From January 1997 to January 1998, he was Okita Fellow at the Economics Department, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS), Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, where he undertook a study on technological development in the Asia Pacific region.  He has remained an adjunct Professor, RSPAS, ANU since February 1998.

Dr. Soesastro has also been active in the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC) since 1980 and is a member of the International Steering Committee of Pacific Trade and Development (PAFTAD).  He has authored and edited more than a hundred publications, including both books and journal articles, writing extensively on trade and investment issues, both in the Indonesian context and regionally.  Two of his more recent publications include: "ASEAN During the Crisis," in Heinz W. Arndt and Hal Hill's Southeast Asia's Economic Crisis–Origins, Lessons, and the Way Forward (Singapore ISEAS, 1999) and "Indonesia's Electronics Industry" with Mari Pangestu in The Effects of Liberalisation in Asia's Textiles, Clothing and Electronics Industries, Background Papers, Studies in APEC Liberalisation.  (Canberra: Australian Pacific Economic Cooperation Committee, December 1998).  He has also written articles for recent volumes of the Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies and the ASEAN Economic Bulletin.

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Tubagus Feridhanusetyawan

Tubagus Feridhanusetyawan is Senior Economist at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Jakarta and a Lecturer on the Faculty of Economics at the University of Indonesia.  Dr. Feridhanusetyawan has been with CSIS since 1987 and has held the position of Senior Economist for the past four years.  He has done considerable work on the quantitative impact of trade liberalization using general equilibrium modeling and other quantitative tools.  He has also studied the Indonesian economic crisis, paying particular attention to the issue of trade finance in Indonesia's exports.  Dr. Feridhanusetyawan has participated in a number of joint research projects with other institutions including:  York University; the University of the Philippines; the Institute for Developing Economies (IDE) in Tokyo;  the Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI); and the United States Asia Environmental Partnership (US-AEP) at Clark University.    He is also a Visiting Research Fellow with the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.  A recipient of the ISEAS-World Bank Non-Resident Research Fellowship (1999), Dr. Feridhanusetyawan has also acted as a consulting economist to the Asian Development Bank (1999) and was both Project Coordinator and Principal Investigaror in a research project coordinataed and funded by the Human Resource Development working Group of APEC (1998-99).  His list of publications is extensive.  Some of his more recent work includes:  "The Security Implication of the Economic Crisis for Indonesian Workers," a paper prepared for the research project on Development and Security Issues in Southeast Asia, funded by the Canadian CIDA (June 1999); "The Benefit of the EVSL to APEC Economies:  A General Equilibrium Analysis,"  a chapter in a report submitted to the APEC Committee for Trade and Investment; and "The Impact of Trade Liberalisation on Welfare and Employment in ASEAN," a chapter in the PECC Human Resource Development Outlook 1998-99.  Dr. Feridhanusetyawan obtained a Ph.D. in economics from Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa in 1994.

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Eleanor Fox

Eleanor Fox is the Walter J. Derenberg Professor of Trade Regulation at New York University School of Law, where she received an LL. B. in 1961.  Professor Fox is one of America's foremost experts on U.S. and comparative antitrust law and competition policy and is the author of numerous treatises and essays on U.S. and foreign antitrust matters.  She serves as a member of the International Competition Policy Advisory Committee (ICPAC). She has served as the U.S. Chair of the American Bar Association NAFTA Task Force and held leadership positions in the Antitrust Section of the ABA.   She has also served as a member of the Advisory Boards or Board of Editors of most major antitrust publications in the United States and several in Europe.  She has also been a partner in a major Wall Street law firm, Simpson Thacher & Barlett. She has served as an advisor on antitrust law and competition policy matters to the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission and eight foreign governments.  In particular, she served as Commissioner of the National Commission for the Review of Antitrust Laws and Procedures during the Carter Administration. Her writings and scholarship are extensive.  Professor Fox is the author or co-author of more than ten books and over 100 articles. Some of her more recent publications include: European Community Law:  Cases and Materials, which she co-authored with George A. Bermann, William J. Davey and Roger J. Goebel (West 1993, supp. 1998, Documents 1998); Antitrust:  Cases and Materials,  co-authored with Lawrence A. Sullivan (West 1989, supp. 1995, 1997 update); "Globalization and Its Challenges for Law and Society", 29 Loyola University (Chicago) Law Journal 891 (1998);  "International Antitrust:  Against Minimum Rules; for Cosmopolitan Principles," 43 Antitrust Bulletin 5 (Spring 1998); and "Toward World Antitrust and Market Access," 91 American Journal of International Law 1 (1997).

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Edward Graham
 
 

Edward Graham is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for International Economics, one of America's leading international economic policy research institutions, located in Washington D.C.  During the first half of 1999, Dr. Graham took half time leave to serve as Adjunct Lecturer, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.  During the second half of 1997, he took full time leave to serve for one semester as Visiting Professor at Seoul National University in Korea.  Previously, he has served on the faculties of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Assistant Professor 1974-79), the University of North Carolina (Associate Professor 1983-88), and Duke University (Associate Professor 1988-90), turning down an offer of promotion there to come to IIE.  also he has served as an economist at both the Organization for Economic Development (OECD) in Paris and the U.S. Treasury in Washington, DC.  He has also been a consultant to various international organizations, including the World Trade Organization (WTO), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD),the World Bank and the governments of Taiwan, Hong Kong and Canada.

Dr. Graham is the author and co-author of numerous studies on international investment, technology transfer, competition policy and international trade, including 50 published articles in scholarly journals or academic conference volumes and over 30 articles in the business press.   Books include Global Corporations and National governments:  Are changes Needed in the International Economic and Political Order in Light of the Globalization of Business (1996); Foreign Direct Investment in the United States, which he co-authored with Professor Paul Krugman of MIT,  now in its third edition (1995); and Competition Policy for the Global Economy (1997), co-edited with David Richardson, all published by IIE.  He is also co-editor with Masaru Yoshitomi of Foreign Direct Investment in Japan (1996), published by Edward Elgar. Dr. Graham received a PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 1974.

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Hassan S. Kartadjoemena
 
 

Hassan Kartadjoemena is Chairman of the Foundation for International Business Management Development and Executive Director at the Center for Economic and Business Negotiations and Dispute Settlement, both in Jakarta.  He is also Executive Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development, and Executive Director of the Center for Trade in Services, which he established to support both research and training.  Dr. Kartadjoemena  has a great deal of experience as a trade negotiator.  He was Deputy Chief Negotiator for Indonesia in the UNCTAD negotiations for the establishment of the International Natural Rubber Organization (INRO).  He was also Ambassador to the GATT and Chief Negotiator for the Uruguay Round (1987-94), where he led the Indonesian delegation for the entire Round.  As Advisor to the Board of Directors of the Bank of Indonesia for WTO Affairs, Dr. Kartadjoemena handled the WTO Financial Services Negotiations on behalf of Bank Indonesia and the Indonesian Government (1994-97).  He is the author of numerous publications in both Indonesian and English.  Indeed, most recently, he has authored two university textbooks:  GATT and WTO:  Sistem, Forum dan Lembaga Internasional di Bidang Perdagangan (1996) and GATT dan WTO dan Hasil Uruguay Round (1997).  Dr. Kartadjoemena obtained his Ph.D. at the Institut Universitaire des Hautes Etudes Internationales, University of Geneva in 1982.

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