Friday, March 26, 2004

Speaker Biographies

Nicholas Eberstadt holds the Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at AEI. For many years he served as a member of Harvard University’s Center for Population and Development Studies, and he is currently a member of the Visiting Committee for the Harvard School of Public Health. He is a member of the Board of Scientific Counselors for the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics and the Advisory Committee for Voluntary Foreign Aid for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). He has served as a consultant for the U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. State Department, USAID, World Bank, and other institutions on such topics as demography, international development, and East Asian security. Mr. Eberstadt has published over three hundred studies and articles in scholarly and popular journals, including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the New York Review of Books, Commentary, the New Republic, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. His books include The Population of North Korea (coauthor with Judith Banister, 1992), The End of North Korea (1999), Korea’s Future and the Great Powers (coeditor with Richard J. Ellings, 2001), Fault Lines in China’s Economic Terrain (coauthor with Charles Wolf, Jr., K.C. Yeh, Benjamin Zycher, and Sung-Ho Lee, 2003), and most recently, Health and the Income Inequality Hypothesis (2004). Mr. Eberstadt is a founding member of the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, and a member of the Board of Advisers of the Korean Economic Institute of America.

Lee Sook Jong is a visiting fellow at the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution. She is a senior research fellow at the Sejong Institute in Seoul, South Korea, and has been a lecturer at Yonsei University in Seoul, a visiting fellow at the Institute of Social Science at the University of Tokyo, and a visiting fellow of the Social and Political Sciences Committee at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom. Her short publications include "Government-Nonprofit Organization Competition in Japanese Welfare Administration" (Asian Perspective, 2002) and "Financial Restructuring in Korea and Japan: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans and Reorganization of Financial Industry" (Journal of East Asian Studies, August 2002). She is the author of the chapter on anti-Americanism in Korea-U.S. Relations in Transition, edited by Jong-Chun Baek and Sang Hyun Lee (Sejong Institute, 2003), and her forthcoming monograph, Civil Society and Democratic Governance in Japan, will be published by the Sejong Institute in 2004.

Marcus Noland is a senior fellow at the Institute for International Economics (IIE). He was a senior economist at the Council of Economic Advisers in the Executive Office of the President of the United States and has held research or teaching positions at the Johns Hopkins University, the University of Southern California, Tokyo University, Saitama University, the University of Ghana, the Korea Development Institute, and the East-West Center. He has been the recipient of fellowships sponsored by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Council for the International Exchange of Scholars, and the Pohang Iron and Steel Corporation. His books include Economic Integration of the Korean Peninsula (editor, IIE, 1998); Industrial Policy in an Era of Globalization: Lessons from Asia (coauthor with Howard Pack, IIE, 2003); and most recently, Korea after Kim Jong-il (IIE, 2004). His book, Avoiding the Apocalypse: the Future of the Two Koreas (IIE, 2000), won the Ohira Memorial Prize. In addition to these books, he has written many scholarly articles on international economics, U.S. trade policy, and the economies of the Asia-Pacific region. He has served as an occasional consultant to organizations such as the World Bank and the National Intelligence Council and has testified before Congress on numerous occasions.

Scott Snyder is a senior associate in the international relations program of the Asia Foundation and Pacific Forum CSIS, based in Washington, D.C. He spent four years in Seoul as the Korea representative of the Asia Foundation from 2000 to 2003. Previously, he has been a program officer in the research and studies program of the U.S. Institute of Peace and the acting director of the Asia Society’s Contemporary Affairs Program. He recently edited a study with L. Gordon Flake titled Paved With Good Intentions: The NGO Experience in North Korea (2003), and he is the author of Negotiating on the Edge: North Korean Negotiating Behavior (1999). Mr. Snyder was the recipient of an Abe Fellowship, administered by the Social Sciences Research Council, from 1998 to 1999 and was a Thomas G. Watson Fellow at Yonsei University in South Korea from 1987 to 1988.

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