Glen S. Fukushima focuses on the nexus between technology, national security, trade, and U.S.-Asia relations and is writing a book on the ties between Silicon Valley and Japan. He is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C. In October 2021, President Joseph R. Biden nominated him to be Vice Chair of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation, and he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in April 2022.

From 1990 to 2012, Fukushima was based in Asia as a senior executive at one European and four American corporations: AT&T, Arthur D. Little, Cadence Design Systems, NCR, and Airbus. He was elected once as Vice President and twice as President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan and served on numerous corporate and nonprofit boards in the United States, Europe, and Japan. He has also served as a Visiting Professor at Kyoto University, Waseda University, and Sophia University and as an advisor or board member at the International Christian University, Keio University, Rikkyo University, Tsukuba University, and the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo.

From 1985 to 1990, Fukushima served as Director for Japanese Affairs (1985-1988) and Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Japan and China (1988-1990) at the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) in the Executive Office of the President, Washington, D.C. He has been a member of the Council of Foreign Relations since 1993.

He was educated in the United States at Deep Springs College, Stanford University, and Harvard University (Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Business School, and Law School) and in Japan at Keio University and the University of Tokyo, where he was a Fulbright Fellow and Japan Foundation Fellow.

Dr. Thitinan Pongsudhirak is Director of the Institute of Security and International Studies (ISIS) and Associate Professor of International Political Economy at the Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University. He has authored a host of articles, books and book chapters on Thailand’s politics, political economy, foreign policy, and media as well as ASEAN and East Asian security and economic cooperation. He is frequently quoted and his op-eds have regularly appeared in international and local media, including a column in The Bangkok Post and The Straits Times. Dr Thitinan has worked for The BBC World Service, The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), and Independent Economic Analysis (IDEA) as well as consulting projects related to Thailand’s macro-economy and politics. He received his BA from the University of California at Santa Barbara, MA from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and PhD from the London School of Economics where his work on the political economy of the 1997 Thai economic crisis was awarded the United Kingdom’s Lord Bryce Prize for Best Dissertation in Comparative and International Politics.

Dr Thitinan was a visiting professor at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in spring 2011 and a visiting scholar at Stanford University’s Humanities Centre and Centre on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law in spring 2010, a Salzburg Global Seminar faculty member in June 2009, and Visiting Research Fellow at ISEAS in Singapore in 2005, having lectured at many local and overseas universities. He currently serves on the editorial boards of Contemporary Southeast Asia, South East Asia Research, Asian Politics & Policy, and Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, and was a visiting professor at Yangon University’s International Center of Excellence from March-April 2014.

Steven Okun, Founder and CEO of APAC Advisors and Senior Advisor to McLarty Associates, is a leader on corporate public affairs, ESG, sustainability, and stakeholder engagement. A 21-year resident of Singapore, he spent the first twelve years of his career in Washington, DC, including in the Administration of President Bill Clinton as Deputy General Counsel at the US Department of Transportation. As KKR’s first Director of Asia Public Affairs from 2011-2017, he was one of the first people in the region working on ESG in private capital. From 2003-2010, he created and led Public Affair for UPS Asia. An in-demand speaker in the corporate and the financial services sector, Steve also appears frequently across global media, provides the weekly International News Review for MONEY FM (Singapore) and contributes commentary to Nikkei Asia, The Straits Times, The Business Times, Eco-Business and Asia Times.