Shorenstein APARC Global Affiliates Program

10/12/2024

Just finished our two-day Trans-Pacific Sustainability Dialogue which featured a panel, "Ecopreneurship and Innovative Investments for Sustainable Change", made up of our current and alumni Global Affiliates. A big thank you to Jennifer Jeong-ah Ryou (class of 2017-18) and Banjo Yamauchi and Edward Zeng, both part of our current cohort, for a fantastic job!

10/04/2024

🌍 Welcome to Our 2024-25 Global Affiliates Program Visiting Scholars! 🌏

We're excited to once again host a diverse cohort of professionals from our esteemed affiliate members, bringing together global expertise and fresh perspectives. This year's group is no exception! Our 2024-25 visiting scholars are embarking on a year filled with research, collaboration, and enrichment.

Let's give them a warm welcome as they join and contribute to the vibrant APARC and Stanford community.

Meet our new visiting fellows ⬇️

Global Affiliates Program Welcomes 2024-25 Fellows Breadcrumb All Shorenstein APARC News News September 30, 2024 Global Affiliates Program Welcomes 2024-25 Fellows Each year, the Global Affiliates Program hosts at APARC a cohort of qualified personnel nominated by our affiliate members, who send the...

03/14/2023

For our final MEET THE TEAM, I'd like to introduce Takuya Hirata, who joins us this year from the Ministry of Economy, Trade & Industry, Japan. During his time at METI, he has been mainly in charge of energy and environmental policy making and promoting Japanese industries. While at Stanford, his research focuses on the Startup Innovation Ecosystem and how Japan can improve its industrial competitiveness. Also, he's our biggest NBA and basketball fan! 🏀

03/07/2023

MEET THE TEAM: Hideyuki Koshimoto joins us this year from the Japan Patent Office. Hide joined the Patent Office in 2007 and has worked as a patent examiner handling patent applications mainly in the field of chemistry. Over the years, he has also held positions in Trial and Appeal affairs, was in charge of measures against counterfeit products and was in charge of the information systems affairs. He loves to travel and the comfortable climate at Stanford, but misses his family back home in Japan.

02/14/2023

MEET THE TEAM: Julia Wei joins us this year from D&C Think Tank and Discovery Capital in Hong Kong. She has over 20 years of experience in the financial industry including commercial banking, corporate finance, cross-border M&A, private equity and asset management. Her favorite thing about being at Stanford and living in California is that it provides her with a good environment for studying and deep thinking. Her optimism, passion, and overall friendliness has added so much to this year's program!

02/06/2023

MEET THE TEAM: Kazunobu Sakuma joins us this year from the Japan Air Self Defense Force. He brings with him over 25 years of experience in strategy education & research, defense policy & planning, and aircraft maintenance. His research interest covers organizational behavior, US-Japan defense relationship, and technology, society and warfare. He's our most-avid American football fan and his favorite place on campus is the Stanford Stadium.

01/30/2023

MEET THE TEAM: Joining us this year is Stanley Choi, the founder of Head & Shoulders Financial Group based in Hong Kong. He has over 25 years of experience across the area of derivatives, private equity and blockchain. While he really misses food from home, Stanley is enjoying the unparalleled weather, an energetic society and his new campus life where you can often find him at one of the many Coupa Cafes.

01/24/2023

MEET THE TEAM: Joining us this year from the Development Bank of Japan is Daisuke Saginoue. He has over 20 years of experience at DBJ where he focused mainly on investment activities and M&A advisory services in Japan and Vietnam. While at Stanford, he's researching different management styles among U.S., Japanese and Vietnamese companies. He misses good food from Japan, but is happy to have great colleagues here at Stanford.

01/23/2023

Happy Lunar New Year from the Stanford APARC team! Wishing you happiness, prosperity, and health this year and always.

01/18/2023

MEET THE TEAM: Makoto Shishido joins us this year from Japan where he held various positions in the Ministry of Finance, Cabinet Secretariat and the Cabinet Office. Most recently, he was the Deputy Director for Basic Principles of Fiscal Management and Reform at the Cabinet Office where he was responsible for policy on economic and fiscal management and reform. He is very much enjoying the wonderful California weather (except for the recent storms) and is perfecting his driving skills every day!

01/10/2023

Welcome to Winter Quarter 2023! Stanford and the bay area have been experiencing some crazy atmospheric winter storms recently, but we're still here!

This quarter, we'll be highlighting each of our members in our MEET THE TEAM feature. Today, please meet Jitukrushna Swain. Jitu is Senior Manager in the Corporate Development team at Reliance Life Sciences in India responsible for business development, cross-functional coordination for product registration, portfolio management, network development, and supporting international clients. He loves to travel, but misses his family back home very much. His favorite place on campus is the Stanford Dish. And through his friendly and generous personality, he has become the unofficial chef of the Global Affiliates Program!

11/01/2022

Representing 30+ years of collaboration between METI and APARC. Yoshinori Komiya (pictured center) was part of APARC in 1989-90 and he had a chance to meet with our current fellow from METI, Takuya Hirata (pictured 2nd from left). Also pictured is Kazunobu Sakuma (JASDF) and two of Yoshinori's colleagues from Japan. Thank you Yoshinori for coming to visit us!