Julian Chang
Julian Chang has served as the Executive Director of Asia Programs under the Center for Business Government since July 2001 and Director of the Kansai Keizai Doyukai Program since 2002. He received his PhD in political science from the Department of Government at Harvard University. At Harvard, Chang served as Residential Dean of Cabot House from 1993 to 1996, and worked in the University Development Office. He received his BA from Yale University and received a Yale-China fellowship to teach at Wuhan University, China.

In 1996, Dr. Chang went west to Stanford to become assistant director of the Center for East Asian Studies. In 1997 he helped to establish the Stanford Asia/Pacific Scholars Program, a university-wide fellowship program for graduate students from Asia. He joined Stanford’s Asia Pacific Research Center (A/PARC) as deputy director in the fall of 1998. His research interests include Sino-Soviet/Russian relations, communications, and mass media in China.
e: Julian_Chang@ksg.harvard.edu
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Amy Conly
Amy Conly, Program Administrator for the Vietnam Program, manages the Program's non-federal grants, helps to monitor its overall financial administration and participates with the Program Director, Senior Program Officer and Associate Director in the planning and implementation of new programmatic activities. Prior to joining the Vietnam Program, Conly worked as an accountant for non-profit clients at State Street Bank. She earned a BA from Smith College, majoring in French Literature and minoring in Economics. She spent her junior year studying at La Sorbonne in Paris and still very much enjoys traveling and studying other cultures, as well as listening to music, hiking, playing tennis and dancing.
e: amy_conly@ksg.harvard.edu
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David Dapice
David O. Dapice is the economist of the Vietnam Program. He is also associate professor of economics at Tufts University, and a former chair of the economics department. His research interests focus on development economics, particularly in Southeast Asia, and transitional economies. His recent professional activities involve research and assistance with economic reforms in Vietnam, in a number of topical areas. Professor Dapice is actively involved in the Vietnam Fulbright Program, having helped establish the Ho Chi Minh City Teaching Program in Development Economics, and is a member of the Fulbright selection committee which awards scholarships to mid-career Vietnamese professionals for graduate study in the U.S. He holds a bachelor's degree. in political economy from Williams College, and a master's and doctorate degree in economics from Harvard.
e: david_dapice@ksg.harvard.edu
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Anne Doyle
Anne Doyle is the Vietnam Program's Senior Program Officer and is responsible for general management of all aspects of the Vietnam Program Cambridge-based operation. Anne returned to the Cambridge office in July 2003 after serving three years as the Vietnam Program's Country Coordinator plus Executive Director of the Fulbright Economic Teaching Program (FETP) in Ho Chi Minh City. Prior to joining the Vietnam Program, she taught high school math at the Lycee du Scare Coeur as a Peace Corps volunteer in N'Djamena, Chad. There, she also set up and managed a college and career counseling center as well as English language activities. She earned her bachelor's degree in management and her graduate degree in corporate tax management at the University of Paris IX-Daupine.
e: anne_doyle@ksg.harvard.edu
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Dennis J. Encarnation
Dennis J. Encarnation, adjunct lecturer in public policy, is director of the Asia-Pacific Policy Program within CBG's Asia Programs. He joined the Harvard faculty in 1982 and taught for over a decade at the Harvard Business School. Prior to Harvard, he worked at the U.S. Office of Management and Budget and taught at Stanford University and Duke University, where he received a master's in public policy and a doctorate in political science. His research analyzes the international political economy, especially foreign investment and international trade by multinational corporations. He has authored five books and several articles focusing on comparative business-government relations from the perspective of multinational corporations managing foreign operations; host governments attracting or regulating multinationals; and multilateral organizations liberalizing member-state policies. He has conducted extensive field research from India to Japan, where he served as senior fellow in the Ministry of International Trade and Industry.
e: dennis_encarnation@ksg.harvard.edu
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Arnold Howitt
Arnold M. Howitt is Executive Director of the Kennedy School's Taubman Center for State and Local Government, as well as Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy. He is faculty chair or co-chair of KSG executive programs on Emergency Preparedness, Crisis Management, and of the Beijing Executive Public Training Training Program. For four years he directed KSG's research program on domestic preparedness for terrorism. Howitt served on an Institute of Medicine panel that authored Preparing for Terrorism (2002) and is co-author and co-editor of Countering Terrorism: Dimensions of Preparedness (2003). Howitt's other research focuses on transportation and environmental regulation. He served on a National Research Council panel that wrote Air Quality Management in the United States (2004). He is currently studying transportation and air pollution reduction in China. In addition, he wrote Managing Federalism, a study of the federal grant-in-aid system, and is coauthor and coeditor of Perspectives on Management Capacity Building. He received his BA from Columbia University and his MA and PhD in political science from Harvard University.
e: arnold_howitt@ksg.harvard.edu
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Joan Kaufman
Joan Kaufman is the director of the AIDS Public Policy Trainging Project. She was the Ford Foundation's Gender and Reproductive Health Program Officer for China from 1996-2001 where her portfolio funded government, researchers and NGOs in efforts to reform China's population policy and family planning program, to mobilize a response to the AIDS epidemic, and to promote attention to gender and reproductive health in rural health reform. After leaving China she spent the 2001-2002 academic year as a Radcliffe fellow at Harvard University where she began work on a book on the impact of the Beijing Women's Conference on the globalization of the Chinese women's movement. She was a Lecturer on Population and Reproductive Health at Harvard School of Public Health from 1990 -1999 and Senior Associate at Abt Associates Inc. from 1992-1996, developing and directing projects on HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases and other public health problems. She was the first international UNFPA program officer for China from 1980-84. She holds a doctorate in population and international health from Harvard School of Public Health. She has consulted to many private foundations, to government, and to public and private organizations on reproductive health issues and has published widely on reproductive health, AIDS, gender and international health topics. She is currently assisting the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative to develop their China program.
e: joan_kaufman@ksg.harvard.edu
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Stephane Lamour
Stéphane Lamour is the Financial Assistant for the Vietnam Program. His role entails processing and analyzing the program’s financial data, which includes field reporting and budgeting support. He earned a BA from Bentley College, majoring in Accounting Information Systems. Before joining the Vietnam Program he worked as an accountant and office manager for the Women of Color AIDS Council, Inc. Apart from his current duties in the Vietnam Program, Stéphane is active as a treasurer for the Forgotten Angels Foundation and is a business developer for a striving online community site called Haitianconnection.com. Originally from Haiti, Stéphane is passionate to learn and discover other cultures and its languages. Currently, Stéphane is studying Cantonese and Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Greek, Portuguese and Tagalog. In addition, he loves culinary arts, martial arts, dancing, philanthropy, and entrepreneurship.
e: stephane_lamour@ksg.harvard.edu
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Malcolm McPherson
Malcolm McPherson is Senior Fellow in Development at Mossavar Rahmani Center for Business & Government, serving previously in the same capacity for the Kennedy School since 2000. He gained his PhD in economics from Harvard in 1980. His research interests include international development, monetary and exchange rate management, macroeconomic reform, and the relationships among education, learning and economic growth. At Harvard, McPherson has worked for the Harvard Institute for International Development (1982-2000) during which time he consulted with international agencies and served as Harvard’s resident advisor in The Gambia (1985-89) and Zambia (1992-96). He co-edited with Steven Radelet a book on economic recovery in The Gambia (Harvard University Press, 1995) and, with Catharine Hill, a volume on economic reform in Zambia (Harvard University Press 2004). He was also senior advisor to the Equity and Growth through Economic Research (EAGER) project and edited two volumes - Restarting and Sustaining Growth and Development in Africa and Promoting and Sustaining Trade and Exchange Rate Reforms in Africa (Franklin Press 2002) summarizing the major findings of the project. McPherson's recent research relates to HIV/AIDS, capacity building, education, and economic growth. A special concern is the role of private businesses in boosting public sector capacities.
e: malcolm_mcpherson@ksg.harvard.edu
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Laura Ma
Laura Ma is program coordinator for the China Public Policy Program. Laura received her Ph.D. in Ancient Near Eastern History in 1994, and was a teaching faculty at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing. Before joining M-RCBG, Laura worked at Harvard University's LASPAU: Academic and Professional Programs for the Americas. Away from the office she enjoys time with her two daughters.
e: laura_ma@ksg.harvard.edu
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Kathy O'Brien

e: kathleen_o'brien@harvard.edu
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Dwight Perkins
Dwight H. Perkins is the principle investigator for the Vietnam Program. Professor Perkins, Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy, joined the Harvard University faculty in 1963 and has held several positions, including his current position as director of the Asia Center. Previously, he was director of the Harvard Institute of International Development, as associate director of the East Asian (now Fairbank) Research Center, and chairman of the Department of Economics. He has served as an advisor or consultant on economic policy and reform to the governments of Korea, China, Malaysia, Vietnam, Ethiopia, and Papua New Guinea. He has also been a consultant to the World Bank, the Ford Foundation, various private corporations, and agencies of the U.S. government. He has been a visiting professor at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, the University of Washington, and Fudan University in Shanghai. Professor Perkins served in the U.S. Navy and received his bachelor's degree from Cornell University in far eastern studies and his master's and doctorate degrees in economics from Harvard University.
e: dwight_perkins@ksg.harvard.edu
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Jay Rosengard
Jay Rosengard, Lecturer in Public Policy, has 30 years of international experience designing, implementing, and evaluating development policies in: public finance and fiscal strategy, tax reform, municipal finance and management, intergovernmental fiscal relations, banking and financial institutions development, microfinance, management information systems, monitoring and evaluation, human resource development, and public administration. He has worked for a wide variety of multilateral and bilateral donors, as well as directly for host governments and private sector clients. Rosengard is currently Director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government's Financial Sector Program, which focuses on the development of bank and nonbank financial institutions and alternative financing instruments. This includes microfinance (small-scale lending and local savings mobilization), mainstream commercial banking (general and special-purpose banks), and wholesale financial intermediation (municipal development funds, venture capital funds, pooled financing, secondary mortgage facilities, and securitization). Rosengard is also Faculty Chair of both the FIPED (Financial Institutions for Private Enterprise Development) Executive Program, which focuses on sustainable and effective microfinance and SME (small and medium enterprise) finance, and the COMTAX (Comparative Tax Policy and Administration) Executive Program, which addresses key strategic and tactical issues in tax design and implementation.

Tony Saich
Tony Saich is Daewoo Professor of International Affairs; director and faculty chair of Asia Programs at the Mossavar Rahmani Center for Business and Government; and director and faculty chair of the China Public Policy Program; and as of 2006, the Director of Harvard University's Asia Center. From 1994 until July 1999, he was the representative for the China Office of the Ford Foundation. Prior to this, he was director of the Sinological Institute at Leiden University, the Netherlands. His teaching and research focus on the interplay between state and society in Asia and the respective roles they play in determining policymaking and framing socioeconomic development. He has written several books on developments in China, including China: Politics and Government; Revolutionary Discourse in Mao's China (with David E. Apter); and The Rise to Power of the Chinese Communist Party. He studied political science in the U.K. and has taught in universities in England, Holland, and the U.S. Away from the office, he enjoys time his two children, movies and soccer.
e: anthony_saich@ksg.harvard.edu
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Jay S. Siegel
Jay S. Siegel is a Senior Research Fellow presently focusing on policy analysis in China in the areas of labor relations and dispute resolution in the workplace. As Senior Advisor-Labor Relations to the U.S. Department of Labor-Chinese Ministry of Labour and Social Security joint Labor Law Cooperative Project in 2004-5, he presented seminars in China on U.S. labor relations practices and assisted in a review and analysis of Chinese labor laws. Earlier, as an Adjunct Lecturer at the Kennedy School, he taught labor-management policy analysis and dispute resolution (negotiation, mediation & arbitration) skills. While at Harvard he also did research in Japan on lifetime employment policy as a Fulbright Scholar in the ‘Japan Today’ Program. Prior to Harvard he was in private law practice and was elected national chairman of the Labor & Employment Section of the American Bar Association. During this time he also served as Special Labor Counsel to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. A member of the Fulbright Senior Specialists Roster, he has lectured on labor and employment matters in China, Japan, Korea and Russia as well as written book chapters and presented research papers at international conferences on various subjects in the labor and employment field. He holds a B.A. in political science and a J.D. in law from New York University.
e:.jsiegel@ksg.harvard.edu

Thomas Vallely
Thomas J. Vallely is the director of the Vietnam Program and a research associate at the Center for Business and Government. He is responsible for directing the Program's research efforts into Vietnam's economy, as well as its teaching and exchange programs, both in the United States and Vietnam. He helped to establish the Fulbright Economics Teaching Program in Ho Chi Minh City. In addition, Vallely conducts research on specific aspects of Vietnam's development for the United Nations Development Programme, the World Bank, and the Japanese Ministry of Finance. Prior to becoming director of the Vietnam Program, Vallely served with the US Marine Corps in Vietnam and was a Senior Research Fellow at the Kennedy School, where he worked on strategic and military issues in East and Southeast Asia. He has worked as a political consultant and was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1980, serving until 1987. Vallely received a bachelor's degree from the University of Massachusetts and an M.P.A. from the Kennedy School of Government.
e: thomas_vallely@ksg.harvard.edu
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Ben Wilkinson
Ben Wilkinson is the Associate Director of the Vietnam Program and plays a critical role as the program's chief representative in Vietnam. Wilkinson oversees all activities of the Ho Chi Minh City-based Fulbright Economics Teaching Program (FETP), the preeminent public policy research and training center in Vietnam. Prior to joining the Vietnam Program he worked as a legal intern in Tokyo, an Internet entrepreneur in Boston, and a travel writer across Southeast Asia. He has studied Vietnamese history and literature at Vietnam National University and law at Harvard Law School. Wilkinson earned his bachelor's degree in East Asian Studies, with a focus on modern Vietnamese history, from Harvard University. He speaks fluent Vietnamese.
e: ben_wilkinson@ksg.harvard.edu
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Brenda Costello Williamson
Brenda Costello Williamson is Asia Programs' Associate Director for Finance and Personnel. In this position, she focuses on working with the various programs and initiatives in the Center to assist them with budget preparations and monitoring. She has been an employee of Harvard for 19 years and her most recent position was financial analyst in the Kennedy School's Office of Financial Services. She attended Boston Business School and earned an associate of science in accounting. Brenda lives in Natick where she spends her spare time with her husband and two children.
e: brenda_costello_williamson@ksg.harvard.edu
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