Current Visiting Fellows

As of 8 September 2009

• Shin-ichi Fukuda - Japan
• Robert Owen - United States
• Iwan Azis - Indonesia

Shin-ichi Fukuda is a Visiting Fellow (part-time) at the ADB Institute. His full-time position is with the Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo, where he has been Associate Professor (1996-2001) and Professor of Economics (2001-present). His numerous professional appointments have included: Associate Professor, Yokohama National University (1989-92); Associate Professor, Hitotsubashi University (1992-96); Visiting Scholar, University of Washington (1995-96); Visiting Scholar, Australian National University (1998); and Visiting Professor of Economics, Yale University (2002-03).

Mr. Fukuda is a specialist in macro economics and international finance. He is the author of over 50 professional publications. His recent work has dealt with issues related to exchange rate policy, monetary policy, foreign exchange reserve accumulation, and banking problems under crises. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Yale University.

Current Research in ADBI:
Financial Crisis and Policy Cooperation in Asia

Robert Owen is currently a Visiting Fellow at ADBI. Since 1991 he has been Professor of Economics at the University of Nantes. He earned his B.A. (with Honors) in 1974 from Swarthmore College and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1981, where his principal field of specialization was international economics and finance. Other areas of research and teaching interest are European economic integration, industrial economics, macroeconomics, economic development, public finance, and the economics of technological innovation and networks.

His academic career has included teaching and research positions at Cornell University, Cambridge University, the European Institute of Public Administration, the International University of Japan, and Yale University. In addition Dr. Owen has been a consultant to the OECD and the World Bank, as well as a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund, the Bank of Japan, and Osaka University.

His research includes work relating to the role of international technological competition, exchange rates, industrial policies, and other factors in determining patterns of foreign direct investment and international trade, as well as the analysis of the impact of economic integration on industrial performance. His publications include articles in the American Economic Review, Bank of Japan Monetary and Economic Studies, De Economist, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of International Economics, Recherches Economiques de Louvain, The Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Revue Economique, and in a number of books. He is the co-editor of two special issues of the Review of International Economics, including one based on the Nantes Conference on “European Economic Integration”.

In addition to other professional associations, Dr. Owen is currently a member of the Editorial Board of The Review of International Economics and has been a frequent organizer of sessions at the Allied Social Science Association meetings.

Iwan Azis is a professor and director of graduate study in Regional Science, and adjunct professor in the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. He was the Chair of the economics department at the University of Indonesia (1984-1993), director of the Inter University Center for Economics (1987-1994), committee member of the Working Group on the World Economic Outlook in CDP-United Nations (1993-2000), fellow with the Eisenhower Foundation (1988). During the last few years he has been advising the Indonesian central bank on its research activities, including the construction of the Financial Social Accounting Matrix (FSAM).

He conducted research and consulting work for various international organizations, universities, and governments. He has addressed topics of financial economics, regional economic modeling, and linkages between macro-financial policy and social issues. He published more than 25 articles during the last five years. In early 1998, he spoke before the Joint Economic Committee (JEC) of the US Congress on the Asian Crisis, and in 2006 he received a "Distinguished Scholar in Regional Science, Financial Economics, and Economic Modeling," award in Portugal. He was a regular visiting fellow at ADBI (2000-2003). His latest book is "Crisis, Complexity and Conflict" (Emerald, 2009).

His current research in ADBI:
Institutional Constraints in Decentralization