The Keizai Koho Center's innovative Think Tanker Program brings together scholars from renowned US institutions and Japanese researchers and policymakers.

The November 2005 Think Tanker program included Dr. Albert Keidel of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Dr. Jim Dorn of the Cato Institute, Derek Mitchell of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Dr. Eric Heginbotham of the Council on Foreign Relations, Dr. Evan Madeiros of Rand, and Dr. Patrick Cronin, currently with the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, UK.

 

Led by Dr. Arthur Alexander, the KKC December 13-17 2004 Think Tanker Invitational brought together Dr .William Niskanen, Chairman of the CATO Institute; Dr .T.J. Pempel, Professor of the University of California at Berkeley, Dr. Elizabeth Economy, a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, Dr. Banning Garrett, Director of  the Atlantic Council's Asia Program, and Dr. Saadia Pekkanen, Professor at the University of Washington in Seattle.

For more information about the program and recent conferences with the Free Enterprise Information Group, the Institute of International Economics, the Brookings Institution, and other US think tanks, please see:

http://www.kkc.or.jp/english/activities/index.html