Past Pacific Leadership Fellows

Jyoti K. Parikh
Executive Director, Integrated Research and Action for Development (India)
Residency Dates: Oct. 9-13, 2023

Kirit S. Parikh
Chairman, Integrated Research and Action for Development (India)
Residency Dates: Oct. 9-13, 2023

Roy Bahat
Head, Bloomberg Beta
Residency Dates: Jan. 29-Feb. 2, 2024

Myung-hee Yoo
Former Trade Minister of South Korea (2019-2021) (South Korea)
Residency Dates: Feb. 5-13, 2024

Veerathai Santiprabhob
Former Governor of the Bank of Thailand (2015-2020) (Thailand)
Residency Dates: April 15-24, 2024

Heraldo Muñoz
Former Foreign Affairs Minister of Chile (2014-2018) (Chile)
Residency Dates: April 29-May 8, 2024

Maurizio Vecchione, Chief Innovation Officer, Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation, United States
Residency Dates: April 11-15, 2022

Kate Wilson, CEO, Digital Impact Alliance, United States
Residency Dates: Feb. 14-24, 2022

Aruna Sundararajan, Secretary of the Indian Department of Telecommunications, India
Residency: Oct. 1-5, 2018

Santiago Levy, Vice President for Sectors and Knowledge, Inter-American Development Bank, Mexico
Residency: Oct. 15-19, 2018

Luciano Rezende, Mayor, City of Vitória, Brazil
Residency: Oct. 30-Nov. 10, 2018

Caitlyn Chen, Vice President, Tencent, China
Residency: Dec. 1-4, 2018

Luis Videgaray, Former Foreign Minister and Finance Minister of Mexico
Residency: March 11-22, 2019

Arindam Bhattacharya, Senior Partner and Director, BCG Henderson Institute, The Boston Consulting Group, India
Residency: April 22 - May 7, 2019

Somkiat Tangkitvanich, President, Thailand Development Research Institute
Residency: Oct. 30 – Nov. 6 , 2017

Eduardo Porter, Economic Scene Columnist, New York Times
Residency: Jan. 22-26, 2018

Alberto Trejos, Dean, INCAE Business School in Costa Rica
Residency: Feb. 10-18, 2018

Sviatoslav (Slava) Vakarchuk, Co-founder, Center for Economic Strategy; Lead Vocalist for Okean Elzy
Residency: Feb. 20-22, 2018

Gregory Lee, Global President, Nokia Technologies
Residency: April 30 - May 18, 2018

Sir Tadataka Yamada, Life Sciences Team Venture Partner & Growth Buyout Team Senior Advisor, Frazier Healthcare Partners
Residency: Oct. 3-7, 2016

Keping Yu, dean, School of Government, Peking University
Residency: Oct. 3-14, 2016

Yoriko Kawaguchi, former Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister of the Environment, Japan;
Professor, Meiji Institute for Global Affairs, Meiji University
Residency: Feb. 9-20, 2017

Justice Tassaduq Jillani, former Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Pakistan
Residency: Feb. 27 - March 10, 2017

Enrico Letta, former Prime Minister, Italy; dean, Paris School of International Affairs, Sciences Po
Residency: April 10-14, 2017

Mauricio Tolmasquim, professor, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Residency: May 22 – June 2, 2017

Reiko Akiike, partner and managing director, Boston Consulting Group
Residency: Oct. 3-10, 2015

Poh Kam Wong, professor and director of the Entrepreneurship Centre, National University of Singapore
Residency: Nov. 1-11, 2015

Robert Hormats, vice chairman, Kissinger Associates Inc.
Residency: Feb. 1-14, 2016

Muhamad Chatib Basri, former Minister of Finance, Indonesia
Residency: March 28 – April 8, 2016

Antonio Ortiz-Mena, senior advisor, Albright Stonebridge Group
Residency: March 28 – April 8, 2016

Eric Gan, executive vice president and director, Softbank Corp.
Residency: May 3-6, 2016

Edna Jaime, director general, México Evalúa
Residency: May 11-21, 2016

Residency: Feb. 17–28, 2014

Kan Suzuki, former politician, Democratic Party of Japan
Residency: Oct. 27 – Nov. 6, 2014

Jose Dalisay, professor and novelist, University of the Philippines (Philippines)
Residency: Jan. 20–30, 2015

James Ding, managing director, GSR Ventures
Residency: Feb. 8–12 , 2015

Jorge Guajardo, former Mexican ambassador to China
Residency: Feb. 8–21, 2015

Sachio Semmoto, founder, former chair and CEO, eAccess Ltd/EMOBILE Ltd
Residency: April 2–15, 2015

Hiroshi Fujiwara, founder and president, BroadBand Tower, Inc.
Residency: May 11–24, 2015

Cai Fang, vice-president, Chinese Social Science Academy
Residency: April 1–11, 2013

Sohn Hak-kyu, former governor of the Gyeonggi-do province in South Korea
Residency: Jan. 20–31, 2014

Charles Zhang, founder, Board Chair and CEO of Sohu
Residency: Feb. 3–7, 2014

Hideichi Okada, former vice minister for international affairs, Japan
Residency: March 1–14, 2014

Chris Locke, founder, Caribou Digital (United Kingdom)
Residency: April 7–19, 2014

Xia Guang, director general, Policy Research Center for Environment and Economy, Ministry of Environment Protection
Residency: April 21 – May 16, 2014

Arturo Sarukhan, ambassador, Mexican Foreign Service
Residency: Nov. 3–12, 2014

Noelle Lenoir, partner, Kramer Levin (France)
Residency: Oct. 22 – Nov. 2, 2012

Adela Navarro Bello, co-director, Tijuana-based weekly Zeta
Residency: April 15–26, 2013

Mark S. Ward, senior advisor on Assistance to Syria, American Embassy in Turkey (United States)
Residency: May 6–10, 2013

Alejandro Poire, former secretary of interior of Mexico
Residency: May 15–23, 2013

James Fallows, National Correspondent, The Atlantic (United States)
Residency: Oct. 5–16, 2013

Joaquin Vial, board member, Central Bank of Chile (Chile)
Residency: Oct. 31 – Nov. 8, 2013

Nobuo Tanaka, former executive director, International Energy Agency
Residency: Jan. 7–20, 2011

Taro Kono, director general, Liberal Democratic Party’s International Bureau
Residency: Feb. 7–10, 2011

Yuri Okina, research director and chief senior economist, Japan Research Institute, Ltd.; executive vice president, National Institute for Research Advancement (NIRA)
Residency: May 2–12, 2011

Ma Zhong, dean and professor, School of Environment and Natural Resources, Renmin Univeristy
Residency: Nov. 14 – Dec. 2, 2011

Lu Xuedu, advisor, Climate Change and Carbon Market, Asian Development Bank
Residency: Jan. 9–13, 2012

Joao Batista de Rezende, president, Anatel Communications (Brazil)
Residency: Jan. 9–13, 2012

Ji Zou, China director, World Resource Institute, and professor, Renmin University
Residency: Jan. 24–Feb. 3, 2012

Shigeki Morinobu, president, Japan Tax Institute
Residency: March 5–9, 2012

Rizal Sukma, executive director, Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Jakarta (Indonesia)
Residency: April 23 – May 4, 2012

Jacques Marcovitch, professor, strategy and international affairs, University of Sao Paulo (Brazil)
Residency: April 25 – May 4, 2012

Francisco de Paula Gutierrez, professor, economics and finance, INCAE Business School (Costa Rica)
Residency: May 14–25, 2012

Paul Ramadge, former editor-in-chief at The Age and current vice chancellor professorial fellow and executive director, Global Initiatives at Monash University (Australia)
Residency: Oct. 1–13, 2012

Il SaKong, chair and CEO, Institute for Global Economics
Residency: Nov. 5–13, 2012

Hidehiro Konno, boardmember, Mitsubishi Corp.
Residency: Nov. 24 – Dec. 7, 2012

Masakazu Toyoda, chair and CEO, Institute of Energy Economics, Japan
Residency: Jan. 19–22, 2010

Kazuhiko Toyama, CEO and representative director, Industrial Growth Platform
Residency: March 1–13, 2010

Nguyen Anh Tuan, former chair of VietNamNet Media Company and former founder and editor-in-chief of VietNamNet Newspaper; current co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Boston Global Forum (Vietnam)
Residency: May 16–30, 2011

Alejandro Pisanty, professor, School of Chemistry of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
Residency: May 17–28, 2010

Miguel Szekely Pardo, former undersecretary for planning and evaluation, Ministry of Social Development and current public policy advisor for Josefina Vazquez Mota (PAN)
Residency: June 1–8, 2010

Hiroshi Nakada, former mayor, Yokohama, Japan
Residency: Oct. 18–27, 2010

Kevin Casas-Zamora, former vice president of Costa Rica and current secretary for political affairs at the Organization of American States (Costa Rica)
Residency: Nov. 1–12, 2010

Un-Chan Chung, former prime minister, Republic of Korea and Current Chairman of Commission on Shared Growth for Large and Small Companies, Republic of Korea
Residency: Jan. 20–26, 2011

Lan Xue, dean, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University
Residency: Jan. 29 – Feb. 19, 2011

Andrew Robb, Australian federal member for Goldstein (Australia)
Residency: Jan. 5–30, 2009

Patricio Meller, professor, University of Chile (Chile)
Residency: Feb. 2–13, 2009

Ryozo Hayashi, consulting fellow, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry
Residency: Feb. 9 – March 6, 2009

Sung-Hoon Kim, president, South Korea's Citizens Movement for Environmental Justice
Residency: March 29 – April 18, 2009

Glen Fukushima, senior fellow, Center for American Progress
Residency: April 20 – May 1, 2009

Sigrid Arzt, former technical secretary of Mexico’s National Security Council and current commissioner of the Federal Institute for Access to Information and Data Protection (IFAI)
Residency: Sept. 28 – Oct. 8, 2009

Xiaonian Xu, professor, China Europe International Business School
Residency: Jan. 15–29, 2010

Chung-in Moon, professor, Political Science, Yonsei University
Residency: Feb. 15 – May 7, 2010

Chalongphob Sussangkarn, distinguished fellow, Thailand Development Research Institute (Thailand)
Residency: March 9–13, 2009

Major General Shahzada Alam Malik, former chair, Pakistan Telecom Authority (Pakistan)
Residency: April 6–10, 2009

Emilia Pires, minister of finance of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste (Timor-Leste)
Residency: April 13–21, 2010

Takatoshi Ito, professor, Graduate School of Economics in Tokyo
Residency: April 30 – May 7, 2010

Lazaro Cardenas Batel, former governor of Michoacan, Mexico and current senior scholar of the Latin America Program at the Wilson Center
Residency: May 3–7, 2010

Chan-Mo Park, former president, Pohang University of Science and Technology
Residency: May 5–8, 2009

Alma Rosa Moreno, former ambassador of Mexico to the United Kingdom
Residency: Oct. 18–29, 2010

Xielin Liu, professor and associate dean, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Residency: Nov. 18 – Dec. 12, 2010

Daeje Chin, former minister, Information and Communications, Republic of Korea
Residency: Jan. 8–12, 2008

Jerome Cohen, adjunct senior fellow, Council on Foreign Relations and Professor, New York University (United States)
Residency: March 1–31, 2008

Muhammad A. S. Hikam, former state minister for technology and research (Indonesia)
Residency: April 28 – May 28, 2008

Pablo de la Flor, former peruvian vice minister of international trade and member of the Organizing Committee for Education CADE 2013 (Peru)
Residency: May 10–16, 2008

Jaime C. Laya, chair, Philtrust Bank (Philippines)
Residency: Nov. 13–21, 2008

Do Hoai Nam, president, Vietnamese Academy for the Social Sciences (Vietnam)
Residency: April 6–10, 2009

Mario Arana, former president, Central Bank of Nicaragua and current director of Fundacion Nicaraguense para el Desarrollo Economico y Social (Nicaragua)
Residency: April 4–14, 2007

Jorge Rodriguez-Grossi, former minister of energy and finance (Chile)
Residency: May 10–24, 2007

Sergio Ley, former ambassador of Mexico to China and current president of the Asia-Pacific Directorate at the Mexican Business Council for Foreign Trade (COMCE)
Residency: May 17 – June 4, 2007

Kazumasa Kusaka, executive adviser, Dentsu Inc.
Residency: May 30 – June 17, 2007

Kien Pham, vice chair, VietNamNet Media Group and president and co-founder, The Vietnam Foundation (Vietnam)
Residency: Nov. 13–21, 2007

Sir Donald Cruickshank, former chair, London Stock Exchange (United Kingdom)
Residency: December 2007 – May 2008