Speakers

	Mukul Asher Professor, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore E-mail: sppasher@nus.edu.sg Mukul Asher, an Indian national, is a Professor of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. In addition to India, Singapore and USA, he has also taught or researched in U.K., Sweden, Japan, Australia and Malaysia. His research interests focus on fiscal and pension reforms in Asia. He is also involved in researching on India's calibrated globalization and integration with the world economy. He serves as advisor on the editorial board of several journals, including International Social Security Review (ISSR), Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance, IIM-Bangalore Management Review, and Policy and Society. He has been involved as Faculty Chair and as resource person in conducting many Executive Education programs involving high level policymakers.
	Mary Jo Bane Academic Dean, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Email: Mary_jo_bane@harvard.edu Mary Jo Bane is Thornton Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy and Management, Academic Dean, and Chair of the Management and Leadership area. From 1993 to 1996 she was Assistant Secretary for Children and Families at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. From 1992 to 1993 she was Commissioner of the New York State Department of Social Services, where she previously served as Executive Deputy Commissioner from 1984 to 1986. From 1987 to 1992, at the Kennedy School, she was Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy and Director of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy. She is the author of a number of books and articles on poverty, welfare, families, and the role of churches in civic life. She is currently doing research on poverty in the United States and international context. She lives in Dorchester, Massachusetts, with her husband Kenneth Winston and enjoys hiking, gardening, and reading novels.
	Alan Brinkley Provost and the Allan Nevins Professor of History, Columbia University E-mail: ab65@columbia.edu Prof. Brinkley grew up in Washington, DC and was educated at Princeton University (A.B.) and Harvard University (Ph.D.). He taught at MIT, Harvard, and the City University of New York; and since 1991 had been professor of history in Columbia University. In 2003, he was appointed University provost. Among his publications are Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression (Knopf, 1982), which won the 1983 National Book Award; The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War (Knopf, 1995); and Liberalism and Its Discontents (Harvard, 1998). He is also the author of two widely-used college American history textbooks: American History: A Survey, now in its eleventh edition; and The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People, now in its fourth edition. His essays, articles, and reviews have appeared widely in scholarly journals and in such other publications as the New York Times Book Review and Magazine; the New York Review of Books; the New Republic; the New Yorker; the Times Literary Supplement; the London Review of Books; Time; Newsweek; Harper's; and the Atlantic. He has had visiting appointments at Princeton, New York University, the University of Torino, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociale in Paris, and Oxford University, where he was the 1998- 1999 Harmsworth Professor of American History. Prof. Brinkley teaches and researches on twentieth-century American history, with an emphasis on politics and culture in the 1930s and 1940s. Other interests include the growth of American media and the politics of postwar America.
	Howard Davies Director, London School of Economics and Political Science E-mail: h.davies@lse.ac.uk Howard Davies is Director of the London School of Economics, a post he took up in September 2003. From 1997-2003 he was Chairman of the Financial Services Authority, the single regulator for the UK financial sector, which was created under his leadership from nine separate regulatory agencies. From 1995-1997 he was Deputy Governor of the Bank of England. Before that, from 1992-95 he was Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry and, from 1987-92, Controller of the Audit Commission. He was also, for six years, a director of GKN plc and a member of the International Advisory Board of Natwest. Howard Davies was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Merton College, where he took an MA in History and French. In 1979 he was awarded a Harkness Fellowship and in 1980 gained an MSc in management science at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Throughout his career he has written widely for publication, reviewing fiction for the Literary Review and The Times, historical and economics books for the Economist, The Times, the TLS and the Times Higher, among other publications. He has lectured extensively at home and overseas and is a regular participant in the World Economic Forum in Davos. He is a Trustee of the Tate, a member of the governing body of the Royal Academy of Music; Patron of Working Families; and in 2004 was elected to an Honorary Fellowship at Merton College. Since 2003 he has been a member of the International Advisory councils of the China Banking Regulatory Commission and the China Securities Regulatory Commission. In 2004 he joined the board of Morgan Stanley as a non-executive director, and in 2006 joined the Board of Paternoster plc, a new insurance company. In 2006 he edited and introduced ‘The Chancellors' Tales' (Polity Press) a book on British economic policy from 1975 to 2000. In 2007 he will chair the judges for the Man Booker Prize for fiction.
	Richard Descoings President, Sciences Po E-mail: Richard.descoings@sciences-po.fr Graduate from both Sciences Po and the Ecole Nationale d'Administration (ENA), Richard Descoings is CEO of the French National Foundation for political sciences and President of Sciences Po since 1996. He is a member of the French Supreme Court for public ligitation (Conseil d'Etat). He also served as special advisor to the French Ministre du Budget (Chancellor of the Exchequer), then the French minister for national education, higher education and research. He is an active member of the French Universities' Presidents Association. He is an Honorary Doctor of Waseda University in Tokyo. He also received several Honorary awards (Chevalier national de la Légion d'Honneur, Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Mérite, among others and a member of the executive board of Le Siecle Club).
	Ann Florini Director, Centre on Asia and Globalisation, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy Email: sppfam@nus.edu.sg Ann Florini's research focuses on new approaches to managing global issues. This includes reform of intergovernmental organizations, the roles of civil society and the private sector in addressing global issues, and uses of information policy and technology. She co-chairs the international Task Force on Transparency, part of an international consortium spearheaded by the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University. Since 2002, she has been Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC. She was previously Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Her book The Coming Democracy: New Rules for Running a New World (Island Press, 2003/Brookings Press 2005) has been praised as "a beautifully written, highly accessible, authoritative explanation of how the world is changing and what we can do about those changes". Her edited volume, The Third Force: The Rise of Transnational Civil Society, was critically acclaimed as a "superb volume" that "makes the case for a new understanding of transnational civil society". Her articles have appeared in such journals as Foreign Policy, International Security, and International Studies Quarterly.
(no photo available)	Fu Jun Executive Dean, School of Government, Peking University Email: fujun@pku.edu.cn Fu Jun is professor of political economy at the School of Government, Peking University, and currently serves as the school's executive dean. He is also a research associate at the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University. Prior to his appointment at Peking University, he has taught at Harvard University, the University of Hong Kong, Tsinghua University and served as Tsinghua's public policy school's associate dean. In other personae, he has served as a foreign services officer with the Chinese Foreign Ministry, consultant and advisor for multinational firms, non-executive director for domestic firms, and member of Shenzhen Stocks Exchanges Listing Committee. He sits on the board of advisors/directors of several educational institutions, including Peking University Educational Foundation and Tsinghua University Educational Foundation. His research interests include international trade and investment, governance issues, business-government relations. He is the author of Institutions and Investments: Foreign Direct Investment in China during an Era of Reforms (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan University, Studies in International Economics). Currently he is doing research on competition policy, and has co-authored (in Chinese) Antitrust and Competition Policy: Economic Theory, International Experience, and Implications for China (Peking University Press). The courses he has taught include International Political Economy; Market Competition and Public Policy, and Political Economy of International Trade. Fu Jun holds B.A. from Beijing Foreign Languages Institute, LL.B. from the Foreign Affairs College in Beijing, and A.M. and Ph.D. both from Harvard University.
	Robert Klitgaard President, Claremont Graduate University Email: Robert.klitgaard@cgu.edu Robert Klitgaard is the President of Claremont Graduate University, where he is also a University Professor. From 1997 to 2005, he was the Dean and Ford Distinguished Professor of International Development and Security at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. He has also been a professor of economics at the University of Natal, Durban, South Africa; Lester Crown professor of economics at Yale's School of Management; and associate professor of public policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Klitgaard has been an advisor to many governments on economic strategy and institutional reform. His consulting work and research have taken him to more than 30 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. His book Tropical Gangsters was named by New York Times Book Review as one of the six best non-fiction books of 1990 and is included in New York Times' Books of the Century.
	Robert Lieberman Columbia University Email: rcl15@columbia.edu Robert Lieberman is a political scientist specializing in American political development and public policy, with special focus on the politics of race and social welfare policy. He received his B.A. from Yale and his Ph.D. from Harvard and since 1994 has taught at Columbia University with a joint appointment in the School of International and Public Affairs and the Department of Political Science. He is currently Chair of the Department of International and Public Affairs. Teaching and research interests: American political development, public policy, race and politics; social welfare policy. Major publications: Shifting the Color Line: Race and the American Welfare State (Harvard University Press, 1998); Shaping Race Policy: The United States in Comparative Perspective (Princeton University Press, 2005); and "Ideas, Institutions, and Political Order: Explaining Political Change," American Political Science Review 96 (2002).
	Kishore Mahbubani Dean, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore Email: sppdean@nus.edu.sg Kishore Mahbubani was appointed the first Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy on 16 August 2004. Currently, he is the Dean and Professor in the Practice of Public Policy at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKY SPP) of the National University of Singapore. He is also a Faculty Associate for the LKY SPP's Centre on Asia and Globalisation (CAG). He served in the Singapore Foreign Service from 1971 to 2004. He was Permanent Secretary at the Foreign Ministry from 1993 to 1998 and he also served twice as Singapore's Ambassador to the UN. Prof. Mahbubani has published and spoken in all corners of the globe and is the author of "Can Asians Think?", and of "Beyond the Age of Innocence: Rebuilding Trust between America and the World". His next book entitled "The New Asian Hemisphere: the irresistible shift of global power to the East" will be published in New York in early 2008. He graduated in philosophy from Singapore and Canada and served as a Fellow of the Center for International Affairs in Harvard University from 1991 to 1992. He was also listed as one of the top 100 public intellectuals in the world by Foreign Policy and Prospect magazines in September 2005.
(no photo available)	Pratap Bhanu Mehta President and Chief Executive, Centre for Policy Research Email: President_cpr@vsnl.com Pratap Bhanu Mehta is President of the Center for Policy Research, one of India's leading think thanks. He was previously Visiting Professor of Government, Associate Professor of Government and Social Studies at Harvard University. He was also Professor of Philosophy and Law and Governance at Jawaharlal Nehru University. He was also Member Convenor of The National Knowledge Commission appointed by the Prime Minister of India. In addition to his academic activities he has served on a number of policy panels, including the Planning Commission of India; The Supreme Court of India's Committee on Electoral Reform. He is on the Board of Governors of IDRC; Member of the Editorial Board of numerous Journals including the American Political Science Review and Journal of Democracy. In addition he is a prolific columnist and has written extensively for papers in India and internationally, including the Financial Times, Indian Express. Mehta studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford, and has a Ph.D in Politics from Princeton University. He has published widely in a number of fields, including political theory, constitutional law, intellectual history, Indian Politics and aspects of India's foreign policy. His articles have appeared in numerous professional journals. His latest books include The Burden of Democracy and India's Public Institutions. His forthcoming work focuses on two projects, India's Great Transformation; The Idea of Constitutionalism in Modern India. He is also co-editor of The Oxford Companion to Politics in India.
	Mario Monti President, Bocconi University Email: mario.monti@unibocconi.it Mario Monti is President of Bocconi University, Milan. He is also Chairperson of BRUEGEL (Brussels European and Global Economic Laboratory-a European think-tank founded in Brussels in January 2005 by 12 Member States of the European Union and large European and American companies) and Chairperson of ECAS (European Citizen Action Service - an international non-profit organization based in Brussels with the mission of helping citizens and non-governmental organizations have their voices heard by the European Institutions). He contributes regularly to the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. From 1995 to November 2004 he was a member of the European Commission, in charge of the Single Market, Financial Services, Taxation and Customs (1995-1999) and in charge of Competition (1999-2004). At Bocconi University he was Professor of Economics, Director of the Institute of Economics and Rector. Today he is President and Professor Emeritus. He is the author of many publications, particularly on monetary and financial economics, fiscal policy and European integration. Among his publications: "Il governo dell'economia e della moneta". Contributi per un'Italia europea: 1970-1992" (1992), and "Intervista sull'Italia in Europa" (edited by Federico Rampini, 1998). He served as President of SUERF (Société Universitaire Européenne de Recherches Financières) from 1982 to 1985 and as Chairperson of the Treasury Ministry's Committee on the Italian banking and financial system that indicated the guidelines for the nation's financial policies for the Eighties. Born in Varese in 1943, he received a degree in Economics from Bocconi University and pursued graduate studies at Yale University. He was Assistant Professor at Bocconi and Visiting Professor at the universities of Trento and Turin. He received honorary degrees in Law from the Universities of Padova and of Genova, the University of Insubria (Varese) and the University of St. Gallen.
	Arvind Panagariya Professor of Indian Political Economy, Columbia University Email: Ap2231@columbia.edu Arvind Panagariya is a Professor of Economics & Jagdish Bhagwati Professor of Indian Political Economy at Columbia University. In the past, he has been the Chief Economist of the Asian Development Bank and a Professor of Economics and Co-director, Center for International Economics, University of Maryland at College Park. He has also been associated with the World Bank, IMF, WTO, and UNCTAD in various capacities. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Economics from Princeton University. Panagariya has written or edited a dozen books and more than 100 technical and policy articles. His latest book, India: The Emerging Giant is to be published by OUP, New York in January 2008. His technical articles have appeared in virtually all leading professional journals such as the American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies and International Economic Review. His policy papers have appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy and World Economy. He writes a monthly column in the Economic Times, India's leading financial daily. His guest columns have appeared in the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Hindu, India Today and Outlook. He currently co-edits the India Policy Forum, a journal co-sponsored by the Brookings Institution, Washington DC and the National Council on Applied Economic Research, New Delhi.
(no photo available)	Surin Pitsuwan Member of the Parliament, former Foreign Minister, Thailand and Secretary-General Designate, ASEAN Email: pitsuwan@hotmail.com Surin Pitsuwan is a longtime Thai politician. Pitsuwan studied at Thammasat University, Thailand. He graduated cum laude from Claremont McKenna College, California, in political science in 1972. From 1977 until 1980, he was a researcher for the Human Rights Studies Program, Thai Studies Institute and the Ford Foundation, Thammasat University, and from 1974 until 1978, he was a fellow of The Rockefeller Fellowship Program, The Rockefeller Foundation, Harvard University and American University, Cairo. Surin Pitsuwan earned a Master of Arts from Harvard University and did research at the American University in Cairo as a scholar of the Institute of Higher Council for Islamic Affairs of Egypt from 1975 until 1977 before returning to Harvard, where he received a Ph.D. in 1982. Surin Pitsuwan was elected Member of Parliament from Nakhon Si Thammarat for the first time in 1986 and became Secretary to the Speaker of the House of Representatives the same year. In 1988, he was appointed Assistant Secretary to the Minister of Interior. From 1992 until 1995, he served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs before becoming Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1997, serving in this capacity until 2001. Surin Pitsuwan was Chairman of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) Regional Forum from 1999 until 2000. In addition to his political career, he taught at Thammasart University and wrote for two English daily newspapers in Bangkok between 1980 and 1992. From 1983 until 1984, Surin Pitsuwan worked in the U.S. Congress as a Congressional Fellow, Congressional Fellowship Program, the Asia Foundation and the American Political Science Association (APSA), while at the same time teaching International Relations at the American University in Washington, D.C. He was Academic Assistant to the Dean of the Faculty of Political Science and later to the Vice Rector for Academic Affairs at Thammasart University from 1985 until 1986. Surin Pitsuwan is a member of the Commission on Human Security, a member of the Advisory Board of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, and a member of the World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalisation. On June 18, 2007, the Thai cabinet unanimously endorsed the recommendation from the Thai Foreign Ministry for Surin Pitsuwan to be nominated as the Thai candidate to be the next Secretary-General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). He was confirmed by the ASEAN Foreign Ministers during their 40th annual meeting in Manila in July 2007.
	Andrew Sheng Chief Advisor of the China Banking Regulatory Commission, former Deputy Chief Executive of the hong Kong Monetary Authority Email: as@andrewsheng.net Mr. Andrew Sheng is a Chartered Accountant and was Chairman of the Securities and Futures Commission, Hong Kong from October 1998 to 30 September 2005. He has served in various positions with Bank Negara Malaysia, including Chief Economist and Assistant Governor in charge of Bank and Insurance Regulations. He also worked with the World Bank, Washington, DC, as Senior Manager, Financial Markets and Payments Systems, Financial Sector Development Department. From Oct 1993 - Sept 1998, he was Deputy Chief Executive, Hong Kong Monetary Authority, responsible for the Reserves Management and External Departments. Andrew has co-chaired the Working Party on Transparency and Accountability, one of the three Working Parties formed under the Group of Twenty-two Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors. In 1999, he chaired the Financial Stability Forum's Task Force on Implementation of Standards.From Oct 2003 - Sept 2005, he was Chairman of the Technical Committee of IOSCO, the International Organization of Securities Commission.In May 2003, he was also appointed Convenor of the International Council of Advisers to the China Banking Regulatory Commission. He is currently Chief Adviser to the Commission. Andrew Sheng is a justice of the peace, a chartered accountant, and holds a first class Honours degree in economics and Honorary doctor of law degree (LLD (Hon)) from the University of Bristol, United Kingdom. He is also Professor at the Graduate School of Economic Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing and Tun Ismail Mohd Ali Professor of Financial and Monetary Economics, University of Malaya. . His publications include 1996: "Bank Restructuring: Lessons from the 1980s", Oxford University Press/World Bank and many other papers.
	Anne-Marie Slaughter Dean, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University Email: slaughter@princeton.edu Anne-Marie Slaughter is Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. Prior to becoming Deanm she was the J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign and Comparative Law and the Director of the Graduate and International Legal Studies at Harvard Law School. She is also the former President of the American Society of International Law. Dean Slaughter is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and serves on the Board of the Council on Foreign Relations. Drawing from this rich interdisciplinary expertise, Slaughter writes and teaches broadly on global governance, international criminal law, and American of foreign policy. Her most recent book is The Idea that is America: Keeping Faith with our Values in a Dangerous World, published in 2007 by Basic Books. She is also the author of A New World Order, in which she identified transnational networks of government officials as an increasingly important component of international governance. Dean Slaughter is a frequent commentator on foreign affairs in newspapers, radio and television.
	Michael Storper Academic Director of the Sciences Po Master of Public Affairs Email: michael.storper@sciences-po.fr Michael Storper is Professor of Economic Sociology at Sciences Po, Member of the Center for the Sociology of Organisations and Academic Director of the Sciences Po MPA. Before coming to Sciences Po, he was Professor of Regional and International Development in the School of Public Affairs at UCLA in Los Angeles. He is also concurrently the Centennial Professor of Economic Geography at the London School of Economics. He received his PhD in Economic Geography at the University of California at Berkeley. His research concentrates on regional economic development and policy, including such themes as globalization, technological change and global economic development, regional economies, and urban-metropolitan development. A good amount of his research is comparative, concentrating on western Europe and Brazil. Currently he is working on globalization processes and the ways that they are affected by flows of knowledge, at world scale and in the European Union. Recent research has especially concentrated on the role of face-to-face contact in the contemporary economy; on the social structures of growth in different regions around the world; and on the way that regions face globalization processes. Key publications include The Regional World (Guilford 1997), Latecomers in the Global Economy, Worlds of Production (Harvard), and many journal articles.
	Visit Tantisunthorn Secretary General, Government Pension Fund, Thailand Email: visit@gpf.or.th Mr.Tantisunthorn has served as Secretary General of Government Pension Fund (GPF)since 2001.After six years at GPF, Mr. Tantisunthorn managed to double GPF asset size for over 1.1 million members from US$ 4.4 billion to US$ 8.8 billion that makes GPF one of the largest institutional investors in Thailand. He had a distinguished career in private sector prior to joining GPF. Past key positions were Regional Director (Direct Investment) of AIG Investment Corporation (Asia) Ltd. and Senior Vice President (Investment) of American International Assurance Co., Ltd. (1992-1998), President and Chief Executive Officer of Grammy Entertainment Plc., the largest entertainment company in Thailand, and Lanna Resources Plc., an energy firm listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand (1998-2001). At present, Mr. Tantisunthorn is also a member on Board of Directors of several prominent Thai companies. Also, he was elected as Board of the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), initiated by the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative and UN Global Compact, and the Board of Directors of Pacific Pension Institute. Mr. Tantisunthorn received his Bachelor of Science in Statistics from Chulalongkorn University Thailand and MBA in Finance from University of Wisconsin and completed the Advanced Management Program from Harvard Business School.
	Simon Tay Chairman, National Environment Agency of Singapore Email: josephine.chng@siiaonline.org Simon SC Tay LLM (Harvard) LLB Hons (NUS) is a teacher and activist and focuses on international and public law, especially on environmental issues in Asia. He has published in leading law and other academic journals in the USA, Canada, Australia and Europe and, in 2001, edited the work, "Reinventing ASEAN". In addition to his scholarly work, he concurrently chairs the Singapore Institute of International Affairs, an independent think-tank, and the National Environmental Agency, the government authority tasked to foster environmental protection and sustainability. He has advised international and regional governments and spoken at many international meetings, including the World Economic Forum (Davos). He previously initiated the Singapore Volunteers Overseas, the country's equivalent of the Peace Corps. He is also an award winning author of stories and poems.
	Laurence Tubiana Director of the Institute of Sustainable Development and International Relations, Sciences Po Email: Laurence.tubiana@iddri.org Laurence Tubiana is professor at the Ecole nationale supérieure agronomique of Montpelier and at the University of Montpellier, as well as associate professor at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris. Laurence Tubiana has also been member of the Council of Economic Analysis and Head of Research and Director of the department of International Economics at the National Institute of Agronomic Research (INRA). Apart from her research activities in the field of international economics and the environment, Laurence Tubiana was Founder and President of the French NGO Solagral. She also launched and directed the journal "Courier de la Planète". She has been consultant for various international organizations (UNCTAD, European Commission, World Bank) and Member of the Centre d'Analyse et de Prévision of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. As well she has been a Member of the Scientific Board of the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD). Under former French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, Laurence Tubiana was responsible for sustainable development issues and headed French delegations to several international environmental negotiations. She also a member of the Council of Economic Analysis of the Prime Minister and served as Prime Minister Jospin's senior Advisor in charge of the Environment. She is currently Director of the Institut du Développement Durable et des Relations Internationales (Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations), Member of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED) and Member of the Scientific Board of the Centre d'études et prospectives d'informations internationales (CEPII). She has recently been awarded the Chair of Sustainable Development at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris. Laurence Tubiana studied at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris and holds a Doctorate in Economics. She has published many articles and books on issues of sustainable development, the environment, and international issues.
	Sarah Worthington London School of Economics Email: s.worthington@lse.ac.uk Sarah Worthington is a Professor of Law, practising barrister, and a member of the Court of Governors and Council. As Pro-Director, her areas of responsibility include the promotion and development of the School's external activities and relations, strategic alliances, research and academic innovation, and alternative income streams. She serves as Chair or is an active member of the principal committees in these areas. Her academic research is in the areas of corporate and commercial law, focusing particularly on issues in secured financing and corporate governance.