Research Staff
Alagappa, Muthiah Distinguished Senior Fellow, East-West Center202-327-9750
Research Interests: International politics and security in Asia Pacific; Regional institution building; Asian comparative politics with a focus on political change and constitution of political authority.
Baker, Richard W. Adjunct Senior Fellow
808-944-7371
Research Interests: Foreign policy and policymaking; Asia Pacific regionalism, including the APEC forum; Southeast Asian politics and foreign policies; Indonesia's political economy.
Brown, Tim Senior Fellow
808-944-7476
Research Interests: Infectious disease and behaviorial epidemiology, risk behaviors and epidemiology of HIV/AIDS and STDs in Asia and the Pacific; Public policy for HIV/AIDS prevention and care; International collaboration on health issues, children and HIV/AIDS; Modeling of HIV/AIDS transmission and impacts.
Cheema, G. Shabbir Senior Fellow and Coordinator, Asia-Pacific Governance and Democracy Initiatives (AGDI)
808 944-7427
Research Interests: Democratic Governance for Human Development in Asia and the Pacific
Chen, Jiajian Senior Fellow
808-944-7426
Research Interests: Measuring and evaluating the health of populations; Infant, child, adult, and senior health and mortality; Immigrant and internal migrant health; Fertility and reproductive health in China; Integrated analysis and advocacy to improve HIV/AIDS responses.
Cho, Lee-Jay Emeritus Scholar
808-944-7440
Research Interests: Regional economic cooperation in Northeast Asia; Globalization and institutional development; Population policy and demography
Choe, Minja Kim Senior Fellow
808-944-7475
Research Interests: Fertility and reproductive health; Child survival; Family and gender issues; Health behavior of young adults. Countries: South Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan, India, Thailand, Philippines, Nepal, Indonesia, United States
Clark, Allen L. Senior Fellow
808-944-7509
Research Interests: Formulation and implementation of policy and institutions in support of sustainable national and regional development; Development and implementation of disaster management and humanitarian aid programs; Assessment and mitigation of social, cultural and environmental impacts of resource development; Integration of disenfranchised groups into economic development decision making and planning; Regional, national and project level assessment of social risks.
Cohen, David Adjunct Fellow, EWC ; Ancker Distinguished Professor for the Humanities, and Director, Berkeley War Crimes Studies Center, University of California, Berkeley
808-944-7236
Research Interests: Legal history, international humanitarian law, war crimes trials; human rights.
Edmonds, Christopher Adjunct Fellow, EWC; Assistant Specialist (Economist), College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resource, University of Hawaii-Manoa
808-956-4136
Ernst, Dieter Senior Fellow
808-944-7321
Fesharaki, Fereidun Senior Fellow
808-944-7527
Research Interests: Energy policy and planning in Asia; OPEC and the global outlook; Oil and gas market analysis and the downstream petroleum sector.
Finin, Gerard A. Deputy Director
808-944-7751
Research Interests: Public policy, social change, development, and urbanization.
Finucane, Melissa L. Senior Fellow
808-944-7254
Research Interests: Cognitive, emotional, and socio-psychological factors affecting human judgment and decision making; the role of cultural values in the perception of environmental, health, and financial risks; the role of feedback in coupled natural systems and responses to environmental and health risks; risk communication; and aging and decision competence.
Fox, Jefferson M. Coordinator, Environmental Change, Vulnerability and Governance; Senior Fellow
808-944-7248
Research Interests: Land cover/land-use change; forest fragmentation and degradation; spatial information technologies; local peoples and systems for managing forest resources in South and Southeast Asia.
Fuchs, Roland J. Senior Fellow
808-944-7518
Research Interests: Population, urbanization and development in Asia; Regional impacts of climate and environmental change and adaptation policies
Fujiuchi, Kimberly Administrative Officer
808-944-7300
Halapua, Sitiveni Director, Pacific Islands Development Program
808-944-7724
Research Interests: Sustainable development in the Pacific, Multidisciplinary approach to economic development; Development finance, trade, and fisheries.
Harwit, Eric Adjunct Fellow; Professor, Asian Studies, University of Hawaii
808-944-7218
Research Interests: China's political and economic transformation; China's foreign trade and foreign investment policy; China's Internet and telecommunications policy; China's automobile industry development
Hasan, Rana Adjunct Fellow; Economist, Asian Development Bank, Manila, Philippines
63-2-632-6449
Research Interests: Economic reforms and labor markets; development and inequality; productivity growth
Hosoe, Tomoko Project Specialist
808-944-7340
Research Interests: Downstream oil and natural gas, energy policy, and environmental issues, with special reference to Japan.
Jussawalla, Meheroo Senior Fellow Emerita
808-944-7329
Research Interests: Telecommunications trade between US-Japan, satellite orbital competition over the Pacific, privatization of telecommunications monopolies in the Asia Pacific region, Infrastructure growth in China and the markets for cellular mobile networks.
Kabutaulaka, Tarcisius Research Fellow
808-944-7598
Research Interests: Development, Governance, Natural Resource Development, Conflicts, Conflict Resolution, Post-conflict Development, Solomon Islands.
Kari, Uday Software & Applications Development Coordinator-NOAA IDEA Center
808-944-7251
Research Interests: Architect and build out the information technology elements of the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration's Integrated Data and Environmental Applications (NOAA IDEA) Center being incubated at the East West Center.
Kim, Yoon-Hyung Senior Fellow
808-944-7435
Research Interests: Globalization and regionalization; Economic relations in the Asia Pacific region; Electricity and telecommunications cooperation in East Asia.
Kiste, Robert C. Adjunct Senior Fellow
808-944-7720
Research Interests: Pacific anthropology, biography, and history; contemporary Pacific affairs
Lee, Dong Sun Research Fellow, EWC Washington
202-327-9753
Research Interests: International relations theory, security studies, causes of war, international politics of the Asia-Pacific, and US foreign policy.
Lee, Yean-ju Adjunct Fellow, EWC; Associate Professor, Sociology, Population Studies, University of Hawaii
808-956-3707
Research Interests: Gender stratification, population aging, and intergenerational relations; family changes in East Asia.
Lee, Sang Hyop Fellow, EWC; Associate Professor of Economics, University of Hawaii
808-944-7428
Research Interests: Labor economics and human resource; Consequences of government influence on labor markets and economic development; Focus on the impact of government policies on wage differentials, aging, fertility, and education.
Lewis, Nancy Davis Director, Research Program
808-944-7245
Research Interests: health and development, the geography of health and disease, human ecology, the environment, gender, climate change and human health, and the human dimensions of global change, and sustainability science.
Li, Zhe Spatial Information Technology Specialist
808-944-7511
Research Interests: GIS; remote sensing; spatial analysis; machine learning; landscape ecology; physical geography; environmental modeling; land use/cover mapping; land use/cover change modeling; and rubber expansion in Southeast Asia.
Lu, Diana Shaoqian Project Assistant
808-944-7564
Marten, Gerald G. Adjunct Sr. Fellow
808-944-7411
Research Interests: Environmental tipping points; Ecological control of mosquito-borne diseases.
Mason, Karen Oppenheim Senior Fellow
808-944-7407
Research Interests: Women's empowerment and population change; gender and savings behavior.
Mason, Andrew Senior Fellow, EWC; Professor of Economics, University of Hawaii
808-944-7455
Research Interests: Economic development and population change; Economics and aging; Intergenerational transfers.
McNally, Christopher Fellow
808-944-7239
Research Interests: Comparative and institutional political economy (Varieties of Capitalism), international political economy, international relations, the political economy of development.
Mishra, Vinod Adjunct Fellow; Chief, Population Policy Section, United Nations
917-367-4632
Research Interests: Changing Lifestyles and Emerging Health Threats; Reproductive and Child Health; Fertility and Family Planning; Effects of Air Pollution on Health; Human Impacts on the Environment.
Morrison, Charles E. President, East-West Center
808-944-7103
Research Interests: The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum; Asia Pacific international relations, economic issues, and security issues; U.S. Asia policy, trade policy.
Naya, Seiji Distinguished Visiting Senior Fellow
808-944-7523
Research Interests: Asian Economic Development, Japan-U.S. relations, Regional Trade Cooperation, Industrialization and Trade Policies of ASEAN Countries, Development Finance, Hawaii’s Economy
Noland, Marcus Senior Fellow, Economics; Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Research Interests: Political economy of US trade policy; US economic relations with Asia; economies of Japan, China and Korea; North Korea and the prospects for Korean unification.
Okubo, Beni Analyst, Overseas Operations Department , Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd., Tokyo
808-944-7458
Park, Jacob Assistant Professor of Business Strategy and Sustainability, Green Mountain College, Poultney, Vermont
944-7233
Petri, Peter Senior Fellow, Economics; Carl J Shapiro Professor of International Finance, International Business School, Brandeis University
Plummer, Michael Senior Fellow, Economics; Professor, Economics, SAIS Johns Hopkins, Bologna, Italy
Rambo, A. Terry Adjunct Senior Fellow; Visiting Professor, Khon Kaen University
66-43-202-366
Research Interests: Upland development in Vietnam; Environmental perception; Sustainable land use; Global environmental policies.
Retherford, Robert D. Coordinator, Population and Health Studies; Senior Fellow
808-944-7403
Research Interests: Fertility and family planning; Infant and child mortality; Populations of India, Nepal and Japan; Population aging in Japan; Population change and human evolution.
Rindfuss, Ronald R. Senior Fellow
808-944-7402
Research Interests: Fertility and family demography; Migration; Population and the environment; Land cover/land use change.
Roy, Denny Senior Fellow and Supervisor of POSCO Fellowship Program
808 944-7244
Research Interests: Northeast Asian political and security issues.
Russo, Gerard Adjunct Fellow, EWC; Associate Professor of Economics, University of Hawaii
808-944-7412
Research Interests: Economics of health; Health care financing; Health policy; Economics of AIDS/HIV prevention and screening; Tobacco taxation and smoking policy.
Saksena, Sumeet Fellow
808-944-7249
Research Interests: Environmental health impacts of energy use; Environmental statistics and reporting; Science and informed decision making
Shea, Eileen Director, NOAA Integrated Data and Environmental Applications Center
808-944-7253
Research Interests: Climate assessment and forecast applications; Environmental science, assessment and public policy; Societal applications of climate and global change research; Ocean and coastal resource management; Science for sustainable development.
Shoji, Noriko L. NOAA Physical Scientist
808-944-7133
Siddiqi, Toufiq Adjunct Senior Fellow; President, Global Environment and Energy in the 21st Century
808-944-7456
Research Interests: India-Pakistan Cooperation in Environment and Energy; Nuclear nonproliferation issues: Water and security in South Asia; Energy and global climate change.
Smith, Kirk R. Adjunct Senior Fellow, EWC; Professor and Chair, Environmental Health Sciences, UC-Berkeley
510-643-0793
Research Interests: Risk assessment; Air pollution; Hazardous chemicals; Global warming from greenhouse gases, biofuel energy systems.
Smith, Sheila A. Adjunct Fellow, EWC ; Sr Fellow for Japan Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Research Interests: Asia-Pacific international relations, particularly regional security relations. Japanese security planning; theories of international politics and security; Japan's domestic politics; U.S. policy toward Asia Pacific
Staggs, Michelle Deputy Director, Asian International Justice Initiative
Research Interests: International humanitarian law, war crimes trials, human rights
Thapa, Shyam Adjunct Fellow; Senior Scientist and Coordinator for Research, Monitoring and Evaluation, Family Health International
703-516-9779 ex
Research Interests: Youth, maternal and child health, family planning, and HIV/AIDS
Van Dyke, Jon M. Adjunct Senior Fellow, EWC; Professor of Law; University of Hawaii
808-944-7553
Research Interests: Maritime disputes in East Asia; regime building in Northeast Asia; military activities in the Exclusive Economic Zone; maritime claims of indigenous peoples
Westley, Sidney Communications Specialist
808-944-7480
Research Interests: Publishing research information for policy audiences; training in policy communications; writing, editing, and publication design
White, Geoffrey M. Senior Adjunct Fellow; Professor of Anthropology, University of Hawai‘i.
808-944-7343
Research Interests: International and intercultural education, Cultural policy; Ethnicity and nationalism; World War II in Asia Pacific; Pacific Islands studies.
Wong, Eric Data Management Specialist-NOAA IDEA Center
808-944-7429
Wongbusarakum, Supin Project Leader, Research Program
808-944-7582
Research Interests: Marine and coastal resource management in Asia and the Pacific, climate change impacts and adaptation policies, socioeconomic monitoring, local and traditional knowledge in environmental management, sustainable development, sea nomadic cultures and adaptation to modernization.
Wu, Kang Senior Fellow
808-944-7521
Research Interests: Energy economics, energy demand and supply assessment, and energy studies in the Asia-Pacific region with special emphasis on oil, gas and petroleum refining issues; Oil and gas market analysis; China energy studies, Impact of economic development on fossil energy demand.
Zhang, ZhongXiang Senior Fellow
808-944-7265
Research Interests: Climate economics and policy; energy and environmental economics; energy and environmental policy in China; trade and the environment
