Ban Ki-moon of the Republic of Korea, the eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations, brings to his post 37 years of service both in Government and on the global stage.

Career highlights
At the time of his election as Secretary-General, Mr. Ban was his country's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade. His long tenure with the Ministry included postings in New Delhi, Washington D.C. and Vienna, and responsibility for a variety of portfolios, including Foreign Policy Adviser to the President, Chief National Security Adviser to the President, Deputy Minister for Policy Planning and Director-General of American Affairs. Throughout this service, his guiding vision was that of a peaceful Korean peninsula, playing an expanding role for peace and prosperity in the region and the wider world.

Mr. Ban has long-standing ties with the United Nations, dating back to 1975, when he worked for the Foreign Ministry's United Nations Division. That work expanded over the years, with assignments as First Secretary at the Republic of Korea's Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York, Director of the United Nations Division at the Ministry's headquarters in Seoul and Ambassador to Vienna, during which time, in 1999, he served as Chairman of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization. In 2001-2002, as Chef de Cabinet during the Republic of Korea's presidency of the General Assembly, he facilitated the prompt adoption of the first resolution of the session, condemning the terrorist attacks of 11 September, and undertook a number of initiatives aimed at strengthening the Assembly's functioning, thereby helping to turn a session that started out in crisis and confusion into one in which a number of important reforms were adopted.

Mr. Ban has also been actively involved in issues relating to inter-Korean relations. In 1992, as Special Adviser to the Foreign Minister, he served as Vice-Chair of the South-North Joint Nuclear Control Commission following the adoption of the historic Joint Declaration on the Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. In September 2005, as Foreign Minister, he played a leading role in bringing about another landmark agreement aimed at promoting peace and stability on the Korean peninsula with the adoption at the six-party talks of the Joint Statement on resolving the North Korean nuclear issue.

Education
Mr. Ban received a bachelor's degree in international relations from Seoul National University in 1970. In 1985, he earned a master's degree in public administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. In July 2008, Mr. Ban received an honorary Doctoral Degree from Seoul National University.

Prizes and awards
Mr. Ban has received numerous national and international prizes, medals and honours. In 1975, 1986 and again in 2006, he was awarded the Republic of Korea's Highest Order of Service Merit for service to his country. In April 2008, he was awarded the dignity of the “Grand-Croix de L'Ordre National” (Grand Cross of the National Order) in Burkina Faso, and in the same month received the “Grand Officier de L'Ordre National” (Grand Officer of the National Order) from the Government of Côte d'Ivoire.

Personal
Mr. Ban was born on 13 June 1944. He and his wife, Madam Yoo (Ban) Soon-taek, whom he met in high school in 1962, have one son and two daughters. In addition to Korean, Mr. Ban speaks English and French.

Alan S. Blinder is the Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University and Co-Director of Princeton’s Center for Economic Policy Studies, which he founded in 1990. He is also Vice Chairman of the Promontory Interfinancial Network.

Dr. Blinder served as Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from June 1994 until January 1996.  In this position, he represented the Fed at various international meetings, and was a member of the Board's committees on Bank Supervision and Regulation, Consumer and Community Affairs, and Derivative Instruments.  He also chaired the Board in the Chairman's absence. He speaks frequently to financial audiences.

Before becoming a member of the Board, Dr. Blinder served as a Member of President Clinton's original Council of Economic Advisers from January 1993 until June 1994.  There he was in charge of the Administration's macroeconomic forecasting and also worked intensively on budget, international trade, and health care issues. During the 2000 and 2004 presidential campaigns, he was an economic adviser to Al Gore and John Kerry. He also served briefly as Deputy Assistant Director of the Congressional Budget Office when that agency started in 1975, and testifies frequently before Congress on a wide variety of public policy issues.

Dr. Blinder was born on October 14, 1945, in Brooklyn, New York.  He earned his A.B. at Princeton University in 1967, M.Sc. at London School of Economics in 1968, and Ph.D. at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1971--all in economics.  Dr. Blinder has taught at Princeton since 1971, and chaired the Department of Economics from 1988 to 1990.

Dr. Blinder is the author or co-author of 17 books, including the textbook Economics:  Principles and Policy (with William J. Baumol), now in its 11th edition, from which well over two million college students have learned introductory economics.  He has also written scores of scholarly articles on such topics as fiscal policy, monetary policy, and the distribution of income.  He is also a columnist for The New York Times Sunday business section, and appears frequently on PBS, CNBC, CNN, Bloomberg TV, and elsewhere.

Dr. Blinder was previously President of the Eastern Economic Association and Vice President of the American Economic Association. He is a member of the board of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of both the Bretton Woods Committee and the Bellagio Group, and a former governor of the American Stock Exchange. Dr. Blinder also serves on academic advisory panels for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Bank for International Settlements, and the Hamilton Project.

He has been elected to the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Dr. Blinder and his wife, Madeline, live in Princeton, NJ. They have two sons, Scott and William, and two grandsons, Malcolm and Levi.

Miguel Angel Centeno (http://www.princeton.edu/~cenmiga )  is Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Princeton University.  From 2003 to 2007, he served as the founding Director of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.  From 1997-2004 he also served as Master of Wilson College at Princeton. He has published many books as author or editor including Democracy within Reason: Technocratic Revolution in Mexico (2nd. 1997), Blood and Debt: War and Statemaking in Latin America (2002), The Other Mirror: Grand Theory and Latin America, (2000), and Essays in Latin American Military History (2006). He is currently working on several book projects including: Paper Leviathans: Liberalism in the Iberian World (Penn State Press), Global Capitalism (Polity), and War and Society (Polity).  Through the Mapping Globalization project (http://qed.princeton.edu/index.php/MG )  he has worked on improving the quantitative scholarship available on globalization. In 2000, he founded the Princeton University Preparatory Program, which provides intensive supplemental training for lower income students in three local high schools.  For this work, he was recently awarded the Jefferson Award for Public Service and the Bonner Foundation Award. From 1980 to 1985 he worked in advertising and private marketing consulting dealing with the US Hispanic Market.

He obtained his BA in History in 1980, his MBA in 1987 and his Ph.D. in Sociology in 1990, all from Yale University. He has received grants from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and has been a Fulbright scholar in Russia and Mexico. He has also been a Visiting Professor in Buenos Aires,  Seoul, and the University of Salamanca. In 1997 he was awarded the Presidential Teaching Prize at Princeton University.  In 2005 he was elected to the Sociological Research Association as well as the Comparative Historical Section Council of the ASA. 

Keya Chatterjee is Deputy Director of the WWF Climate Change Program in the US. Her work focuses the on the international climate change negotiations under the UN, and the role of the US in those talks. Prior to joining WWF, Keya served as a Climate Change Specialist at USAID, where she managed the land-based carbon portfolio. Keya also worked for three years at NASA Headquarters in their Earth Science Enterprise. Keya started her career as a Presidential Management Fellow in the US government, and was a Peace Corps Volunteer in a national park in Morocco from 1998 to 2000.

Robert Cooper is Director-General for External and Politico-Military Affairs at the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union. He was brought up in Britain and Kenya, returning from Nairobi to the UK to attend Oxford University (Worcester College PPE) in 1966. He spent a year at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia joining the Diplomatic Service in 1970. He has served in New York, Tokyo, Brussels and Bonn. His Foreign Office career was divided broadly between Asia and Europe. From 1989 to 1993, he was Head of the Policy Planning Staff.  Later in the 1990s, he was Director for Asia and was then Deputy Secretary for Defence and Overseas Affairs in the Cabinet Office.

Before moving to Brussels in 2002 he was Special Representative for the British Government on Afghanistan.

He has published a number of essays and articles on international affairs and, most recently, a book of essays:  “The Breaking of Nations”, Atlantic Press 2003.

Rafaela Dancygier is Assistant Professor of Politics and Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.  She has been on the faculty at Princeton since 2007 and received her Ph.D. form Yale University in the same year.  Dancygier’s research and publications have focused on the domestic consequences of international immigration, the political incorporation of immigrants, and the determinants of ethnic conflict.  She recently completed a book manuscript which explores how immigration regimes and welfare states influence interethnic conflict and immigrant integration in Europe.

Edward Felton performs research in computer security and privacy, and technology policy. Much of his work is at the interface between these two areas. Public policy aims to protect security and privacy, while security and privacy technologies define the landscape in which policy decisions are made. His research focuses on technical issues related to anti-copying technology and generally to technologies affecting copyright, intellectual property policy, and the impacts of technology regulation in general. Ph.D. University of Washington.

Robert Hutchings is Diplomat in Residence at Princeton University, where he has also served as Assistant Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.  During a public service leave from the university in 2003-05, he was Chairman of the U.S. National Intelligence Council in Washington, D.C.
His combined academic and diplomatic career has included service as Fellow and Director of International Studies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Director for European Affairs with the National Security Council, and Special Adviser to the Secretary of State, with the rank of ambassador.  He has also served as deputy director of Radio Free Europe and on the faculty of the University of Virginia, and has written widely about U.S. foreign policy and European politics.  His current research on global strategy springs from a series of structured strategic dialogues with key leaders and scholars in China, Russia, India, Brazil, South Africa, and a dozen other countries around the world.  A graduate of the United States Naval Academy, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia.

G. John Ikenberry is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University in the Department of Politics and the Woodrow Wilson School. He previously taught at Georgetown (2000-2004), the University of Pennsylvania (1994-2000), and started his career at Princeton (1984-92). He has also held posts at the State Department (Policy Planning staff) (1991-92) and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Senior Associate) (1992-93). Ikenberry has also been a Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution (1997-2002). He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1985.

Professor Ikenberry has held several fellowships. During 2002-04, Professor Ikenberry was a Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund. During 1998-99, Professor Ikenberry was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., which is part of the Smithsonian Institution. During 1997-98, Professor Ikenberry was an Hitachi International Affairs Fellow, awarded by the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, and spent the year affiliated with the Institute for International Policy Studies in Tokyo. Ikenberry has also been awarded major grants by the U.S.-Japan Foundation and the Committee for Global Partnership for a multi-year project on “United States and Japanese Collaboration on Regional Security and Governance.”

Professor Ikenberry is currently writing a book about the politics of international rules and institutions in the era of American unipolarity.

Professor Ikenberry is the author of After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order after Major Wars (Princeton, 2001), which won the 2002 Schroeder-Jervis Award presented by the American Political Science Association (APSA) for the best book in international history and politics. The book has been translated into Japanese, Italian and Chinese. Professor Ikenberry has also co-authored a book entitled State Power and the World Economy, which was published in 2002 by Norton Press.

Professor Ikenberry is also the author of Reasons of State: Oil Politics and the Capacities of American Government (Cornell, 1988); and The State, with John A. Hall (Minnesota, 1989) which has been translated into several languages, including French, Spanish, and Japanese. He is author and co-editor of The State and American Foreign Economic Policy, with Michael Mastanduno and David Lake (Cornell, 1988). He has also edited a volume, with Michael Doyle, on New Thinking in International Relations (Westview, 1997). He is co-editor with Michael Cox and Takashi Inoguchi of U.S. Democracy Promotion: Impulses, Strategies, and Impacts (Oxford, 2000) and co-editor with Michael Mastanduno of International Relations Theory and the Asia-Pacific (Columbia, 2003). This volume assesses the relevance of Western theories of international relations for understanding the emerging relations between Japan, China, and the United States. He has recently edited a book entitled American Unrivaled: The Future of the Balance of Power. (Cornell, 2002). He has published in all the major academic journals of international relations and written widely in policy journals.

Among many activities, Professor Ikenberry has served as a member of an advisory group at the State Department in 2003-04. He chaired a study group on "Democracy and Discontent" at the Council on Foreign Relations in 1993-94, served as a senior staff member on the 1992 Carnegie Commission on the Reorganization of Government for the Conduct of Foreign Policy (the "Holbrooke Commission"), and co-authored Atlantic Frontiers: A New Agenda for U.S.-EC Relations, (Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1993). He has lectured throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. He is also the reviewer of books on political and legal affairs for Foreign Affairs.

Harold James, who holds a joint appointment as Professor of International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School, studies economic and financial history and modern German history. He was educated at Cambridge University (Ph.D. in 1982) and was a Fellow of Peterhouse for eight years before coming to Princeton University in 1986. His books include a study of the interwar depression in Germany, The German Slump (1986); an analysis of the changing character of national identity in Germany, A German Identity 1770-1990 (1989) (both books are also available in German); and International Monetary Cooperation Since Bretton Woods (1996). He was also coauthor of a history of Deutsche Bank (1995), which won the Financial Times Global Business Book Award in 1996, and he wrote The Deutsche Bank and the Nazi Economic War Against the Jews (2001). His most recent works are The End of Globalization: Lessons from the Great Depression (2001), which is also available in Chinese, German, Greek, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish, and Europe Reborn: A History 1914-2000 (2003); The Roman Predicament: How the Rules of International Order Create the Politics of Empire (2006) and Family Capitalism: Wendels, Haniels and Falcks (2006; also available in German, Italian and Chinese). In 2004 he was awarded the Helmut Schmidt Prize for Economic History, and in 2005 the Ludwig Erhard Prize for writing about economics. He is also Marie Curie Visiting Professor at the European University Institute. 

Edmond J. Keller is professor and chair of political science, Director of the UCLA Globalization Research Center-Africa and former Director of the James S. Coleman African Studies Center at the University of California-Los Angeles. He specializes in comparative politics with an emphasis on Africa. Keller received his B.A. in Government from Louisiana State University in New Orleans, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has taught at Indiana University, Dartmouth College, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Xavier University (New Orleans), and the University of California-Santa Barbara. Keller has been a visiting research scholar at the Institute for Development Studies (Nairobi, Kenya), the Bureau of Educational Research (Nairobi), the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, the Africa Institute of South Africa, and the University of California-Berkeley Institute for International Studies. Also, he has consulted widely on issues relating to African Development and public policy, and, more recently, on the process of political transitions in Africa, and on African regional security issues.

Among his professional activities, Keller served on the Council of the American Political Science Association (APSA), 2000-2002; Executive Committee of the Comparative Politics Section of the APSA, 1996-1998; and in 2007-2008 his was co-program Chair (with Jane Junn), for the APSA 2008 Annual Meeting. He has also served on the Editorial Board of the Western Political Science Association and the National Journal of Political Science; as Editor of the Journal of African Policy Studies, as treasurer for the North American Chapter of the African Journal of Political Science, and as vice president and president of the African Studies Association. Keller was the recipient of the African Studies Distinguished Africanist Award for 2008.

Keller is the author of two monographs: Education, Manpower and Development: The Impact of Educational Policy in Kenya (1980) and Revolutionary Ethiopia: From Empire to People’s Republic (1988). Professor Keller has also written more than 50 articles on African and African American politics, and has co-edited four books: Afro-marxist Regimes: Ideology and Public Policy (with Donald Rothchild, 1987); South Africa in Southern Africa: Domestic Change and International Conflict (with Louis Picard, 1989), and Africa in the New International Order: Rethinking State Sovereignty and Regional Security (with Donald Rothchild, 1996). Africa-US Relations: Strategic Encounters (with Donald Rothchild, 2006). Presently Keller’s main research is on issues of political transitions in Africa, cultural pluralism and nationalism, and conflict and conflict management in Africa.

Paul Krugman. The author or editor of dozens of books and several hundred articles, primarily about international trade and international finance, Krugman is also nationally known for his twice-weekly columns in The New York Times and his monthly columns in Fortune Magazine and Slate. He was the Ford International Professor of International Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has served on the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers. He was the recipient of the 1991 John Bates Clark Medal, an award given every two years by the American Economic Association to an economist under 40. Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Adel A. F. Mahmoud, M.D., Ph.D is at The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and The Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University. He has recently retired as President of Merck Vaccines.  Prior to that, he served at Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals of Cleveland as Chairman of Medicine and Physician-in-Chief.  Dr. Mahmoud's academic pursuits focused on investigations of host resistance to helminthic infections and strategies for their control which have been adopted globally.  At Merck, Dr. Mahmoud led the effort to develop four new vaccines including: combination of Measles, Mumps, Rubella and Varicella; Rota Virus; Shingles and Human Papillomavirus. Dr. Mahmoud’s leadership in setting policies for Global Health shaped the agenda of the Forum on Microbial Threats of the Institute of Medicine in recent years. He was elected to membership of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 1987.  He received the Bailey K. Ashford Award of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, and the Squibb Award of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.  He is a past president of the International Society for Infectious Diseases and is currently serving as a member of the National Advisory Board for Biosecurity.

Denise Mauzerall’s research focuses on global air pollution from both the science and policy perspectives. Her interests include quantifying the impact that fossil fuel combustion and biomass burning have on global air quality, and determining how global change science can best contribute to the formation of international environmental policy. She has held positions in the Global Change Division of the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C., where she worked to implement the Montreal Protocol, the international treaty protecting the stratospheric ozone layer, and at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, where she has used three-dimensional global chemical tracer models to examine the transformation and long-distance transport of air pollutants. Ph.D. Harvard University.

Helen V. Milner is the B. C. Forbes Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University and the director of the Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School. She is currently also the chair of the Department of Politics. She has written extensively on issues related to international cooperation, the connections between domestic politics and foreign policy, globalization and regionalism, and the relationship between democracy and globalization.  Some of her writings include Interests, Institutions and Information: Domestic Politics and International Relations (1997), The Political Economy of Economic Regionalism (coedited with Edward Mansfield, 1997), Internationalization and Domestic Politics (coedited with Robert Keohane, 1996), “Why the Move to Free Trade? Democracy and Trade Policy in the Developing Countries” (International Organization 2005), “Why Democracies Cooperate More: Electoral Control and International Trade Agreements.” (coauthored with Edward Mansfield and B. Peter Rosendorff,  International Organization 2002), “The Optimal Design of International Institutions: Why Escape Clauses are Essential.” (coauthored with B. Peter Rosendorff, International Organization. 2001).  She is currently working on issues related to globalization and development, such as the political economy of foreign aid, the “digital divide” and the global diffusion of the internet, the domestic politics of American foreign economic policy, international trade and the WTO, and the evolution of North-South relations.

Ashoka Mody is an Assistant Director in the IMF’s European Department. Before joining the IMF, he was with the World Bank between 1987 and 2001. During the academic year 1997-1998, he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. Earlier he was a Member of Staff at AT&T’s Bell Laboratories (1986-1987) and a Research Associate at the Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum (1979-1983). His recent academic research, motivated by and drawing closely on his policy responsibilities, has focused on international finance and domestic political economy, with some research connecting these two fields. He is an expert on emerging markets’ access to foreign capital, as well as the potential of such capital to enhance investment and growth. Recently, he has written on the politics of reforming the financial sector and public finances. His earlier research dealt with benchmarking emerging market company competitiveness and particularly on the ability to “learn” through international linkages. His papers have appeared in such journals as American Economic Review, Journal of International Economics, Economic Journal, Journal of Monetary Economics, Economic Policy, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of International Money and Finance, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and Management Science.

Stephen W. Pacala currently holds the Frederick D. Petrie Chair in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and is Director of the Princeton Environmental Institute. He received his Ph.D. in Biology from Stanford in 1982 and after ten years on the faculty at the University of Connecticut, he moved to Princeton in 1992. His research focuses on forests and the global carbon cycle. He also directs, with Robert Socolow, Princeton's Carbon Mitigation Initiative, which is aimed at finding solutions to the greenhouse warming problem. He has received numerous honors and awards, including election to the National Academy of Sciences in 2007.

Demetrios G. Papademetriou is the President of the Migration Policy Institute (MPI). He is also the convener of the Transatlantic Council on Migration and its predecessor, the Transatlantic Task Force on Immigration and Integration (co-convened with the Bertelsmann Stiftung).  The Council is composed of senior public figures, business leaders, and public intellectuals from Europe, the US and Canada.  Dr.  Papademetriou also convenes the Athens Migration Policy Initiative (AMPI), a task force of mostly European immigration experts that advises EU members states on immigration issues, and the Co-Founder and International Chair Emeritus of “Metropolis: An International Forum for Research and Policy on Migration and Cities.”   Dr. Papademetriou has been Chair of the Migration Committee of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD); Director for Immigration Policy and Research at the U.S. Department of Labor and Chair of the Secretary of Labor’s Immigration Policy Task Force; and Executive Editor of the International Migration Review.  Dr. Papademetriou has published more than 200 books, articles, monographs and research reports on migration topics and advises senior government and political party officials in more than twenty countries. 

Christina Paxson is the founding director of the Center for Health and Wellbeing, an interdisciplinary health research center in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. She is a Senior Editor of The Future of Children; a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, where she is a member of the programs on Aging, Health, and Children; and a Research Associate of Princeton’s Office of Population Research. Her research interests are in the areas of applied economics, health, and development economics. Her current research focuses on economic status and health outcomes over the life course in both developed and developing countries. She is the Principal Investigator of several NIH-funded studies, including "Economic Status, Public Policy, and Child Neglect", "Parental Resources and Child Wellbeing" and "College Education and Health", and is the director of an NIA Center for Demography of Aging at Princeton.

Francisco Rodríguez is Senior Policy Advisor and Head of the Writing Team of the Human Development Report Office. He has a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University and has held faculty positions at the University of Maryland, College Park, the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración and Wesleyan University. From 2000 to 2004 he served as Chief Economist to the Venezuelan National Assembly. He has published more than forty research papers in economics and public policy publications including the Journal of Economic Growth, NBER Macroeconomics Annual, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Economics and Politics and Foreign Affairs.

Eric Schmidt '76, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer,
Google Inc.
Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin recruited Eric Schmidt from Novell, where he led that company's strategic planning, management and technology development as chairman and CEO. Since coming to Google in 2001, Eric has focused on building the corporate infrastructure needed to maintain Google's rapid growth as a company and on ensuring that quality remains high while product development cycle times are kept to a minimum. Along with Larry and Sergey, Eric shares responsibility for Google's day-to-day operations. Eric's Novell experience culminated a 20-year record of achievement as an Internet strategist, entrepreneur and developer of great technologies. His well-seasoned perspective perfectly complements Google's needs as a young and rapidly growing search engine with a unique corporate culture.

Prior to his appointment at Novell, Eric was chief technology officer and corporate executive officer at Sun Microsystems, Inc., where he led the development of Java, Sun's platform-independent programming technology, and defined Sun's Internet software strategy. Before joining Sun in 1983, he was a member of the research staff at the Computer Science Lab at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), and held positions at Bell Laboratories and Zilog. Eric has a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University, and a master's and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2006, Eric was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, which recognized his work on "the development of strategies for the world's most successful Internet search engine company." Eric was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as a Fellow in 2007. He is also chairman of the board of directors for the New America Foundation.

James Shinn '73, *01, teaches courses on technology and foreign policy at Princeton. His current research interests include innovation, risk management and decision-making under uncertainty.

He was Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asia in 2007-2008. Before the Pentagon he served as the National Intelligence Officer for East Asia in 2003~2006, first at the Central Intelligence Agency and then for the newly-created Director of National Intelligence. Jim served in the US Mission to the UN as Delegate to the General Assembly in 2002.

After serving in the East Asia Bureau of the U.S. Department of State in the 1970's, he spent 15 years working in high tech firms, first at Advanced Micro Devices, an integrated circuit firm in Silicon Valley, and then at Dialogic, a voice processing technology firm, which he co-founded. Dialogic became the global leader in its market, both Microsoft and Intel acquired minority positions in the firm, and Dialogic did a successful IPO in 1992. Jim subsequently participated in several high tech start-up's as an investor and outside director -- some very successful, some not.

Jim was Senior Fellow for Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations from 1992~1996, where he wrote or co-authored several books and publications, including Weaving the Net: Conditional Engagement With China (1996) and Fires Across the Water: Transnational Problems in Asia (1998), both published by the Council on Foreign Relations Press. His most recent book is Political Power and Corporate Control, co-authored with Peter Gourevitch, published by Princeton University Press (2005).

He has a BA from Princeton ('73), MBA from Harvard ('81), and PhD from Princeton ('01).

Shirley M. Tilghman, President, Princeton University
Professor of Molecular Biology

Shirley M. Tilghman was elected Princeton University's 19th president on May 5, 2001, and assumed office on June 15, 2001. An exceptional teacher and a world-renowned scholar and leader in the field of molecular biology, she served on the Princeton faculty for 15 years before being named president.

Tilghman, a native of Canada, received her Honors B.Sc. in chemistry from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, in 1968. After two years of secondary school teaching in Sierra Leone, West Africa, she obtained her Ph.D. in biochemistry from Temple University in Philadelphia.

During postdoctoral studies at the National Institutes of Health, she made a number of groundbreaking discoveries while participating in cloning the first mammalian gene, and then continued to make scientific breakthroughs as an independent investigator at the Institute for Cancer Research in Philadelphia and an adjunct associate professor of human genetics and biochemistry and biophysics at the University of Pennsylvania.

Tilghman came to Princeton in 1986 as the Howard A. Prior Professor of the Life Sciences. Two years later, she also joined the Howard Hughes Medical Institute as an investigator. In 1998, she took on additional responsibilities as the founding director of Princeton's multi-disciplinary Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics.

A member of the National Research Council's committee that set the blueprint for the U.S. effort in the Human Genome Project, Tilghman also was one of the founding members of the National Advisory Council of the Human Genome Project for the National Institutes of Health.

She is renowned not only for her pioneering research, but for her national leadership on behalf of women in science and for promoting efforts to make the early careers of young scientists as meaningful and productive as possible.

From 1993 through 2000, Tilghman chaired Princeton's Council on Science and Technology, which encourages the teaching of science and technology to students outside the sciences, and in 1996 she received Princeton's President's Award for Distinguished Teaching. She initiated the Princeton Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship, a program across all the science and engineering disciplines that brings postdoctoral students to Princeton each year to gain experience in both research and teaching.

In 2002, Tilghman was one of five winners of the L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science.  In the following year, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Developmental Biology, and in 2007, she was awarded the Genetics Society of America Medal for outstanding contributions to her field.

Tilghman is a member of the American Philosophical Society, the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, and the Royal Society of London. She chairs the Association of American Universities and serves as a trustee of the Jackson Laboratory, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, and as a director of Google Inc.

Mark Watson is the Interim Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs,  the Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University, and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Econometric Society. His research focuses on time-series econometrics, empirical macroeconomics, and macroeconomic forecasting. He has published articles in these areas and is the author (with James Stock) of Introduction to Econometrics, a leading undergraduate textbook. Watson has served on the editorial board of several journals including the American Economic Review, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Econometrica, the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, the Journal of Monetary Economics, and Macroeconomic Dynamics. He currently serves as a Co-Editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics. He has served as a consultant for the Federal Reserve Banks of Chicago and Richmond. Before coming to Princeton in 1995, Watson served on the economics faculty at Harvard and Northwestern. Watson did his undergraduate work at Pierce Junior College and California State University at Northridge, and completed his Ph.D. at the University of California at San Diego.

Dr. Tadataka (Tachi) Yamada is President of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Global Health Program.  In this capacity he oversees grants totaling over $7 billion in programs directed at applying technologies to address major health challenges of the developing world including TB, HIV, malaria and other infectious diseases, malnutrition and maternal and child health.
He was formerly Chairman, Research and Development and a Member of the Board of Directors of GlaxoSmithKline. 

Dr. Yamada was born in Japan, and completed his education in the United States.  He graduated from Stanford University with a BA in history and obtained his M.D. from New York University School of Medicine.  After completing his internal medicine training at the Medical College of Virginia he became an investigator in the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, trained in gastroenterology at the UCLA School of Medicine and assumed his first faculty position there.  He later moved to the University of Michigan where he ultimately became Chairman, Department of Internal Medicine and Physician-in-Chief of the University of Michigan Medical Center before joining GlaxoSmithKline.

A scientist and scholar in gastroenterology, Dr. Yamada is the author of more than 150 original manuscripts on the subject and is the editor of The Textbook of Gastroenterology.  The studies undertaken by Dr. Yamada and his collaborators led to basic discoveries in the post-translational processing and biological activation of peptide hormones, the structure and function of receptors for hormones regulating gastric acid secretion, and the regulation of genes involved in the acid secretory process. 

In recognition of his contributions to medicine he has been elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences (US), the Academy of Medical Sciences (UK) and the National Academy of Medicine (Mexico).  He has received an honorary appointment as Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (KBE) and been conferred the degree of D.Sci. honoris causa, from the University of East Anglia.He has also been the recipient of numerous awards including the Distinguished Achievement Award in Gastrointestinal Physiology from the American Physiological Society, the Friedenwald Medal from the American Gastroenterological Association, the Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award from the University of Michigan and the Distinguished Medical Scientist Award from the Medical College of Virginia.  Dr. Yamada is a Fellow of the Imperial College of Medicine, a Master of the American College of Physicians, a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, a Past-President of the Association of American Physicians and a Past-President of the American Gastroenterological Association.  He has also been a Member of the Board of Directors of the American Board of Internal Medicine and the National Board of Medical Examiners (US).  

Dr. Zhu Feng began his college studies at the Department of International Politics of Peking University in 1981 and received his Ph.D. from Peking University in 1991. He is currently a professor at the university’s School of International Studies and Deputy Director of Center for International & Strategic Studies（CISS）of Peking University. He writes extensively on regional security in East Asia, nuclear N. Korea issue, American national security strategy, China-US relations and missile defense. He is a leading Chinese security expert and senior research fellow of the Center for Peace and Development of China. Dr. Zhu Feng sits on a couple of editorial boards of several scholarly journals, consults independently for the Chinese government and private sector, and comments frequently on television, radio, and print media on China foreign affairs and security policy. His recent books are Ballistic Missile Defense and International Security (Shanghai: Shanghai People’s Press, 2001), International Relations Theory and East Asian Security ( Beijing: People’s University Press, 2007), and China’s Ascent, Power, Security, and the Future of International Politics ( co-edited with Prof. Robert S. Ross, Cornell University Press，2008).