Energy and Environmental Awareness in China

An International Workshop Co-Sponsored by the
James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University
and the UFJ Research Institute of Japan
June 30, 2004

Biographical Information on Presenters, in Alphabetical Order

DR. JIE CHEN, is Professor and Acting Chair of Political Science and Director of the Institute of International Studies, Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. He received his B.A. in Journalism at the Institute of International Politics, Beijing, China, 1982, his M.A. in International Policy Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in 1987, and his Ph.D. from Washington State University in 1991. He teaches courses in International Relations, Asian Studies, Chinese Politics, and Comparative Politics. In 2001 he was a Residential Research Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, and in 2002 he was a Fulbright Scholar at the U.S. Department of State. He has authored and co-authored three books: Popular Political Support in Urban China (Stanford 2004), Ideology in U.S. Foreign Policy: Case Studies in U.S. China Policy (Westport 1992), and China Since the Cultural Revolution: From Totalitarianism to Authoritarianism (Westport 1995). He has also published numerous articles on contemporary China, including “Sociopolitical Attitudes of the Masses and Leaders in the Chinese Village” (Journal of Contemporary China 2004), "To Vote or Not to Vote: An Analysis of Peasants' Participation in Chinese Village Elections" (Comparative Political Studies, 2002), "Why Do People Vote in Semicompetitive Elections in China? A Reassessment of Voters' Subjective Motivations in Local People's Congress Elections" (Journal of Politics, 2002), “Urban Chinese Perceptions of Threats from the United States and Japan” (Public Opinion Quarterly, 2001), “Comparing Mass and Elite Subjective Orientations in Urban China” (Public Opinion Quarterly 1999), and “Mass Political Culture in Beijing: Findings from Two Public Opinion Surveys,” (Asian Survey 1998).
http://www.odu.edu/al/jchen/index.html

MS. AMY MYERS JAFFE, a Princeton University graduate in Arabic Studies, is the associate director of the Rice University energy program and the Wallace Wilson fellow for Energy Studies at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy of Rice University. Ms. Jaffe’s research focuses on the subject of oil geopolitics, strategic energy policy including energy science policy, and energy economics. Ms. Jaffe is widely published in academic journals and numerous book volumes including a co-authored article in Foreign Affairs “The Shocks of a World of Cheap Oil,” published in January 2000 and the chapter on Oil Geopolitics in the Encyclopedia of Energy. She served as co-editor of Energy in the Caspian Region: Present and Future (Palgrave, 2002). Her other works include economics surveys on the role of Saudi Arabia’s price discrimination in the oil market and the public goods aspect of petroleum inventories in energy policy formation as well as numerous articles and book chapters on oil in the Middle East, Russia, China, and the Caspian Basin. Ms. Jaffe received the 1994 Award for Excellence by the International Association for Energy Economics and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She is a principal author of the Baker Institute’s first nine energy studies that covered energy policy and trends in the Middle East, Caspian Basin, China and Japan as well as emerging technologies in the nuclear, nano-technology and natural gas sectors. Ms. Jaffe is currently organizing a major study on energy in Russia for the Baker Institute and was a major contributor to the recent joint Baker Institute/CFR task force on Guiding Principles for US Post-Conflict Policy in Iraq. She serves as project director for the joint Baker Institute/CFR task force Strategic Energy Policy: Challenges in the 21st Century. Prior to joining the Baker Institute, Ms. Jaffe was the senior editor and Middle East analyst for Petroleum Intelligence Weekly, a respected oil journal. Ms. Jaffe has written for a variety of publications including the New York Times, Dow Jones International, The Asian Wall Street Journal and the Mideast Report. Ms. Jaffe is a widely-quoted commentator on oil and energy policy in the international media and appears regularly on a variety of television news programs including CNN, MacNeil Lehrer News Hour, Fox News, MSNBC, Good Morning America and local broadcasts in New York and Houston.
http://www.rice.edu/energy/personnel/staff/AmyMyersJaffe.html

MR. KENSUKE KANEKIYO is a Managing Director of the Institute of Energy Economics, Japan. Mr. Kanekiyo is currently responsible for international cooperation activities of IEEJ relating to energy planning, conservation and environmental projects on coal, oil, gas and new and renewable energies, including APEC and ASEAN+3 activities. Among others, he is supervising IEEJ’s oil and gas studies on Russia and China. He is the lead author of the prominent World Bank report “Northeast Asia Gas Trade Study.” Other studies have covered cooperation in the petroleum industry in Northeast Asia, and the LNG Outlook of Japan. Mr. Kanekiyo has excellent knowledge and experience in energy issues in general, in oil and gas in upstream and downstream and, especially, the natural gas business. He initiated, supervised and successfully implemented the Malaysia LNG-3 project during his career at Nippon Oil Corporation, from 1988 to 2000, where he ultimately served as general manager of the LNG Department. His major research publications include: “Diversifying Energy Sources in Northeast Asia” (PNG 2004), “ Opening Up a Way to the Pacific Market for Russian Petroleum Resources” (IEEJ, 2003), “The Northeast Asia Gas Trade Study” (The World Bank, 2003), “Toward Energy Cooperation in Northeast Asia” (IEEJ, 2003), “The Petroleum Industry in Northeast Asia” (IEEJ, 2002), “Middle- Term Energy Outlook of Japan” (IEEJ, Annual edition), “The West-to-East Gas Pipeline, China “(IEEJ, August, 2001), “Outlook of Natural Gas Demand in Major Cities of China” (IEEJ, June 2001), and “LNG Outlook of Japan” (Annual edition, Nippon Oil Corporation).
http://eneken.ieej.or.jp/en/

DR. STEVEN W. LEWIS is a Research Fellow at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, and Senior Lecturer and Director of Asian Studies at Rice University. He received his doctorate in political science from Washington University in St. Louis. His research interests are focused on the development of privatization experiments, energy policy and central-local government fiscal relations in China and other transition economies. His recent publications include, "The Media of New Public Spaces in Global Cities: Subway Advertising in Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Taipei," in Continuum, 2003, "China's Oil Diplomacy" with Amy Myers Jaffe, in Survival, Spring 2002 "Deregulating and Privatizing Brazil's Energy Sector," in a 2004 Baker Institute omnibus report on energy policies in Latin America, and "What Can I Do For Shanghai? Selling Spiritual Civilization in Chinese Cities," in Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, Michael Keane, Yin Hong, eds., Media in China: Consumption, Content and Crisis, Curzon Press, 2002.
He has also conducted studies on intellectual property rights for the National Bureau of Asian Research, on the decentralization and privatization of China's oil and gas companies for the Center for International Political Economy, and on China's energy policy and foreign policy for Japan's METI. He has briefed executives from the Sichuan Petroleum Administration on business and government relations as part of a World Bank program, and participants at the World Petrochemical Congress in Houston on China's industrial policies and government strategies after WTO accession. As director of the Transnational China Project at the Baker Institute for Public Policy since 1997, he has worked with Rice faculty across many disciplines to explore the changes in contemporary Chinese culture associated with globalization. The project is currently beginning a three-year survey study, sponsored by the Henry Luce Foundation, of the impact of consumer advertising on nationalism in Chinese cities. Dr. Lewis has commented on the political, economic and social conditions in China for Chinese, American, Australian and local media, including CNN, Radio Australia, Radio Free Asia, Voice of America, Shandong Television, The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Newsday, USA Today, the Houston Chronicle, the Atlanta Constitution-Journal, the Cox News Syndicate, the Houston Press and Houston television and radio news stations. He is a member of the International Economic Development Coordinating Committee of the Mayor's Office of Houston and of the board of advisors to the Asia Society of Texas.
http://www.bakerinstitute.org/Persons/FelSchol.htm

MS. HONGYAN HE OLIVER, is completing her doctoral studies in the Program on Environmental Planning and Management of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University, and taking up a post-doctoral research position in the Program on Technology Innovation at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Her dissertation is entitled, “The Implementation of Cleaner Production at Chinese Enterprises through City-level Cleaner Production Programs”. She received a M.S. in Environmental Sciences from Beijing University in 1999, with her thesis entitled, “Design of Environmental Taxation Policy for China’s Ozone Depleting Substances (ODS) Phase-out”. She has conducted research on the integration of regulatory and market-based instruments to control emissions from the power sector as part of the China Clean Energy Program, Natural Resource Defense Council, New York, and on evaluating four city-level cleaner production programs in China as part of a joint research program between Stanford University and the China Cleaner Production Advisory Board, Beijing. Her publications include, with Leonard Ortolano, “Implementation of a Cleaner Production Program in Jiangsu, China,” (forthcoming Development and Change, to be published in the special issue: Development and Environmental Reform in China), and also with Leonard Ortolano, “Transferring Cleaner Production Technologies to Industrial Enterprises in Changzhou and Nantong, China,” (forthcoming International Journal of Technology Transfer and Commercialization), and with Leonard Ortolano and Hanchang Shi, “Cleaner Production Program in Taiyuan City, China.” (International Journal of Technology Transfer and Commercialization 2002).

DR. KANG WU is an energy expert on China and head of the China Energy projects at the East-West Center in Hawaii. Research work also includes energy modeling and Asia Pacific energy demand forecasting. He is the author and co-author of numerous journal articles, project reports, professional studies, conference papers, books, and other publications. He speaks frequently at international conferences, forums, workshops, and training programs. Dr. Wu’s research works have been widely cited by press and industrial media, including The Asian Wall Street Journal, International Herald Tribune, Far Eastern Economic Review, Journal of Commerce, The Straits Times, Honolulu Advertiser, Pacific Business News, Reuters, Voice of America, BBC, Dow Jones Energy Services, Bloomberg News, and ABC News.
http://www.eastwestcenter.org/about-dy-detail.asp?staff_ID=37

DR. VICTOR YUE YUAN is President and CEO of Horizon Research Group of Beijing, China, vice-president of the China Marketing Research Association, and vice-president of the Beijing Consulting Association. A frequent commentator on public opinion and survey research in the international and domestic Chinese news media, he also lectures on survey research at Qinghua University in Beijing. He received his doctorate in sociology from Beijing University.
http://www.horizonkey.com/first/first_jb/horizonkey-214.htm

DR. SUISHENG ZHAO is Associate Professor at Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver and Executive Director of the University of Denver’s Center for China-US Cooperation. He is on the Board of Directors of US Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (USCSCAP), founder and editor of the Journal of Contemporary China, and a Research Associate at the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research in Harvard University. A recipient of the 1999-2000 Campbell National Fellowship at Hoover Institution of Stanford University, he was Associate Professor of Political Science/International Studies at Washington College in Maryland, Associate Professor of Government/East Asian Politics at Colby College in Maine and visiting assistant professor in Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California-San Diego. He received a Ph.D. degree in political science from the University of California-San Diego (1992), a M.A. degree in Sociology from the University of Missouri and a M.A. degree in economics from Peking University. He is the author and editor of six books. His most recent books are Across the Taiwan Strait: Mainland China, Taiwan, and the Crisis of 1995-96 (1999), China and Democracy: Reconsidering the Prospects for a Democratic China (2000), Chinese Foreign Policy: Pragmatism and Strategic Behavior (2003). His articles have appeared in Political Science Quarterly, The China Quarterly, World Affairs, Asian Survey, Journal of Northeast Asian Studies, Asian Affairs, Journal of Democracy, Pacific Affairs, Communism and Post-Communism Studies, Problems of Post-Communism, The Journal of East Asian Affairs, Issues and Studies, Journal of Contemporary China, and elsewhere. His new book, A Nation-State by Construction: Dynamics of Modern Chinese Nationalism, is forthcoming from Stanford University Press (2004).
http://www.du.edu/gsis/china/staff.html

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