Full Time
Ms. Mindy L. Kotler, Director - Yale University, M.A., International Relations; Smith College, B.A., Government and History, High Honors in Chinese history; The Phillips Exeter Academy

Associates

Ms. Meera Fickling is an International Relations and Economics major at the College of William & Mary.

Ms. Mariko Ratano is a student in the Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

Senior Advisers
Mr. Robert L. Stern advises on domestic and international science and technology policy. Mr. Stern held posts in both industry and government, including as Xerox's manager of advanced technology services and director of industry services at NIST. He holds a B.S. in chemical engineering from MIT.

Mr. Jerry Stryker advises on US-China relations and issues concerning China and Taiwan. He is editor of Chinastuff. Mr. Stryker is a retired Foreign Service Officer having served in China, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan. He is a graduate of The College of Wooster.

Dr. Ronald Morse advises on US-Japan relations and Japanese domestic politics. A longtime scholar on Japan, Dr. Morse is the Founder of Anime-Manga Café Company, CEO of Japan Entertainment & Gaming Associates, and the Chairman of the Las Vegas World Affairs Council. For the past decade he has been a professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (2004-2005), UCLA (2001-2004), and Reitaku University in Tokyo (1996-2001). The previous two decades, he was in Washington, D.C. at the Departments of Defense, State and Energy, and as Director of the Asia Program at the Wilson Center and a special assistant to the Librarian of Congress. Morse has a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in Chinese studies and a Ph.D. from Princeton University.

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