Frank Rövekamp is a professor for Asian Studies with a focus on Japan and director of the East Asia Institute of the Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society, Germany. Formerly he worked for over 15 years in industry and held senior management positions in Germany, Japan and Hong Kong. He obtained his PhD in Business Studies from the University of Cologne. His current research interests include international monetary policy, trade policy and regional integration. Moritz Bälz, LL.M. (Harvard) is a professor of Japanese Law and its Cultural Foundations at the Faculty of Law of Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany, where he currently also serves as deputy director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for East Asian Studies (IZO). Prior to assuming his current position in 2008, he for several years worked as an attorney with international law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in New York and Frankfurt. His research focuses on Japanese business law from a comparative perspective and dispute resolution in Japan.Hanns Günther Hilpert is Senior Fellow at the Asia Division of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (“Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik”, SWP), Berlin, Germany. Formerly he worked for the German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ), Tokyo and the Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich. He has written and published many books and articles on the Japanese economy and on Asian trade and economic integration. His current research focuses on various policy oriented economic issues of East Asia.Wook Sohn is a professor of banking and finance and Associate Dean of the Office of Development Research and International Cooperation at the KDI School of Public Policy and Management, Rep. of Korea. He published many articles in academic journals and participated in consultation projects of the Korean, Hungarian, Cambodian, Omani and Mongolian governments. He was a visiting professor at the UBC Sauder School of Business, and most recently, Executive Director of Economic Research Institute of Bank of Korea. He was awarded his Ph.D. from Columbia University.
