Economics

Dr. Ikuo is the current governor of Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. To read a recent article about Dr. Ikuo, please click here.

Puree Sirasoontorn, PhD., is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Economics, Thammasat University. She received her Master’s in Economics of Development and her Ph.D. in Economics from Australian National University. Her research interests include economics of regulation and competition policy, corporate governance, energy economics and ICT and telecommunication economics. She has extensive experience in the fields of energy policy and regulation, including research projects on energy tariff regulation in Thailand, implications of the Energy Industry Act for the Thai energy sector, privatization of state-owned electric utilities, Thai economic measures and policy on energy crisis, and lignite and liquefied petroleum gas pricing and subsidization policy in Thailand. Her research interests extend to sectoral-level economic measures and policies and governance issues on climate change. She has collaborated with LIRNEasia, a regional ICT policy and regulation think tank, where she led a study on mobile value-added services in Thailand. She is a frequent guest lecturer on regulatory economics to energy regulators in various countries such as Bangladesh, Namibia and the ASEAN countries. She also advises the Energy Regulatory Board of Thailand on electricity tariff regulation.  Puree serves as a reviewer for journals such as Regulation & Governance, International Energy Journal and Thammasat Economic Journal, and occasionally writes newspaper columns on infrastructural reform and regulation.

Mika Marumoto, a development consultant and former visiting fellow at the Harvard-Yenching Institute, completed her dissertation The Road Not Yet Taken: North Korea’s Economic Transformation and the Role of China (Yonsei University 2007) based on research conducted at Harvard.  Related publications include “North Korea and the China Model” (Korea Economic Institute 2008).  Mika is currently managing a project evaluating statistical databases on North Korea, drawing on the expertise of a range of practitioners in the United States, South Korea and China.  She has also been engaged in translation projects, covering topics including individual accounts of World War II experiences and post-war reconciliation.

Deng Feng is an Associate Professor of the School of Law, Peking University, China.   He got his B. A., M. Phil., and S. J. D. from the School of Law, Renmin University of China.  Now he is teaching Corporate Law, Regulation & Antitrust, and Law & Economics in Peking University.  His research interests focus on law & economics, social evolution and social norm, regulation and corporation law.