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The Rise of Asia and the Role of Higher Education: new platforms of economic growth

Title: The Rise of Asia and the Role of Higher Education: new platforms of economic growth

The Economist selected Kenichi Ohmae as one of five management gurus in the world.

Described as ‘Mr. Strategy’ worldwide, Ohmae has published over 180 books many of which are devoted to business and socio-political analyses. According to the Financial Times of London, Ohmae is ‘Japan's only management guru’. He has also contributed many articles to major publications (e.g., Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Foreign Affairs, New York Times). The Mind of Strategist (McGraw-Hill), Triad Power (Free Press), Beyond National Borders (Dow Jones Irwin), The Borderless World (Harper Business), The End of the Nation State (Free Press), The Evolving Global Economy (editor, Harvard Business School Press), and The Invisible Continent - Four Strategic Imperatives of New Economy (HarperCollins/Nicholas Brealey Publishing), The Next Global Stage (Wharton School Publishing) are among the most popular of his books printed in English.

Ohmae was a partner in McKinsey & Company Inc., the international management consulting firm, for over twenty years. As a co-founder of its strategic management practice, he has served companies in a wide spectrum of industries, including industrial and consumer electronics, financial institutions, telecommunications, office equipment, photographic equipment, industrial machinery, food, rubber, and chemicals. His special area of expertise is formulating creative strategies and developing the organizational concepts to implement them both for private and public sectors. Some of Japan's most famous and internationally successful companies continue to seek his help in shaping their competitive strategies. Likewise, his counsel is also much in demand among Asian, European and North American-based multinational and governmental institutions. He has also played a vital role in assisting Asian Governments to develop future oriented-regional strategies.

Kenichi Ohmae is the Founder of "Reform of Heisei", a citizen's socio-political movement established on November 25, 1992, to promote and catalyze the fundamental reform of Japan's political and administrative systems. Ohmae is the President & CEO of Business Breakthrough (BBT) (an around-the-clock interactive satellite television for business and management). He also is founder and Managing Director of the Ohmae & Associates, EveryD.com, Inc. (an Internet platform for living rooms), General Services, Inc. (GSI), and Dean of Attacker's Business School focused on entrepreneurship. From January 1997, he joined the UCLA School of Public Affairs as Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy. He currently serves as member of the board of directors of ACI (Academy Capital Investment) and IDT International.

He is Dean of the Kenichi Ohmae Graduate School of Business of BBT University established in April 2005, and Business Breakthrough University which will open in April 2010, through a cyber space platform classroom named Air Campus. He also serves as a Trustee and Professor of Bond University, and is on the board of SEI (Center for Advanced Studies for Management) at The Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania). In September 2002, he was named the advisor of Liaoning Province and Tianjin City in China. In March 2004, he was appointed the Honorary Distinguished Professor of Graduate School of International Studies at Ewha Womans University in Korea, and in July 2004 the Honorary Visiting Professor of Korea University.

Kenichi Ohmae attended Waseda University (BS), the Tokyo Institute of Technology (MS), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D. in nuclear engineering). Prior to joining McKinsey, he worked for Hitachi as a senior design engineer on Japan's prototype fast breeder reactor. He received an honorary doctorate from Notre Dame University in 1995.

From Confucius to Modern Times: Education at the core of Asia Pacific’s Dynamism

Title: From Confucius to Modern Times: Education at the core of Asia Pacific’s Dynamism

Professor Chung Laung LIU received his B.Sc. degree (1956) at the National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan, his S.M. and E.E. degrees (1960), and his Sc.D. degree (1962) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was on the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1962-72) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1972-98), and served as President and Professor of Computer Science at the National Tsing Hua University in Hsinchu, Taiwan from February 1998 to February 2002. Professor Liu is currently a Visiting Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering and Information Technology, CityU.

He is the author and co-author of seven books and monographs, and over 180 technical papers. His research interest includes computer-aided design of VLSI circuits, real-time systems, computer-aided instruction, combinatorial optimization, and discrete mathematics.

He received the IEEE Millennium Medal, and the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Golden Jubilee Medal in 2000. He also received the IEEE Computer Society, Real Time Systems Technical Committee 1999 Technical Achievement Award (inaugural winner) for his contributions in the area of real time scheduling, and the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society 1998 Technical Achievement Award for his contributions in the area of computer aided design of VLSI circuits. He received an Outstanding Talents Foundation Award in 1998. He is the recipient of the 1994 IEEE Education Medal. He also received the Taylor L. Booth Education Award from the IEEE Computer Society in 1992, and the Karl V. Karlstrom Education Award from the Association for Computing Machinery in 1990.

He is a member of Academia Sinica, a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.

Education

B.S. , E.E , National Cheng Kung University , Taiwan(1955/9-1956/6)

M.S. , S.M. and E.E , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States(1958/9-1970/1)

Ph.D. , E.E , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States(1970/1-1962/6)