Diplomatic Roundtable
What is Diplomatic Roundtable?
The "Diplomatic Roundtable" is organized, taking advantage of an occasion of a visit to Japan of a
person prominent in various fields of activities abroad, for the purpose of providing an occasion
for the visiting speaker to meet and exchange
views with his or her counterparts in the membership of GFJ. Unless the speaker agrees to speak in
Japanese, English is, in principle, the language used in the "Roundtable" and no translation is
provided. The "Diplomatic Roundtable"
is held under the co-sponsorship of GFJ with its sister organizations, the "Japan Forum on
International Relations," and the "Council on East Asian Community."
Dr. Ioan Mircea PASCU speaking
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Dr. Mireya SOLIS speaking
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Dr. JIN Chang Soo speaking
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List of Speakers
2022
| Sep.7 |
Seyed Abbas Araghchi |
Former Iranian Ambassador to Japan |
| Jun.7 |
LEE Wondeog |
Professor, the Institute of Japanese Studies, Kookmin University |
| Apr.12 |
Ioan Mircea PASCU |
Former Vice-President, the European Parliament |
| Feb.10 |
Sergiy KORSUNSKY |
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of UKRAINE to Japan |
| Jan.13 |
CHENG Fang-Ting |
Research Fellow, Inter-disciplinary Studies Center, Institute of Developing
Economies Japan External Trade Organization (IDE-JETRO) |
2021
| Dec.6 |
Narayanan GANESAN |
Professor, Hiroshima Peace Institute, Hiroshima City |
| Nov.12 |
LEE Sotetsu |
Professor of the Ryukoku University |
| Oct.18 |
Bashir MOHABBT |
Former Ambassador of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan |
| Aug.26 |
Cameron NOBLE |
First Secretary Political, Australian Embassy, Tokyo |
| May.21 |
ZHANG Linfeng |
Vice President, ZTE Japan |
| Mar.17 |
Douglas H. PAAL |
Nonresident Scholar, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace |
| Feb.17 |
LAM Peng Er |
Principal Research Fellow, East Asian Institute, National University of
Singapore |
2020
| Dec.21 |
Stephen R. NAGY |
Senior Associate Professor, International Christian University |
| Nov.27 |
CHEN Ching-Chang |
Associate Professor, Ryukoku University |
| Nov.19 |
Nicholas SZECHENYI |
Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Japan Chair; Asia Program Center for
Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) |
| Sep.11 |
ZHAO Hongwei |
Professor, Hosei University |
| Feb.12 |
Michael CHASE |
Senior Political Scientist, RAND Cooperation |
2019
| Dec.9 |
Jeffrey WILSON |
Research Director, Perth US Asia Centre |
| Nov.15 |
RA Jong Yil |
Chair Professor, National Defense University / Distinguished Professor,
Gachon University |
| Oct.18 |
Dmitry V.Streltsov |
Head of the Afro-Asian Department and Professor of Moscow State Institute
of International Relations (MGIMO-University) |
| Sep.9 |
Thomas GRAHAM |
Managing Director, the Kissinger Associates |
| Jul.18 |
PARK Cheol-Hee |
Professor, Seoul National University |
| Jun.27 |
John WEST |
Executive Director, Asian Century Institute |
| May.21 |
Sanjay Kumar VERMA |
Ambassador of India to Japan |
| May.13 |
CHOE Wongi |
Professor, and Head, Center for ASEAN-India Studies, Institute of Foreign
Affairs and National Security Korea National Diplomatic Academy |
| Apl.8 |
John HANCOCK |
Counsellor, Policy Development, World Trade Organization |
| Mar.15 |
LIAN Degui |
Executive Director, The Trilateral Cooperation Studies Center of Shanghai
International Studies University |
| Feb.14 |
James SCHOFF |
A US View on Maintaining Security in Asia and Managing Trump's Foreign
Policy Contradictions |
| Jan.18 |
Kent E. CALDER |
Asia in Washington, January, 2019 |
2018
| Nov.7 |
KIM Jae-shin |
How Should We Consider the Current Japan-Korea Relations |
| Oct.25 |
JIA Jinjing |
Director of the Macro Research Department at Chongyang Institute for
Financial Studies, Renmin University of China |
| Sep.11 |
Tan Sri Rastam Mohd Isa |
Chairman and Chief Executive, the Institute of Strategic and International
Studies (ISIS) Malaysia |
| July.12 |
JIN Chang Soo |
Director, Japan Center of the Sejong Institute |
| June.12 |
Joachim von AMSBERG |
Vice President, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank |
| Apr.18 |
Mireya SOLIS |
Co-Director / Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Center for East Asia Policy
Studies, The Brookings Institution |
| Mar.30 |
MOON Chung-in |
Special Advisor to the ROK President for Unification, Foreign and Security
Affairs
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| Mar.26 |
Mira RAPP-HOOPER |
Senior Research Scholar in Law, Yale Law School |
| Jan.29 |
Peter DRYSDALE |
Emeritus Professor, The Australian National University |
2017
| Nov.30 |
Najib EL-Khash |
Representative, Risala Media |
| Nov.6 |
Ioan Mircea PASCU |
Vice-President, European Parliament |
| Sep.21 |
Thomas MAHNKEN |
President, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments |
| Jul.10 |
QIN Yaqing |
President, China Foreign Affairs University |
| RONG Ying |
Vice President, China Institute of International Studies |
| Jun.21 |
KOH Young Choul |
Research Professor, Takushoku University |
| May.19 |
Bilahari KAUSIKAN |
Ambassador at Large, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Singapore |
| Apr.6 |
David GOLDFISCHER |
Associate Professor, University of Denver |
| Mar.10 |
Giovanni GANELLI |
Deputy Head of Office, IMF Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific |
| Feb.22 |
JIN Yongming |
Director, Center for Oceans Strategy Studies of China, Shanghai Academy of
Social Sciences |
| Jan.30 |
Reinhard DRIFTE |
Professor Emeritus, University of Newcastle |
2016
| Nov.16 |
Karel LANNOO |
CEO, the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) |
| Oct.13 |
Stephen D. KRASNER |
Senior Fellow, the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies,
Stanford University |
| Sep.1 |
Glen S. FUKUSHIMA |
Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress |
| Jul.26 |
Scott SNYDER |
Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) |
| Jun.30 |
Robert ORR |
Governor, Pacific Forum, Center for Strategic and International Studies
(CSIS)
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| May.20 |
Ioan Mircea PASCU |
Vice-President, European Parliament |
| Apr.28 |
LI Shin-Hui |
Professor, College of International Affairs, National Chengchi University
|
| Apr.21 |
Evi FITRIANI |
Head, International Relations Department, Universitas Indonesia |
| Mar.8 |
Michael AUSLIN |
Director of Japan Studies, American Enterprise Institute |
| Feb.1 |
LYU Xiaoqing |
President, China Society of Sino-Japanese Relations History |
2015
| Dec.8 |
Mohd ABDULLAH |
Dean, Ghazali Shafei Graduate School of Government, University Utara
Malaysia.
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| Nov.13 |
Thomas GOMART |
Director, French Institute of International Relations (IFRI) |
| Nov.4 |
LI Xiao |
Vice Dean, Economic School of Jilin University |
| Oct.9 |
Muhamad Chatib BASRI |
former Minister of Finance of Indonesia |
| Sep.30 |
Paul SRACIC |
Professor and Chair, Department of Politics and International Relations,
Youngstown State University |
| Jul.14 |
Ioan Mircea PASCU |
Vice-President, European Parliament |
| Jun.23 |
Vasile SECARES |
Chairman of the Board, Romanian Banking Institute / Chairman of the Board,
EXIM Bank of Romania |
| May.21 |
Richard BUSH |
Director, Center for East Asia Policy Studies, Brookings Institution |
| Apr. 17 |
HENG Yee Kuang |
Associate Professor, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National
University of Singapore |
| Mar. 16 |
JIN Chang Soo |
Director, Japan Center of the Sejong Institute |
| Jan. 13 |
T. V. PAUL |
Professor, McGill University |
2014
| Dec. 19 |
John MEARSHEIMER |
Professor, the University of Chicago |
| Nov. 25 |
Fraser CAMERON |
Director, EU-Asia Centre |
| Oct. 9 |
Kang In-Duk |
former Minister of Unification of the Republic of Korea |
| Sep.9 |
Ihor KHARCHENKO |
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to Japan |
| Jul. 11 |
Bates GILL |
CEO, United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney/ former
Director, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) |
| Jun. 20 |
YANG Bojiang |
Deputy Director, Institute of Japanese Studies at the Chinese Academy of
Social Sciences |
| Jun. 17 |
Lamberto ZANNIER |
Secretary General, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe |
| May. 22 |
Edward N. LUTTWAK |
Senior Associate, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
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| Apr. 16 |
Gerald CURTIS |
Burgess Professor, Columbia University |
| Mar. 12 |
Linas LINKEVICIUS |
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania |
| Feb. 6 |
Bilahari Kausikan |
former Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Singapore /
Ambassador at Large, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Singapore |
| Jun. 10 |
Glen S. FUKUSHIMA |
Senior Fellow, Center For American Progress |
2013
| Dec. 11 |
LEE Won Deog |
Professor / Director, the Institute of Japanese Studies, Kookmin University
|
| Nov.14 |
Dmitri V. TRENIN |
Director, Carnegie Moscow Center |
| Sep.18 |
Hisham EL-ZIMAITY |
H.E. Ambassador of Egypt to Japan |
| Jul.26 |
Willem THORBECKE |
Senior Fellow at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry |
| Jun.27 |
Bradley H. ROBERTS |
former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear and Missile
Defense Policy |
| Jun.5 |
David M. MALONE |
Rector of the United Nations University and Under-Secretary-General of the
United Nations |
| Apr. 23 |
Ssu-Tsun SHEN |
Representative, Taipei Economy & Culture Representative Office |
| Feb.19 |
Ioan Mircea PASCU |
vice-Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of European Parliament |
2012
| Dec.14 |
JI Zhiye |
Vice President, China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations
|
| Dec.6 |
Rajagopala CHIDAMBARAM |
The Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India |
| Nov.16 |
Victor TVIRCUN |
Secretary General, the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation
(BSEC)
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| Nov.6 |
Thomas U. BERGER |
Associate Professor, Boston University |
| Oct. 24 |
Edward N. LUTTWAK |
Senior Associate, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
|
| Sep. 13 |
Rust M. DEMING |
Former principal deputy assistant secretary of state |
| July 23 |
Hans Dietmar SCHWEISGUT |
Ambassador of the European Union to Japan |
| Jun. 7 |
CHOI Byung-il |
President and CEO, Korea Economic Research Institute |
| May. 24 |
Kenneth QUINONES |
former North Korea Affairs Officer, the US Department of State |
| Apr. 24 |
Nissim BEN-SHITRIT |
Ambassador of Israel to Japan |
| Mar. 27 |
Housam DARWISHEH |
Research Fellow, Middle Eastern Studies Group, Area Studies Center,
Institute of Developing Economies, JETRO |
| Feb.17 |
LI
Gangzhe |
Professor, Hokuriku University |
2011
| Nov. 10 |
Mark PHILLIPS |
Head of the Land Operations and Capabilities Programme, Royal United
Services Institute (RUSI) |
| Oct. 13 |
CHENG Yonghua |
Ambassador of China to Japan |
| Oct. 5 |
Ashwani KUMAR |
Minister of State for Planning; Science & Technology; Earth Sciences of
India
|
| Sep. 22 |
David ABRAHAM |
International Affairs Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations |
| Sep. 16 |
Dennis SHOWALTER |
Professor, The Colorado College |
| July 5 |
John WONG |
Professorial Fellow, East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore
|
| Jun. 21 |
David HOLLEY |
Visiting Professor, Waseda University |
| May 18 |
UETA Takako |
Professor,International Christian University |
| Feb. 21 |
Doru Romulus COSTEA |
the State Secretary for Global Affairs of Romania |
| Feb. 8 |
Mikhail Mikhailovich Bely |
Ambassador of Russia to Japan |
| Jan. 28 |
KIM Beng Phar |
Director of Strategy/Research, Foreign Policy Study Group |
2010
| Dec. 1 |
Rizal SUKMA |
Executive Director at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies
|
| Nov. 22 |
David Warren |
Ambassador, British Embassy to Japan |
| Oct. 15 |
Julius Caesar, Parreñas |
Advisor for International Affairs, The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd.
|
| July. 7 |
JIN Chang Soo |
Director of the Sejong Institute Japan Center |
| Jun. 29 |
Farkhod SABIROV |
Head of the Department of International Relations, Institute of Forecasting
and Macroeconomic Research, the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan |
| May. 27 |
Nikolaos TSAMADOS |
Ambassador of Greece to Japan |
| Apr. 28 |
Murray MCLEAN |
Ambassador of Australia to Japan |
| Mar. 25 |
Simon TAY |
Chairman, Singapore Institute of International Affairs |
| Jan. 25 |
Ioan Mircea PASCU |
Member of the European Parliament (EP), Vice-Chair of the Foreign Affairs
Committee of EP |
2009
| Nov. 19 |
Elaine BUNN |
Senior Fellow at National Defense University’s Institute for National
Strategic Studies |
| Oct. 29 |
CUI Tiankai |
Ambassador of China to Japan |
| Oct. 2 |
Edward N. LUTTWAK |
Senior Associate, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
|
| Aug. 27 |
Thomas J. PEMPEL |
Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley |
| July. 22 |
Jonathan T. FRIED |
Ambassador of Canada to Japan |
| Jun. 12 |
FENG Chi-Tai (John) |
Representative, Taipei Economy & Culture Representative Office |
| May. 22 |
David WARREN |
British Ambassador to Japan |
| Apr. 10 |
James FOSTER |
former Director for Korean Affairs of U.S. State Department |
| Mar. 9 |
Michael MESERVE |
Minister Counselor for Political Affairs of the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo |
| Feb. 17 |
Efraim HALEVY |
Director of the Center for Strategic and Policy Studies at the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem (former Director of Mossad) |
| Feb. 4 |
TSUNEOKA Kosuke |
Journalist |
| Jan. 28 |
Haron AMIN |
Ambassador of Afghanistan to Japan |
2008
| Nov. 19 |
Mykola KULINICH |
Ambassador of Ukraine to Japan |
| Oct. 3 |
Jonathan EYAL |
Director of International Security Studies, Royal United Services Institute
for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI) |
| Sep. 17 |
Walid Mahmoud ABDELNASSER |
Ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt to Japan |
| Jul. 9 |
Rentsendoo JIGJID |
Ambassador of Mongolia to Japan |
| Jun. 19 |
Ivane MATCHAVARIANI |
Ambassador of Georgia to Japan |
| May. 30 |
Jolyon HOWORTH |
Visiting Professor, Yale University |
| Mar. 4 |
Faisal Hassan TRAD |
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
to Japan |
| Feb. 26 |
Eneko LANDABURU |
Director-General for External Relations of European Commission |
| Jan. 10 |
TAN Chin Tiong |
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Singapore to Japan |
2007
| Nov. 26 |
Stephan SAKALIAN |
Advisor for Multilateral Affairs in ASIA ICRC |
| Nov. 15 |
Mohsen TALAEI |
Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Japan |
| Jul. 24 |
CUI Liru |
President of China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations |
| Jul. 4 |
Forancois GODEMENT |
President of Asia Centre, Centre Etudes Asie, France |
| Apr. 26 |
MATSUMOTO Hiroshi |
Managing Director, Japan Actions for Relief Center |
| Apr. 17 |
CHOO Kyu-ho |
Korean Ambassador for East Asian Regional Cooperation |
| Mar. 20 |
Eugeniusz SMOLAR |
President of the Center for International Relations of Poland |
| Feb. 26 |
Hugh RICHARDSON |
Ambassador, Head of the Delegation of the European Commission to Japan |
