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The Asia Foundation. Chief Economist and Director, Economic Reform and
Development, San Francisco
Expertise: Economics and development in Asia, with special focus on trade policy, policy reform and small and medium enterprises (SMEs), and eCommerce and SMEs; corporate governance reform; U.S.- Asian economic and trade relations; regional expertise in Indonesia, East Timor, and Bangladesh.
Franck Wiebe is chief economist and director of Economic Reform and Development programs at The Asia Foundation. During his time at the Foundation, Dr. Wiebe has provided leadership in expanding the Foundation’s engagement in programs aimed at enhancing the dynamism of the small business sector and in sustaining Foundation programs that foster regional economic cooperation. He has also spearheaded new programming efforts in corporate governance reform, and is currently developing new programs that focus on enhancing budget transparency as a means of improving economic governance in developing countries.
He joined the Foundation in October 1999 from the Harvard Institute for International Development, where he served as project associate on the Customs and Economic Management Project in Jakarta, Indonesia. As a staff economist, his responsibilities included food and agricultural issues, poverty and social welfare concerns, and during the Asian economic crisis, macroeconomic issues, including inflation, exchange rate, and banking sector concerns. Previously, Dr. Wiebe was a faculty member in the Master of Public Policy Program at National University of Singapore and a consultant for BAPPENAS (The National Planning Agency) of the Government of Indonesia, The World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank. Dr. Wiebe’s published papers include “The Role of SMEs in Economic Development,” in Small and Medium Enterprise Development in Nepal, and “Income Insecurity and Underdevelopment in Indonesia’s Informal Sector,” Policy Research Working Paper, The World Bank.
Education: B.A. and M.A. from Northwestern University; M.P.P. from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University; and Ph.D. in development economics from the Food Research Institute at Stanford University.
Born in 1945. Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in law from Kyoto University.
Work experiences include: Ministry of Health and Welfare (1969-2001), Director of Pension Bureau, Ministry of Health and Welfare (1996-2001), and Executive Managing Director and Investment Managing Director of Pension Fund Association (2001-present). He is the author of Pension Schemes for the 21st Century: Pension Reform in the year 2000, Tokyo: Institute of Social Insurance, 2001. (in Japanese).
Certified Pension Actuary, Chief Researcher of Pension Research Institute
in Sumitomo Trust.
Born in 1952. Graduated from Kyoto University (Mathematics) in 1974. Ph.D. (Management Science) from Tama University in 1999.
Work experiences include: Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co., Ltd. (1974-present). Manager of Nikkeiren (Japan Federation of Employers’ Associations) (1999-2002). He was Associate Researcher of Center for International Affairs at Harvard University (1987-1988). His books include All about Defined Benefit Corporate Pension Law in Japan, Tokyo: Gyousei, 2002. (in Japanese).
Chairman of the Board of Pacific Pension Institute and Former President,
Board of Administration
California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS)
Dr. William Crist was an elected member of the CalPERS Board of Administration from 1987 until 2002. He has served as President of CalPERS and Chairman of the Board of Administration since 1992. He also serves on the CalPERS Investment Committee, Finance Committee, Benefits and Program Administration Committee and Executive Compensation Committee.
In addition to his responsibilities as President of CalPERS, Dr. Crist is also Chairman of the Board for the Pacific Pension Institute. He has been Co-Chair of the U.S. Council of Institutional Investors, and is currently a member of the Council's Executive Committee. He was a founding member of the International Corporate Governance Network, and served as a member of the ICGN Board of Governors.
Dr. Crist has been a Professor of economics at the California State University since 1969. He served as Chair of his university Department of Economics from 1986 to 1990. He has written numerous articles on pension fund investing, retirement system administration and corporate governance. He serves on a number of advisory boards in both the public and the private sector.
Dr. Crist holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and Masters and Doctorate degrees in Economics from the University of Nebraska.