Richard Katz is a special correspondent at Weekly Toyo Keizai, a leading Japanese business
weekly. His duties at the latter include writing an opinion column on the Japanese economy
(https://toyokeizai.net/list/author/リチャード・カッツ). He now publishes a blog on Japan
called Japan Economy Watch at https://richardkatz.substack.com/. For two decades before, Mr.
Katz published The Oriental Economist Report, a monthly English-language newsletter on
Japan. While researching his latest book, he served as a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Council
For Ethics in International Affairs.

At the end of 2023, his third book on Japan, The Contest for Japan’s Economic Future: Entrepreneurs vs. Corporate Giants (Oxford Univ. Press), appeared in English. It is set to come
out in Japanese and Chinese. His previous books, also published in Japanese, were Japan: The
System That Soured—The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Economic Miracle (M.E. Sharpe, 1998).
The second was Japanese Phoenix: The Long Road to Economic Revival (M.E. Sharpe, 2002).

He has testified before Congress several times about Japan, including a session on the lessons for
the US from Japan’s banking crisis.

He has taught about Japan as an adjunct professor of economics at the State University of New
York at Stony Brook and at the Stern School of Business at New York University.

He has written many op-eds for newspapers such as the Wall Street Journal and the Financial
Times, as well as numerous essays for journals such as Foreign Affairs and The International Economy.

Mr. Katz received his M.A. in Economics from New York University in 1996.

Daniel Kerrigan is CEO of Interactive Brokers Securities Japan, one of the leading global on-line trading platforms. Mr. Kerrigan brings nearly four decades of experience in Asian markets. Prior to IBSJ, he was CEO of SBI Securities in Hong Kong, and the regional head of sales trading for BNP Paribas Asia.

Mr. Kerrigan was also the CEO of Prospect Asset Management, a Japan focused SEC registered investment management firm headquartered in Honolulu. Prospect was the first foreign firm to be granted a real estate investment trust license in Japan, and also engaged in constructivist activism.

Mr. Kerrigan has also served as head of execution services at Citigroup Japan and he ran the sales trading and hedge fund sales desks at UBS Securities Tokyo. He began his career in 1987 at Yamaichi Securities America in New York.

Mr. Kerrigan has a B.A. and MBA from the University of Notre Dame.

Economist and Sinologist. Born in the Netherlands, but has been in Asia for over 25 years, working in financials markets (trading, special situations, distressed, private investments), in the technology industry, and with start-ups across many sectors. Now based in Tokyo, and amongst others involved in renewable energy. Apart from European languages speaks and reads Chinese and Japanese. Special interests include global monetary economics, the workings of the human mind, and artificial intelligence.

Yue Su is the Principal Economist of Access China/Asia at The Economist Intelligence Unit. She is a frequent guest in national and international media, providing critical insight into China’s economic trends and fast changing policy environment.

Yue leads The EIU’s China research team, which provides economic and political coverage of China and has a strong client-facing element, both in terms of interacting with global clients looking at China and Chinese clients looking for a global perspective.

Yue joined the EIU in 2013. She has deep knowledge of China's economic data and policy environment, and has played an instrumental role in shaping our forecasts and analysis for China at both the national and sub-national level. She also drives, for example, our recent successful calls on China's GDP growth in the Covid-19 era and leads our coverage interpreting policies such as “common prosperity”, China’s 14th Five Year Plan etc. Yue has focused her research on subjects including China’s demographic trends, regional and industrial economics, infrastructure and Chinese ODI/Belt and Road Initiative.
During her time at The EIU she has contributed to several special reports, including the China Going Global Investment Index (2015 & 2017), Prospects and challenges on China’s "One Belt, One Road”: a risk assessment report and China’s supply-side structural reforms: progress and outlook. She has also acted as a consultant or advisor on several commissioned studies in the infrastructure field, such as on public-private partnerships in China and Asia.
Yue holds a doctorate in political economy from the Chinese Academy of Governance. Her research focused on the aid effectiveness of multilateral development banks and analysed the factors that might disrupt the investment returns of infrastructure projects. Before joining The EIU she worked as a local government civil servant in China. Yue holds a Masters of Economics from The University of Hong Kong.

Dr. Rodrigo González is a respected corporate advisor to some of Japan’s most prominent business leaders. He specialises in briefing corporate boards on economic and geopolitical conditions within the APAC region, offering invaluable insights into their potential impact across industries.

With over a decade of experience residing and working in Japan, Rodrigo collaborates closely with C-suite executives of multinational firms, facilitating their comprehension of intricate market dynamics and the implications of public and economic policy. Beyond the boardroom, Rodrigo is a seasoned presenter, recognised for delivering impactful speeches and insights at numerous corporate engagements and on televised platforms.

He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Keio University and is fluent in Spanish, English, French, and Japanese.