Editors: Paul J. Scalise and Yuki Allyson Honjo

Paul J. Scalise

Paul Scalise (D.Phil., Oxford, 2009) is a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo. He specializes in international political economy, structural reform politics, and international energy markets.

A former Senior Associate at Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA), Dr. Scalise spent several years with such financial institutions as Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein Japan Ltd. (DrKW) and UBS Global Asset Management as an equity research analyst in Tokyo. His focus was on the energy and transportation sectors. He was voted the number one ranked Japanese utilities analyst by investors in the 2001 Greenwich Survey among all UK financial institutions, 3rd for the Eurozone. Prior to joining DrKW, Dr. Scalise was an analyst at Sistema Económico Latino Americano (SELA), a Venezuela-based think tank, focusing on LatAm-Japan trade issues, globalization and foreign direct investment.

For several years, Dr. Scalise was a Visiting Research Scholar at the University of Tokyo, a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary Japanese Studies (now the Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies) at Temple University, Japan Campus, and Adjunct Professor of International Political Economy at Sophia University.

Among his professional activities, he is a Non-resident Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies at Temple University, Japan Campus, and Contributing Analyst to Oxford Analytica, the Economist Intelligence Unit, and Eurasia Group. He is currently writing a book about global restructuring initiatives in strategic energy markets. Grants from the Toshiba International Foundation, the Japan Foundation Endowment Committee, and elsewhere have generously supported his work.

Hailing from New York, Dr. Scalise has lived, studied, and worked within East Asia for close to two decades. His articles have appeared in more than six languages in numerous publications, including Newsweek, Foreign Policy, Asian Wall Street Journal, International Herald Tribune, Asahi Evening News, World & I, The Oriental Economist, Japan Forum, and other scholarly journals and book chapters. His comments on Japan have been quoted in major publications and newswires such as the London Financial Times, The New York Times, The Economist, Associated Press, The Wall Street Journal, and Reuters among many others, and he has been interviewed on CNN, CNBC, National Public Radio, Reuters TV, CNC World TV, and BBC's "The World" and "Marketplace." He authored the article on Japan's national energy policy in The Encyclopedia of Energy (Elsevier Academic Press 2004).

Dr. Scalise holds a bachelor's degree with multidisciplinary honors from Marist College, a master's degree in Japan Studies and International Economics from the Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and a doctorate in Comparative Political Economy from the University of Oxford. He also studied at the University of Madrid and the Bologna Center. He is fluent in Italian, Japanese, and Spanish.

Yuki Allyson Honjo

Yuki Allyson Honjo (D.Phil., Oxford, 2000) is currently Chief Operating Officer of McLane Research Laboratories, Inc.

A former Japanese equity analyst who worked at such Tokyo-based financial institutions as ING Financial Markets, Swiss Re Capital Markets (Japan) Corporation, and Fox-Pitt Kelton (Asia), Dr. Honjo specialized in the analyses of food, beverages, household goods, banking, and consumer finance. She has also written for various academic conferences and newspapers, as well as contributing a chapter on transaction economics and history for Tokyo University Press.

Her book, Japan’s Early Experience of Contract Management in the Treaty Ports (Routledge Curzon 2003), was based on her doctoral dissertation at the University of Oxford.

Dr. Honjo hails from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, but has spent the better half of her life abroad. Her articles have appeared in the International Herald Tribune, Japan Times, and elsewhere. Dr. Honjo’s comments on Japan are frequently quoted in major publications and newswires such as the New York Times, London Financial Times, Bloomberg, Reuters, The Economist (Japan), Mainichi Shinbun, and Institutional Investor.

Dr. Honjo holds an honors degree in History from Harvard University and a doctorate in Economic and Social History from the University of Oxford. She has also studied at the University of Tokyo. She is fluent in Japanese.