Senior Fellow

East-West Center
1601 East-West Road
Honolulu, HI 96848-1601

TEL: (808) 944-7505
FAX: (808) 944-7502
E-MAIL: koppelb@ewc.hawaii.edu

CAN BE INTERVIEWED FOR: Print, Radio, TV

INTERVIEW LANGUAGES: English

SPECIALIZATIONS:

• BUSINESS, TRADE AND ECONOMICS
  agriculture; business administration and management; development; industrial organization; international organizations
• EDUCATION
  international educational exchange programs
• POLITICS, GOVERNMENT AND DEFENSE
  foreign aid; land policy; technology policy

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Director, East-West Center Institute for Economic Development and Policy, 1990-91; Research Associate, East-West Center Resource Systems Institute, 1978-90; Visiting Scientist, Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture; 1977-78; Research Associate, East-West Center Technology and Development Institute, 1973-78.

IN JAPAN: repeated brief trips.

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

Land Policy in East Asia (ed. with Young Kim) (East-West Center and Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements, 1993); Japan's Foreign Aid: Power and Policy in a New Era (ed. with Orr) (Westview Press, 1993); Improving Agricultural Structure in Asia and the Pacific (Asian Productivity Organization, 1990); Japan-US ODA Cooperation: Perspectives from India, Indonesia and the Philippines (with Kohama et al.) (East-West Center Resource Systems Institute, 1988).