Workshops and Conferences

The Japan-United States Committee for Promoting Economic and Social Development in East-Central Europe
Meeting II:  Mississippi State University
June 24-25, 1993

Organized by:
Center for International Security and Strategic Studies, Mississippi State University

Sponsored by:
Center for Global Partnership of the Japan Foundation,
Ford Foundation, and
United States-Japan Foundation

JAPAN PARTICIPANTS

• Chair:  Ambassador Nobuo Matsunaga, President and Director, Japan Institute of International Affairs

• Dr. Yutaka Akino, Associate Professor, Institute of Social Sciences, Tsukuba University

• Mr. Hideaki Domichi, Economic Counselor, Embassy of Japan

• Mr. Junichi Hasegawa, Chief Representative, The Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund of Japan, Washington Office

• Mr. Nagaharu Hayabusa, Senior Writer, The Asahi Shimbun

• Mr. Motohiro Kondo, Editorial Advisor, Gaiko Forum, Toshi Shuppan, Publishers

• Mr. Tadashi Maeda, The Export-Inport Bank of Japan

• Mr. Keinosuke Muraoka, Chief Representative of Mitsubishi, Budapest Office

• Mr. Rokuro Nakaji, Deputy General Manager, Administrative and Legal Affairs Division, Honda Motor Company, Ltd.

• Mr. Mariko Nishizaki, Manager, Planning and Coordination Division, Japan International Development Organization Ltd. (JAIDO)

• Mr. Massaki Okada, Director, Central and Eastern Europe Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

• Mr. Motoatsu Sakuri, Vice President and General Manager, Mitsubishi International Corporation, Washington Representative Office

• Mr. Yu Takahashi, Consul, Consulate-General of Japan

• Counselor Mitsuhiro Yokoyama, Counselor, Economic Section, Embassy of Japan

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

• Chair:  Ambassador Philip M. Kaiser, Former Ambassador of the United States to Hungary

• Mr. Frank Almaguer, Acting Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Europe, Agency for International Development

• Ms. Katalin A. Baranski, Special Assistant to the President, Hungarian-American Enterprise Fund

• Dr. Nicholas Burakow, Senior Vice President, ICF International, Inc.

• Dr. S.L. (Bud) Camacho, President, Plasma Technology Corporation

• Mr. John Cotton, President, Central Division, Howard, Needles, Tammen & Bergendoff

• Mr. Charles F. Fail, Chairman of the Board, Fail Telecommunications Corporation

• Mr. Jeffrey Feltman, Special Assistant, Office of the Special Adviser for East European Assistance, U.S. Department of State

• Mr. Ron Greenberg, Division Chief, Office of Environment and Natural Resources, Bureau for Europe, Agency for International Development

• Mr. Carroll H. Ingram, President, Fail Telecommunications Corporation

• Dr. Myron Johnsrud, Administrator, Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture

• Dr. John E. Lee, Jr., Former Administrator of USDA, Head of Agriculture Economics Department, Mississippi State University

• Mr. Joseph J. Liptak, President, D&L, Inc.

• Mr. Jovan Marjanovic, Managing Director, Central and Eastern Europe, Federal Division, Oracle Corporation

• Mr. Gregory Mason, Director, Engineering and Technology, D&L, Inc.

• Dr. Joseph H. McGilberry, Manager, Extension Food and Fiber Center, Mississippi State University

• Dr. Tomasz Mroczkowski, Professor, International Business Department, The American University

• Mr. Timothy Nulty, Director, International Finance Corporation

• Mr. Thomas Pomeroy, Coordinator for the Secretariat for Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, Foreign Agricultural Services, U.S. Department of Agriculture

• Dr. Ralph E. Powe, Vice President for Research, Mississippi State University

• Mr. Larry W. Seab, Vice President-Finance, Fail Telecommunications Corporation

• Dr. Billy C. Ward, Vice President for Institutional Advancement and Professor of Veterinary Medicine, Mississippi State University

• Mr. Wylie L. Williams, Jr., Secretary General, International Public Works Federation

• Dr. Donald W. Zacharias, President, Mississippi state University

EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE

Czech Republic

• Chair:  Ambassador Rita Klímová, Economist and Former Ambassador of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic

• Mr. Vit Stepánek, Chief of Cabinet of the Minister of Economy

• Mr. Vlastimil Tlustý, Member of Parliament, Chairman, Union of Land Owners & Private Owners of the Czech Republic

• Mr. Frantisek Trojacek, Third Secretary, Economic Section, Embassy of the Czech Republic

Republic of Hungary

• Chair:  Professor Béla Kádár, Minister of International Economic Relations of Hungary, Ministry of International Economic Relations

• Professor István Láng, Science Policy Adviser, Hungarian Academy of Science

• Dr. Péter Szerdahelyi, Deputy Secretary of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Budapest

Republic of Poland

• Chair:  Dr. Witold Trzeciakowski, Cooperation Fund

• Dr. Andrzej Arendarski, Minister, Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations

• Mr. Piotr Dabrowski, Former Undersecretary of State

• Dr. Jerzy Kwiatkowski, Director, Ministry of Environmental Protection, Natural Resources and Forestry, Project Implementation Unit

Slovak Republic

• Chair:  Ing. L’udovit Cernák, Chairman, Slovak National Party

• Dr. Milan Erban, Minister, Counselor and Chargé d’Affaires, Embassy of the Slovak Republic

• Dr. Mária Kadlecíková, first Secretary of the Slovak Embassy in Rome, Observer to FAO, Embassy of the Slovak Republic

• Ms. Gabriela Kaliská, MP Ecological Commission of Parliament, Bratislava

OBSERVERS

• Mr. Andras Heltai, Washington Correspondent, Hungarian Wire Services-MTI

• Mr. Richard Hirschlere, Transition and Macro-Adjustment Division, Country Economics Department, the World Bank

• Mr. Lewis Mallory, President and Chief Executive Officer, National Bank of Commerce

• Mr. Nikolai M. Markovski, Deputy Minister, Chernobyl Affair

• Ms. Christine Murray, Office of Public Liaison, Bureau of Public Affairs, U.S. Department of State

• Mr. Charles Sills, Executive Director, The Barbara Gauntlett Foundation

• Dr. Nikolai Svidunovich, Chairman, Plasma Activities Belorus Academy of Science, Republic of Russia

FOUNDATIONS

• Dr. Ronald Aqua, Vice President, United States-Japan Foundation

• Mr. Takashi Ishida, Assistant director, Center for Global Partnership of the Japan Foundation, New York Office

MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY

• Dr. A. George Bennett, Director, Raspet Flight Research Lab and Professor, Aerospace Engineering

• Dr. Ed Clynch, Head, Department of Political Science

• Dr. Arthur G. Cosby, Director, Centers and Institutes

• Dr. Warren C. Couvillion, Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics

• Dr. János Radványi, Director, Center for International Security and Strategic Studies

• Dr. John V. Saunders, Professor, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work

• Dr. Richard J. Vasek, Associate Dean of Instruction, College of Education

CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL SECURITY AND STRATEGIC STUDIES