Wednesday 11 June 2003
6:00pm – 8:00pm
Internationalisation in Education: Japan, the Japanese and Britain
Daiwa Foundation Japan House
Organised by the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation in association with The Japan Society
About the contributors
Dr Michael Woolf
Dr Michael Woolf is President of the Foundation for International Education (FIE). Before Dr Woolf joined FIE in September 2002, he was Regional Director for the Council on International Exchange (CIEE), where he was responsible for the strategic management of CIEE’s study abroad programmes in England, Ireland, India, Anglophone Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Dr Woolf also researches and publishes in American literature and cultural studies.
Nicolas Maclean CMG
Nicolas Maclean CMG is a Senior Fellow for International Affairs at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He has a long-standing interest in Japan and was a founder member of the UK-Japan 21st Century Group and Chairman of the Japan Festival Education Trust (now Japan 21 Education). In 1976, he initiated the British Exchange and Teaching Scheme, the forerunner of the Japan Exchange & Teaching (JET) Programme. He was Coordinator for the Sponsors of the Royal Academy’s Great Japan Exhibition and the related nation-wide Japan in Britain Programme of 1981-82, and helped start and run the Department of Trade and Industry’s Opportunity Japan Campaign. He has pursued a career in financial services for over 30 years, most recently as Group Adviser to Prudential Corporation plc and Executive Director, Prudential Corporation Asia Ltd.
Dr Christopher Hood
Dr Christopher Hood (chair) is Director of the Cardiff Japanese Studies Centre, Cardiff University and an Associate Fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs. A graduate of Sheffield University, he spent one year on the JET Programme before returning to Sheffield to complete a PhD on Nakasone Yasuhiro and Japanese education reform. Dr Hood is currently conducting research on the shinkansen (bullet train), Japanese politics, as well as various other smaller projects.