Foreign Direct Investments in Asia

Chalongphob Sussangkarn is currently a Distinguished Fellow of the Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI), a private non-profit think tank in Bangkok. Prior to this, he was President of theTDRI (January 1996 - March 2007) and was Thailand's Minister of Finance (March 2007 - February 2008).Yung Chul Park is Distinguished Professor in the Division of International Studies at Korea University. Before returning to Korea University, he spent three years from 2005 to 2008 at the Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University, as Research Professor and Director of the Center for International Commerce and Finance. He previously served as the Chief Economic Adviser to the President of Korea (1987-1988), as President of the Korea Development Institute (1986-1987) and as President of the Korea Institute of Finance (1992-1998).Sung Jin Kang is Professor in the Department of Economics atKorea University, and amember of Presidential Council for Future & Vision. He was Vice President of International Affairs, Korea University (2008 -2009), and a member of thePresidential Transition Committee(2008). He has published severalpapers, mainly on foreign aid, foreign direct investment and production networks.