Asia's Continuing Crisis

    Dr. William H. Overholt
    Asia Policy Chair
    Center for Asia Pacific Policy (CAPP)
    Rand Corporation
    http://www.rand.org/nsrd/capp/about.html

     

      Dr. Overholt has been a special adviser to SKAS for several years.  In 2000, he
      contributed an article to the Korean American Forum, titled "Restructuring
      Pain Now for Better Korea Tomorrow," KAF 2000.  

      Dr. Overholt's Biosketch  

       William H. Overholt holds the Asia Policy Chair at RAND’s California headquarters.

      Previously Dr. Overholt was Joint Senior Fellow at Harvard University, and he remains an Associate in
      Research with Harvard’s Asia Center.  He will also be Distinguished Visiting Professor at Yonsei
      University in South Korea for part of 2003/4.  Before that, he spent 21 years in bank research, including
      16 in Hong Kong.  He served as Head of Strategy and Economics at Nomura’s regional headquarters in
      Hong Kong from 1998 to 2001, and as Managing Director and Head of Research at Bank Boston's
      regional headquarters in Singapore.  During 18 years at Bankers Trust, he ran a country risk team in
      New York from 1980 to 1984, then was regional strategist and Asia research head based in Hong Kong. 

     At Hudson Institute 1971 to 1979, Dr. Overholt directed planning studies for the U.S. Department of
     Defense, Department of State, National Security Council, National Aeronautics and Space Administration,
     and Council on International Economic Policy.  As Director of Hudson Research Services, he did strategic
     planning for corporations.

    Dr. Overholt is the author of five books, including The Rise of China (W.W. Norton, 1993), which won the
    Mainichi News/Asian Affairs Research Center Special Book Prize.  The others are: Political Risk
    (Euromoney, 1982); and (with William Ascher) Strategic Planning and Forecasting  (John Wiley, 1983).
    He is principal co-author of: Asia's Nuclear Future (Westview Press, 1976) and The Future of Brazil  
    (Westview Press, 1978). With Zbigniew Brzezinski, he founded the semi-annual Global Assessment in 1976
    and edited it until 1988.

    Dr. Overholt was a Governor of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong and Executive
    Committee member of the Business and Professionals Federation of Hong Kong, both for six years.   He
    serves on advisory boards for Harvard University’s Asia Center; the Hang Lung Center for Organizational
    Research at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; and Chinavest Ltd. 

    He has been a consultant on strategic planning and foreign affairs to the Conference Board, the U.S. Army
    Strategic Studies Institute, the Foreign Service Institute, Dean Witter Reynolds, A.G. Becker, and
    numerous corporations.  He has served as political advisor to several of Asia's major political figures and
    has done consulting projects for the Korea Development Institute, Korea's National Defense College, the
    Philippine Ministry of Agrarian Reform, and Thailand's Ministry of Universities.

    Dr. Overholt received his B.A. (magna, 1968) from Harvard and his Master of Philosophy (1970) and
    Ph.D. (1972) from Yale. 

    Asia's Continuing Crisis [PDF]
    SURVIVAL, Vol. 44, No. 1, Spring 2002, pp. 97-114, published by Oxford University Press quarterly
    for the International Institute for Strategic Studies.