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Kihara Minoru

Kihara Minoru

Chairperson, Research Commission on Security, LDP

John J. Hamre

President and CEO, CSIS

Richard L. Armitage

Richard L. Armitage

President, Armitage International, L.C.

Joseph S. Nye, Jr

Joseph S. Nye, Jr

University Distinguished Service Professor, Emeritus, Harvard University

Christopher B. Johnstone

Christopher B. Johnstone

Senior Associate, CSIS
Managing Principal, The Asia Group

Rush Doshi

Rush Doshi

Senior Fellow for Asia Studies and Director of the China Strategy Initiative, CFR

Bonny Lin

Bonny Lin

Director of the China Power Project and Senior Adviser, CSIS

Takahara Akio

Takahara Akio

Distinguished Visiting Professor, Tokyo Woman's Christian University

Sahashi Ryo

Sahashi Ryo

Associate Professor, The University of Tokyo

Michael J. Green

Michael J. Green

CEO, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney

Ashok Malik

Ashok Malik

Partner and Chair of India Practice, The Asia Group

Daniel Russel

Daniel Russel

Vice President, Asia Society Policy Institute, Asia Society

Kitaoka Shinichi

Kitaoka Shinichi

Emeritus Professor, The University of Tokyo
Special Advisor to the President (former President), Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)

Akita Hiroyuki

Akita Hiroyuki

Commentator, Nikkei Inc.

OUTLINE

  • Title

    The 21st CSIS/NIKKEI Symposium
    'Shaping the Future: New Leadership in Japan, U.S. and Next Indo-Pacific Order'

  • Date & Time

    November 15(Fri), 2024, 9:30-13:00(JST, Tentative)

    Venue

    Tokyo
    (Participants will be notified later.)

  • Organized by

    The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
    Nikkei Inc.

  • In Cooperation with

    Japan Center for Economic Research (JCER)

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    Free of charge
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  • Registration Deadline

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PROGRAM

(as of November 11, 2024)

*Honorifics and titles omitted, names in no particular order.

**English and Japanese interpretations will be available.

***Agenda, speakers and themes are subject to change.

9:30 - 9:40

Opening Remarks

John J. Hamre

President and CEO, CSIS

9:45 - 10:40

[Session I] : Armitage-Nye Dialogue

Richard L. Armitage

President, Armitage International, L.C.

Joseph S. Nye, Jr

University Distinguished Service Professor, Emeritus, Harvard University

Facilitator

Christopher B. Johnstone

Senior Associate, CSIS
Managing Principal, The Asia Group

10:45 - 11:00

Keynote Speech

Kihara Minoru

Chairperson, Research Commission on Security, LDP

11:00 - 11:55

[Session II] : Sino-U.S. Cooperation and Competition After U.S. Elections

Rush Doshi

Senior Fellow for Asia Studies and Director of the China Strategy Initiative, CFR

Bonny Lin

Director of the China Power Project and Senior Adviser, CSIS

Takahara Akio

Distinguished Visiting Professor, Tokyo Woman's Christian University

Sahashi Ryo (Leading Commentator)

Associate Professor, The University of Tokyo

12:05 - 13:00

[Session III] : Great Power Competitions and Future of the Indo-Pacific

Michael J. Green

CEO, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney

Ashok Malik

Partner and Chair of India Practice, The Asia Group

Daniel Russel

Vice President, Asia Society Policy Institute, Asia Society

Kitaoka Shinichi

Emeritus Professor, The University of Tokyo
Special Advisor to the President (former President), Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)

Moderator

Akita Hiroyuki

Commentator, Nikkei Inc.

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John J.Hamre

President and CEO, CSIS
Former Deputy Secretary of Defense

John Hamre was elected president and CEO of CSIS in January 2000. Before joining CSIS, he served as the 26th U.S. deputy secretary of defense. Prior to holding that post, he was the under secretary of defense (comptroller) from 1993 to 1997. As comptroller, Dr. Hamre was the principal assistant to the secretary of defense for the preparation, presentation, and execution of the defense budget and management improvement programs. In 2007, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates appointed Dr. Hamre to serve as chairman of the Defense Policy Board, and he served in that capacity for four secretaries of defense.

Before serving in the Department of Defense, Dr. Hamre worked for 10 years as a professional staff member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. During that time, he was primarily responsible for the oversight and evaluation of procurement, research, and development programs, defense budget issues, and relations with the Senate Appropriations Committee. From 1978 to 1984, Dr. Hamre served in the Congressional Budget Office, where he became its deputy assistant director for national security and international affairs. In that position, he oversaw analysis and other support for committees in both the House of Representatives and the Senate.

Dr. Hamre received his Ph.D., with distinction, in 1978 from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C., where his studies focused on international politics and economics and U.S. foreign policy. In 1972, he received his B.A., with high distinction, from Augustana College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, emphasizing political science and economics. The following year he studied as a Rockefeller fellow at the Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Joseph S. Nye, Jr

University Distinguished Service Professor, Emeritus, Harvard University

Joseph S. Nye, Jr. is University Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus and former Dean of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He received his bachelor's degree summa cum laude from Princeton University, won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford, and earned a Ph.D. in political science from Harvard. He has served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, Chair of the National Intelligence Council, and a Deputy Under Secretary of State, and won distinguished service awards from all three agencies. His 20 books include Soft Power, The Future of Power, The Power Game: A Washington Novel, and A Life in the American Century. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the British Academy, and the American Academy of Diplomacy. In a recent survey of international relations scholars, he was ranked as the most influential scholar on American foreign policy, and in 2011, Foreign Policy named him one of the top 100 Global Thinkers. In 2014, Japan awarded him the Order of the Rising Sun.

Richard L. Armitage

Richard L. Armitage

President, Armitage International, L.C.
Former Deputy Secretary of State

Ambassador Armitage is a founding partner of Armitage International, L.C. and serves as the firm’s president. He is a former deputy secretary of the Department of State and has served as the assistant secretary for international security affairs and deputy assistant secretary for East Asia and Pacific affairs at the Department of Defense. In addition, Ambassador Armitage has held a wide variety of high-ranking U.S. diplomatic positions; including, Presidential Special Negotiator for the Philippines Military Bases Agreement, Special Mediator for Water in the Middle East, Special Emissary to King Hussein of Jordan during the 1991 Gulf War, and Ambassador directing U.S. assistance to the new independent states of the former Soviet Union.

Ambassador Armitage is the recipient of numerous U.S. military decorations, as well as military decorations from the governments of Thailand, Republic of Korea, Bahrain, and Pakistan. He is a recipient of the Department of State Distinguished Service Award, the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service (four times), the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Award for Outstanding Public Service, and the Presidential Citizens Medal, awarded by President H.W. Bush to citizens who have performed exemplary deeds of service. He has received the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun from the Government of Japan and was awarded a KBE from Her Majesty the Queen of England and became a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. Ambassador Armitage also has been appointed as an Honorary Companion of The New Zealand Order of Merit and as an Honorary Companion of the Order of Australia. The President of Romania conferred upon Ambassador Armitage Romania’s highest civil order, The Order of the Star of Romania, with the rank of Commander. Most recently, he received an honorary doctorate from Keio University in Japan. Ambassador Armitage also is a member of The American Academy of Diplomacy.

Ambassador Armitage graduated in 1967 from the U.S. Naval Academy, where he was commissioned an Ensign in the U.S. Navy. He served on a destroyer stationed on the Vietnam gunline and subsequently completed three combat tours with the riverine/advisory forces in Vietnam. Fluent in Vietnamese, Ambassador Armitage left active duty in 1973 and joined the U.S. Defense Attaché Office in Saigon. Immediately prior to the fall of Saigon, he organized and led the removal of Vietnamese naval assets and personnel from the country. For his service to the nation, Ambassador Armitage received the Distinguished Graduate Award from the U.S. Naval Academy in 2013.

Bonny Lin

Bonny Lin

Director of the China Power Project and Senior Adviser, CSIS

Bonny Lin is a senior fellow for Asian security and director of the China Power Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Previously, she was the acting associate director of the Strategy and Doctrine Program of RAND Project AIR FORCE and a political scientist at the RAND Corporation, where she analyzed different aspects of China’s foreign and defense policy and U.S. competition with China, including China’s use of gray zone tactics against U.S. allies and partners. Her research advised senior leaders in the Department of Defense, including military leaders at U.S. Pacific Air Forces and U.S. Army Pacific. Dr. Lin also served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense from 2015 to 2018, where she was director for Taiwan, country director for China, and senior adviser for China.

Dr. Lin has testified in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee, House Foreign Affairs Committee, and the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and an adjunct at the RAND Corporation and Institute for Defense Analysis (IDA). Dr. Lin holds a PhD in political science from Yale University, a master’s degree in Asian studies with a focus on China from the University of Michigan, and a bachelor’s degree in government from Harvard College.

Rush Doshi

Rush Doshi

Senior Fellow for Asia Studies and Director of the China Strategy Initiative, CFR

Rush Doshi is the C.V. Starr senior fellow for Asia studies and director of the China Strategy Initiative at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). His expertise includes China’s foreign policy, U.S. strategy toward China, cross-strait issues, and Indo-Pacific security.

Before joining CFR, Doshi was deputy senior director for China and Taiwan on President Joe Biden’s National Security Council (NSC), where he served from 2021 to 2024 and helped manage the NSC’s first China directorate. During his tenure, Doshi coordinated U.S. government policy on China and Taiwan, drafted the administration’s China strategy, and negotiated with PRC counterparts. For five months in 2021, he was the U.S. government’s lead action officer coordinating the negotiations that launched AUKUS, a trilateral security partnership for the Indo-Pacific region between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Doshi is an assistant professor in Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service. He is the author of The Long Game: China’s Grand Strategy to Displace American Order (Oxford University Press, 2021). Doshi was also coeditor of Global China: Assessing China’s Growing Role in the World (Brookings, 2021). His research has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, as well as in peer-reviewed academic publications such as International Organization and Asia Policy. He has testified before the Senate Commerce Committee and the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.

Prior to his government service, Doshi was a fellow at the Brookings Institution and Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center. Doshi also served as coordinator of the Asia policy working group for the Biden 2020 presidential campaign. He was previously a non-resident senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, special adviser to the CEO of the Asia Group, and a Wilson Center China Fellow. He has also served five years as an officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve.

Doshi received his bachelor’s degree from Princeton University in public policy with a minor in East Asian Studies and his PhD from Harvard University focusing on Chinese foreign policy. He was also a Fulbright fellow in China and is proficient in Mandarin.

Sahashi Ryo

Sahashi Ryo

Associate Professor, The University of Tokyo

Ryo Sahashi is an Associate Professor of International Relations, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, the University of Tokyo. Dr. Sahashi specializes on international politics in East Asia. He sits on government panels including Council on the Actual State of Land Use and Advisory Panel on Science & Technology Diplomacy. He also works as Research Fellow of Japan Center for International Exchange and Visiting Fellow of 21st Century Policy Institute, Keidanren. He has been Visiting Associate Professor, Walter H. Shorenstein Asia Pacific Research Center at Stanford University, Japan Scholar at the Wilson Center, Visiting Fellow at Georgetown University, Visiting Fellow at Seoul National University, and Faculty Fellow at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade, and Industry. He sits on the Board of Advisors, National Bureau of Asian Research, U.S.A.

Dr. Sahashi received his B.A. from International Christian University and his Ph.D. from the Graduate Schools for Law and Politics at the University of Tokyo. His recent books are US-China Rivalry: A Shift of American Strategy and Divided Worlds (Tokyo: Chuko, 2021) and In a Search for Coexistence: the United States and Two Chinas during the Cold War (Tokyo: Keiso, 2015), and he edits East Asian Order in the Post-Cold War Era (Tokyo: Keiso, 2020) and Asia Rising: A Handbook of History and International Relations in East, South and Southeast Asia (Springer, 2024). His articles appear on Pacific Affairs, Journal of Contemporary China, Contemporary Politics and China International Strategy Review.

Michael J. Green

Michael J. Green

CEO, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney

Dr Michael Jonathan Green is chief executive officer at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney.

Previously Dr Green was senior vice president for Asia, Japan Chair, and Henry A. Kissinger Chair at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and director of Asian Studies and Chair in Modern and Contemporary Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He served on the staff of the National Security Council (NSC) from 2001 through 2005, first as director for Asian affairs with responsibility for Japan, Korea, Australia, and New Zealand, and then as special assistant to the president for national security affairs and senior director for Asia, with responsibility for East Asia and South Asia. Before joining the NSC staff, he was a senior fellow for East Asian security at the Council on Foreign Relations, director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Centre and the Foreign Policy Institute and assistant professor at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University, research staff member at the Institute for Defense Analyses, and senior adviser on Asia in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. He also worked in Japan on the staff of a member of the National Diet.

Dr Green is also non-resident senior advisor and Kissinger Chair with CSIS and a distinguished scholar at the Asia Pacific Institute in Tokyo. He serves as a trustee at the Asia Foundation and senior adviser at the Asia Group. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Aspen Strategy Group, the Radio Free Asia Board, the Center for a New American Security Advisory Board, and the editorial boards of the Washington Quarterly and the Journal of Unification Studies in Korea.
Dr Green has authored numerous books and articles on East Asian security, including most recently, By More Than Providence: Grand Strategy and American Power in the Asia Pacific Since 1783 (Columbia University Press, 2017) and Line of Advantage: Japan’s Grand Strategy in the Era of Abe Shinzō (Columbia University Press, 2022). He received his master’s and doctoral degrees from SAIS and did additional graduate and postgraduate research at Tokyo University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his bachelor’s degree in history from Kenyon College with highest honours. He holds a black belt in Iaido (sword) and has won international prizes on the great highland bagpipe.

Ashok Malik

Ashok Malik

Partner and Chair of India Practice, The Asia Group

Ashok Malik is a Partner at The Asia Group and Chair of its New Delhi-based subsidiary in India where he leads the firm’s in-market business strategy and services. Prior to joining TAG, Ashok served for three years (2019-22) as Policy Advisor/Additional Secretary in India’s Ministry of External Affairs. In that capacity, he worked closely with the senior leadership of the Ministry to help shape and explain India’s foreign policy in a crucial and eventful period for the international system. Between 2017 and 2019, Ashok served as principal speech writer and spokesperson for the President of India.

Kitaoka Shinichi

Kitaoka Shinichi

Emeritus Professor, The University of Tokyo
Special Advisor to the President (former President), Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)

Dr. Shinichi Kitaoka is Special Advisor to the President of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), and Emeritus Professor of University of Tokyo, Rikkyo University and International University of Japan. He studied at the University of Tokyo (Ph.D. 1976); taught at Rikkyo University (1976-97) and his alma mater (1997-2004, 2006-2012); and served as Ambassador to the United Nations (2004-2006). He was President of the International University of Japan (IUJ) (2012-2015) and most recently, the President of JICA. Kitaoka has been on the advisory panels for many foreign ministers and prime ministers of Japan. He had been the Acting Chair of the Advisory Panel on the History of the 20th Century and on Japan’s Role and the World Order in the 21st Century (Feb. 2012 - Aug. 2015), the Advisory Panel on the Reconstruction of the Legal Basis for National Security (Feb. 2013 - May 2015), the Chair of the Advisory Panel on Long-Term Strategy under the Paris Agreement as Growth Strategy (Jul. 2018 – Apr. 2019), the Acting Chair of The Advisory Panel on National Security and Defense Capabilities (August 2018 - Dec. 2018). Kitaoka has published many books on Japan's military, diplomacy, party politics, and intellectuals. He received the Imperial Medal with Purple Ribbon in 2011.

Akita Hiroyuki

Akita Hiroyuki

Commentator, Nikkei Inc.

Hiroyuki Akita is a Commentator of Nikkei. He regularly writes commentaries and columns, analysis mainly on foreign & international security affairs. He joined Nikkei in 1987 and worked at Political News Dept. where he covered Japanese foreign & security policies, and domestic politics. He was Senior & Editorial Staff Writer (2009-17), and he also worked at "Leader Writing Team" of the Financial Times in London (Oct-Dec, 16).

He was Beijing Correspondent (94-98) and Washington Chief Correspondent (2002-06). In Beijing, he reported major news events such as the death of Deng Xiaoping, Hong Kong handover to China. In Washington DC, he covered White House & Pentagon, State Department during the George W. Bush administration.

He graduated from Jiyu Gakuen College in 1987 and Boston University (M.A.). From 2006 to 07, he was an associate of US-Japan Program at Harvard University. In March 2019, he won the Vaughn-Ueda International Journalist Award, a prize for outstanding reporting of international affairs. He is an author of two books in Japanese: "Anryu (Power Game of US-China-Japan)"(2008), "Ranryu (Strategic Competition of US-Japan and China)"(2016).

Christopher B. Johnstone

Christopher B. Johnstone

Senior Associate, CSIS
Managing Principal, The Asia Group

Christopher B. Johnstone is a Managing Principal at The Asia Group, where he brings unparalleled expertise across Indo-Pacific markets including Japan, Australia, and Southeast Asia. Previously, Chris served as a Senior Advisor at TAG and concurrently as Senior Advisor and Japan Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). At CSIS, Chris led and expanded the Center’s role in shaping the U.S.-Japan alliance agenda, including on economic security, defense industrial cooperation, and multilateral frameworks.

Chris served in government for 25 years in a variety of senior positions with a focus on U.S. policy toward Japan and the Indo-Pacific region. He served twice on the National Security Council, as Director for East Asia under President Biden (2021-2022) and Director for Japan and Oceanian Affairs under President Obama (2014–2016). In the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Chris led offices with responsibility for South and Southeast Asia (2017–2021) and East Asia (2016–2017). While at the Pentagon, he also served as Director for Northeast Asia (2010-2014), where he had principal responsibility for developing strategy for the U.S.-Japan and U.S.-South Korea alliances.

Chris began his career as an intelligence officer in the Central Intelligence Agency, where he served as the senior political analyst at an East Asian field station, then as team chief in the Office of Asia Pacific Analysis. He is a member of the board of trustees of the Japan-America Society of Washington, D.C., and the recipient of the Ryozo Kato Award for Service to the U.S.-Japan Alliance.

Chris holds a Master of Public Affairs from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs and a Bachelor of Arts from Swarthmore College. He attended Stanford University’s Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies. He speaks and reads Japanese.

Hiroyuki Akita

Daniel Russel

Vice President, Asia Society Policy Institute, Asia Society

Daniel Russel is Vice President for International Security and Diplomacy at the Asia Society Policy Institute in New York. A career member of the Senior Foreign Service at the U.S. Department of State, he served until March, 2017 as the Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. Prior to his appointment as Assistant Secretary on July 12, 2013, Mr. Russel served at the White House as Special Assistant to the President and National Security Council (NSC) Senior Director for Asian Affairs. During his tenure there, he helped formulate President Obama’s strategic rebalance to the Asia Pacific region. During his 33 year diplomatic career, Mr. Russel is the recipient of numerous awards, most recently the 2017 Presidential Rank Award. He served in East Asia, Western Europe, at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, and in Washington DC as Chief of Staff to then Under Secretary of State Thomas R. Pickering.

Takahara Akio

Takahara Akio

Distinguished Visiting Professor, Tokyo Woman's Christian University
Emeritus Professor of The University of Tokyo

Akio Takahara is Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Tokyo Woman’s Christian University and Emeritus Professor of The University of Tokyo. He received his DPhil in 1988 from Sussex University, and later spent several years as Visiting Scholar at the Consulate-General of Japan in Hong Kong, the Japanese Embassy in Beijing, Harvard University, Peking University, the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS), and the Australian National University. Before joining The University of Tokyo, he taught at J. F. Oberlin University and Rikkyo University. He served as President of the Japan Association for Asian Studies, and as Secretary General of the New Japan-China Friendship 21st Century Committee. Akio was Dean of the Graduate School of Public Policy at The University of Tokyo from 2018 to 2020, Director of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Ogata Sadako Research Institute for Peace and Development from 2020 to 2023, and Senior Fellow of MERICS from April to July 2024. Akio currently serves as Senior Adjunct Fellow and Councillor of the Japan Institute of International Affairs, Distinguished Research Fellow of the Japan Forum on International Relations, Senior Research Adviser of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Ogata Sadako Research Institute for Peace and Development, and Trustee of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation. His publications in English include The Politics of Wage Policy in Post-Revolutionary China, (Macmillan, 1992), Japan-China Relations in the Modern Era, (co-authored, Routledge, 2017), and “How do smaller countries in the Indo-Pacific region proactively interact with China? An introduction”, Journal of Contemporary East Asia Studies, DOI: 10.1080/24761028.2024.2309439, 26 January 2024.

Kihara Minoru

Kihara Minoru

Chairperson, Research Commission on Security, Liberal Democratic Party

Member of the House of Representatives
1st Electoral District, Kumamoto Prefecture (Elected six times)

Education
Mar.1993
Graduated from School of Education, Waseda University
Political Career
Sep.2005
First elected as a Member of House of Representatives (44th General Election)
Sep.2013
Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Defense (The 2nd Abe Cabinet)
Sep.2014
Director, LDP Youth Division
Oct.2015
Director, LDP Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Division
Aug.2016
State Minister of Finance (The 3rd Abe Cabinet)
Nov.2017
State Minister of Finance (The 4th Abe Cabinet)
Oct.2018
Deputy Chairperson, LDP Diet Affairs Committee
Sep.2019
Special Advisor to the Prime Minister for National Security Affairs (The 4th Abe Cabinet)
Sep.2020
Special Advisor to the Prime Minister for National Security Affairs (The Suga Cabinet)
Oct.2021
Deputy Chairperson and Chief Secretary, LDP Policy Research Council
Nov.2021
Secretary-General, LDP Research Commission on Security; Head, LDP Council for the Realization of Bright Future Society for Children and Young People
Dec.2021
Executive Acting Secretary-General, LDP Headquarters for the Realization of Revision of the Constitution
Oct.2022
Chair, Committee on Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism House of Representatives
Sep.2023
Minister of Defense (The 2nd Kishida Cabinet)
Oct.2024
Elected as a Member of House of Representatives (50th General Election, 6th term)
Appointed to Chairperson, Research Commission on Security, Liberal Democratic Party