Barry R. Weingast is the Ward C. Krebs Family Professor, Department of Political Science, and a Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution. He served as Chair, Department of Political Science, from 1996 through 2001. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  Weingast’s research focuses on the political foundation of markets, economic reform, and regulation. He has written extensively on problems of political economy of development, federalism and decentralization, legal institutions and the rule of law, and democracy. Weingast is co-author of Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History (with Douglass C. North and John Joseph Wallis, 2009, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) and Analytic Narratives (1998, Princeton). He edited (with Donald Wittman) The Oxford Handbook of Political Economy (Oxford University Press, 2006). Weingast has won numerous awards, including the William H. Riker Prize, the Heinz Eulau Prize (with Ken Shepsle), the Franklin L. Burdette Pi Sigma Alpha Award (with Kenneth Schultz), and the James L. Barr Memorial Prize in Public Economics.

Maria Sjöholm currently holds the position as a post-doc researcher at the Faculty of Law of Stockholm University, Sweden. She is in the process of writing a monograph reviewing the integration of women’s human rights law into regional human rights treaties, analysing the methodological and theoretical frameworks with which such rights have been incorporated into these treaties. Her previous research includes the book “Defining Rape: Emerging Obligations for States under International Law?” (Brill) and an article on the approach by the European Court of Human Rights to human trafficking. She is a member of the Committee on Feminism and International Law of the International Law Association and has taught courses on international human rights law and international criminal law at various universities in Sweden.​

Yeon-Cheon Oh, former president of Seoul National University (SNU), joined the the Korea Program at the Shorentein Asia-Pacific Research Center as the 2014–15 Koret Fellow.

Oh will focus on analyzing the significant changes in the history of East Asia since the late 19th century, and in the process, identify forces endemic to East Asian politics, economy and culture as well as their limitations, thereby attempting to create a model for “Asian Values.” He aims to create a new paradigm for higher education that will actively foster leaders who can contribute to the peace and prosperity of humanity, and also propose new alternative policies.

Oh has an extensive career as a university administrator, professor and in leadership positions in South Korea’s civil service. He was the 25th president of SNU (2010­–2014) and chairman of the Board of Trustees. Before then, he taught at SNU’s Graduate School of Public Administration from 1983 to 2010, and also served as the dean of that school from 2000 to 2004. His main areas of research include applied public economy and financial management.

Outside academia, Oh served as the chairman of the Committee of Industry Development Deliberation, Ministry of Knowledge Economics, from 2007 to 2009; board member of ITEP, Ministry of Commerce, from 2005 to 2009; and chief of ICT, Policy Review Committee, Ministry of Information and Communication, from 2003 to 2007.

Oh received his bachelor’s degree in political science from SNU, and his master’s degree and doctorate in public administration from New York University.

Ryuichi Ohta is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) for 2014-15.

Feng Lin is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) for 2014-15.  Lin is the founder and chairman of ACON Biotechnology Group, which built the first GMP IVD facility and the first US FDA IVD facility registered in China.  Lin has also invested in the leading clinical laboratories in China and a leading life sciences and drug discoveries company in the U.S.  While at Stanford, Lin is researching the innovations in China Primary Healthcare Reform.  He holds a master's degree in Chemical Engineering from Oklahoma State University.

Jaigeun Lim is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) for 2014-15.

Jasper Kim joins the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) during the 2014 academic year from Ewha Womans University's Graduate School of International Studies in Seoul, Korea, where he serves as Professor and Director of the Center for Conflict Management. He was a former visiting scholar at Harvard University (joint affiliation with Harvard Law School and the Korea Institute).

His research interests include social finance, international business law, and international negotiation strategy. During his time at Shorenstein APARC, Jasper Kim will participate in an interdisciplinary study on the application of social finance models, with an emphasis on social impact bond funding mechanisms relating to contemporary post-crisis Japan and South Korea.

Jasper Kim has published in numerous journals, including at Harvard, Columbia, the University of California Press, and Seoul National University. He has authored seven books, including American Law 101 (ABA, 2014), Korean Business Law (Carolina Academic Press, 2010), and ABA Fundamentals: International Economic Systems (ABA, 2012). He has also contributed to global media outlets such as the BBC, Bloomberg, CNBC, CNN, and the Wall Street Journal (WSJ).

He received his Juris Doctor (JD) from Rutgers University School of Law, MSc from the London School of Economics (LSE), dual-BA degrees from the University of California at San Diego, and PON training at Harvard Law School.