FSI's research on the origins, character and consequences of government institutions spans continents and academic disciplines. The institute’s senior fellows and their colleagues across Stanford examine the principles of public administration and implementation. Their work focuses on how maternal health care is delivered in rural China, how public action can create wealth and eliminate poverty, and why U.S. immigration reform keeps stalling.
FSI’s work includes comparative studies of how institutions help resolve policy and societal issues. Scholars aim to clearly define and make sense of the rule of law, examining how it is invoked and applied around the world.
FSI researchers also investigate government services – trying to understand and measure how they work, whom they serve and how good they are. They assess energy services aimed at helping the poorest people around the world and explore public opinion on torture policies. The Children in Crisis project addresses how child health interventions interact with political reform. Specific research on governance, organizations and security capitalizes on FSI's longstanding interests and looks at how governance and organizational issues affect a nation’s ability to address security and international cooperation.
Francis Fukuyama is the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), resident in FSI's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, effective July 2010. He comes to Stanford from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University, where he was the Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy and director of SAIS' International Development program.
Dr. Fukuyama has written widely on issues relating to questions concerning democratization and international political economy. His book, The End of History and the Last Man, was published by Free Press in 1992 and has appeared in over twenty foreign editions. His most recent books are America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy, and Falling Behind: Explaining the Development Gap between Latin America and the United States.
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Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Director of the Ford Dorsey Master's in International Policy
Research Affiliate at The Europe Center
Professor by Courtesy, Department of Political Science
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Francis Fukuyama is the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), and a faculty member of FSI's Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL). He is also Director of Stanford's Ford Dorsey Master's in International Policy, and a professor (by courtesy) of Political Science.
Dr. Fukuyama has written widely on issues in development and international politics. His 1992 book, The End of History and the Last Man, has appeared in over twenty foreign editions. His book In the Realm of the Last Man: A Memoir will be published in fall 2026.
Francis Fukuyama received his B.A. from Cornell University in classics, and his Ph.D. from Harvard in Political Science. He was a member of the Political Science Department of the RAND Corporation, and of the Policy Planning Staff of the US Department of State. From 1996-2000 he was Omer L. and Nancy Hirst Professor of Public Policy at the School of Public Policy at George Mason University, and from 2001-2010 he was Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. He served as a member of the President’s Council on Bioethics from 2001-2004. He is editor-in-chief of American Purpose, an online journal.
Dr. Fukuyama holds honorary doctorates from Connecticut College, Doane College, Doshisha University (Japan), Kansai University (Japan), Aarhus University (Denmark), the Pardee Rand Graduate School, and Adam Mickiewicz University (Poland). He is a non-resident fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Rand Corporation, the Board of Trustees of Freedom House, and the Board of the Volcker Alliance. He is a fellow of the National Academy for Public Administration, a member of the American Political Science Association, and of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is married to Laura Holmgren and has three children.
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Global Populisms
A new project examining the global surge in populist movements and what it means for established democratic rules and institutions.
Dr. Alexander Betts is the Hedley Bull research fellow in International Relations in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford, where he is also director of the MacArthur Foundation-funded Global Migration Governance project. He received his MPhil (with distinction) and DPhil from the University of Oxford. His research focuses on the international politics of refugee protection and migration. His main academic focus is on understanding the conditions under which international cooperation takes place in the refugee regime and other areas of migration. In particular, the theoretical focus of his work is on the dynamics of international institutions: on a ‘horizontal' level (across issue-areas and policy fields) and on a ‘vertical' level (between the global and the national level). He has worked on a range of policy issues including forced migration and development, protracted refugee situations, and the protection of vulnerable irregular migrants. His research has a geographical focus on Sub-Saharan Africa, and he has carried out extensive fieldwork across the region, including in South Africa, Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Djibouti, and the DRC. He has taught a range of graduate courses including ‘International Relations Theory', ‘International Relations of the Developing World' and ‘Forced Migration and International Relations'. He is on the Executive Committee of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM). He has previously worked for UNHCR, and been a consultant to UNHCR, IOM, and the Council of Europe.
Ben Rowswell is a Canadian diplomat with a specialization in statebuilding and stabilization. As Representative of Canada in Kandahar from 2009 to 2010 he directed the Kandahar Provincial Reconstruction Team, leading a team of more than 100 American and Canadian diplomats, aid workers, civilian police and other experts in strengthening the provincial government at the heart of the Afghan conflict. Having served before that as Deputy Head of Mission in Kabul, Rowswell brings a practitioner's knowledge of Afghanistan and of statebuilding in general to the CDDRL.
His previous conflict experience includes two years as Canada's Chargé d'Affaires in Iraq between 2003 and 2005, and with the UN in Somalia in 1993. He has also served at the Canadian embassy in Egypt and the Permanent Mission to the UN, and as a foreign policy advisor to the federal Cabinet in Ottawa. An alumnus of the National Democratic Institute, he founded the Democracy Unit of the Canadian foreign ministry.
Rowswell is a Senior Associate of the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the co-editor of "Iraq: Preventing a New Generation of Conflict" (2007). He studied international relations at Oxford and at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.
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Jonas Edman is a Curriculum Writer for the Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE). In addition to writing curriculum, Jonas coordinates SPICE’s National Consortium for Teaching About Asia (NCTA) professional development seminars on East Asia for middle school teachers, and collaborates with FSI and other Stanford colleagues on developing curricula for community college instructors as part of Stanford Human Rights Education Initiative (SHREI). Prior to joining SPICE in 2010, Jonas taught history and geography in Elk Grove, California, and taught Theory of Knowledge at Stockholm International School in Stockholm, Sweden.
Jonas' professional interests lie in curriculum and instruction and teacher professional development, with a special interest in online education development. He received his Single Subject Teaching Credential in Social Science from California State University, Sacramento in 2010, and a bachelor degree in History from Stockholm University in 2008. He graduated high school from the American School in Japan in 1996.
Jonas has presented teacher seminars nationally for the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia in Omaha, Nebraska; the California Council for Social Studies in Anaheim and Burlingame, California; the National Council for the Social Studies in Washington D.C.; the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs in East Lansing, Michigan; and the National Association for Multicultural Education in Oakland, California. He has also presented teacher seminars internationally for the East Asia Regional Council of Overseas Schools in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, and Bangkok, Thailand; and the European Council of International Schools in Nice, France.
Distinguished Visiting Austrian Chair Professor, 2001-2002
Visiting Scholar, FSI, 2008 and 2012
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Prof. Heinz Gärtner is academic director (since 2013) at the Austrian Institute for International Affairs (oiip) in Vienna, Austria and senior scientist at the University of Vienna. He is Lecturer at the National Defense Academy and at the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna. He was a Fulbright Fellow at the World Policy Institute as well as the Visiting Austrian Chair at Stanford University in 2001-2002. In 2008 he held again a Fulbright Professorship at the Freeman Spogli Institute (FSI). In 2012 he was Visiting Professor at the FSI. Heinz Gärtner was visiting Professor at St. Hugh's College, Oxford (1992), and at the Institute for International Relations, Vancouver, Canada (1993), and at the University of Erlangen (Germany) (1994/95). He lectures often at other American, European, and Asian universities and research institutes. Heinz Gärtner has received international recognition for his work on European, international security, and arms control. He is also a frequent commentator on European and Austrian television, radio, and print media, including CNN Europe and the BBC. He also acts as a Special Adviser to the Austrian Ministry of Defense. He was academic member of the Austrian delegation of the Wassenaar arms export control arrangement in the framework of the Austrian presidency (2005). He supervised several large projects on NATO, and comprehensive security, and arms control. Heinz Gärtner received the Bruno Kreisky (legendary former Austrian Chancellor) Award for most outstanding Political Books: “Models of European Security“ (1998). Gärtner holds several international, and European, and Austrian academic memberships.
Heinz Gärtner is the author of numerous academic articles and books.
Some of his books are:
Die neue Rolle der USA und Europa (America’s New Role and Europe), (lit-Verlag: Münster), 2012.
Obama and the Bomb: The Vision of a World free of Nuclear Weapons (ed.), (Peter Lang publisher: Frankfurt-New York- Vienna; 2011).
USA – Weltmacht auf neuen Wegen: Die Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik Barack Obamas, (America - World Power breaks New Ground), third updated edition, (lit-Verlag: Münster), 2010.
Internationale Sicherheit - Definitionen von A-Z (International Security - Definitions from A-Z), second revised and extended edition, (Nomos: Baden-Baden), 2008.
European Security and Transatlantic Relations after September 11 and the Iraq War, editor together with Ian Cuthbertson, (Palgrave-MacMillan: Houndmills), 2005.
Small States and Alliances, editor together with Erich Reiter, (Springer: Berlin) 2001, 300 pages.
Europe’s New Security Challenges, editor together with Adrian Hyde-Price and Erich Reiter, (Lynne Rinner: Boulder/London) 2001, 470 pages.
Heinz Gärtner also is editor of the books series “International Security” (Publisher: Peter Lang).
Some of his recent academic articles are:
Deterrence and Disarmament, Europe’s World online, 26 02 2012.
The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and Libya,” Europe’s World online, 02 07 2011.
A Nuclear-Weapon Zone in the Middle East, Europe’s World online, 24 05 2011.
A year of Amano's leadership in IAEA, Bulletin of American Atomic Scientists, December, 2011.
Non-proliferation & Engagement: Iran & North Korea should not let the opportunity slip by, Defense & Security Analysis, Volume 26 edition 3, September 2010.
Towards a Theory of Arms Export Control, International Politics, Vol. 47, 1, January 2010, 125–143.
Like many states around the country, the District of Columbia Board of Elections decided to allow military and civilians living abroad to vote (i.e. return voted ballots) over the Internet this November. However, unlike other Internet voting enthusiasts, the Board planned to conduct a pilot test prior to the actual election after which they intended to allow overseas voters to return their voted ballots over the Internet. The test began around the end of September; by early October we learned that a team from the Univ. of Michigan, led by Prof. Alex Halderman, had succeeded in breaking into the test system. The first sign of the break-in was the playing of the Michigan fight song, which began 15 seconds after the voter viewed the vote confirmation page. Further very serious revelations quickly followed, including that the Michigan team could rig every cast vote.
In addition to reviewing the remarkable outcome of the DC Internet pilot, we will discuss ways in which Internet voting differs from e-commerce, analyze the threats to Internet voting, review key studies and reports, describe several elections and pilots held over the Internet, and reflect on the future of Internet voting.
Barbara Simons, an expert on electronic voting, is on the Board of Advisors of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. She was a member of the National Workshop on Internet Voting that was convened at the request of President Clinton and produced a report on Internet Voting in 2001. She also participated on the Security Peer Review Group for the US Department of Defense's Internet voting project (SERVE) and co-authored the report that led to the cancellation of SERVE because of security concerns. Simons co-chaired the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) study of statewide databases of registered voters. She recently co-authored the League of Women Voters report on election auditing. Simons and Doug Jones are co-authoring a book on voting machines.
Simons was President of ACM, the nation's oldest and largest educational and scientific society for computing professionals.
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Barbara Simons
Former President
Speaker
Association for Computing Machinery
The Republic of the Philippines began on the path to universal coverage with the passage of the National Health Insurance Act of 1995 (Republic Act 7875) which established the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) . Building on the Philippine Medicare program which began in 1971, PhilHealth has expanded coverage to more than 80% of the population with basic benefits, but accounts for only 10% of total health financing—wide population coverage with thin public benefits. An extensive system of private insurance provides additional benefits for high-income Filipino households. While the Philippines is pursuing a public insurance approach with private add-ons, Hawaii has mandated private employment-based coverage through the Pre-paid Health Care Act of 1974 and operates under a Congressionally granted ERISA exemption as well as an exemption from the Affordable Care Act of 2010. Combining the employer mandate with generous Medicaid and SCHIP programs, Hawaii has achieved a coverage rate exceeding 90% of the resident population with extensive benefit packages. The presenter will provide an overview of the two systems and present original research on the labor market effects and public insurance effects of the Hawaii system.
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Dr. Gerard Russo
Associate Professor of the Department of Economics and Adjunct Fellow, East-West Center, Research Program
Speaker
University of Hawai'i at Manoa
The explosion of mobile phones into a region that, until recently, was nearly devoid of telecommunications infrastructure provides a valuable opportunity to explore the potential effects of information and communication technology on various economic
and social outcomes. This article focuses specifically on the potential influence that mobile phones will exert on corruption in Africa. Two distinct empirical analyses test the hypothesis that mobile phones will reduce corruption in Africa, as a result of decentralizing information and communication and thereby diminishing the opportunities available to engage in corruption as well as increasing the potential of detection and punishment. The results of a fixed effects regression of panel data at the country level reveal a significant negative correlation between a country's degree of mobile phone penetration and that country's level of perceived corruption. In addition to this, a multivariate regression of survey data reveals that the degree of mobile phone signal coverage across 13 Namibian provinces is significantly associated with reduced perceptions of corruption at the individual level.
Catie Snow Bailard received her doctorate in political science from UCLA, before joining the faculty of the School of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University in 2009. She graduated with concentrations in American Politics, Formal and Quantitative Methods, and International Relations. Throughout Catie's academic career, her research agenda has primarily focused on the intersection of telecommunications and politics. This fascination with the effect of mass media on political outcomes began in college as a major in UCLA's Communication Studies Department, a top-ranked undergraduate department. It was this experience that inspired Catie's decision to pursue a doctoral degree in political science at UCLA.
Studying under esteemed scholars in the field of political media studies at UCLA provided Catie with a broad substantive understanding of political communication as well as rigorous training in methodology. While the majority of early political communication research focused on television's impact on electoral outcomes in America, Catie's research agenda seeks to broaden this field. By focusing on political outcomes beyond elections, beyond the American borders, as well as media technologies beyond television, Catie hopes to contribute to the evolution of political communication research to accommodate and effectively study the complex and rapidly-changing landscape of new media. Catie's preferred approach to research is multi-methodological, with a particular preference for merging cutting edge quantitative analyses with randomized field experiments.
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Catie Snow Bailard
Assistant Professor of Media and Public Affairs
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George Washington University
The Stanford Program on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SPRIE) will host China 2.0 in Beijing on October 18-19, 2010 at the Grand Millennium Hotel in Beijing's central business district. (This event builds on the successful inaugural China 2.0 conference in Silicon Valley at Stanford University on May 24-25
China 2.0 will focus on the leaders driving China's continued ascendance as a "digital superpower" and analyze the strategies they are adopting for success.
China 2.0 is the preeminent new media forum about the dynamic PRC digital landscape that combines the right mix of strategic thinking, practical application and networking. Fritz Demopoulos, CEO, Qunar.com
The agenda is available here. Please note this event will utilize simultaneous Chinese-English interpretation for the convenience of all participants.
China 2.0 Beijing will feature Internet & e-commerce CEOs and senior executives from China and the US, including members of Stanford's alumni network.
The conference will open with a special session reuniting the two scientists who established the first connection between China and the Internet in 1993: Xu Rongsheng, Institute of High Energy Physics in Beijing and Les Cottrell, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC).
Keynote addresses will be given by:
James Ding, Managing Director, GSR Ventures
Bill Huang, General Manager, China Mobile Research Institute
The China 2.0 event was bang up-to-date with content and stimulating debate from key players in the Chinese market. The organization was very professional bringing together China players and interested parties from the Bay Area. --Graham Kill, CEO, Irdeto and CTO, Naspers
Format
China 2.0 is a highly engaging and interactive forum, featuring extensive video material, dynamic panel presentations and Q&A. We also have developed a China 2.0 application which is available now at the Apple Application store, for both iPad and iPhone/iTouch devices.
Welcome Remarks from China 2.0 Co-Chairs Short video of China 2.0 themes, with highlights from inaugural (May 2010) event at Stanford University Marguerite Gong Hancock, Associate Director, Stanford Program on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SPRIE) Duncan Clark, Visiting Scholar, SPRIE at Stanford University/Chairman, BDA China
9:15 - 9:45
Special Feature: How the Internet Came to China—and China to the Internet Short video and reunion (via Cisco TelePresence) of the two scientists who established the first connect between China & the Internet in 1993.
Les Cottrell, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), Stanford University Xu Rongsheng, Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP), Beijing Moderated byMarguerite Gong Hancock, Associate Director, SPRIE
9:45 - 10:25
Keynote Speech: Victor Koo, CEO, Youku (Stanford MBA '94)
10:25 - 10:45
Break
10:45 - 12:00
Mobile 2.0: Apps & Ads Bin Shen, Vice President for Product Development-Asia, Motorola Ye Xin, CEO, CASEE Bertrand Schmitt, CEO, AppAnnie Justin Mallen, CEO, Silk Road Technologies Moderated byDuncan Clark, Visiting Scholar, SPRIE at Stanford University/Chairman, BDA China
12:00 - 12:40
Keynote Speech: James Ding, Managing Director, GSR Ventures
12:40 - 1:45
Hosted Lunch: CBD International Restaurant(lobby level of Grand Millennium Hotel)
1:45 - 2:25
Keynote Speech: Bill Huang, General Manager, China Mobile Research Institute
2:25 - 3:45
Shopping 2.0: Consumer e-Commerce in China Short Video Introduction Brandon Lin, Partner, SAIF Partners (Stanford BA '91) Chen Yu, Co-Founder, Yeepay Alan Hellawell, Managing Director, Deutsche Bank (Stanford MA '97 MBA '97) Moderated byLoretta Chao, Technology Correspondent, The Wall Street Journal Asia (Beijing)
3:45 - 4:05
Break
4:05 - 4:35
Global Media Industry Outlook: Joel Budd, Media Editor, The Economist (London)
4:35 - 5:55
Games Market Outlook Short Video Introduction Andy Tian, Head of China Studio, Zynga Andy Lee, Managing Director–Asia, Watercooler Jay Chang, CFO, Kongzhong Moderated byBill Bishop, Start-up Investor/Advisor & Co-Founder CBS MarketWatch
5:55 - 6:00
Wrap and Day 2 Outline by China 2.0 Co-chairs, Marguerite Gong Hancock and Duncan Clark
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
8:30 - 9:00
Registration
9:00 - 9:05
Welcome Remarks by China 2.0 Co-Chairs, Marguerite Gong Hancock and Duncan Clark
9:05 - 9:45
Keynote Speech: John Liu, Vice President, Google
9:45 - 10:45
The Outlook for Trans-Pacific Entrepreneurship and Innovation—Indigenous & International? William Weinstein, Minister-Counselor for Economic Affairs, U.S. Embassy Beijing Alex Lee, VP, Collaboration and UC, Greater China Region, Cisco Systems (China) John Chiang, President & Managing Director, US Information Technology Office (USITO) Mark Baldwin, CEO, Oxus China Moderated by Duncan Clark, Visiting Scholar, SPRIE at Stanford University/Chairman, BDA China
10:45 - 11:00
Break
11:00 - 12:00
Marketing 2.0 Angel Chen, General Manager, OgilvyOne Beijing Silvia Goh, Managing Director, LiquidThread China, Starcom MediaVest Scarlett Li, CEO & Founder, Ourebo Moderated byThomas Crampton, Asia-Pacific Director, 360 Digital Influence, Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide
12:00 - 12:40
Keynote Speech: Brian Wong, Head of Global Sales, Alibaba
12:40 - 1:45
Hosted Lunch: CBD International Restaurant(lobby level of Grand Millennium Hotel)
1:45 - 3:00
Social Networking David Liu, Founder, Jiepang Dan Brody, former VP of Tudou, first employee of Google China Frank Yu, Chief Product Officer, Bokan; Advisor, TEDx Beijing Gady Epstein, Beijing Bureau Chief, Forbes Moderated byJeremy Goldkorn, Founder, Danwei
TV 2.0: The Future of TV & Three Network Convergence in China Caroline Pan, Director-China Strategy, Intel David Wolf, President & CEO, Wolf Group Asia Shan Phillips, VP Greater China Practice, The Nielsen Company Moderated byJonathan Landreth, Senior China Correspondent, The Hollywood Reporter (Beijing)
5:00 -6:15
Fueling China 2.0 Hurst Lin, General Partner, Doll Capital Management, Co-Founder of Sina (Stanford MBA '93) Daniel Quon, Managing Director, SVB Global, Asia, SVB Financial Group Olivier Glauser, Managing Director, Steamboat Ventures Richard Hsu, Managing Director, Intel Capital Hans Tung, Partner, Qiming Ventures (Stanford BS '93) Moderated byKathrin Hille, Technology Correspondent, Financial Times Beijing
6:15
Apple iPad Lucky Draw & Close by China 2.0 Co-Chairs Marguerite Gong Hancock and Duncan Clark
The first China 2.0 provided a great selection of topics and speakers who knew their specialties and made focused presentations--with very little overlap and repetition among panels, always a challenge at such conferences. Well-organized, well-moderated, with a smart audience that asked good questions. -Gady Epstein, Beijing Bureau Chief, Forbes Magazine
Sponsors
The China 2.0 Beijing conference is made possible by its generous sponsors:
China 2.0 achieved the balance of giving a clear overview to the China newcomers but still bringing insights to market participants about other sectors. Great conference and surely the start of a successful series. --Olivier Glauser, Managing Director, Steamboat Ventures
Hakan Eriksson speaks on infrastructure at China 2.0