Panel on the ambitions of international politics

Steven Erlanger (born in 1952) has been Paris Bureau Chief of The New York Times since 2008. Beforehand, he held various positions at The Times, including Bureau Chief in Bangkok, Berlin and Jerusalem as well as Chief Diplomatic Correspondent in Washington. Previously, he worked as correspondent and editor at The Boston Globe for 11 years.

In 2002, Erlanger shared in a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for a series on Al Qaeda and global terrorism and won the German Marshal Fund's Peter Weitz Prize for excellence and originality in reporting and analysing European and transatlantic affairs. Erlanger graduated from Harvard College and St. Antony's College, Oxford.




Yoshimasa Hayashi (born in 1961) is Member of the Japanese House of Councillors and the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) which governed Japan almost uninterruptedly for over half a century. He is a former Minister of Defense, Minister of State for economic and fiscal policy and vice minister holding several key positions within the LDP.

Hayashi has subsequently been re-elected to the House of Councillors for three consecutive terms, since 1995. After graduating from the faculty of law of the University of Tokyo, Hayashi joined Mitsui & Co. in 1984. He received a Master of Arts in public administration from Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, in 1994. Hayashi plays the keyboard and the guitar in a band called Gi!nz, consisting of himself and three fellow LDP members.




HE Yafei (born in 1955) is an experienced Chinese diplomat who currently holds the title of the Permanent Representative of the People's Republic of China to the United Nations Office and to other international organisations in Geneva. Prior to this appointment, HE was Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, representing the People's Republic of China during the negotiations of the Copenhagen Accord in December 2009.

He began his career as an interpreter at the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management at the UN Headquarters in 1981. HE Yafei was educated at the Hangzhou University as well as the Beijing Foreign Studies University in China and holds a Master from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.

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