Membership on the US CULCON panel is comprised of nine private sector members and three ex-officio government officials. The panelists are as follows:
Private Sector Members
Chair
Mr. Thierry G. Porté
Managing Director
J. C. Flowers and Co., LLC
Vice-Chair
Dr. Michael J. Green
Japan Chair and Senior Advisor
Center for Strategic and International Studies
Dr. Robert A. Feldman
Managing Director
Morgan Stanley MUFG Securities
Ms. Ellen H. Hammond,
Curator, East Asia Library, Yale University
Dr. Velina Hasu Houston,
Professor of Theatre;
Associate Dean of Faculty,
University of Southern California
Resident Playwright
Dr. Anne Nishimura Morse
William & Helen Pounds Sr. Curator of
Japanese Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Dr. Susan J. Pharr
Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics;
Director , Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies Harvard University
Dr. T. J. Pempel
Professor of Political Science
University of California, Berkeley
vacant
Public Sector Members
Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
U.S. Department of State
Hon. David A. Bergeron
Acting Assistant Secretary of Education for
Post-Secondary Education
U.S. Department of Education
Hon. Ann Stock
Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs
U.S. Department of State