Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS Chris Greacen is an engineer with expertise in home and commu­ nity renewable energy systems. His work on solar and wind power installations and resource evaluations has taken him to many parts of Asia as well as to American Indian reservations. Currently a doctoral student at the Energy and Resources Group, University of California, Berkeley, his research focuses on decen­ tralized planning issues in community-scale micro-hydroelectricity in Thailand. He has published over thirty technical articles on renewable electricity. Peter Hayes is Executive Director of the Nautilus Institute. Profes­ sionally active as an environment and energy consultant in devel­ oping countries, he has worked for several international organiza­ tions, including the United Nations Environment Programme, the Asian Development Bank, and the World Bank. He also writes widely about security affairs in the Asia-Pacific region. His publi­ cations include co-authorship of American Lake: Nuclear Peril in the Pacific (Penguin and Asahi Shimbun, 1987), and Pacific Powderkeg: American Nuclear Dilemmas in Korea (Free Press, 1990; Han-ul Press, 1991). Jungmin Kang holds a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from Tokyo University, Japan. He has completed articles on South Korea's options for storage of its spent nuclear fuel and an examination of a once-through uranium-thorium fuel cycle as an alternative to plutonium recycling. He also published a history of South Korea's nuclear and weapons programs. Dr. Kang's research interests include nuclear issues in South Korea such as nuclear nonprolifer­ ation and spent fuel management. Thomas F. McCarthy has traveled frequently to North Korea as an agricultural development consultant. Over the last year, he has worked in Washington on broader North Korean economic policy issues, most recently in cooperation with the Atlantic Council's "Korea in Transition Program." He has an MPA in development economics from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton Univer­ sity. Masami Nakata is Energy Researcher at the Nautilus Institute, where she manages the Institute's East Asia Energy Futures pro­ ject. Her research in Japan has focused on the development of renewable energy technologies. Before joining Hitachi Ltd. in Japan, she spent three years in the department of electrical engi­ neering at Princeton University as a post-doctoral researcher on photovoltaic technology. Thereafter, she studied at the University of California, Berkeley, where she received an M.A. from the Ener­ gy and Resources Group in 1999. Mitchell B. Reiss is Dean of International Affairs, Director of the Wendy and Emery Reves Center for International Studies, and Professor of Law at the College of William & Mary. From 1995 to 1999, he served as Assistant Executive Director and Senior Policy Advisor at the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organiza­ tion (KEDO). Mick Sagrillo is one of the world's leading small wind systems experts. He has been involved in the technical, educational, and political aspects of wind energy since 1981. He teaches wind sys­ tem installation workshops both nationally and internationally, as well as writes about wind power for several magazines and renewable energy organizations. Timothy Savage, guest editor of this issue, is the Senior Program Officer for Northeast Asia at the Nautilus Institute, where he over­ seas the DPRK Rural Energy Project and the Northeast Asia Peace and Security Network (NAPSNet). He was a Degree Fellow at the East-West Center in Honolulu (1992-1994), and served as a Research Fellow at the Academy of Korean Sciences in Songnam, ROK (1994-1996). He most recently published "Toward Neutrality: Korean Reconciliation and Northeast Asian Peace and Security," in Is It Possiblefor the Korean Peninsula to Realize Its Neutralized Unifica­ tion? edited by Kang Jong-il and Lee Jae-bong (Dulyeok, 2001), and contributed to the forthcoming Historical Dictionary of US-East Asian Relations. David Von Hippel is a Nautilus Institute Associate working in Eugene, Oregon. He has done extensive analyses of the patterns of fuels use prospects for energy efficiency in the Democratic Peo­ ple's Republic of Korea. His recent publications with Nautilus include "Estimated Costs and Benefits of Power Grid Interconnec­ tions in Northeast Asia" and "Modeling of Clean-Coal Scenarios for China: Progress Report and Initial Results." He has worked for a number of private and public agencies, including the World Bank...