SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND SPEAKING
Natural Resources | Economic / Geopolitical | Japan
"Rare Earth Prices Set to Diverge," Procurement Leaders, October 29, 2012.
“The Battle for New Resources: Minor Minerals in Green Technologies,” The Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry, March 2012.
“A Disaster Congress Voted For,” The New York Times, July 13, 2010.
“Water Wells Can Feed Global Peace,” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, March 19, 2010 w/Michael Breen.
“Will More Drilling Increase U.S. Energy Security?” Council on Foreign Relations, September 30, 2008.
“One if by Land, Billions if by Sea,” The New York Times, September 14, 2008.
"Election Polls and Predictions Vs. Democracy," Huffington Post, November, 14, 2012.
“U.S. Debt Crisis: Implications for Asia,” CNN, July 27, 2011 w/Meredith Ludlow.
“China's New Plan for Economic Domination,” The Atlantic, May 18, 2011 w/Meredith Ludlow.
“GOP Plan is the Wrong Way to Reform Government,” The Baltimore Sun, January 31, 2011.
“On Veterans Day, Feeling the Cost of War,” The Los Angeles Times, November 11, 2009.
"Waiting for Answers," The International Herald Tribune, September 12, 2009.
“Turning around on Wall Street,” The Los Angeles Times, September 06, 2009.
“Homeland Security Like a Poorly Equipped Junior-Varsity Squad,” Scripps Howard News Service, March 10, 2008 w/Scott G. Borgerson.
“How to Reshape Post-Crisis Japan,” Council on Foreign Relations, April 13, 2011 w/Brian Klein.
“In Japan, Expats Divide on Whether to Stay,” The Atlantic, March 28, 2011.
“After the Disaster: The difficult decision to leave Japan,” The New Republic, March 17, 2011.
“How Bad Communication is Undermining Japan's Crisis Response,” The Atlantic, March 16, 2011.
“In Tokyo, the Search for Solid Ground,” The New York Times, March 11, 2011.
“Reviving Japan,” Wall Street Journal Asia, February 11, 2011.
“Rethinking Japan's Consumer Appeal,” Forbes, December 28, 2010 w/Ira Wolf.
Critical Minerals 2014: Rare Earths and Beyond, Golden, Colorado (Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration), August 2014
The First International Symposium on Development of Rare Earths, Baotou, July 2014
Metal Pages, Electronic and Specialty Metals, Shanghai, September 2013
Toyama University, July 2013
ProEdge Second Annual Technology Metals Summit, Toronto, April 2013
Acumen Fund, Boston, February 2013
Council on Foreign Relations, International Affairs Fellows Conference, May 2012
Keizei Koho Center, December 2011
Hokkaido University, December 2011
Hitachi Corporation, November 2011
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (Japan), October 2011
The Japan Forum on International Relations, September 2011
Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, June 2011
Yale University, Department of Applied Physics, November 2010
Tokyo University, Graduate School of Public Policy, November 2010
Forum 21, International Christian University, November 2010