The Kyoto Post-COVID Manifesto For Global Economics / Creative Economy (PDF)

Stephen Hill (AM, FRSN, FTSE, FWIF, PhD) is Emeritus Professor, University of Wollongong, Australia and a prominent Australian scientist and diplomat. He has degrees and has written extensively in multiple disciplines. Originally a research chemist (Sydney University and Unilever), he also was awarded Australia's first Business Administration PhD (Melbourne University) and after academic positions in Chicago, Sussex and Sydney, was appointed as Foundation Professor of Sociology at the University of Wollongong at age 30. He has lived and worked in the US, Europe and Asia, been policy consultant to most relevant International Agencies and several Asian countries, and founded three research centers including a Center of Excellence of the Australian Research Council. From 1995 to 2006 he was Asia-Pacific Regional Director for Science for the UN Agency UNESCO, and Representative (Ambassador), based in Indonesia. He was responsible for major UN science, education, media freedom, culture, world heritage and peace initiatives and reforms in the region, as well as being commissioned by the Director-General to reform and decentralize the UN Agency globally. Now retired, an Emeritus Professor of the University of Wollongong, he has been awarded several State Awards including Member, Order of Australia, and continues to write, speak publicly, and be involved in community empowerment and human rights initiatives.







Tadashi Yagi is a Professor of the Faculty of Economics at Doshisha University. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics, awarded by Nagoya University in 1996. His research areas are wide-ranging, including public economics, human resources management, income distribution, welfare economics and cultural economics. He has written many papers in refereed academic journals and chapters in edited volumes. The important papers are "Economic Growth and the Riskiness of Investment in Firm-Specific Skills" (with Taichi Maki and Koichi Yotsuya) European