Board of Advisors

Nicholas C. Hope, Deputy Director, Stanford Center for International Development

Nicholas Hope is the deputy director of the Stanford Center for International Development. Before coming to Stanford in 2001, he has had extensive international experience working for the World Bank as the Director of the Office of the Vice President for Europe and Central Asia. He holds a Ph. D. from Princeton University and his research include private enterprise development and financial reform in China.

Andrew Walder, Director, Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University

Andrew Walder is director of the Asia-Pacific Research Center. He is professor of sociology and a senior fellow in Stanford's Institute for International Studies. An expert on the sources of conflict, stability, and change in communist regimes, his current research interests are the impact of China's market reforms on income inequality and career opportunity. He is also engaged in historical research on the Cultural Revolution of 1966-69, presently with an emphasis on the Beijing Red Guard movement during 1966 and 1967.

Before coming to Stanford in fall 1997, Dr. Walder was professor of sociology at Harvard, and was professor and head of the Division of Social Sciences at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology from 1995 to 1997. Dr. Walder received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Michigan.

Dr. Walder's recent publications include Property Rights and Economic Reform in China (Stanford University Press, 1999, co-edited with Jean Oi); Zouping in Transition: The Process of Reform in Rural North China (Harvard University Press, 1998, editor); "Politics and Life Chances in a State Socialist Regime: Dual Career Paths into the Urban Chinese Elite, 1949 to 1996" in American Sociological Review (April 2000, co-authored with Bobai Li), and "Career Advancement as Party Patronage: Sponsored Mobility into the Chinese Administrative Elite" in American Journal of Sociology (March 2001, co-authored with Bobai Li).

Kathy Ku, Director, Office of Technology Licensing, Stanford University

B.S. Chemical Engineering (Cornell University); M.S. Chemical Engineering (Washington University). Registered Patent Agent; Sigma Chemical (research); Monsanto (research); Protein Design Labs (V.P. Business Development); Univ. of California (Clinical dialysis study); Stanford (Sponsored Projects Office, OTL).

Joshua Reeves, Executive Director & Co-Founder, Stanford University

Joshua Reeves was a member of the TECC Founding team and led the TECC USA team from TECC’s inception in December, 2003 until June, 2005. He is currently a member of the TECC Board of Advisors and works extensively with the TECC 501c3. Joshua Reeves met Jefferson Chen, TECC co-founder from China, during the Goldman Sachs Global Leaders Institute in 2003 and they began brainstorming ideas for a project that would encourage greater collaboration and communication between students in the US and China while also increasing the flow of ideas for projects with social impact. The primary focus was on how Technology and Education together was a truly powerful tool for social good and there was also a strong interest in providing an opportunity for students to be active in social entrepreneurship. Their work ultimately led to TECC’s creation and the organization has grown dramatically since it’s founding in winter 2004.



Joshua Reeves graduated from Stanford University in June, 2005 with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and he is currently pursuing his M.S in Electrical Engineering part-time while working at a Silicon Valley start-up named Zazzle, where he serves as a Product Manager. Joshua has been very interested in US-China relations for a number of years and he is passionate about connecting students from both countries to work on meaningful social projects. During school, Joshua served as a Vice President of BASES, a Stanford Entrepreneurship organization and was also President of the Stanford Engineering Association. Joshua brings great organizational leadership to the TECC team and is very excited about the impact TECC is having. Joshua has worked at Intel, Goldman Sachs and Intel Capital and has research experience in the Stanford Space Systems Development Lab and the Stanford Neural Prosthetics Lab. He is an avid traveler and has visited Bolivia, China, South Korea, Dubai, India, Singapore and several European countries over the past several years.

Email: joshua.reeves [at] teccultures.org

Richard B. Dasher, Ph.D., Director, US-Asia Technology Management Center

Dr. Dasher has been with the US-Asia Technology Management Center at Stanford University since 1993, becoming USATMC Acting Director in 1994 and Director in 1996. In this capacity, Dr. Dasher holds consulting faculty appointments in the Department of Electrical Engineering (technology management) and the Department of Asian Languages (Japanese business), moving up from Consulting Associate Professor (1996 – 2003) to Consulting Professor since 2004. He has additionally served as Executive Director of Stanford's Center for Integrated Systemssince 1998.

Dr. Dasher was the first non-Japanese person ever asked to join the senior governance of a Japanese national university, serving a one-year term on the Board of Directors of Tohoku University from April 2004. He continues to serve on the Management Steering Council of Tohoku University and as Special Advisor to the Tohoku University president. From 2001-2003, he was a member of the International Advisory Committee to the Japanese Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy in regard to the creation of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology. He is regularly called on to consult for local and regional governments in Japan, the U.S. and Asia in regard to innovation-based regional economic development and university-industry relations.

Dr. Dasher maintains an active business consulting practice on international strategy and planning, technology trend and opportunity analysis, and Japan market entry and performance improvement. In addition to projects for large firms, he serves as an outside board director of ZyCube Inc. in Japan and as advisor to several start-up companies in the U.S. and China. Since 2000, Dr. Dasher has been an advisor to the US-Japan Business Incubation Center in San Jose, California.

Dr. Dasher received the Ph.D. in Linguistics from Stanford University and is co-author with Prof. Elizabeth Traugott of the book "Regularity in Semantic Change" (Cambridge University Press, 2002). He is fluent in Japanese and directed the U.S. State Department's Foreign Service Institute training centers in Japan and Korea from 1986-90. From 1990-93, Dr. Dasher was a salaried board director of two Japanese companies in Tokyo, at which he expanded the companies' business lines to include international IP licensing. He taught clarinet and chamber music at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music from 1978-85 and maintains an active interest in performing and enjoying music.

Phil Hubbard, Director, English for Foreign Students Senior Lecturer, Linguistics