Grimes and Kring Present Research at Workshop in Kyoto

William Grimes, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of International Relations and Political Science at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, and Associate Director of the Global Development Policy (GDP) Center William N. Kring  presented papers at a workshop at Kyoto University’s School of Government entitled, “The Politics and Institutions of Money and Finance in East Asia.” 

The workshop was funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership, in addition to Kyoto Univesrity and the GDP Center.

This workshop addressed key issues in East Asian and global financial politics. It focused on particular regional financial arrangements (RFAs), including East Asia’s Chiang Mai Initiative Multilateralization (CMIM) and the ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO). 

Grimes and Kring presented two co-authored papers on the uses and mechanisms of regional economic surveillance by AMRO. The workshop is part of a larger research project headed by Grimes, Kring, and Professor Motoshi Suzuki of Kyoto University that brings together scholars and practitioners to analyze and make recommendations regarding RFA surveillance practices, supported by a generous grant from the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership.

William W. Grimes is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, where he has taught since 1996. He previously served as chair of the Department of International Relations and as the first director of the BU Center for the Study of Asia.  He has also spent time as a post-doctoral researcher and as a visiting assistant professor at Harvard University.

William N. Kring is the Assistant Director of the Global Development Policy Center, a university-wide center in partnership with the Frederick S. Pardee School for Global Studies. He previously was the Assistant Director and Research Fellow at the Global Economic Governance Initiative (GEGI). Prior to joining GEGI, Bill was a Senior Academic Researcher at the Center for Finance, Law and Policy. He received his PhD from Brown University in 2019 where he was selected as the Honorable W. Randolph Burgess Fellow in International Affairs (2013-2014). He was also the recipient of International Relations Departmental award for Excellence in International Relations at Boston University in 2013 .