Richard Dasher

Bio

Richard Dasher has been Director of the US-Asia Technology Management Center at Stanford University since 1994. He served concurrently as the Executive Director of the Center for Integrated Systems in Stanford's School of Engineering from 1998 - 2015. His research and teaching focus on the flow of people, knowledge, and capital in innovation systems, on the impact of new technologies on industry value chains, and on open innovation management. Dr. Dasher serves on the advisory boards for national universities and research institutions in Japan and Thailand. He is on the selection and review committees of major government funding programs for science, technology, and innovation and in Canada and Japan. He is an advisor to start-up companies, business accelerators, venture capital firms, and nonprofits in Silicon Valley, China, Japan, and S. Korea. Dr. Dasher was the first non-Japanese person ever asked to join the governance of a Japanese national university, serving as a Board Director and member of the Management Council of Tohoku University from 2004 - 2010. Dr. Dasher received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Linguistics from Stanford University. From 1986 – 90, he was Director of the U.S. State Department’s Advanced Language and Area Training Centers in Japan and Korea that provide full-time curricula to U.S. and Commonwealth Country diplomats assigned to those countries.

Academic Appointments

• Adjunct Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures

Administrative Appointments

• Director, US-Asia Technology Management Center (1994 - Present)
• Executive Director, Center for Integrated Systems (1998 - 2015)

Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations

• Chair, Review Panel, Canada Excellence Research Chairs (2009 - 2017)
• Board Director, World Sustainable Development Forum (2018 - Present)
• Board Director, Japan Society of Northern California (2011 - Present)
• Board Director, Keizai - Silicon Valley U.S.-Japan Business Forum (2002 - Present)
• Program Committee member, World Premier International Research Center Initiative, JSPS, Japan (2007 - Present)
• Chair, Steering Committee, Japan - U.S. Innovation Awards (2011 - Present)
• Advisory Board member, Kyushu University Robert Huang Entrepreneurship Center (2011 - Present)
• Advisor to the President, Tohoku University (2005 - Present)
• Global Advisory Board, Kyushu University (2017 - Present)
• International Advisory Board, Thailand Institute of Scientific and Technological Research (TISTR) (2014 - Present)
• Senior Advisor, Mitsubishi Research Institute, Innovation Network for Co-Creation of the Future (2016 - Present)
• Board Director, then Member of Management Council, Tohoku University (2004 - 2010)
• International Advisory Council, Japan Science and Technology Agency (2014 - 2016)

Program Affiliations

• Center for East Asian Studies