Amyx, Jennifer
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Disciplines
Economics
Political Science
Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration
Political Science
Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration
Position
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Introduction
Jennifer Amyx is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. She joined the Penn faculty in 2002 after time as a Post-Doctoral Fellow (1998-99) and Research Fellow (2000-2001) at the Australian National University (Canberra). Professor Amyx’s work focuses on the political economy of East Asia, with a particular emphasis on the politics of financial regulation and reform in Japan and on regional financial cooperation initiatives in East Asia since the Asian Financial Crisis. Her book, Japan’s Financial Crisis: Institutional Rigidity and Reluctant Change (Princeton University Press, 2004), was awarded the 2005 Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize. Her professional publications also include a volume edited with Peter Drysdale, Japanese Governance: Beyond Japan, Inc. A number of her articles and book chapters also appear in Japanese. In 2007, Dr. Amyx was invited by Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs to become a member of the Japan-U.S. Leadership Network, a newly established group focused on issues related to Japan-US relations. In 2005-06, Dr. Amyx was a Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) International Affairs Fellow. During the first 6 months, she was based in Tokyo and worked on projects commissioned by the Japanese Ministry of Finance and by the ASEAN+3 Finance Ministers. She then spent 6 months in Washington, DC, working in the East Asia Division at the US Department of the Treasury. At the U.S. Treasury, she oversaw the portfolio on regional financial initiatives and assisted the Japan desk on issues related to Japanese financial services.