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Julian Gresser
Director of International Business Development
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Professional Experience
Julian Gresser is the Director of International Business Development for the Land, Environment & Natural Resources division. He has served as legal advisor to numerous U.S., Japanese, and European companies on a wide array of business issues, including joint ventures, limited (venture capital) partnerships, technology licensing, export controls and customs fraud, antitrust, and intellectual property protection, particularly patent infringement disputes. He has been a senior consultant to the U.S. State Department, the World Bank, the Prime Minister’s Office of Japan, the People’s Republic of China, and the European Commission, where he trained the Commission’s Japanese negotiating teams.
His practice focuses on global climate change, green technology, collaborative innovation, and renewable and sustainable energy law. In addition to his expertise in the area of natural resources law, he has worked for nearly four decades on the international stage, with a particular focus on Asia, as a negotiator and authority on strategic alliances and joint ventures.
Julian Gresser is the author of three books, Environmental Law in Japan (MIT Press, 1981), Partners in Prosperity: Strategic Industries for the U.S. and Japan (McGraw Hill, 1984), and Piloting Through Chaos: Wise Leadership/Effective Negotiation for the 21st Century (Five Rings Press, 1996) (in Japanese, Ishi Kettei Isutsu no Hosoku–Koshodo no Gokui, Tokuma Shoten Publishing Company, Tokyo, 1997), in addition to numerous articles in English and Japanese on technology, economics and law. From 1976-1983 he was twice Visiting Mitsubishi Professor at the Harvard Law School and also taught courses as a Visiting Professor at MIT on the legal issues of strategic industries. He has been a Visiting Professor at Beijing University, where he taught seminars on Japanese and U.S. environmental law, and also helped the Chinese environmental authorities draft China’s Marine Pollution Control Law.
Education
University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, J.D., 1971.
Stanford University, Graduate study for Ph.D. in Economics, 1967-1968.
Harvard University, M.A., Far Eastern Studies, 1967.
Harvard University, A.B., 1965.
Memberships & Activities
Chairman and CEO, Energy Voyager Corporation.
Chairman, Clean Tech/Green Energy Council/Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals.
Cofounder, Japan Committee for Human Environmental Problems.
Founder and Chairman, Japan Industrial Policy Group (U.S. Department of State/Carter Administration).
Member, California Bar Association.
Fellow, IC2 Institute, University of Texas.
Member, Harvard Club of New York.
Publications
“Hydrogen and the New Energy Economy,” coauthored with James A. Cusumano, Ph.D., The Futurist, March-April 2005.
“Inventing for Humanity - A Collaborative Strategy for Global Survival,” VIA, Volume One, Number Four, 2003, based on the Smithsonian Conference 2002, “Inventing for Humanity.”
“Strategic Alliance Mediation -- Creating Value from Difference and Discord,” published first in the European Journal of Law Reform, Volume 2, Issue 4, November 2000; republished as a monograph by the Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals (ASAP), October 2000, and by the Centre for Dispute Resolution, London, January 2001.
Languages
Japanese and Chinese.
French, Spanish and Italian (reading only).