Mike SmitkaMike Smitka is professor of economics at Washington and Lee University, an undergraduate liberal arts college in Virginia. He has a BA in East Asian studies from Harvard and a PhD in economics from Yale University. Fluent in Japanese, he has spent a otal of seven years in Tokyo, with shorter stays in China, Germany, and Korea. Since 1994, he has been a judge for the Automotive News PACE supplier awards. He is in the steering committee of GERPISA, an international network of academics who work in the auto industry. Read More Read Less