AUTHORS

Takaoki Niwa is the President of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America Inc.

John McKenna is an award-winning business journalist with specialist experience in the energy, infrastructure and industrial sectors, John's stories have appeared in leading British newspapers including The Times and The Daily Telegraph.

Catherine Bolgar spent 12 years as an editor at The Wall Street Journal. Since leaving the Journal two years ago to move to the South of France with her family, Bolgar has been a freelance writer.

Maija Palmer is Deputy Editor of FT Special Reports.