Dr. Richard Dasher has been Director of the US-Asia Technology Management Center since 1994 and Executive Director of the Center for Integrated Systems since 1998. Both are education and research centers in the Stanford University School of Engineering. In addition, as Consulting Professor at Stanford University, Dr. Dasher teaches courses and seminars on technology management and Japanese business, and he advises several Stanford student groups which focus on entrepreneurship and Asia business. Dr. Dasher maintains an active private consulting practice and is currently advisor to two business incubators and several start-up companies in Silicon Valley. Dr. Dasher was the first non-Japanese person ever invited to participate in the senior management of a Japanese national university, serving a one-year term on the Board of Directors of Tohoku University from April 2004. He continues to serve as a member of the Management Steering Council of Tohoku University and as special advisor to its president. 

Previously, Dr. Dasher was a salaried board director of two Japanese companies in Tokyo from 1990 - 93. From 1986-90, he was Director of the U.S. State Department's Foreign Service Institute training centers in Japan and Korea for U.S. and British Commonwealth diplomats studying full-time advanced Japanese and Korean language and area studies. He received the Ph.D. in Linguistics from Stanford and is co-author with Professor Elizabeth Traugott of the book, Regularity in Semantic Change (Cambridge University Press, 2002).