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Iwan Azis, City and regional planning professor and adjunct professor of economics at the Johnson Graduate School of Management, on the implications for city and regional planning (Jan 23, 2009 at Cornell University) Iwan J. Azis has addressed and published on topics of financial economics, economic modeling, and the linkages between macro-financial policy and social issues. He has conducted research and consulted for various international organizations and universities. Azis has held a visiting professorship at the MITI Institute in Japan, Australian National University in Canberra, and Gakushuin University in Tokyo. He recently received the award for "Distinguished Scholar in Regional Science, Financial Economics, and Economic Modeling," presented at the Instituto Superior de Ciencias do Trabalho e da Empresa (ISCTE) Business School, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2006. During the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s, he spoke before the Joint Economic Committee (JEC) of the U.S. Congress along with the deputy prime ministers of Thailand and Korea. Azis is the director of Cornell University's graduate program in regional science. The lecture was co-sponsored by the Department of City and Regional Planning and the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies.