ASIA GAME ASIA CHANGER ASIA SOCIETY PRESENTS THE
GAME AWARDS CHANGER
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2020 8:00 PM EDT
AWARDS
CELEBRATING THE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2020 H EROES O F 2020 8:00 PM EDT CELEBRATING THE H EROES O F 2020
VIRTUAL EVENT
HEROES OF 2020
MIKY LEE
JOE AND CLARA WU TSAI
NAOMI OSAKA
VIKAS KHANNA
BTS
YO-YO MA
WELCOME CO-HOSTS Margaret Conley, Executive Director, Asia Society – Northern California Tom Nagorski, Executive Vice President, Asia Society
REMARKS FROM THE PRESIDENT Josette Sheeran, President & CEO, Asia Society
AWARD PRESENTATIONS
OCTOBER 22, 2020
To Vikas Khanna by Katie Couric To Joe and Clara Wu Tsai by Jerry Yang To Yo-Yo Ma by Stephen Riady
SPECIAL MESSAGE Governor Andrew Cuomo
FEATURING Ambassador Chan Heng Chee W. Bradford Hu J. Michael Evans Lulu Wang
AWARD PRESENTATIONS To Naomi Osaka by Ambassador Caroline Kennedy To Miky Lee by Jim Yong Kim To BTS by Joe Bae and Janice Lee
PERFORMANCE Yo-Yo Ma
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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
We launched the Asia Game Changers Awards seven years ago to recognize the people and organizations of Asia who are changing the world for the better through their work. This is all the more important in a time of profound global challenge and massive disruption, as we face COVID-19, racially targeted violence, the economic and security competition between nations, and the displacement and suffering of the world’s most vulnerable. Our 2020 Game Changers are drawn from the heroes in the fight against COVID-19 and those standing against racial discrimination and violence, who are working for a more diverse and inclusive world. They shine a beacon of love and courage across our divided globe. This year’s honorees join an illustrious alumni of Game Changers. From Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai, to tech entrepreneur Jack Ma, to the Kung Fu Nuns of Nepal and India, we have shown how the threads of policy, business, arts and culture, education, and technology can be woven into a beautiful tapestry of humanity. We are so pleased that in our pivot to our first fully virtual Global Game Changers event, we are able to connect our 12 Centers from around the world to join with us in welcoming guests from across dozens of nations. On a personal note, I cannot express enough how proud I am of the Asia Society team who worked tirelessly to put on this amazing program, especially in the face of many disruptions, including the COVID-19 challenge of needing to activate new technology and work together remotely. We are united in our belief of the power of this moment to lift spirits and unite people around the world. None of this would be possible without the enduring support of our Asia Game Changers founding partner, Citi, who embraced the awards from inception and continue to carry the torch with us through seven awe-inspiring years. Their generosity has been matched many-fold by hundreds of supporters over the years. We are deeply grateful knowing so many care for Asia Society and have continued to invest in its mission with this crucial funding. On behalf of the Trustees and our entire Asia Society family, I thank you and wish you an inspirational event filled with hope and love. May you come away with a sense that the world can be a better place, and lifted by these stories to find your own way to connect and build bridges of understanding.
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For shining a light on inequality and blazing a trail for Korea on the global stage When South Korea’s Parasite became the first foreign-language film to win an Oscar for best picture, it wasn’t just a triumph for global cinema. It marked the realization of executive producer Miky Lee’s long-held dream: to turn the world on to Korean culture. A vice-chair at Samsung’s CJ Group, Lee initially found getting Hollywood interested in Korean cinema to be a tough sell. “I used to carry DVDs and go to Warners, Universal, Fox, anybody I had a chance with, and pitch Korean film, Korean film, Korean film,” she recalled. “No one thought [they] were good enough.” Later, after experiencing a breakthrough with Bong Joon Ho’s Snowpiercer, Lee ran into further obstacles: The film’s unflinching look at inequality in South Korea led the country’s conservative government to deny her funding. But her persistence has since paid off: Parasite — Bong’s riotous examination of class divides in Seoul — is one of over 140 Korean films CJ Group has distributed in the U.S. Cinema is just a part of what she does. Lee created KCon, a convention promoting Korean pop music, and produces the country’s largest K-pop awards show. For Lee, facilitating the worldwide explosion of Korean pop culture is a role she was born to play. “I’m happy to be the bridge,” she said. “Just walk over me.”
HONOREE
MIKY LEE | South Korea
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HONOREE
NAOMI OSAKA Japan/United States For using her large global platform to call for racial justice and social change for other women leaders At just 22, Naomi Osaka has already solidified her place in tennis history. Born to a Japanese mother and Haitian father, Osaka became the first Asian player — woman or man — to be ranked number one in the world, and her tournament winnings and lucrative endorsement deals have made her the highest-paid female athlete in the world. Frequently described as “shy” by the media, Osaka found her voice in 2020 when, after the killing of George Floyd, she flew to Minneapolis without telling her agent or coach in order to join the city’s Black Lives Matter protests. Her schedule had been lightened by the pandemic. “I’ve always watched protests on TV, and I never had the chance to go because I was always playing tennis,” she explained. But when she encouraged her more than 500,000 Twitter followers to join a protest in Osaka, her mother’s hometown, she encountered resistance from fans in Japan, where conservative racial attitudes remain deeply entrenched. Many of her fans warned her to keep her views to herself. But Osaka has refused to remain silenced. In August, she withdrew from a semifinal match in order to protest the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin. And on her way to winning the U.S. Open in September, she wore masks bearing the names of Black victims of police violence — earning praise from their families. “I hate when random people say athletes shouldn’t get involved with politics and just entertain,” she said, in response to criticism. “Firstly, this is a human rights issue. Secondly, what gives you more right to speak than me?”
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For raising their voices and inspiring their huge global audience to stand against any form of discrimination If you are not obsessed with the K-pop group BTS, you likely know someone who is. The Korean boy band has topped music charts, sold out worldwide stadium tours, and has been included in TIME magazine’s annual list of influencers. BTS has also mobilized a passionate global fanbase — known as the “ARMY” — that is millions strong. Earlier this year, when the BTS song “Dynamite” debuted on YouTube, it reached 100 million views in just 24 hours. But BTS, and their followers, are about much more than just the music. Since 2017, BTS has carried out the LOVE MYSELF campaign to convey the message of “having true love for others and the world requires loving myself first.” The campaign supports UNICEF’s #ENDviolence youth manifesto that aims to protect children and young people across the world from violence. In 2020, the band also donated $1 million to the Crew Nation campaign supporting concert crews who have been impacted by COVID-19. Later, as Black Lives Matter protests took hold in cities throughout the world, related hashtags such as #BlackoutTuesday began to trend on social media. When racist counter movements like #WhiteLivesMatter and #WhiteoutWednesday emerged, the ARMY swept into action, posting countless K-pop memes and videos using those hashtags to drown out the negative voices. And when BTS, in June, generously donated $1 million to BLM, its fans rallied to match that amount in little more than a day. “We stand against racial discrimination,” the band tweeted. “We condemn violence. You, I and we all have the right to be respected. We will stand together.”
HONOREE
BTS | South Korea
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JOE AND CLARA WU TSAI Canada/Hong Kong/Taiwan/ United States For philanthropy that built bridges between Asia and the U.S. — and saved lives — during a pandemic Joe and Clara Wu Tsai may not be household names in America, but the couple have long been groundbreaking leaders in the worlds of philanthropy and business. In 2016, the Tsais made a substantial gift to Yale University, Joe Tsai’s alma mater, to establish a new center on innovative thinking, one that placed diversity at the core of its mission. In 2018, they also made a gift to Clara’s alma mater in supporting the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute at Stanford University to advance the interdisciplinary and discovery about the human brain. And in 2020 the duo’s generosity played a critical life-saving role at the height of the country’s coronavirus crisis. As COVID19 tightened its grip on New York, and the severe shortage of medical supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) in the U.S. became apparent, the Tsais swept into action. American hospitals desperately needed PPE manufactured in China to protect their front-line workers. Who better to help? As co-founder of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, sourcing from China was in Joe Tsai’s DNA. Through their eponymous foundation, the Tsais donated millions of masks, goggles, and ventilators to hospitals and nursing homes in New York, then the epicenter of the virus. “As soon as the pandemic reached crisis proportions, we really wanted to help,” Clara Wu Tsai said. “The frontline workers are the heroes of this and their health and safety are really the most important.” Later, the Tsais spent millions more to bring PPE to San Diego and Detroit. Joe Tsai, owner of the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets and the WNBA’s New York Liberty, also pledged to pay employees at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, where the teams play their games, their normal event rates while the city was in lockdown. Barclays Center also worked with food banks to use the venue to distribute meals to thousands of needy residents in the Brooklyn community. In the wake of the killing of George Floyd, Joe and Clara Wu Tsai were one of the first professional sports team owners to speak out publicly on social justice with the following words: “We stand up and speak up against all forms of racism — overt or subconscious — especially against the Black community. We want to say enough is enough.”
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For dropping everything to feed millions in India at a time of great need and suffering India-born Michelin-starred chef Vikas Khanna has been feeding people since he was a child. But not until 2020 did it become a matter of life or death. In April, while quarantining in his Manhattan apartment, Khanna, host of MasterChef India, monitored news out of his homeland and watched, with horror and helplessness, as a virus-fueled humanitarian crisis unfolded. Millions of Indians needed food. Khanna desperately wanted to help, but how? Khanna turned to Twitter, where he has more than 2.3 million followers, and issued a heartfelt plea for information on communities in need. “I wanted to show that solidarity still exists,” he said. Khanna received a torrent of responses, and #FeedIndia was born. Khanna partnered with India’s National Disaster Relief Force for logistical and on-the-ground support and his movement soon received aid from grain companies, tech firms, and offers of industrial kitchen space in Mumbai. By late-August #FeedIndia had delivered more than 30 million dry food packets and cooked meals to hundreds of cities throughout India. “I feel like the past 30 years … have prepared me for this moment,” Khanna said. “This has been the most gratifying [time] in my culinary career.”
HONOREE
VIKAS KHANNA | India
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YO-YO MA | United States For a lifetime of achievement, and providing ‘songs of comfort’ to millions when the world needed it the most The cellist Yo-Yo Ma hardly needs an introduction. A global icon for decades, he has received countless awards and performed for eight U.S. presidents. He has recorded over 100 albums and won 19 Grammys. But Yo-Yo Ma has never been in it for the accolades — he considers himself a “citizen musician,” always looking for ways to help others. As the coronavirus crisis deepened, Ma found himself, like so many others, unsure what to do. So he sat and recorded a video of himself performing the song “Going Home” by Dvorak and posted it on Twitter. “In these days of anxiety, I wanted to find a way to continue to share some of the music that gives me comfort,” he tweeted, using the hashtag “#songsofcomfort.” The post garnered millions of views — so Ma added more. Days later, he recorded another performance, dedicating it to health workers on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic. Before long, #songsofcomfort had elicited an outpouring of contributions from across the classical music world as well as from musicians including James Taylor and The Indigo Girls. “It’s really an invitation for everybody to join in,” Ma said. “This is what we can do for one another and be more communal.”
Andrew M. Cuomo is the 56th Governor of New York, having assumed office on January 1, 2011.
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GOVERNOR ANDREW CUOMO
As Governor, Cuomo has fought for social, racial and economic justice for all New Yorkers. Under his leadership, New York passed marriage equality, a $15 minimum wage, the strongest paid family leave program in the nation, the strongest gun safety laws in the nation, equal rights for women, greater protections for immigrants, the largest investment in education in state history, landmark election reforms, and a first-in-the-nation Green New Deal for New York. He cut taxes for the middle class, implemented a permanent 2 percent property tax cap, put more New Yorkers to work than ever before, and became the first state in the nation to offer free college tuition for middle-class families. He got the state building again – taking on projects all across the state that had been stalled for decades, and using union labor every step of the way. And he led the during the COVID-19 crisis, steering New York from the highest infection rate in the country to the lowest. Governor Cuomo is the Dean of the nation’s Democratic Governors, and currently serves as Chairman of the National Governors Association. Prior to his election as Governor, Cuomo served as the 64th Attorney General of New York, where he fought discrimination in rental apartments, challenged corporate abuse of the middle class, and took on the big banks that were squandering billions of dollars in bail-out money. From 1997-2001, Cuomo served as the 11th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Bill Clinton, where he transformed the agency from a wasteful and inefficient bureaucracy to an effective driver of economic development and housing opportunities. His leadership as Secretary was a continuation of his lifelong fight to help the neediest and address homelessness, one of the most desperate situations of the time. Prior to joining HUD, Cuomo founded and led the Housing Enterprise for the Less Privileged (HELP), a not-for-profit that set a national model for serving the homeless, and chaired the New York City Homeless Commission during Mayor David Dinkins’ administration.
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GOVERNOR ANDREW CUOMO (CONTINUED) Governor Cuomo’s lifetime of public service began after he graduated from law school, when he served as campaign manager and headed the Transition Committee for then-Governor-Elect Mario Cuomo in 1982. Working as an advisor to the Governor – while taking a salary of $1 a year – instilled in Cuomo the belief that government is the vehicle to bring about change, do justice, and make progress happen. Born in Queens, New York City, Andrew Cuomo was the second child of Governor Mario Cuomo and Matilda Raffa Cuomo. His paternal grandparents, Andrea and Immaculato Cuomo, emigrated from Salerno, Italy to South Jamaica, Queens in the 1920s, where Andrea ran a small grocery story. Governor Cuomo is a graduate of Fordham University and Albany Law School, and the proud father of three girls, Mariah, Cara, and Michaela.
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Margaret Conley is the Executive Director of Asia Society Northern California. Margaret was based in Asia for several years as a television news correspondent with ABC News in Jakarta and Tokyo and with Bloomberg Television in Shanghai. Her interviews include Howard Schultz, Richard Branson, Ban Ki-Moon, LeBron James and Beyoncé. She has degrees from Columbia University and the University of Hong Kong. In 2019, Margaret was selected as one of the Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business by the San Francisco Business Times. She is a member of the International Women’s Forum.
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MARGARET CONLEY
TOM NAGORSKI Tom Nagorski became Executive Vice President of Asia Society following a three-decade career in journalism — having served most recently as Managing Editor for International Coverage at ABC News. Before that, he was Foreign Editor for ABC’s World News Tonight, and a reporter and producer based in Russia, Germany, and Thailand. Nagorski was the recipient of eight Emmy awards and the Dupont Award for excellence in international coverage, as well as a fellowship from the Henry Luce Foundation. He has written for several publications and is the author of Miracles on the Water: The Heroic Survivors of a World War II U-Boat Attack. Nagorski serves on Princeton University’s Advisory Council for the Department of East Asian Studies, the Advisory Board of the Committee To Protect Journalists, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He graduated from Princeton University in 1984. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two children
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CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF THE 2020 ASIA GAME CHANGERS HONOREES ! Thank you for inspiring us and leading the way. From Asia Society Japan Center
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DONORS
FOUNDING PARTNER
INNOVATION J. Frank Brown Kate and Bob Niehaus Standard Chartered Bank
VICE CHAIR
ENLIGHTEN
Standard Chartered Bank
HRH Prince Turki AlFaisal The Asia21 Alumni Club Vanessa and Henry Cornell CJ Corporation Michelle & Sonny Kalsi Mr. Guoqing Chen and Ms. Ming Liu Hal & Ruth Newman Janet C. Ross Denise Saul Värde Partners
LEADERSHIP Lulu & Anthony Wang
VISIONARY Eddie Allen & Chinhui Juhn Albert & Anne Chao Lutron Electronics Co., Inc. Asheet Mehta Shirley Young, US-China Cultural Foundation
IMPACT Hamid Biglari DTCC Arthur J. Gallagher & Co JPMorgan Chase & Co Yue-Sai Kan Farooq Kathwari Howard and Clare Tweedy McMorris Thierry Porté Nicolas Rohatyn, CEO, The Rohatyn Group 24
State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC) Harit and Reena Talwar / Goldman Sachs Gives Yonex
MOTIVATION J. Michael Evans Peter McKown Charles Rockefeller
ASIA21 Ejaj Ahmad Iskander Akylbayev Avinesh Bhar Zorigt Dashdorj Diana David Yezdede Halla Tania Hyde Ping Jia Natalie Christine Jorge Michael Kulma Dee Lee John O’Loghlen Enayat Najafizada Christian Oh T. Paresh Patel Prim Phloeun Gordan Shaun Lia Sunjaro Amyra Uno Anneesha Uno Sangwon Yoon Wenchi Yu Qianlu Zhu as of October 21, 2020
AMBASSADOR CHAN HENG CHEE Ambassador-at-Large Ministry of Foreign Affairs
W. BRADFORD HU
KATIE COURIC Award-Winning Journalist
J. MICHAEL EVANS President, Alibaba Group
Chief Risk Officer, Citigroup
AMBASSADOR CAROLINE KENNEDY
JIM YONG KIM, MD, PHD
JANICE LEE
IDA LIU
SANA MIR
DR. STEPHEN RIADY
DR. SANDUK RUIT
Executive Chairman & Group CEO, OUE Limited
Executive Director, Tilganga Institute of Opthalmology, Kathmandu
LULU C. WANG
JERRY YANG
Regional Head - North America, Citi
PROF. DURREEN SHAHNAZ
Former Pakistani Cricketer Champion
JANE JIE SUN CEO, Trip.com
PRESENTERS
JOSEPH BAE
Vice Chairman and Partner, Global Infrastructure Partners
Vice Chair, Asia Society
Co-founder, Yahoo!
Founder and CEO, IIX and IIX Foundation
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TRUSTEES Nicolas Aguzin HRH Prince Turki AlFaisal Edward R. Allen III Isaac Applbaum Mohit Assomull Joseph Y. Bae Nicolas Berggruen Hamid Biglari J. Frank Brown Michael S. Chae Chan Heng Chee Albert Chao Purnendu Chatterjee Chen Guoqing Duncan Clark OBE Betsy Z. Cohen Henry Cornell Frederick M. Demopoulos Richard Drobnick J. Michael Evans Jamshyd N. Godrej Toyoo Gyohten Susan S. Hakkarainen George G. Hicks Doris Magsaysay Ho W. Bradford Hu Omar Ishrak Mitchell R. Julis Karamjit S. Kalsi Adrian T. Keller Mahmood J. Khimji James Kondo Chong-Moon Lee Lee Hong-Koo Ido Leffler Jean Liu Harold McGraw III Asheet Mehta John D. Negroponte Harold J. Newman Robert Niehaus
Gaoning Ning Thierry Porté Stephen Riady Charles P. Rockefeller Nicolas Rohatyn Kevin M. Rudd Denise Saul Stephen A. Schwarzman Josette Sheeran Neil N. Shen Shin Dong-Bin Warwick L. Smith AO LLB Jane Jie Sun Harit Talwar Oscar L. Tang Ernie L. Thrasher John L. Thornton Lulu C. Wang Kenneth P. Wilcox Zhang Xin James D. Zirin Fernando Zobel de Ayala
TRUSTEES EMERITI Carol Gluck, Co-Chair Victor J. Menezes, Co-Chair
PRESIDENTS EMERITI
Hushang Ansary Tom Brokaw Pei-Yuan Chia Jerome A. Cohen Rohit M. Desai Vishakha N. Desai Dinyar Devitre Inger McCabe Elliott John H. Foster Patrick A. Gerschel G.F. Robert Hanke James B. Hunt, Jr. Thomas S. Johnson Charles R. Kaye Leo KoGuan Linda Yuen-Ching Lim Gina Lin Vikram Malhotra Clare Tweedy McMorris Gita Mehta Robert Miller Hugh M. Morgan Ruth Newman Nafis Sadik Carl Spielvogel Judith Ogden Thomson Pote Videt John S. Wadsworth, Jr. Clifton R. Wharton, Jr. Dolores Wharton Cynthia Whitehead James D. Wolfensohn
Vishakha N. Desai Robert B. Oxnam Nicholas Platt
as of Octiber 2020
HONORARY LIFE TRUSTEES Peter A. Aron Winthrop R. Munyan Cynthia Hazen Polsky John D. Rockefeller IV
CHAIR EMERITI Ronnie C. Chan Henrietta H. Fore Maurice R. Greenberg Charles R. Kaye
ASIA GAME CHANGER AWARDS “The Asia Game Changer Awards are designed to fill a vital gap—identifying and honoring true leaders making a positive contribution to the future of Asia” —Josette Sheeran, Asia Society President and CEO
The Asia Game Changer Awards, a premier event launched by Asia Society in 2014, honors individuals, organizations, and movements that have inspired, enlightened, and shown true leadership in areas that reflect Asia Society’s core pillars of policy and business, arts and culture, and education. Asia Society’s mission is to promote mutual understanding and strengthen partnerships among people, leaders, and institutions of Asia, the United States, and the world. Therefore, Asia Society is thrilled to honor trailblazers and their achievements and to share their triumphs with the rest of the world.
FOUNDING PARTNER ASIA SOCIETY’S ASIA GAME CHANGER AWARDS Honoring Game Changers Seven Years and Counting For over 200 years, Citi has enabled growth and progress for our clients and the communities we serve. Our commitment mirrors Asia Society’s dedication to strengthening mutual understanding and partnership among peoples, leaders, and communities. That’s why we are proud to salute the Asia Game Changer honorees – whose courage and creativity we can count on to save and better the lives of so many.
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ABOUT ASIA SOCIETY Asia Society was founded in 1956 by John D. Rockefeller 3rd. Initially established to promote greater knowledge of Asia in the United States, the Society today is a global institution — with offices throughout the U.S. and Asia — that fulfills its educational mandate through a wide range of cross-disciplinary programming. As economies and cultures have become more interconnected, the Society’s programs have expanded to address a range of issues including the effects of globalization, and pressing concerns in Asia such as environmental challenges, and rapid urbanization. “We founders of Asia Society were confident that Asians and Americans are capable of a richer and more meaningful mutual understanding, because of shared hopes, fears and aspirations,” Mr. Rockefeller said in a speech given in New York City in 1967.
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