Asia Game Changer Awards Program 2022

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MICHAEL R.

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DR. RAJIV J. SHAH

HONOREE

Mike Bloomberg is an entrepreneur and three-term mayor of New York City whose innovations in business, government, and philanthropy have made him a pioneering leader on critical issues facing America and the world. He has launched major efforts to save and improve lives, including America’s largest campaigns to prevent gun violence and fight the climate crisis, and global initiatives to tackle pressing public health issues. Bloomberg serves as the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Climate Ambition and Solutions, and as WHO Ambassador for Noncommunicable Diseases and Injuries.

Elected mayor just weeks after the attacks of September 11, 2001, Bloomberg led New York City’s resurgence. He spearheaded the rebuilding of Lower Manhattan, fought poverty with new programs that became national models, and turned around a failing school system. Bloomberg reduced carbon emissions by 13 percent, increased New Yorkers’ life expectancy by three years, and cut crime by a third while reducing incarceration by nearly 40 percent. Despite the Great Recession, he led the city to record job growth.

After his third term in City Hall ended in 2013, he resumed leadership of Bloomberg LP, the financial technology and media company he founded in 1981, and expanded his philanthropic work. Bloomberg LP now employs some 20,000 people, and Bloomberg Philanthropies works to improve lives through its core focus areas: Public Health, Education, the Environment, Government Innovation, the Arts, and the Greenwood Initiative, which aims to accelerate the pace of wealth accumulation in Black communities and address systemic underinvestment in them. He also launched a series of major efforts to help fight the coronavirus in the U.S. and around the world. Bloomberg has given away $12.7 billion.

Bloomberg graduated from Johns Hopkins University and Harvard Business School. He is the father of two daughters, Emma and Georgina. He lives in New York City.

ARUNABHA

Dr. Arunabha Ghosh is an internationally recognized public policy expert, author, columnist, and institution builder. He is the founder-CEO, since 2010, of the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW), consistently ranked as one of Asia’s leading policy research institutions; and among the world’s 20 best climate think-tanks in 2013 and 2016. With experience in 47 countries, he previously worked at Princeton, Oxford, UNDP (New York), and WTO (Geneva).

Ghosh advises governments, industry, civil society and international organizations around the world. He currently serves on Government of India’s G20 Finance Track Advisory Group and advises the Sherpa Track for India’s G20 Presidency in 2022-23. In 2022, the UN SecretaryGeneral appointed him to the High-level Expert Group on the Credibility and Accountability of Net- Zero Announcements by Non-State Actors. Since 2018, on the UN Secretary-General’s nomination, Dr Ghosh has served on the UN’s Committee for Development Policy. Ghosh is also a member of the Global Commission on the Economics of Water. In 2020, the Government of India appointed him Co- Chair of the energy, environment and climate change track for India’s Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (STIP2020). He was also appointed the Co-Chair of the T20 Task Force on climate and energy for Indonesia’s G20 Presidency in 2022.

JUN

Ma Jun published his book China’s Water Crisis in 1999. In 2004, he was selected for the Yale World Fellows Program. In 2006, he founded the Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs (IPE), and led the development and launch of China’s first environmental public database, as well as the Blue Map, a mobile app that visualizes air, water, ocean, and soil quality data to help the public monitor corporate emissions, use “micro-reports” against environmental violations and polluting rivers, and facilitate garbage sorting and recycling.

In 2020, he led the launch of the Blue Map for Zero Carbon, collaborated with professional organizations to develop provincial and city Carbon Peak and Carbon Neutrality Index, as well as digital solutions for corporate climate actions. Based on Blue Map data, IPE continues to promote green supply chain, serve green finance and empower public supervision, motivating more than 19,000 companies to openly address their violation problems or disclose air, water and carbon emissions data.

In 2006, he was awarded as China’s “Green Person of the Year” and was named as one of TIME magazine’s “World’s 100 Most Influential People.” Ma was also honored with the Magsaysay Award in 2009 and the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2012. In 2015, he received the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship. In 2019, Ma was invited as a Special Observer by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment.

KRISTIN KAGETSU

Kristin Kagetsu is one of the co-founders and CEO of Saathi, a social enterprise in India dedicated to providing a sustainable solution for menstrual hygiene to women and girls. Kristin has a passion for sustainable manufacturing and women’s issues. At MIT, she worked on multiple projects including plastic bottle recycling, waste management, and natural product development with the MIT Design Lab (D-Lab) in Brazil, Nicaragua, and India. Her first product launch was of a set of natural dye crayons that she developed with an NGO in Uttarakhand where she realized she wanted to move to India.

Kristin also volunteered with the Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers (SASE) to structure and expand the national collegiate team to better support over 60 collegiate chapters, as well as to develop SASE leadership in the Northeast. Since its founding in 2015, Saathi has been recognized globally by TIME magazine, Fast Company, World Economic Forum, UN Environment Program, UNIDO, Allure, Vogue, and others, for its social impact, innovation and sustainability. She is an MIT DLab ScaleUps Fellow, Asia 21 Young Leader, TEDx speaker, Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia Fellow, Cartier Women’s Initiative Finalist, and recognized by the Indian Department of MSME.

HONOREE

Nanette Medved-Po is the founder and chairwoman of the HOPE and PCX Groups.

HOPE (Generation HOPE Inc. and Friends of HOPE, Inc) invests 100% of its profits to improve public school education infrastructure, agriculture interventions for smallholder farmers, and environmental initiatives in both the plastic waste and carbon sequestration spaces. As an impact company, HOPE has been certified the Philippines’ first B Corporation for meeting the highest standards of social and environmental transparency and accountability. HOPE has likewise been recognized by PriceWaterhouseCoopers with its Grand Prize for Developmental Social Enterprise and was also awarded the Best New Brand and Best CSR by the Global Bottled Water Awards.

PCX (Plastic Credit Exchange LLC and PCX Solutions, Inc.) is the world’s first non-profit plastic credit program. Founded in one of the epicenters of the plastic pollution crisis, the Philippines, PCX Solutions advises companies around the world on how to map out and execute comprehensive solution sets effectively over a partner’s sustainability journey. PCX was the first in the world to establish a Plastic Pollution Reduction Standard and serves a global ecosystem of carefully vetted partners that responsibly recover, process, and recycle plastic waste with programs that improve livelihood, scale up social impact, and reduce the flow of plastic pollution into nature.

Nanette serves on the Board of Trustees of the WWF Philippines, on the Board of The Hunger Project, and on the Board of Directors of Winrock International. She received the NGO Leadership Award and Social Innovation Leadership Award from the Philippines Leadership Awards and was also honored as one of Forbes’ Heroes of Philanthropy.

Nanette graduated Summa Cum Laude with degrees in Finance and Entrepreneurship from Babson College in Massachusetts.

HONOREE

Raj Shah is president of the Rockefeller Foundation, a global institution committed to promoting the well-being of humanity around the world through data, science, and innovation. Under his leadership, the foundation raised and deployed more than $1 billion to respond to the COVID pandemic at home and abroad, launched a Pandemic Prevention Institute to prevent future health crises, and created a $10 billion Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet to help secure a just and green recovery. Shah serves on President Biden’s Defense Policy Board and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Council on Foreign Relations. He is married to Shivam Mallick Shah and they have three children.

ALOK SHARMA

British politician Alok Sharma was appointed full-time president for COP26 the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference on January 8, 2021.

He was previously secretary of state for business, energy and industrial strategy and president for COP26 between February 13, 2020, and January 8, 2021.

He was previously secretary of state for international development from July 24, 2019, to February 13, 2020, and minister of state for employment at the department of work and pensions from January 9, 2018, until July 24, 2019.

He was minister of state for housing and planning, for the department for communities and local government from June 13, 2017, to January 8, 2018.

Prior to entering Parliament, Sharma qualified as a chartered accountant with Coopers & Lybrand Deloitte, and then worked for 16 years within banking, first with the Japanese firm Nikko Securities and then Enskilda Securities (the investment banking arm of SE Banken), where he held senior roles based out of London, Stockholm, and Frankfurt, including serving as a member of the bank’s Corporate Finance Global Management Committee.

Alok is married and lives in Reading Borough with his wife and two daughters.

JANET YANG

Producer Janet Yang is beginning her first term as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and her second term as a Governor-at-Large on its Board. She has been instrumental in launching and elevating several Academy initiatives on membership recruitment, governance, and equity, diversity and inclusion. A member of the Academy’s Producers Branch since 2002, Yang most recently served on the Board as vice president and chair of the Membership Committee and prior to that, the Membership and Governance Committee. She is also co-chair of the Academy’s Asian Affinity Group.

Yang’s extensive film producing credits include The Joy Luck Club, The People vs. Larry Flynt, Zero Effect, High Crimes, Dark Matter, Shanghai Calling the Oscar-nominated animated feature Over the Moon. She won an Emmy for the HBO film Indictment: The McMartin Trial.

PRESIDENT & CEO

President & CEO, Asia Society President, Asia Society Policy Institute 26th Prime Minister of Australia

Kevin Rudd became president and CEO of Asia Society in January 2021 and has been president of the Asia Society Policy Institute since January 2015. He served as Australia’s 26th Prime Minister from 2007 to 2010, then as Foreign Minister from 2010 to 2012, before returning as Prime Minister in 2013.

As Prime Minister, Rudd led Australia’s response during the Global Financial Crisis. Australia’s fiscal response to the crisis was reviewed by the IMF as the most effective stimulus strategy of all member states. Australia was the only major advanced economy not to go into recession. Rudd is also internationally recognized as one of the founders of the G20, which drove the global response to the crisis and in 2009 helped prevent the crisis from spiraling into a second global depression.

As Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Rudd was active in global and regional foreign policy leadership. He was a driving force in expanding the East Asia Summit (EAS) to include both the U.S. and Russia in 2010. He also initiated the concept of transforming the EAS into a wider Asia-Pacific community to help manage deep-rooted tensions in Asia by building over time the institutions and culture of common security in Asia. On climate change, Rudd ratified the Kyoto Protocol in 2007 and legislated in 2008 for a mandatory 20 percent renewable energy target for Australia. Rudd launched Australia’s challenge in the International Court of Justice with the objective of stopping Japanese whaling in the Southern Ocean. Rudd drove Australia’s successful bid for its current non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council and oversaw the near-doubling of Australia’s foreign aid budget.

Rudd is Chair of the Board of the International Peace Institute. He is a member of the IMF Managing Director’s External Advisory Group and the Global Leadership Council for Sanitation and Water for All. He is a Senior Fellow at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, a Distinguished Fellow at Chatham House in London, a Distinguished Statesman with the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington DC, and a Distinguished Fellow at the Paulson Institute in Chicago. Rudd is a member of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Organization’s Group of Eminent Persons. He serves on the International Advisory Board of the Schwarzman Scholars program at Tsinghua University. Rudd is proficient in Mandarin Chinese. He remains actively engaged in indigenous reconciliation.

2022 SHEERAN PRIZE PRESENTER

JOSETTE SHEERAN

Josette Sheeran is President of Canoo Inc. and is a member of the Board of Directors. She is an international leader, decorated diplomat, humanitarian and has led negotiations on trade, intellectual property, supply chains, technology, labor and the environment across the world. As head of the World Food Program, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2020, she led the world’s biggest humanitarian supply chains, with more than 15,000 staff and logistics serving more than 90 nations faced with disasters and wars. She has raised financial support for public and private partnerships worth more than $1b bringing innovative solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges. Since February 2021 she has served as the Executive Chair of the McCain Institute for International Leadership. Previously, Josette served as Vice Chair of the World Economic Forum; UN Special Envoy, leading a successful effort to end a cholera epidemic in Haiti; Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Program; United States Under Secretary for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs under President George W. Bush; Deputy U.S. Trade Representative and Ambassador covering Asia, Africa, labor, environment, intellectual property, and trade capacity building. She also served as the President and CEO of the Asia Society, a global non-profit focused on policy, sustainability, conflict resolution, culture, and education and as a fellow at Harvard University’s Belfer Center. In 2011, she was recognized by Forbes as the 30th most powerful woman in the world.

2022 SHEERAN PRIZE

KRISTIN KAGETSU

Kristin Kagetsu is one of the co-founders and CEO of Saathi, a social enterprise in India dedicated to providing a sustainable solution for menstrual hygiene to women and girls. Kristin has a passion for sustainable manufacturing and women’s issues. At MIT, she worked on multiple projects including plastic bottle recycling, waste management, and natural product development with the MIT Design Lab (D-Lab) in Brazil, Nicaragua, and India. Her first product launch was of a set of natural dye crayons that she developed with an NGO in Uttarakhand where she realized she wanted to move to India.

Kristin also volunteered with the Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers (SASE) to structure and expand the national collegiate team to better support over 60 collegiate chapters, as well as to develop SASE leadership in the Northeast. Since its founding in 2015, Saathi has been recognized globally by TIME magazine, Fast Company, World Economic Forum, UN Environment Program, UNIDO, Allure, Vogue, and others, for its social impact, innovation and sustainability. She is an MIT DLab ScaleUps Fellow, Asia 21 Young Leader, TEDx speaker, Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia Fellow, Cartier Women’s Initiative Finalist, and recognized by the Indian Department of MSME.

SPECIAL PERFORMANCE

MOMENTA QUARTET

Momenta: the plural of momentum–four individuals in motion towards a common goal. This is the idea behind the Momenta Quartet. The New York City-based quartet has engaged in residencies at Temple, Cornell, Brown, and Binghamton Universities; performed at The National Gallery and The Library of Congress; and received commission grants from CMA, and the Koussevitzky, Jerome, and Barlow Foundations. Momenta’s debut album, Similar Motion, is available on Albany Records, and in 2022 New World Records released their album of the complete string quartets of Alvin Singleton.

SPECIAL PERFORMANCE

SOPRANO YULAN PIAO

Korean-Chinese Soprano, Yulan Piao, most recently made a successful debut as the principle roleof Princess Jia in Dream of the red chamber with San Francisco Opera.

She was going to make her debut as Seraph in Christus am ölberge with Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Costa Rica with maestro John Nelson, It has been postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic.

Soon, She will be making her debut as Cio-Cio San in Madama Butterfly with Boston Lyric Opera, also will be making her another debut as Cio-Cio San in Madama Butterfly with Lubbock Symphony Orchestra with star tenor Bryan Hymel, and as soprano soloist in Mozart’s Requiem in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center.

In competitions she has earned many accolades. Recently She has received 3rd prize in Lois Alba Aria Competition. Previously she has been placed 1st prize in the both Verismo Opera Competition and Vienna Summer Music Festival Competition. Past major awards include 3rd prize in the Gerda Lissner International Vocal Competition, The Winner from the Career Bridges Grant Awards, Encouragement grant from Giulio Gari foundation, 3rd Prize from the Connecticut Opera Idol Competition, and 1st prize in the Five Towns music and Art Foundation.

She has performed as Rosina from Il barbiere di siviglia, and as Juliette from Roméo et Juliette with Knoxville Opera, as Liu in Turandot with the New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera, as Musetta in La Bohème with New Rochelle Opera. More previously her credits include La bohème (Mimì), Gianni Schicchi (Lauretta), Die Zauberflöte (Pamina), Luisa Miller (Luisa), Così fan tutte (Fiordiligi), Rigoletto (Gilda).

SPECIAL PERFORMANCE

RUO

Composer Huang Ruo has been lauded by The New York Times for having “a distinctive style.” His vibrant and inventive musical voice draws equal inspiration from Chinese ancient and folk music, Western avant-garde, experimental, noise, natural and processed sound, rock, and jazz to create a seamless, organic integration using a compositional technique he calls “Dimensionalism.” Huang Ruo’s diverse compositional works span from orchestra, chamber music, opera, theater, and dance, to cross-genre, sound installation, architectural installation, multi-media, experimental improvisation, folk rock, and film. His music has been premiered and performed by the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, National Polish Radio Orchestra, Santa Fe Opera, Washington National Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Asko/Schoenberg, Ensemble Modern, London Sinfonietta, and conductors such as Wolfgang Sawallisch, Marin Alsop, Andrew Davis, Michael Tilson Thomas, and James Conlon. His opera An American Soldier (with libretto by David Henry Hwang) has recently received its world premiere at the Opera Theatre of St. Louis in June 2018, and was named one of the best classical music events in 2018 by The New York Times. His installation opera Paradise Interrupted was premiered at the Spoleto Festival USA in 2015 and was performed at the Lincoln Center Festival in 2016, with future touring planning for Europe and Asia. Another opera, Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, was premiered at the Santa Fe Opera in 2014. His upcoming new opera M. Butterfly will receive its world premiere with the Santa Fe Opera in a future season. His other upcoming new operas will be premiered and presented by the Washington National Opera, Royal Danish Opera, Prototype Festival, and the Hong Kong New Vision Festival, etc. He served as the first composer-inresidence for Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam, and was the visiting composer for the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra in Brazil. Huang Ruo was born in Hainan Island, China in 1976 - the year the Chinese Cultural Revolution ended. His father, who is also a composer, began teaching him composition and piano when he was six years old. Growing up in the 1980s and 1990s, when China was opening its gate to the Western world, he received both traditional and Western education at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. As a result of the dramatic cultural and economic changes in China following the Cultural Revolution, his education expanded from Bach, Mozart, Stravinsky, and Lutoslawski, to include the Beatles, rock and roll, heavy metal, and jazz. Huang Ruo was able to absorb all of these newly allowed Western influences equally. After winning the Henry Mancini Award at the 1995 International Film and Music Festival in Switzerland, he moved to the United States to further his education. He earned a Bachelor of Music degree from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in composition from the Juilliard School. Huang Ruo is a composition faculty at the Mannes School of Music in NY, and is the artistic director and conductor of Ensemble FIRE. He was selected as a Young Leader Fellow by the National Committee on United States–China Relations in 2006.

IDA LIU

Ida Liu is the Global Head of Citi Private Bank and a member of the Citi Global Wealth Leadership team. Ida leads the Private Banking activities in 52 offices across 20 countries and delivers wealth management solutions to ultra-high net worth families and their businesses globally. Before becoming the Global Head, she was the Head of Citi Private Bank North America and held numerous other leadership roles.

Ida created Citi Private Bank’s North America Asian Clients Group, and she started her career at Citi by launching and heading the Fashion, Retail and Entertainment Group. Before joining Citi, Ida was at Vivienne Tam, a women’s wear design house, where she was Global Head of Sales, Marketing, Public Relations and Business Development. Prior to this, Ida spent seven years in investment banking with Merrill Lynch’s mergers and acquisitions and technology, media and telecommunications investment banking groups in New York and Hong Kong. She started her career in mergers and acquisitions at BT Wolfensohn (now Deutsche Bank).

Ida has received many industry accolades including Barron’s 10 Most Influential Women in Wealth Management, Barron’s 100 Most Influential Women in U.S. Finance, Crain’s Notable Women on Wall Street and American Banker’s 25 Most Powerful Women in Finance. Additionally, Ida is a Young Global Leader (YGL) of the World Economic Forum, a member of The Committee of 100 (C100) and Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO). Ida serves on the UCLA Health Advisory Board as well as the Asia Society Board of Trustees.

Ida holds a BA with honors from Wellesley College and an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. She is fluent in Mandarin Chinese, Spanish and conversant in Russian.

DONORS

FOUNDING PARTNER

INSPIRATION

Lutron Electronics Co., Inc.

Kate & Bob Niehaus

Standard Chartered Bank

YOUTH LEADERS

Frank & Susan Brown Värde Partners Rémy Martin

INNOVATION

Denise & Andrew Saul

CLIMATE LEADERS

The Rohatyn Group

Ernie Thrasher Stephanie Hui ENLIGHTEN

LEADERSHIP

Betsy & Ed Cohen

Lulu & Anthony Wang

Bloomberg Philanthropies

Stephen Riady, Global Trustee, Asia Society and Executive Chairman & CEO, OUE

Anla Cheng

Ida Liu, Global Head, Citi Private Bank Bradford Hu Geraldine Acuna Sunshine Jaclyn Brunckhorst

IMPACT

State Grid US Representative Office

Thierry Porté Christopher Po Gail Alvarez

YM Beauty Inc & Sissi Wang Mulan Club Rieschel Family

M OTIVATION

Laura Jane Finn

Stuart Fuller, Chair of Asia Society Australia

Boris Chumak

Cynthia M. Whitehead Y. Ping Sun

James Go

Aurita Geronimo

Sheila Lirio Marcelo, Co-Founder & CEO, Proof of Learn; TAAF Board Member

Roberto S. Cuenca, Xidian Holdings Philippines Inc.

Adrian T. Keller, Asia Society Switzerland

Serge Dumont, Chairman Asia Society France, Global Trustee Asia Society

Janet C. Ross

Awards generously provided by

Accomodations generously provided by

ASIA SOCIETY BOARD OF TRUSTEES

CO-CHAIRS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Chan Heng Chee

Ambassador-at-Large

Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs

John L. Thornton Executive Chairman Barrick Gold Corporation

VICE-CHAIRS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Betsy Z. Cohen Chairman FinTech Masala Secretary, Board of Trustees

Lulu C. Wang Founder & CEO Tupelo Capital Management Hamid Biglari Global Co-Head Central Liquidity Group Point72 Asset Management

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Nicolas Aguzin CEO

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd.

HRH Prince Turki AlFaisal Chairman

King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies

Edward R. Allen III

Senior Partner Eagle Global Advisors Isaac Applbaum

Principal and Founding Partner MizMaa Ventures

Mohit Assomull

Head of Global Capital Markets Morgan Stanley

Nicolas Berggruen Chairman

Berggruen Holdings Inc. & Berggruen Institute

J. Frank Brown Advisory Director General Atlantic Michael S. Chae Senior Managing Director & CFO The Blackstone Group Albert Chao President, CEO, and Director Westlake Chemical Corporation

Purnendu Chatterjee Founder & Chairman The Chatterjee Group

Duncan Clark O.B.E. Chairman BDA China Limited Henry Cornell Founder & Senior Partner Cornell Capital LLC Frederick M. Demopoulos Chairman Queen’s Road Capital Serge Dumont Chairman & co-founder Asia Society France

J. Michael Evans President Alibaba Group

Jamshyd N. Godrej Chairman & Managing Director Godrej & Boyce Mfg. Co. Ltd.

Filippo Gori Chief Executive Officer

JP Morgan Asia Pacific Evan G. Greenberg Chairman & Chief Executive Officer Chubb Limited/Chubb Group

Susan S. Hakkarainen Chairman & CEO

Lutron Electronics Company, Inc.

George G. Hicks Co-founder & CEO

Värde Partners

Doris M. Ho

President & CEO A. Magsaysay, Inc.

W. Bradford Hu

Stephanie Hui Co-Head of Merchant Banking Division

Goldman Sachs Asset Management

Omar Ishrak

Chairman of the Board, Intel Former Chairman and CEO, Medtronic

Mitchell R. Julis Co-Founder, Co-Chairman and Co-CEO Canyon Partners, LLC Karamjit S. Kalsi

President BentallGreenOak

Adrian T. Keller Vice Chairman Diethelm Keller Holding Ltd. Mahmood J. Khimji Principal & Co-Founder Highgate Holdings Inc.

James Kondo

Chairman International House of Japan Chong-Moon Lee Chairman & CEO

AmBex Venture Partners

Lee Hong-Koo

Chairman of the Board

The Seoul Forum for International Affairs

Ido Leffler

Co-founder & CEO Yoobi Co-founder & Chairman Brandless

Josephine Linden

Founder & Chief Executive Officer Linden Global Strategies

Ida Liu Managing Director Global Head of Citi Private Bank

Jean Liu President Didi Chuxing Geoff Martha Chairman & CEO Medtronic

Asheet Mehta Director McKinsey & Company

John D. Negroponte Vice Chairman McLarty Associates

Robert Niehaus Chairman

GCP Capital Partners LLC (Treasurer, Board of Trustees)

Gaoning Ning Chairman Sinochem Group Co., Ltd.

Thierry Porté Managing Director J.C. Flowers & Co. LLC

Emily K. Rafferty

President Emerita The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Stephen Riady Executive Chairman & Group CEO OUE Ltd.

Gary Rieschel

Founding Managing Partner Qiming Venture Partners

Charles Percy Rockefeller Head of Revenue

Composite Apps and CuraPatient, Inc.

Nicolas Rohatyn

CEO & Chief Investment Officer The Rohatyn Group Kevin Rudd

President & CEO, Asia Society President, Asia Society Policy Institute 26th Prime Minister of Australia

Denise Saul Stephen A. Schwarzman Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder Blackstone

Neil N. Shen Founding & Managing Partner Sequoia Capital China Shin Dong-Bin Chairman Lotte Group Katie Soo Chief Marketing Officer KiwiCo

Jane Jie Sun CEO Trip.com Group Y. Ping Sun Of Counsel

Yetter Coleman, LLP University Representative Rice University

Harit Talwar Chairman of Consumer Business Goldman Sachs, NY

Ernie L. Thrasher

CEO & Chief Marketing Officer Xcoal Energy & Resources

Mark E. Tucker Group Chairman HSBC Holdings plc

Eunice Zehnder-Lai

Board Member of Geberit; DKSH; and Julius Baer

James D. Zirin

Producer and Host Conversations with Jim Zirin

Fernando Zobel de Ayala

President & CEO Ayala Corporation

ASIA SOCIETY BOARD OF TRUSTEES

List as of April 2022

The Asia Game Changers Awards, a premier event launched by Asia Society in 2014, has been our platform to recognize individuals and groups from every corner of Asia and every walk of life, whose actions have profoundly strengthened the bonds between Asia and the world.

In 2021, a time of trauma for the Asian American community, we honor and celebrate that community – those who have inspired the world with their achievements, and those who have seized this moment and brought positive change. We will continue to stand in solidarity with the Asian and Asian American communities and we are – as ever – committed to fostering greater cross-cultural understanding, empathy, and healing in our quest for a more equitable and just society.

they have inspired their country and inspired the world.” We will continue to stand in solidarity with the Asian and Asian American communities. And we are – as ever – committed to fostering greater cross-cultural understanding, empathy, and healing in our quest for a more equitable and just society.

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