The Asia
Foundation
http://www.asiafoundation.org/
“Utilizing its 47-year presence throughout Asia, The Asia Foundation collaborates with partners from the public and private sectors to build leadership, improve policy and regulation, and strengthen institutions to foster greater openness and shared prosperity in the Asia Pacific region.”
http://www.asiafoundation.org/about/abou_over.html
The curious
beginnings of “The Asia Foundation” are just coming out with the release of LBJ
Presidential documents. For example, this memo from June 22nd 1966
from the CIA to the 303 Committee:
“SUBJECT: The
Asia Foundation: Proposed Improvements in Funding
Procedures
1.
Summary
The Asia
Foundation (TAF), a Central Intelligence Agency proprietary, was established in
1954 to undertake cultural and educational activities on behalf of the United
States Government in ways not open to official U.S. agencies. Over the past
twelve years TAF has accomplished its assigned mission with increasing
effectiveness and has, in the process, become a widely-known institution, in
Asia and the United States. TAF is now experiencing inquiries regarding its
sources of funds and connections with the U.S. Government from the aggressive
leftist publication, Ramparts. It is conceivable that such inquiries will lead
to a published revelation of TAF's CIA connection. In the present climate of
national dissent and in the wake of recent critical press comment on CIA
involvement with American universities, we feel a public allegation that CIA
funds and controls TAF would be seized upon, with or without proof, and
magnified beyond its actual significance to embarrass the Administration and
U.S. national interests at home and abroad. Some immediate defensive and
remedial measures are required [2-1/2 lines of source text not
declassified].
[3 paragraphs
(11 lines of source text) not declassified]
In the long
run, we feel TAF's vulnerability to press attack can be reduced and its
viability as an instrument of U.S. foreign policy in Asia can be assured by
relieving it of its total dependence upon covert funding support from this
Agency. In the belief that TAF contributes substantially to U.S. national
interests in Asia, and can continue to contribute if its viability is sustained,
CIA requests the Committee's study and attention to possible alternative means
of supporting it.”
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/frus/johnsonlb/x/9062.htm
2002 Officers and Board of Trustees
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Members
Officers
President of the National Soft Drink Association
Director – The Naval Historical Foundation
28 Mar 1988 - 15 May 1989 – Secretary of the US Navy
Mr. Ball graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology (B.S., 1969). He is married and resides in Washington, DC. He was born June 10, 1948, in Belton, SC.
The President today announced his intention to appoint William L. Ball III to be Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs.
Since March 1985 Mr. Ball has been Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs. From 1981 to 1985, he was administrative assistant to Senator John Tower of Texas. In 1981 he also served as chief clerk of the Senate Armed Services Committee. In 1978 he served as administrative assistant to Senator Herman Talmadge of Georgia. From 1975 to 1976, he served as a legislative assistant to Senator John Tower. He was an officer in the United States Navy from 1969 to 1975, serving for 3 years on the guided-missile destroyer U.S.S. Sellers, followed by 3 years at the Department of the Navy.”
On soft drinks: “"In fact, there is clear scientific evidence to support the conclusion that soft drinks are not the cause of pediatric obesity or any other health problems. […] "Business partnerships between local soft drink bottlers and educators provide a vital source of supplemental dollars for a wide variety of important educational programs such as sports and athletics, arts and theater and computers and information technology.
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William P. Fuller is President of the Asia Foundation. He holds a BA, MA, and PhD from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard. Fuller is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, and USAID's Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid. Until 2001, he served as chairman of the Board of Directors of Winrock International. Fuller also serves on the board of trustees for the Institute for the Future and the Bank of the Orient. He has worked with the Ford Foundation, UNICEF, and the World Bank. He speaks Indonesian, French and some Thai.
He is also the Education Committee Chairman of the US-Japan 21st Century Project.
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Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics
Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts
Susan J. Pharr is Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University, and for 2002-03 Acting Director of the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies. She joined the faculty in 1987, and served as chair of the Government Department, 1992-95, and as Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 1996-98.
At Harvard Dr. Pharr is on the Steering Committee of the Asia Center and on the Executive Committee of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. She serves on the Faculty Advisory Committee for the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, and is a member of the University Committee on the Environment and the University Committee on the Status of Women. She is also a Senior Scholar of the Harvard Academy of International and Area Studies.
Dr. Pharr received her Ph.D in 1975 from Columbia University in political science. From 1974-76, she served as Staff Associate at the Social Sciences Research Council. Thereafter, until 1986, she was on the faculty of the Department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. From 1985-87, on a leave from Wisconsin, she held the Japan Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, she has been a visiting scholar or fellow in the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo and at Keio University, the Woodrow Wilson International Center of Scholars, and the Brookings Institution. She also has served as a Senior Social Scientist with the Agency for International Development.
Much of her research has explored the social basis for democracy in Japan. Her research interests include comparative political behavior; comparative politics of industrialized nations; democratization and social change in Japan and Asia, political development; civil society and nonprofit organizations; political ethics and corruption; environmental politics; the role of the media in politics; the role of Japan and the United States in development; international relations in East Asia; and international political economy of development. Her current research focuses on the forces shaping civil societies, and the changing nature of relations between citizens and states in Asia. Among her works are Political Women in Japan (1981); Losing Face: Status Politics in Japan (1990); (with Ellis S. Krauss) Media and Politics in Japan (1996); (with Robert D. Putnam) Disaffected Democracies: What's Troubling the Trilateral Countries? (2000); and (with Frank J. Schwartz) The State of Civil Society in Japan (2003).
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Business Leader
San Francisco, California
He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations
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“He joined the Foundation in 1993. Formerly a professor at Barnard College and Columbia University, he has worked as a consultant to private foundations and UN agencies.”
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He has been affiliated with the Foundation for over 20 years, as a representative abroad, area director, and director of program and planning. Prior to this he was a research fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and has taught Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley.
He is also a director of the California-Asia Business Council
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Vice President /
Director, Washington, D.C.
She is program liaison and is responsible for the legislative affairs and policy input.
She also serves on the Advisory Council of the International Center for Journalists
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Members
National Geographic Society
Washington, D.C.
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Senior Vice President Government Affairs, General Counsel and Secretary, PepsiCo Inc.
Former Legal Advisor for the Department of State Purchase, New York
David R. Andrews was the Legal Adviser to the Department of State. He was confirmed by the Senate on July 31, 1997.
As the legal advisor to the U.S. State Department, Mr. Andrews represented the U.S. in all proceedings before the International Court of Justice, the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal, the Inter- American Court of Human Rights, and in investor disputes arising out of NAFTA.
He also conducted sensitive bilateral negotiations, including such high-profile matters as the compensation claims for the mistaken bombing by NATO forces of China's embassy in Belgrade and the negotiations with the governments of the UK and the Netherlands over the trial of the two Libyan suspects in the bombing of Pan Am flight 103.
Mr. Andrews was the principal adviser on all legal matters, domestic and international, to the Department of State, the Foreign Service, and diplomatic and consular posts abroad. He was also the principal adviser on legal matters relating to the conduct of foreign relations to other agencies and, through the Secretary of State, to the President and the National Security Council.
Prior to his appointment, Mr. Andrews was a partner and the former Chairman (1991-1994) of the California-based international law firm of McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen. He also served as the Managing Partner of the firm's Washington, DC office (1985-1991). Mr. Andrews was the founder of the firm's environmental practice and was the Chairman of the Environmental, Natural Resources and Land Use Practice Group. He specialized in compliance counseling and advised clients on the assessment and development of environmental management systems for their domestic and international operations.
Mr. Andrews had an active practice in counseling foreign governments. He represented the Environmental Protection Administration of Taiwan in rewriting their hazardous waste laws. He also worked with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) United States-Asia Environmental Program in Malaysia, where he counseled the Director General of the Department of the Environment on the development of a system for the implementation of an environmental tax. He was a member of USAID's Institute of International Education's Energy Training Program Advisory Committee.
Mr. Andrews previously served as Regional Counsel for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region IX (1975-1977), and as Legal Counsel and Special Assistant for Policy at EPA in Washington, DC (1977-1980). He also served as the Principal Deputy General Counsel to the Department of Health and Human Services (1980-1981).
Mr. Andrews is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and its California counterpart, the Pacific Council on International Policy. He is also a member of a number of professional organizations, including the American Law Institute, the Environmental and Natural Resources Advisory Council of Stanford Law School and the National Advisory Board of the Ecology Law Quarterly of Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley. Mr. Andrews was also actively involved in numerous professional activities with a community bent. He was a member of the Board of Directors and Secretary of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, based in Washington, DC, a member of the Northern California Steering Committee for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, and he was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Marin Community Foundation, the third-largest community foundation in the U.S. He is a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague.
Two of Mr. Andrews' other interests are health care and the arts. He is a former member of the Board of Directors of Kaiser Permanente and was a Trustee of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Mr. Andrews was selected for inclusion in each edition since 1988 of The Best Lawyers in America.
He is a graduate of the University of California and its School of Law. In 1974, Mr. Andrews was a Visiting Fellow and Professor of Law at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and Public International Law, Heidelberg, Germany. (source)
He is currently serving as a director of the Pacific Gas & Electric Corporation (PG&E Corp) and he also is a director of NetCel360 Holdings Limited.
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President, The Brookings Institution
Former U.S. Ambassador
Michael H. Armacost has held the position of
President of the Brookings Institution
since October 2, 1995. During his twenty-four years in government, he served as
U.S. Ambassador to Japan, U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines, Under Secretary of
State for Political Affairs, and as a senior policymaker at the National
Security Council and the Department of Defense. From 1993 to 1995 he was
Distinguished Senior Fellow and Visiting Professor at Stanford University’s
Asia/Pacific Research Center.
Dr. Armacost was educated at Carleton College,
Friedrich Wilhelms University, and Columbia University. He has taught and
lectured at Pomona College, Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins University, and
International Christian University. He is the author of three books; the most
recent, an analysis of Japan and the United States in the post cold war world,
was published in 1996. Dr. Armacost has received the President’s Distinguished
Service Award, the Defense
Department’s Distinguished Civilian Service
Award, and the Secretary of State’s Distinguished Service
Award.
He is a trustee of Carleton College, the Asia Foundation, and director of the American Academy of Diplomacy; a director of AFLAC, director of Applied Materials, director of Cargill, a director of USEC and TRW; and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, and the National Academy of Public Administration. (source)
He is also a member of the Aspen Strategy Group of the Aspen Institute.
From 1969-70 he was a White House Fellow.
He is the author of: Terrorism and U.S. Foreign Policy (with Paul R. Pillar) –read chapter one- & Peace Process: American Diplomacy and the Arab-Israeli Conflict since 1967 (with William B. Quandt) as well as many other Brookings publications.
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President, Bergner Bockorny, Inc.
Jeffrey T. Bergner serves as President of the government relations consulting firm Bergner, Bockorny, Castagnetti, Hawkins & Brain, Inc. He focuses on issues relating to international trade, technology, finance and political issues. Dr. Bergner also serves as Adjunct Professor of National Security Studies at Georgetown University, where he teaches on Congress and national security policy.
Prior to founding his consulting firm in 1986, Dr. Bergner served in a variety of capacities in the United States Senate, including legislative director and chief of staff to Senator Richard Lugar, and as staff director of the Committee on Foreign Relations. As Staff Director, Dr. Bergner's responsibilities included daily advice to Chairman Richard Lugar and other members of the Foreign Relations Committee. He administered a staff of sixty, coordinated with the Administration, especially the Departments of State and Defense and the National Security Council, and oversaw the Committee's activities related to nominations, treaties, and legislation, including the foreign assistance and State Department authorization bills. He also taught at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan.
Dr. Bergner holds a B.A. degree from Carleton College, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in politics and philosophy from Princeton University. He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Michigan, and Georgetown University. He is the author of three books and of numerous articles and book reviews in the area of international affairs and public policy. His books include The New Superpowers (St. Martin's Press, 1991).
Dr. Bergner speaks and writes widely on politics, political thought and international affairs. He serves on a variety of not- for-profit boards, projects and commissions. He is a member of the Hudson Institute, a trustee of the Asia Foundation, a member of the Project for the New American Century, and the Calvert Institute. He also serves on the board of advisors to Silver Method, LLC.
He also served as a study group member of the US Commission on National Security/21st Century (the Hart-Rudman Commission)
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Senior Counsel: Squire Sanders, & Dempsey, LLP
San Francisco, California
Alexander D. Calhoun’s practice encompasses almost all aspects of Squire Sanders, & Dempsey’s Pacific Basin practice, with a particular emphasis on bank and corporate mergers and acquisitions, cross-border venture capital startup investments, and the negotiation of joint venture and technology exchange agreements, in the United States, Japan and the People’s Republic of China. In addition, Mr. Calhoun advises on transnational asset tax planning. He is named in The Best Lawyers in America.
Mr. Calhoun has authored a number of publications, including the Bureau of National Affairs Tax Management Portfolio concerning business operations in Japan and law review articles concerning business operations in Korea, Eurodollar lending and software licensing.
He is a member of the American Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association, the Bar Association of San Francisco and the American Society of International Law. He is a lecturer on international business transactions at the University of California School of Law, Berkeley and has been an adjunct professor of banking law at the University of San Francisco School of Law and a visiting lecturer at the Beijing Institute of Foreign Trade.
Mr. Calhoun is a trustee of the Asia Foundation, a director emeritus of the Japan Society of Northern California and commissioner of the Asian Art Commission, San Francisco. He is also a director of the 1990 Institute.
He is admitted to practice in California, New York, the District of Columbia and Japan.
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Chairman and CEO, The Westlake Group
San Mateo, California
Will is the Co-Chairman of The Westlake Group (“TWG”), based in San Mateo, California, U.S.A. TWG is a US based holding company with operations in China, Japan and the United States. Its business interests span a wide spectrum of industries, including apparel, construction, manufacturing, mining, real estate and retail.
Will is also the Co-Chairman of the Tomorrow Holding Limited Company (“THL”), based in Beijing, China. THL is a China based holding company with controlling interests in eight publicly traded companies: six on the Shanghai Stock Exchange (600091,600191,600652,600328,600753,600291); one on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (2796); and one on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (0371). In addition, THL owns large stakes in Huaxia Bank, Fujian Xinye Bank, Baotou Commercial Bank, Harbin Commercial Bank, Datong Brokerage Firm, Zhejiang Province Security Leasing, and Beijing International Investment and Trust Company. THL is also one of the largest personal computer re-sellers, distributors of computer software, and system integrators in China.
Will has served as Commissioner of the San Francisco Port Commission and the Social Services Commission. He also serves as Trustee of The Asia Foundation, a director of California International Relations Foundation, and the Harvard University Asia Center. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Harvard University.
Mr. Chang sits on the board of many companies, including Abeona Networks Inc. (development of the next generation of intelligent back end web servers), Enfoweb Corporation (development of proprietary technology to broadcast Internet content), Homeland Networks, Inc. (audio and video streaming via Internet), WOW! Technologies Inc. (prepaid Internet card), AsiAlliance.com (H.K.) Ltd. (business to business e-commerce incubator based in Asia), Strategic Services Alliance, Inc. (controlled Internet access and billing software), and the netOrigin Group (business to business e-commerce incubator based in Silicon Valley).
He is also on the advisory team of CampusI, is a director of Windham Health, a director of China Ventures, a director of SpinAway and on the advisory board of Aldare Capital Partners.
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Retired Chairman and CEO BankAmerica Corporation
As a child in Hamilton, Illinois, Tom Clausen aspired to become a “transnational citizen.” He has achieved that goal, visiting 119 nations during his banking and public service career, and exercising his leadership skills to improve the lives of countless individuals around the world.
After graduating from Carthage in 1944, Mr. Clausen earned a law degree from the University of Minnesota.
He entered Bank of America’s executive training program in 1949, and in 1970 was elected president and chief executive officer of BankAmerica Corporation. He led the bank through dramatic growth from 1970 through 1981, then served during the Reagan administration as President of the World Bank. In 1986, he returned to BankAmerica as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, retiring in 1990.
Mr. Clausen is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program of the Harvard Business School and a recipient of the Harvard Business School Alumni Achievement Award, the Outstanding Achievement Award from the University of Minnesota, the Carthage Distinguished Alumnus Award, and the California Industrialist of the Year Award. He is the recipient of honorary degrees from Carthage, Gonzaga University, Lewis and Clark College, the University of Notre Dame, the University of the Pacific, and the University of Santa Clara. He has been awarded the prestigious University of California–San Francisco Medal and the Carthage Flame.Mr. Clausen has been a trustee or director of numerous educational, foreign policy, or economic organizations—including Carthage; the Walter A. Haas School of Business at the University of California–Berkeley; the University of California–San Francisco Foundation; the Asia Foundation; the Committee for Economic Development; Population Action International; and the International Center for Economic Growth.
Mr. Clausen is immediate past Chairman of the World Affairs Council of Northern California. He is a member of the Bretton Woods Committee and the Korea–U.S. Wiseman Council. He is advisor to the Japan Foundation’s Center for Global Partnership. He has received awards from the governments of Italy, Japan, Senegal, South Korea, Spain, and Venezuela.
Mr. Clausen resides in Hillsborough, California. He has grown sons, Eric and Mark.
http://www.carthage.edu/academics/clausen/index.html
He is also an honorary trustee of the Brookings Institute.
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Founder and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Intuit Incorporated
Palo Alto, California
Ranked #272 on Forbes Richest Americans 2001
“Net Worth: $950 mil
Intuit cofounder revolutionized bill payment, personal finance with Quicken software in 1983, took public 10 years later. Tried to sell to Microsoft for $1.5 billion, but feds nixed deal in 1994. Surviving all right on own: company now boasts 15 million customers use Quicken, claims 25% of tax returns prepared using Intuit software.”
Mr. Cook is the driving force behind Intuit's strategy to revolutionize people's financial lives. After watching his wife painstakingly pay bills by hand in 1983, Mr. Cook began moonlighting with Intuit co-founder Tom Proulx, then a Stanford student and computer programmer, to develop Quicken. Mr. Cook used the marketing techniques he had learned at Procter & Gamble to discover that consumers wanted personal finance software that was easy to use and intuitive. Combining Mr. Cook's research with Mr. Proulx's computer code, the fledgling company shipped its first version of Quicken in 1984.
Mr. Cook is also well known as one of the first to apply techniques from consumer product marketing to software. Among these were: usability testing and in-home testing of products; a "follow me home" program in which Intuit product developers observed consumers using Intuit software; product manuals written in plain English; and the first TV direct response advertising for a consumer software product.
Since the launch of Quicken, Mr. Cook has been instrumental in guiding Intuit into new businesses such as small business accounting software, tax preparation software for home PCs and Internet businesses, including Quicken.com.
Mr. Cook is currently the chairman of the Executive Committee of the board. Mr. Cook previously served as the chairman of the board from 1983 to 1998. From 1983 to 1994, he also served as Intuit's president and chief executive officer. Mr. Cook is active in the company on a full-time basis, providing vision, inspiration and strategic leadership to the company as it pursues new technologies and new businesses.
Before founding Intuit, Mr. Cook managed consulting assignments in banking and technology for Bain & Company, a corporate strategy consulting firm. Prior to Bain, he worked for Procter & Gamble, the household-products giant, in various marketing positions, including brand manager, for four years.
Mr. Cook holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Mathematics from the University of Southern California and a Masters in Business Administration from Harvard University.
Mr. Cook is director of Proctor & Gamble, a director of Amazon.com, a director of eBay, the Asia Foundation, the Intuit Scholarship Foundation and the board of visitors of the Harvard Business School Foundation. (source)
He is also a member of the World Economic Forum (Davos)
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Former U.S. Ambassador, Former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
Partner, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP
Washington, D.C.
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Dean, Elliott School of International Affairs
George Washington University Washington, D.C.
Harry Harding is Dean of the Elliott School of International Affairs, and Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University.
Dr. Harding is a specialist on Asian affairs with a particular interest in China. He is the author of A Fragile Relationship: The United States and China Since 1972 (1992), China and Northeast Asia: The Political Dimension (1988), China's Second Revolution: Reform After Mao (1987), and Organizing China: The Problem of Bureaucracy, 1949-1976 (1981). His edited volumes include: Sino-American Relations, 1945-1955: A Joint Reassessment fo a Critical Decade (1989), China's Foreign Relations in the 1980's (1984), and a forthcoming book on China's cooperative international behavior.
Dr. Harding joined the faculty of George Washington University in January, 1995. He had previously been a Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution (1983-94), an assistant and associate professor of political science at Stanford University (1971-83), and an instructor of political science at Swarthmore College (1970-71). He has also been a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution, directed the East Asia Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, and held visiting or adjunct professorships at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Washington, Georgetown University, and the George Washington University.
Dr. Harding received the Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching from Stanford University in 1975. His first book, Organizing China, was awarded the 1986 Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize, which honors outstanding books on subjects concerning the Pacific Rim. His most recent book, A Fragile Relationship, was named an "Outstanding Academic Book for 1992" by Choice magazine, and received the honorable mention award in the competition for the "Best Book in Government and Political Science" conducted by the Association of American Publishers.
He is the Chair of the Program for International Studies in Asia, a trustee of the Asia Foundation, a director of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, a director of the Atlantic Council, he also serves on the board of advisors to The National Bureau of Asian Research andis a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the International Institute of Strategic Studies, a fellow of the World Economic Forum, and a consultant to numerous multinational corporations.
He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Chairman, H&Q Asia Pacific
Palo Alto, California
Dr. Ta-lin Hsu is Chairman and Founder of H&Q Asia Pacific. Dr. Hsu joined Hambrecht & Quist Group in 1985 as a General Partner and founded H&Q Asia Pacific in 1987 before its independent incorporation in 1990.
Dr. Hsu received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from U.C. Berkeley following a M.S. degree in Electrophysics from Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn and a B.S. degree in Physics from National Taiwan University. Dr. Hsu was a staff scientist in the Materials Research Center of Allied Chemical for two years before joining IBM Research Laboratories in 1973. During his 12 years at IBM, Dr. Hsu was most recently Senior Manager in the Research Division with corporate responsibility for advanced research and development of mass storage systems and technology.
Dr. Hsu plays an active role in developing investment and technology relationships between the U.S. and Asia, including numerous advisory positions with governmental and industry organizations. Dr. Hsu was a founding member of the prestigious Technology Review Board, a group established to advise the Executive Yuan of Taiwan on all technology matters. Dr. Hsu is also a founder of the Monte Jade Science & Technology organization, the premier non-profit organization promoting technology exchange between Taiwan and the U.S., and a founder and first President of the Bay Area Chapter of the Chinese Institute of Engineers ("CIE"), the largest Chinese- American engineering society in the U.S.
Dr. Hsu speaks at a variety of investment and technology conferences throughout the U.S. and Asia and serves as a member of the board of directors for numerous technology companies. Dr. Hsu is also a Member of the Council on Foreign Relation and a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Asia Foundation. (source)
He is a director of Brience, a director of HelloAsia, is a senior advisor to Global Alliance, and serves on the Advisory Board of the Haas Business School at Berkley University.
He is also a director of the US-ASEAN Business Council
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Chairman and CEO, AmBex Venture Group, LLC
Founder and Chairman Emeritus of Diamond Multimedia Systems, Inc
Chong-Moon Lee founded Diamond Computer Systems, Inc. in 1982. By 1994, the company evolved into Diamond Multimedia Systems, Inc. The company achieved the No. 1 ranking in revenue and market share for PC graphics accelerator product in America (by IDC Computer Industry report, 1995). As the sole founder, it took 13 years of struggles to take the company to its Initial Public Offering. Diamond Multimedia was ranked 17th and 18th fastest growing privately held company in America for 1993 and 1994 on the Inc. business magazine’s 500 list, and as the 8th fastest growing company in Silicon Valley by the Business Journal of San Jose in 1993. Diamond Multimedia Systems, Inc. went through Initial Public Offering in April of 1995. Its revenue in 1995 was $468 million and $598 million in 1996. Lee served as both Chairman and CEO until the end of 1994. Today, Lee serves as the Chairman Emeritus and still remains as one of the three largest shareholders of the company. Now Lee has started another high technology venture company under the name of AmBex Venture Group, LLC. Lee’s new challenge is to develop the best technology in IT industry with the America’s best team, as the name AmBex indicates.
A native of Seoul, Korea and a naturalized U.S. citizen born on August 1, 1928, Lee has a diverse background involving not only business, but education, cultural exchange and athletics. Prior to founding Diamond, Lee served as an assistant librarian at National Central Library of Korea, as a university professor, as a board member of UNESCO Korean Chapter, Olympic Committee and President of the Cycling Federation of Korea. He established, in 1995, the Educational Technology Scholarship Program to bring Asian Educators to the International Conference on Technology and Education. Currently, Lee serves as a Commissioner and a Trustee of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. Lee is also a founding member and Board of Director of the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, California. In November of 1996, Lee accompanied President Clinton to the APEC Conference (Asian Pacific Economic Collaboration) in Manila as a member of the United States business delegation. Currently serving as Vice Chairman of the US-PECC (United States National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation Council), Lee took a pioneering role in organizing the inaugural US and Asia/Pacific Information Technology Summit as Chairman of the Organizing Committee. The event, held in San Francisco from November 19th through 21st of 1997, brought 650 top business and technology leaders along with government ministers from 18 Asia Pacific countries to define the opportunities and challenges inherent in "digital future" and technology-driven 21st Century. The IT Summit proliferated into an annual event with the 2nd summit which was held in November of 1998 in the heart of Silicon Valley. Electronic commerce was the main theme explored during the 2nd conference.
Lee also has been an active participant and a philanthropist in the local community. Lee donated 1 million dollars in 1993 and another 15 million dollars in 1995 to the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, the largest Asian art museum outside Asia. Los Angeles Times named him America’s 21st ranked philanthropist (December 25, 1996). He is actively involved in DARE Program in the Santa Clara County, while also serving as an honorary deputy sheriff for the County of Santa Clara, California. He is a Board member of the American Red Cross, Santa Clara. Lee continues to donate to various educational, cultural and community charities.
Lee is a Consulting Professor at the Asia Pacific Research Center of Stanford University in California. He holds and Honorary Doctorate of Economics and Public Service from John F. Kennedy University and an Honorary Doctorate of Engineering from the University of Seoul, as well as a MBA equivalent from Korea University in Seoul, Korea, a M.S. in Library Science form George Peabody College at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN., and a L.L.B. degree from the law school of Chung Ang University, Seoul. Lee has received accolades for outstanding leadership in the business and civic areas, including the Key to the City of San Francisco; the Cyril Business Leadership award by the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce; and Excellence 2000 award (as Asian- American man of the year 1995) by the Asian American Chamber of Commerce, Washington DC. Lee has twice named finalist, Inc. magazine’s Entrepreneur of the Year, Northern California region for 1993 and 1994. He is also a recognized leader in the Asian-American Community in the US.
Lee prides himself in not acting and speaking like a man of 70 years of age. To borrow from his quote, "there are 50 year old men and then there are 70 year young men", and he is a living example of the latter. (source)
He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a director of RichLink
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Director, Capital Research Management Co.
McKinley is senior vice president with Capital Research Management Company, her employer since 1982.
She also serves on the Board of Directors of Oxfam America.
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Ford Professor of Political Science Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Lucian W. Pye is one of the leading American Asianists of the twentieth century. During his career, Professor Pye has published 25 books and hundreds of articles and has done much to inform scholarly and public opinion about the complexities of Asia and American relations with the region. A leading authority on modern China, his research interests have also focussed on comparative political development, nation building, and political culture across Asia. He was born in China, educated at Carleton College and Yale University, and served in the U.S. Marine Corps. As M.I.T. Ford Professor of Political Science Emeritus, he has also taught at Princeton, Yale, Washington University, the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Columbia, and was a Visiting Distinguished Professor at the Elliott School of International Affairs of George Washington University in 1993. He has received numerous professional awards and fellowships, has been a member of a number of private and public institutions, and served as President of the American Political Science Association in 1988-89. (source)
He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Media
Consultant
Ms. Rennie is currently executive producer for CBS News Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood, and has held a variety of senior level positions with the network in her more than 15 years there.
From 1992 to 1997, Ms. Rennie also served as executive producer of CBS Weekend News. She has also served as executive producer for CBS' coverage of special events ranging from the Persian Gulf War to the 1990 U.S. elections. Prior to her current position Ms.Rennie was National Editor for CBS News for five years and from 1982 to 1987 she was a senior broadcast producer for CBS Morning News. During her career, she has earned eight Emmy awards and in 1997 was awarded a Peabody award.
Ms. Rennie was a Henry Luce Fellow in 1975-76, serving as a journalist at the National Media Production Center in the Philippines. She is currently a member of the Selection Panel for the Luce Scholars program. She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Foreign Policy Association, and serves on the Board of Trustees of the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. Ms. Rennie is a graduate of Vassar College and currently serves on the Board of Trustees for the school.
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Managing Director, Kissinger Associates, Former U.S. Ambassador
Ambassador Roy graduated from Princeton University (B.A., 1956). He was born June 16, 1935, in Nanjing, China.
He is one of only 38 foreign-service officers to have achieved the rank of "career ambassador". In 1991, Roy was nominated to the position of US Ambassador to China, a position which he served until 1995. He then served as US Ambassador to Indonesia until late 1999. From November 1999 to January 13th 2001 he served as Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research, resigning early in protest over his collegue’s dismissal over a lost laptop. In early 2000 he outlined to congress what he saw as emerging threats to America.
From 1989 to 1991 Ambassador Roy served as Special Assistant to the Secretary and Executive Secretary of the Department of State in Washington, DC. Prior to this Ambassador Roy served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs at the Department of State, 1986 - 1989; as U.S. Ambassador to Singapore, 1984 - 1986; as Deputy Chief of the U.S. Mission in Bangkok, Thailand, 1981 - 1984; as deputy chief of the U.S. mission in Beijing, China, 1979 - 1981; and as Deputy Chief of the U.S. liaison office in Beijing, China, 1978 - 1979. In addition, Ambassador Roy has served as Deputy Director of the Office of People's Republic of China and Mongolian Affairs at the Department of State, 1975 - 1978; studied at the National War College in Washington, DC, 1974 - 1975; and served as a Deputy Director and international relations officer in the Office of Soviet Union Affairs at the Department of State, 1972 - 1974. Ambassador Roy served at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow as a political officer, 1979 - 1972; as an administrative officer, 1978 - 1979; and as an international relations officer in the Office of European and Canadian Affairs and the Office of Soviet Affairs at the Department of State, 1965 - 1968. Ambassador Roy has also served in several U.S. Embassies and consulates, including: political officer in Taipei, 1962 - 1964; consular officer in Hong Kong, 1962; and political officer in Bangkok, 1959 - 1961. He served as an intelligence analyst at the State Department, 1957 - 1958. Ambassador Roy entered the Foreign Service in 1956.
J. Stapleton Roy has been managing director of Kissinger Associates, Inc. since January 2001. Before that, he served as U.S. Ambassador to Singapore, Indonesia and the People's Republic of China. He is a director of Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold, Inc (a Kissinger Associates client & on whose board Kissinger also sits) and a director of Phillips Petroleum. The merger of Phillips with Conoco to create ConocoPhillips was created on August 30th 2002 and it will begin trading on Sept. 3rd. As Roy was only made director of Phillips in August 2001 I would assume that he has been kept with the new company.
He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Executive Board Member – US-China Policy Foundation
Chairman - Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, John Hopkins University
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CEO Accel KKR Telecom
Palo Alto, California
Arun is a Board member of Accel-KKR as well as CEO and a Director of Accel-KKR Telecom. Prior to Accel-KKR, Arun was the CEO of InfoSpace, an online application and information services provider.
Prior to InfoSpace, Arun was CEO of U.S. and Asian businesses at Vodafone. Prior to Vodafone's acquisition of AirTouch Communications, Arun was President and CEO of AirTouch's international businesses for three years. Prior to AirTouch, Arun was Vice President of Strategy and subsequently ran the San Francisco Bay Area wireline business of Pacific Bell. Arun began his telecommunications career at Pacific Telesis, a predecessor to AirTouch Communications, in 1984, working on cellular business acquisitions.
Arun also serves as a director of Vodafone, a director of Cisco, director of Gap Inc., a director of Charles Schwab Corp, an advisor to UniMobile, as well as several non-profit and educational organizations, amongst these, he is a director of the Asian-Pacific Fund and a trustee of the Asia Foundation
Arun holds an M.S. in Engineering and an M.B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley.
He also serves on the Advisory Board of the Haas Business School at Berkley University.
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Robson Research Professor of Government Emeritus, Institute of East Asian Studies
University of California at Berkeley
Robert A Scalapino was born in Leavenworth, Kansas. He received his B.A. degree from Santa Barbara College and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University. From 1949 to 1990 he taught in the Political Science Department at the University of California at Berkeley. He was department chairman from 1962 to 1965 and Robson Research Professor of Government from 1977 until 1990. In 1978 he founded the Institute of East Asian Studies and remained its director until his retirement in 1990. He is currently Robson Research Professor of Government Emeritus.
Professor Scalapino has been the recipient of a number of research grants under such auspices as the Guggenheim Foundation, Social Science Research Council, National Endowment for the Humanities, the Henry Luce Foundation, the Earhart Foundation, and numerous others. He has been awarded the Medal of Highest Honor from the Graduate Institute of Peace Studies, Kyung Hee University; the Order of Diplomatic Service Merit, Heung-In Medal from the Government of Korea; and the Order of the Sacred Treasure by the government of Japan. In 1990, he received the Berkeley Citation for Distinguished Service to the University of California. In 1997, he was conferred the title of Honorary Professor of both the Center on Northeast Asian Studies in Mongolia and Peking University in Beijing. Most recently, he was the recipient of the 1998 Japan Foundation Award.
He has published some 500 articles and 38 books or monographs on Asian politics and U.S. Asian policy. These include Parties and Politics in Contemporary Japan (1962), The Japanese Communist Movement, 1920-1966 (1967), Communism in Korea (two volumes, with Chong-Sik Lee, 1972, for which they received the American Political Science Associations' 1974 Woodrow Wilson Award), Asia and the Road Ahead (1975), The Foreign Policy of Modern Japan (editor and contributor, 1977), The United States and Korea--Looking Ahead (1979), The Early Japanese Labor Movement (1984), Modern China and Its Revolutionary Process (with George T. Yu, 1985), Major Power Relations in Northeast Asia (1987), The Politics of Development: Perspectives on Twentieth-Century Asia (1989), The Last Leninists: The Uncertain Future of Asia's Communist States (1992). He was editor of Asian Survey, a scholarly publication, from 1962 to January, 1996.
Travelling extensively in Asia, he has made 36 trips to the People's Republic of China, including service as a visiting lecturer at Peking University in 1981 and again in the spring of 1985. He had two separate one-year residences in Japan and numerous visits to Korea, Taiwan and Southeast Asia. He has visited the former Soviet Union on 19 occasions, most recently in November 1998. In 1989, 1991, 1992 and 1995, he was in North Korea for one week on each occasion. On the 2nd and 3rd trips, he was head of an American Mission on Korea sponsored by the Asia Society. He has also travelled to the Republic of Mongolia on 6 occasions, heading the Asia Society's Northeast Asia Study Mission in the fall of 1985; in the fall of 1990 as head of the American delegation to the Second Mongolian International Conference, in the summer of 1992 and most recently in June of 1998.
Professor Scalapino is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was made a Berkeley Fellow in 1993. He serves on the Board of Directors of Pacific Forum-CSIS. He was a founder and first chairman of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of The Asia Foundation and was recently named Director Emeritus of the Japan Society of Northern California, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. He is Co-Chairman of the Asia Society's Asian Agenda Advisory Group. He is also a director of the Atlantic Council, serves on the board of advisors of the National Bureau of Asian Research, and numerous other editorial boards and committees for educational and governmental agencies. (source)
His faculty website contains much more information about his research.
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Chairperson, Union Square Investment Company
San Francisco, California
Leslie Tang Schilling, founder and president, LTDD, Inc. and Golden Bay Investments, Inc.
Ms. Schilling received the BA in both economics and political science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1976. In 1979, she received a master's degree in international management from the American Graduate School of International Management in Glendale, AZ.
She worked from 1976-78 at Wells Fargo Bank and from 1979-81 at The Chartered Bank of London, both located in San Francisco. Since 1981, she has served as president of LTDD, Inc. and Golden Bay Investments, Inc., managing and investing a portfolio in real estate, bonds, currency hedges, Asian stocks, US equities, venture capital and small businesses.
Among her many civic and professional commitments, she is a trustee of the University of California at San Francisco Foundation and the San Francisco Zoological Society, and a past president of the Asian Business League of San Francisco. She has been a member of the MIT Corporation Development Committee since 1996. She is also a director of Golden West Financial Corporation.
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Chairman, ChinaVest, Inc.
San Francisco, California
Mr. Theleen co-founded ChinaVest in 1983. He began his career in 1973 with the First National Bank in Dallas. After serving as General Manager of the Singapore Branch, he organized in 1977 the bank's Hong Kong merchant banking subsidiary, First Dallas Asia Limited. In 1980, Mr. Theleen established the Dallas Pacific Group (predecessor to ChinaVest) to provide corporate finance advisory and investment services in East Asia to clients from the US and Europe, with a focus on China. Under his direction, ChinaVest's first private equity fund was launched in 1983.
Mr. Theleen was educated at Duquesne University and John Hopkins University and later received an MBA from the American School of International Management.
Mr. Theleen serves on several corporate boards. He is a director of Zindart, NewTone Communications, Virgin Asia Management. Mr. Theleen is also active in the wider community: he sits on the Board of Trustees of the Asia Foundation; is a contributing member of the Task Force on America's Role in Asia, a Brookings Institute sponsored group to investigate and propose US policy in Asia for the Bush Administration; and is active with the Young Presidents Organization and the Hopkins- Nanjing Center
He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations..
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Chairman, Wilbur-Ellis Company
San Francisco, California
Can find nothing on him – only this on the company:
“Helpful hint: Don't stand downwind of the Wilbur-Ellis Company. A distributor for
major chemical companies, Wilbur-Ellis sells animal feed, fertilizer,
insecticides, seed, and machinery through outlets in North America. Subsidiary
Connell Brothers exports and distributes chemicals and feed throughout the
Pacific Rim. Additionally, Wilbur-Ellis provides consulting, pesticide spraying,
and other agriculture- related services. It also owns Knox McDaniels, a supplier
of vitamin and mineral premix products in the western US. Brayton Wilbur Sr. and
Floyd Ellis founded the company in 1921 as a fish-oil supplier; it is still
owned by the Wilbur family.” (source)
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Special Advisor, Lombard Investments
San Francisco, California
She is the former U.S. Executive Director at the Asian Development Bank and currently special advisor at Lombard Investments and acting chairman of Chairman, Asian Corporate Governance Association. She is also serving as a director of the Pacific Pension Institute. She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She is also serving on the advisory board for the RAND Centre for Asian Pacific Policy.
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Marshall B. Coyne Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy and Director,
Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
Casimir A. Yost is Director of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University, a position he assumed in March 1994. Prior to joining the Institute, Mr. Yost was Executive Director of the Asia Foundation's Center for Asian Pacific Affairs (CAPA). He has served as President of the World Affairs Council of Northern California and as a member of the professional staff of the Committee on Foreign Relations of the United States Senate. Mr. Yost has also worked for Citibank of New York in the Middle East and South Asia.
Mr. Yost is a graduate of Hamilton College with a B.A. in History and a Master of Science in Foreign Service degree from Georgetown University. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, New York; the Bretton Woods Committee, Washington, D.C. and the National Committee on United States-China Relations, New York. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Asia Foundation, San Francisco and the Policy Council of the Una Chapman Cox Foundation.
Mr. Yost teaches two graduate seminars:
Great Power Relations: United States and China; and
U.S. National Interests After the Cold War.
He has written opinion pieces for the Washington Post, the International Herald Truibune, and the San Francisco Chronicle.
University Professor and NEC
Distinguished Professor of Engineering,
University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California
Dr. Chang-Lin Tien is University Professor Emeritus for the University of California system, and NEC Distinguished Professor of Engineering at its Berkeley campus. A faculty member at the University for over 40 years, he served for seven years as UC Berkeley's seventh Chancellor-the first Asian American to head a major research university in the United States. Concurrent with his Chancellorship, he was also A. Martin Berlin Chair Professor in Mechanical Engineering.
Dr. Tien joined the mechanical engineering faculty at Berkeley in 1959, and rising through the ranks, he became a full professor, later chairman of the department, and for two years (1983-85) was Berkeley's Vice Chancellor--Research. He left Berkeley in 1988 and served for two years as Executive Vice Chancellor and UCI Distinguished Professor at U.C. Irvine before returning to Berkeley.
Besides his numerous public service contributions, Dr. Tien has achieved a remarkably distinguished record as a scientist and educator. Internationally recognized for his research in heat transfer technology, he has received many honors, including the Max Jakob Memorial Award (1981), the highest international honor in his field. He has been a member of the National Academy of Engineering since 1976 and was elected in 1991 as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. A recipient of several teaching awards, Dr. Tien in 1962 became the youngest professor (at age 26) ever to win U.C. Berkeley's prestigious Distinguished Teaching Award. In 1999, the International Astronomical Union approved the naming of the asteroid (International Series 3643, a minor planet) as Tien Chang-Lin Star. He has been honored as a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, as Honorary Member of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, and as recipient of the 2001 Founder's Award from the National Academy of Engineering.
Anchored in both American and Asian cultures, Dr. Tien is deeply committed to maintaining educational excellence and diversity for all groups, especially those underprivileged. He has been active in many community relations activities and educational reform programs including those in primary and secondary schools. In engagements that frequently span the globe, he has vigorously pursued the goals of enhancing communications between East and West and promoting the American values of democracy and freedom across the world. He has been an active member of the Pacific Council on International Policy, the Council on Foreign Relations (where he is still a member), the U.S. Committee for Economic Development, and many others. Indicative of the scope of his leadership in both domestic and international arenas were his appointments as Chairman of the Asia Foundation, Chairman of the San Francisco Bay Area Economic Forum, and Chairman of the Chief Executive's Commission on Innovation and Technology in Hong Kong (ended in July, 1999). In 1999 Dr. Tien was appointed as a member of the U.S. National Science Board and the U.S. National Commission on Mathematics and Science Teaching for the 21st Century. He has also served as co-chair of the National Commission on Asia in the Schools.
Dr. Tien was born in Wuhan, China, July 24, 1935, and was educated in Shanghai and Taiwan. Completing his undergraduate education at the National Taiwan University, he came to the U.S. in 1956, earned a master's degree at the University of Louisville in 1957, and then earned an M.A. and a Ph.D. degree at Princeton University in 1959 (the same year that he joined the Berkeley faculty). A recipient of many honorary doctoral degrees from universities in the U.S. and abroad, he has also served on the boards of Wells Fargo Bank, Kaiser Permanente, and Shanghai Commercial Bank (Hong Kong), as well as a senior advisor to many high- tech venture funds and companies. In his professional work involved mostly in energy, environment, and high-tech areas, Dr. Tien has authored one book, edited seventeen volumes, and published more than 300 research journal and monograph articles; he has been an editor of three international journals; and he has guided more than 60 students to the doctorate.
Dr. Tien and his wife of 42 years, Di-Hwa Tien, are both naturalized U.S. citizens. They have three grown children: Norman (Ph.D.), Phyllis (M.D.), and Christine (J.D.), and four grandchildren. (source)
A recipient of many honorary doctoral degrees from universities in the United States and abroad, he currently serves on the boards of many major corporations, including Wells Fargo Bank, director of Shanghai Commercial Bank, Raychem Corporation, AirTouch Communications, and Kaiser Permanente. He also served as a director of Chevron until 2000 (they have even named a tanker after him)
He is currently also chairman of the Advisory Team to SpringBoard Harper Investment Pte Ltd, Chairman Emiratis of the Asia Foundation.
Retired Chairman, NCR Corporation
He has been Chair of the National Foreign Trade Council, Chairman of the Smithsonian National Board, and Governor of the Asian Institute of Management.
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Former U.S. Ambassador
Sonoma, California
Article from 1994: “US Interests & Afghanistan”
Mr. Eliot retired from the United States Department of State in 1978, after a 30-year career in which he held senior posts in Washington and was Ambassador to Afghanistan under Presidents Nixon, Ford, and Carter. He was Dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy from 1978 to 1985 and a Director of Raytheon Co. from 1983 to 1998. He is currently a director of Fiberstars, Inc, a director of Neurobiological Tech and affiliated with several non-profit organizations, including trustee emeritus of The Asia Foundation. Mr. Eliot holds B.A. and M.P.A. degrees from Harvard University, graduating in 56.
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Senior Vice President, Investments, Salomon Smith Barney
New York, New York
Although I can find nothing on him, I do have a small factsheet on Salomon Smith Barney – I made this because of the companies suspicious links with both 7 World Trade Center (of which they were a major tenant) and the Worldcom scandal.
He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Attorney, Shearman & Sterling
New York, New York
Again, I can get almost nothing on him. This brief extract is taken from a bio at the bottom of a 1997 CFR report, “Promoting U.S Economic Relations With Africa.”
“Robert H. Knight is Of Counsel to Shearmen and Sterling, of which he is former Senior Partner. He was Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, General Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, and General Counsel of the U.S. Treasury Department.”
Unusually for a law firm, he is not given any form of profile. Indeed, the only `clue’ that Shearman & Sterling give us is that he is an expert in `Anti-trust’.
He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the advisory council to IESC (International Executive Service Corps) and a trustee of CIC International Partners.
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Former Chairman of the Board, Retired President and CEO, BankAmerica Corporation
San Francisco, California
Rudolph Peterson, BS 25, joined the banking industry when
consumer financing was a pioneering idea. He worked at Commercial Credit
Corporation, the first bank to offer automobile financing for dealer inventories
and consumer purchases, before Bank of America hired him in 1936 to start their
consumer credit business. The great success of consumer financing launched the
career of Peterson, who was named CEO and president of BankAmerica Corporation
in 1961. A loyal alumnus, Peterson was Cal’s 1967 Alumnus of the Year and
received the Chancellor’s Award in 1991. His 1997 gift endowed the school’s
Peterson Program in Business Ethics. (source)
He is a trustee of the Committee for Economic Development and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He was an alumni of Delta Sigma Pi fraternity and is a life trustee of the California Institute of Technology
“Forty-two years ago Bank of Hawaii was a stodgy operation
that waited for customers to bring in their money so the bank could lend it out
and make a profit. On the diagonally opposite corner at Bishop and King Streets
in the center of Honolulu its rival, Bishop National Bank, was much the
same.
Then at the end of 1955 disgruntled Bank of Hawaii directors
brought in a young, aggressive financial services man, Rudolph A. Peterson, from
the West Coast to shake things up.
Peterson began scouring for customers instead of waiting for
them to come. He began the expansion of services that culminated in last week's
name change. He also started a 39-year-long dynasty of officers with similar
philosophies. Johnson is the first CEO not from the Peterson dynasty but this
month got a letter from Peterson, now 92, and retired as Bank of America CEO,
applauding his course.
The Peterson gang plus Johnson have grown the company's assets to $14 billion compared to $8 billion for its rival, First Hawaiian, formerly Bishop, which was No. 1 in 1955. Diversification and good management made the difference, Johnson says” Honolulu Star, April 29, 1997 (this would make Rudolph now 97(!).
Indeed, in 1970 he wrote: “When I speak of the Pacific Rim, I am putting the broadest possible construction on the term–the western coasts of South America, Central America, our own continent, and extending beyond Australia and the Far East to India. There is no more vast or rich area for resource development or trade in the world today than this immense region, and it is virtually our own front yard…Were we California businessmen to play a more dynamic role in helping trade development in the Pacific Rim, we would have giant, hungry new markets for our products and vast new profit potentials for our firms.” (source)
Nixon wrote this his 1970 “The United States Foreign Policy for the 1970's Building for Peace”:
“Therefore, in 1969-after developing the principles of our overall foreign policy-I appointed a distinguished task force of experts from the business and academic communities, chaired by Mr. Rudolph Peterson, to make comprehensive and detailed recommendations on our foreign assistance programs. On the basis of their work and our subsequent analysis in the National Security Council system, I proposed a sweeping change in our foreign assistance policy in a message to Congress on September 15, 1970. “ (Chapter 11, p.3)
He gave a couple of press briefings in 1971.
We also see him turning up in these Nixon recording of August 6th, 1971, October 19th, 1971,
From 1971-1982 he was a director of the James Irvine Foundation.
From 1st January 1972 to15th January
1976, Rudolph Peterson headed the United Nations
Development Programme.
“An aging Paul Hoffman finally retired in 1971. Rudolph
Peterson, the recently retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Bank
of America, then the world's largest commercial bank, was the United States'
choice to head UNDP. Peterson had a reputation for "no-nonsense" toughness
and ruthlessness-qualities which had brought him to the top at the bank that he
had built into the world's largest.* He did not mask his disdain for the
backward ways of the UN nor his preconceived notions of how UNDP should be run.
Soon after his arrival, he noted that he had special experience, knowledge and
advisers on two important areas -personnel and finance- which he would apply to
UNDP. He left no doubt that there would be major changes.
Peterson, however, immediately encountered a sticky problem:
Owen had left UNDP, and there was no Deputy Administrator. C.V. Narasimhan, who
was U Thant's Chef de Cabinet and the second most powerful man in the UN
Secretariat, decided to double up as Deputy Administrator, probably to test the
waters for a possible shift to UNDP, since Thant had announced that he would
step down as Secretary-General. After an uncomfortable period, Narasimhan left
UNDP. (Ironically, Peterson himself was a part-time Administrator, retaining his
residence in San Francisco, where he continued as Chairman of the Executive
Committee of his bank.) Peterson arranged for Cohen to be appointed Deputy
Administrator, at the Under-Secretary- General level, to the consternation of
governments and the diplomatic community-since they were both US nationals, this
arrangement ran counter to the principle of geographic balance in staffing.
Cohen, however, soon retired and was given an evening farewell party in the UN
Delegates Dining Room, with the new Secretary-General, Kurt Waldheim, in
attendance.
Peterson, who had announced that he needed two deputies,
pressed for and obtained Governing Council approval. He recruited I.G. Patel of
India and Bert Lindstrom of Sweden for what he must have conceived as the
equivalent of executive vice-president posts at commercial banks. It was
probably a mistake for Peterson not to give his deputies any specific divisions
clearly reporting to them. This might work in commercial banking, but not in a
bureaucracy, where staff customarily work with clear lines of authority and neat
administrative compartments. Patel managed very well. He was a highly capable
economist, planner, economic diplomat and seasoned public servant, having been
Economic Adviser to the Planning Commission and Permanent Secretary of the
Finance Ministry of India. (He later went on to become Governor of the Reserve
Bank of India and Director of the London School of Economics.) Lindstrom, who
was from the private sector, never seemed to find his sea-legs.
The Peterson years saw the further development of country
programming, which had started during the late Hoffman years. Under Patel's
leadership, a set of "New Dimensions" was adopted. They did not sound as earth
shaking as the Capacity Study, but they introduced a new modality of government
(now "national") execution of projects. This detracted from the monopoly
hitherto enjoyed by the Agencies and gave recipient governments a greater sense
of ownership of the projects. That UNDP was able to carry it off despite the
Agencies is a tribute to Patel's diplomatic skills.
Another accomplishment of the Peterson administration was the
establishment of an "Office of Project Execution" (OPE). Peterson wanted,
rightly, to speed up project implementation. The problem was that this function
was a monopoly of the specialized agencies, which, true to monopolistic form,
were slow, inefficient, and often arrogant and uncooperative. A small in-house
executing agency was therefore established. It would implement projects rapidly,
with a minimum of red tape and through the extensive use of subcontracting to
private firms. Because of OPE's convenience, speed, and efficiency the project
officers of UNDP arranged increasingly to assign projects to OPE for
implementation. Renamed "Office of Project Services" (UNOPS), it has grown into
UNDP's largest executing agency and has also been given contracts by bilateral
assistance agencies, the World Bank, and other agencies of the UN
system.
Peterson tried unsuccessfully to introduce other organizational changes, including the splitting of the Africa Bureau in two and others intended to reduce the power base of the regional bureau heads. He also introduced private sector personnel administration methods and quickly accepted recommendations for "overprogramming" to compensate for slippage in the delivery of assistance, which proved disastrous. Partly because of communication failures, and a lack of understanding of public sector finance and personnel, Peterson failed in precisely those two areas in which he had claimed expertise: personnel and finance. After campaigning hard but unsuccessfully for a renewal of his term-he had learned to like his job- Peterson had an inglorious exit in January 1976: the UNDP Staff Council was up in arms, and UNDP was in a financial crisis.”
*On a flight from Honolulu to Fiji, shortly after Peterson's appointment, the author was seated next to a California lady journalist who told him: "So, your boss is Rudolph Peterson! Some time ago, there was a problem at the Honolulu branch of the Bank of America. A young, up-and-coming officer at the bank's headquarters in San Francisco, named Rudolph Peterson, was sent to look into the matter. And there's still blood in the streets!"
(source) (emphasis mine)
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Former Chairman of the Board, The Shorenstein Company
San Francisco, California
Ranked #280 on Forbes Rich list 2001
Net Worth: $900 mil
Walter Shorenstein began work in commercial real estate with
the brokerage firm Milton Meyer & Company in 1946 after being discharged in
San Francisco from military service as a young Major. In 1951, he was made a
partner in the firm, and in 1953 he was named a "Leader of Tomorrow" by Time
Magazine. By 1960, Mr. Shorenstein had become President and sole owner of the
renamed Shorenstein Company, and began
dramatically expanding its real estate development and management activities.
Under his leadership, Shorenstein Company became the largest owner and operator
of Class A office buildings in San Francisco, and forged lasting relationships
with major institutional partners such as IBM, Bechtel, MetLife and Bank of
America.
In recognition of his accomplishments, Mr. Shorenstein was
inducted into the University of Southern California's Real Estate Hall of Fame
in 1997, and the Bay Area Council's Business Hall of Fame in 1998. Mr.
Shorenstein has also served as a guest lecturer on real estate to graduate
programs at Stanford University, the University of California at Berkeley,
Wharton School of Business, Brigham Young University, and other institutions.
Outside the world of business, Mr. Shorenstein has repeatedly
demonstrated his interest in building a better community and nation through his
extensive philanthropic and political activities. He is a steadfast supporter of
the Democratic Party. He received the Democratic National Committee's Lifetime
Achievement Award in 1997. In 1995, he chaired the United Nations 50th
Anniversary Charter Commemorative Celebration in San Francisco.
In memory of his daughter Joan, he and his late wife Phyllis founded the Joan Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He also sponsors the Shorenstein Initiative at Stanford University's Asia/Pacific Research Center with the Walter H. Shorenstein Forum for Asia-Pacific Studies as well as programs at UC Berkeley's Institute of East Asian Studies. In addition, the Shorenstein family is one of the nation's leading supporters of the United Way.
He is a large donor to the Democrat Party and has been an associate of Presidents Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter and Lyndon Johnson
Bangladesh
Karen Casper
Representative
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Cambodia
Jon Summers
Representative
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Nancy Hopkins
Assistant Representative
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China*
Allen C. Choate
Director of Program Development
**
Zhang Ye
Director of China Programs
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Indonesia
Douglas E. Ramage
Representative
**
Nilan Fernando
Assistant Representative
**
Japan
Andrew Horvat
Representative
**
Korea
Scott Snyder
Representative
**
Brunei*, East Timor, Malaysia*, Singapore*
Douglas E. Ramage
Representative
**
Mongolia
Steve Noerper
Representative
**
Nepal
Nick Langton
Representative
**
George Varughese
Assistant Representative
**
Pacific Island Nations*
Steven Rood
Representative
**
Pakistan
Julio A. Andrews
Representative
**
Greg Alling
Assistant Representative
**
Philippines
Steven Rood
Representative
**
Sri Lanka, Maldives*
Mark R. McKenna
Representative
**
Dinesha deSilva Wikramanayake
Assistant Representative
**
Taiwan
Allen C. Choate
Director of Programs
**
Taymin Liu
Director of AFIT
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Thailand, Laos*
James R. Klein
Representative
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Vietnam
Jonathan Stromseth
Representative
(note: * Non-resident
country programs)
(Source: http://www.asiafoundation.org/about/abou_lead.html )