Xyza Cruz Bacani
Xyza Cruz Bacani is a Filipina author and photographer based in New York and Hong Kong who uses her work to raise awareness about under-reported stories. Having worked as a second-generation domestic worker in Hong Kong for almost a decade, she is particularly interested in the intersections of migration, climate change and human rights. She is one of the Magnum Foundation Photography and Social Justice Fellows in 2015, has exhibited worldwide, and won awards in photography.
Olivia Waller
Olivia Waller is a freelance illustrator and printmaker based in Brighton, U.K. She combines elements of collage, drawing and printmaking within her work to depict scenes of domestic melodrama, striking characters, and celebrations of women.
Htein Lin
Htein Lin is a Burmese artist and writer who has also been a comedian and actor. His ongoing work includes a number of series such as "Recycled," "A Show of Hands," "A Show of Wheels," "Signs of the Times," and "Skirting the Issue." These use local materials and found objects to portray current Myanmar political and social themes. Htein Lin is represented in Yangon by River Gallery. A selection of his works is included in the Artists Pension Trust collection. Two of Htein Lin's paintings were purchased for the U.S. Embassy in Yangon, opened in 2007.
Ravi Agrawal
Ravi Agrawal is Managing Editor of Foreign Policy magazine. Previously, he served as CNN International's New Delhi bureau chief, and before that worked as the senior producer of CNN's flagship program on world affairs, Fareed Zakaria GPS. He began his CNN career in London in 2006 after earning a bachelor's degree at Harvard University, where he worked on The Harvard Crimson. In 2013, the World Economic Forum named him a Young Global Shaper, and in 2016, Asia Society named him an Asia 21 Young Leader.
Anna Fifield
Anna Fifield is the Beijing Bureau Chief of The Washington Post and a member of Asia Society's Asia 21 Young Leaders initiative. She is the author of The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un. Previously, she was the Post's bureau chief in Tokyo, covering Japan and the two Koreas, and was Seoul correspondent for The Financial Times.
Daniel Russel
Daniel Russel is vice president of international security and diplomacy at the Asia Society Policy Institute. Formerly a career member of the Senior Foreign Service at the U.S. Department of State, his most recent government position was serving as Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. During his 33-year diplomatic career, he received numerous awards, most recently the 2017 Presidential Rank Award. Russel was educated at Sarah Lawrence College and University College London.
Kai-Fu Lee
Kai-Fu Lee is chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures and president of Sinovation Ventures' Artificial Intelligence Institute. Previously, Lee was vice president of Google and President of Google China. He has also held executive positions at Microsoft, SGI, and Apple. Lee received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University. He was the Vice Chairman of the Committee of 100, an elite group of Chinese Americans, and he was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time in 2013.
Ryan Inzana
Ryan Inzana is an illustrator and comic artist whose work has appeared in numerous magazines, ad campaigns, books, and various other media all over the world. His comics have been inducted into the Library of Congress' permanent collection of art and have earned an Eisner nomination as well as an Asian American/Pacific Islander Honor Award for YA Literature. Ryan's graphic novel Ichiro has just been released in a new edition from Etch/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Hana Hayashi
Dr. Hana Hayashi is a public health strategist and behavioral scientist based in Tokyo whose mission is to create a healthier society so that people can better enjoy and maximize their lives. She has led global health promotion and consulting projects, in both developed and developing countries at McCann Health, and as Asia-Pacific Director at McCann Public Health. She actively researches and teaches at multiple academic institutions, such as Tokyo Medical and Dental University, the University of Tokyo, and the Society and Health Lab at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.