Current Affairs

Melissa Guzy – Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Arbor Ventures – joined Asia Society Switzerland on October 15 and introduced the Asian FinTech scene to an interested audience. In this interview, she gives her personal view on changing working environments in Asia, how the FinTech scene changes the whole financial sector, and why women in leading positions are better represented in Asia than in the U.S. and Europe.

Asia Society celebrates the official opening of its Tokyo-based Japan Center with a reception and timely discussions.

Asia Society Texas Center presented its annual Roy M. Huffington Award to Dr. Marie and Mr. Vijay Goradia at The Houstonian on October 23, 2018.

ASPI VP Danny Russel on the Trans-Pacific Partnership; Internet freedom; China’s “illiberal turn”; espionage and intellectual property theft; the AIIB; and the current state of the U.S.-China relationship.

Asia Society Philippines joined in the movement of raising awareness for mental health by developing an Asia Society Conversations program around it, named “Why Can’t We Talk About It?”

On October 1, 2018, Kevin Rudd and Shyam Saran discussed the the current state of India-US-China relations and what the future holds for these nations.

Ken Wilcox, Asia Society Northern California Chair, and Chair Emeritus at Silicon Valley Bank, spoke to a majority Chinese audience on October 6th on the state of US-China Relations

Wendy Cutler writes that Tokyo will worry about U.S. right to veto pacts with nonmarket economies, such as China