[PATRONS-ONLY EVENT] Women's Empowerment Fireside Chat with Citi Asian Heritage Network

In celebration of AAPI Heritage Month, please join us for an exciting fireside chat on Tuesday, May 31 at 4:00 pm ET. The event, in collaboration with Citi, will feature Ida Liu, Global Head, Citi Private Bank, Vicky Tsai, Founder, Tatcha, and Lulu Wang, CEO & Founder, Tupelo Capital Management and Asia Society Vice-Chair of Global Board of Trustees.

The conversation, moderated by The Honorable Kevin Rudd AC, President & CEO, Asia Society and President, Asia Society Policy Institute, will explore and celebrate the strong impact of our AAPI colleagues and partners across various industries and sectors around the world.

To RSVP, please contact Adam Tusin at atusin@asiasociety.org. The event will be live-streamed and available to patrons. 

Speakers 

The Hon. Kevin Rudd AC is President and CEO of the Asia Society, and inaugural President of the Asia Society Policy Institute. He served as 26th Prime Minister of Australia (2007 to 2010, 2013) and as Foreign Minister (2010 to 2012).

He is Chair of the Board of the International Peace Institute in New York, and Chair of Sanitation and Water for All – a global partnership of government and non-governmental organizations dedicated to the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 6. He is a Distinguished Fellow at Chatham House and the Paulson Institute, and a Distinguished Statesman with the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is also a member of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization’s Group of Eminent Persons.

Ida Liu is the Global Head of Citi Private Bank and a member of the Global Wealth Management Leadership team. Ida leads the Private Banking activities in 50 offices across 18 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. 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.

In 2008, Vicky Tsai encountered centuries-old beauty rituals in Kyoto and a philosophy of care and harmony that forever altered her life. The acute dermatitis that had plagued her for years healed, and so did she. Profoundly changed by the experience, she devoted herself to understanding these small miracles and sharing them with others.

Following Tatcha’s founding in 2009, she convened leading skincare scientists and cultural researchers from Japan to create the Tatcha Institute in Tokyo—the company’s R&D heart where innovation works in harmony with tradition. Creating rituals of beauty for modern life, she innovates within tradition to help people reconnect with themselves from skin to soul.

Her work at Tatcha earned her recognition on Inc Magazine’s 100 Top Female Founders List (2021), WWD Beauty Inc’s Founder Award (2019), the Cosmetic Executive Women Female Founder Award (2019), InStyle Magazine’s “Badass 50 Women” List (2018), and the No. 2 fastest-growing privately held company in America led by a woman on the Inc. 5000 list (2015). She is a Wellesley College graduate with a BA in Economics as well as an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Beyond Tatcha, Vicky is a mother and a philanthropist devoted to supporting children’s educational equality through her work as a Global Board Member of Room to Read. She approaches life with a beginner’s mind, offering a quote by Buddhist monk Shunryu Suzuki as way of explanation: “In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.” 

Lulu C. Wang is the Founder and CEO of Tupelo Capital Management, which she founded in 1998 for partnerships and transitioned into a family office in 2008. Prior to that, Ms. Wang was a director and executive vice president of Jennison Associates Capital Corporation, where she managed large equity funds for pension, endowment, and mutual funds

Ms. Wang serves on the boards of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rockefeller University, the Asia Society, and Columbia Business School. She also serves on the advisory council for Bank of America Private Bank, is a retired director of MetLife Insurance, and a trustee emerita of Wellesley College, where she was the commencement speaker in 2016.

Ms. Wang earned an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BA in English literature from Wellesley College. In her free time, she and her husband collect and race vintage cars. They also collect American paintings, furniture, and folk art.