Celebration of AsiaWeek - Honorary Chairs and Special Guests
Join us to celebrate the launch of Asia Week in New York City with this exciting signature benefit event: A Celebration of Asia Week: AllThingsArtASIA.
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Honorary Chairs
Academy Award-nominated filmmaker and long-time activist
Award-winning stage, film, and TV actor
Acclaimed global fashion and technology designer
About Chef Bao Huynh
*sponsored by Bao & Company
Performers
Special Guests
Thuy Diep
Vietnamese Fashion Designer
Creative Director of the women’s ready-to-wear label THUY
Gale Harold
Popular stage, film, and TV actor
Henry Howard-Sneyd
Auctioneer, Sotheby’s
Chef Michael Bao Huynh
David Henry Hwang
Acclaimed playwright, two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Bernard Kalb
Founding Anchor, CNN Reliable Sources
Veteran Journalist (CBS, NBC, and the New York Times)
Former State Department spokesperson
Alia Khan
Fashion designer, Design Altitude Inc.
Joe Klein
Columnist & journalist, Time news group
Author, Primary Colors
John Liu
New York City Comptroller
Rudresh Mahanthappa
Innovative alto-saxophonist & composer
Fern Mallis
Senior Managing Editor of IMG Fashion
Creator of New York "Fashion Week"
Professor Matthew McKelway
Atsumi Associate Professor of Japanese Art at Columbia University
His Excellency Le Luong Minh
Permanent Representative
Mission of Viet Nam to the United Nations
Hafez Nazeri
Award-winning Iranian composer & singer
Christiane Noll
Award-winning Broadway actress & singer
Chef Pichet Ong
Renowned pastry chef
Adam Platt
Contributing Editor & Restaurant Critic, New York magazine
Alice Schroeder
Author, The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
Auguste Soesastro
Indonesian fashion designer, Kraton Auguste Soesastro
Nancy Tingley
Acclaimed scholar and exhibition curator
Curator of Asia Society Museum’s exhibition Arts of Ancient Viet Nam
Guy Trebay
New York Times Style reporter, Pulitzer Prize nominee
Tod Williams & Billie Tsien
Founders, Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects
Winners of numerous NYC AIA and World Architecture Awards