Our Advisory Board
Honorary Chair
Honorable George P. Shultz
(1920-2021)
Chair Emeritus
Chong-Moon Lee
Founder & Chair, Ambex Ventures
Asia Society Trustee
Honorary Chair
John S. Wadsworth, Jr.
Advisory Director, Morgan Stanley
Asia Society Trustee Emeritus
Honorary Chair
Kenneth P. Wilcox
Chairman Emeritus, Silicon Valley Bank
Asia Society Trustee
Chair
Gary E. Rieschel
Founding Managing Partner
Qiming Venture Partners
President & CEO
The Honorable Kevin Rudd
President & CEO, Asia Society
President, Asia Society Policy Institute
26th Prime Minister of Australia
Ajay Anand
Partner/Principal
Ernst & Young
Yitz Applbaum
Principal & Founding Partner
MizMaa Ventures
Stephen Beal
President
California College of the Arts
Nicole Belytschko
Chief Investment Officer
C.M. Capital
Richard C. Blum
Chairman & President
Blum Capital Partners
Sumir Chadha
Co-Founder & Managing Director
WestBridge Capital Partners
Daniel K. H. Chao
President & Chair
The 1990 Institute
Hope Chen
Managing Director & Head of DFJ China
Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Michael Chui
Partner
McKinsey & Company, McKinsey Global Institute
Mark Cohen
Director of Asia IP Law Project
University of California Berkeley
Chris Cooper
Chief Financial Officer
SBGI at SoftBank
David A. Coulter
Managing Director & Senior Advisor
Warburg Pincus LLC
Robert E. Cox
Former Managing Director & General Counsel
James Hardie Industries
Jaleh Daie
Managing Partner
Aurora Equity
Karl Eikenberry
Former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan
William P. Fuller
President Emeritus
Asia Foundation
Buck Gee
Board President
Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation
Thomas B. Gold
Professor of Sociology
University of California, Berkeley
Naren Gupta
(1948-2021)
Co-Founder & Managing Director
Nexus Venture Partners
Brent Irvin
Vice President & General Counsel
Tencent
Bakul Joshi
President
Multiple Access CA Corporation
Holly Kernan
Chief Content Officer
KQED
C. Richard Kramlich
Chairman & Co-Founder
New Enterprise Associates
Mark D. Levine
Founding Director
U.S. China Clean Energy Research Center – Building Energy Efficiency, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Yabo Lin
Partner
Sidley Austin LLP
Eric Loeb
EVP, Government Affairs
Salesforce
Melissa Ma
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
Asia Alternatives LLC
Simon Ma
Chairman, CEO, & Co-Founder
Camelot Information Systems
Jack McCauley
Former Co-Founder and Chief Engineer
Oculus VR
John McQuown
Co-Founder, Principal, and Director
Diversified Credit Investments
Sheila Melvin
Writer-Author
Michael Moe
Co-Founder, CEO, & Managing Partner
GSV Asset Management
Honorable William J. Perry
Michael & Barbara Berberian Professor Emeritus, Senior Fellow
Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
Susan (Susie) Roos
Partner and CAO
Geodesic Capital
Andy Rothman
Investment Strategist
Matthews Asia
Orville Schell
Arthur Ross Director
Asia Society Center on US-China Relations
Peter Schwartz
Senior VP for Global Government Relations & Strategic Planning
Salesforce
Barry Taylor
Partner
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Andy Tsao
Managing Director, Global Gateway
Silicon Valley Bank
Jay Xu
Director
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
Dien Yuen
Assistant Professor of Philanthropy
The American College of Financial Services
Magdalen Yum
Senior Vice President, Investment
UBS International San Francisco