The Asia Society Policy Institute is supported by two high-level advisory bodies which contribute knowledge and insights to ASPI’s work. ASPI also benefits from the experience and guidance of Asia Society’s Global Council, a distinguished network of more than 160 Asia-focused leaders from government, business, academia, and other sectors. The list below reflects ASPI Council members as of November 2016.
Honorary Advisory Council
Madeleine Albright, Chair, Albright Stonebridge Group; Former U.S. Secretary of State; Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
Mukesh Ambani, Chairman & Managing Director, Reliance Industries Limited
Hushang Ansary, Chairman, Parman Capital Group; Asia Society Trustee Emeritus
James Baker III, Partner, Baker Botts; Former U.S. Secretary of State and Secretary of Treasury
Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, Chairman & CEO, C.V. Starr & Company; Former Chairman & CEO, AIG; Asia Society Chairman Emeritus
Sadako Ogata, Chairperson, World Economic Forum Japan; Former United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; Former President, Japan International Cooperation Agency
Condoleezza Rice, Co-founder, RiceHadleyGates; Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution; Former U.S. Secretary of State
Stephen Schwarzman, Chairman, CEO, & Co-Founder, The Blackstone Group; Asia Society Trustee; ASPI Founder
George Shultz, Distinguished Fellow, Hoover Institution; Former U.S. Secretary of State, Secretary of Treasury, and Secretary of Labor
M.S. Swaminathan, Founder and Chairman Emeritus, M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation
Washington SyCip, Founder, Asian Institute of Management and SyCip Gorres Velayo & Co.; Asia Society Honorary Life Trustee
Tung Chee Hwa “C.H.”, Former Chief Executive & President of the Executive Council of Hong Kong
ASPI Council
Eddie Allen, Senior Partner, Eagle Global Advisors; Asia Society Trustee; ASPI Founder
Caroline Atkinson, Policy Chief, Google; Former U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economic Affairs
Shaukat Aziz (Co-Chair), Former Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Pakistan
Ajay Banga, CEO, MasterCard
Laurence Belfer, CEO, Belfer Management
Nicolas Berggruen, Chairman, Berggruen Holdings Inc; Chairman, Berggruen Institute; Asia Society Trustee
Hamid Biglari, Asia Society Trustee
Stephen Bird, CEO, Global Consumer Banking, Citigroup; Asia Society Trustee
Ian Bremmer, President, Eurasia Group, ASPI Harold J. Newman Distinguished Fellow
Frank Brown, Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer, General Atlantic; Asia Society Trustee
Jin-Yong Cai, Former Executive Vice President & CEO, International Finance Corporation
Albert Chao, President and CEO, Westlake Chemical Corporation
Chan Heng Chee, Ambassador-at-Large, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore; Asia Society Trustee
Ronnie Chan, Chairman, Hang Lung Properties Limited; Asia Society Co-Chair; ASPI Founder
Purnendu “PC” Chatterjee, Chairman, Chatterjee Group; Asia Society Trustee
Chen Guoqing, Vice Chairman & CEO at Pacific American Corporation, HNA Group; Asia Society Trustee; ASPI Founder
Betsy Cohen, CEO, The Bancorp Bank; Asia Society Vice Chair; ASPI Founder
Ken Courtis, Chairman, Starfort Holdings; Managing Partner, CourtisGlobal & Associates
Charles Dallara, Partner & Vice Chairman, Americas at Partners Group Holding AG; Former Managing Director, Institute of International Finance; Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Policy Development
Richard Edelman, President & CEO, Edelman
J. Michael Evans (Co-Chair), President, Alibaba Holding Group Ltd.; Asia Society Trustee
Henrietta Fore, Chairman & CEO, Holsman International; Asia Society Co-Chair; ASPI Founder
John Foster, Chairman & Managing Director, HealthpointCapital Partners L.P.; Asia Society Trustee Emeritus; ASPI Founder
Mitchell Julis, Co-Founder, Co-Chairman, and Co-CEO, Canyon Partners; Asia Society Trustee; ASPI Founder
Lew Kaden, Lead Director, Arcelor Mittal S.A.; Asia Society Vice Chair
Yoriko Kawaguchi, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Environment, Japan; ASPI Distinguished Fellow
Grant Kelley, CEO, City Developments Ltd
Shiv Khemka, Vice Chairman, SUN Group
Willem Kooyker, Chairman & CEO, Blenheim Capital Management; Asia Society Trustee; ASPI Founder
Evan Medeiros, Managing Director, Eurasia Group; Former Senior Director for Asia, National Security Council; ASPI Senior Fellow
Shivshankar Menon, Former National Security Advisor of India; ASPI Distinguished Fellow
Marty Natalegawa, Former Foreign Minister of Indonesia; ASPI Distinguished Fellow
John Negroponte (Co-Chair), Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State; former U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Iraq, the Philippines, Mexico, and Honduras; former Director of National Intelligence; Asia Society Trustee
Robert Niehaus, Chairman and Founder, GCP Capital Partners LLC; Asia Society Trustee; ASPI Founder
Cherie Nursalim, Vice Chairman, GITI Group
CK Ow, Executive Chair, Stanford Land; Executive Chair, Singapore Shipping Corporation
Mari Pangestu, Former Trade Minister of Indonesia
Robert Rosenkranz, CEO, Delphi Financial Group
Dennis Ross, Former U.S. Director of Policy Planning; Former Senior. Advisor to President Obama
Moshe Safdie, Principal, Safdie Architects
Prince Turki bin Faisal Al Saud “Turki al-Faisal”, Former Saudi Director of General Intelligence; Former Ambassador of Saudi Arabia to the U.S.
Wang Jisi, President, Institute of International and Strategic Studies, Peking University; ASPI Distinguished Fellow
Lulu Wang, CEO, Tupelo Capital Management LLC; Asia Society Vice Chair; ASPI Founder
Lally Weymouth, Senior Associate Editor, The Washington Post
Frank Wisner, International Affairs Advisor, Squire Patton Boggs; Former U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and Under Secretary of State for International Security Affairs; Former U.S. Ambassador to Zambia, Egypt, the Philippines, and India
Wu Xinbo, Director, Center for American Studies and Executive Dean, Institute of International Studies
