The Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service (SFS) is the school of international relations at Georgetown University in Washington,D.C. It grants degrees at both undergraduate and graduate levels.
The President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH) is an advisory committee to the President of the United States on cultural issues. It works directly with the White House and the three primary cultural agencies:the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA),National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH),and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS),as well as other federal partners and the private sector,to advance wide-ranging policy objectives in the arts and humanities. These include considerations for how the arts and humanities sectors can positively impact community well-being,economic development,public health,education,civic engagement,and climate change across the United States.
Joe Kaeser is a German manager who served as CEO of Siemens AG from 2013 to 2021.
Andrew N. Liveris is an Australian former CEO and chairman of The Dow Chemical Company of Midland,Michigan. Liveris served as a member of Dow's board of directors since February 2004,CEO since November 2004 and was elected as chairman of the board effective 1 April 2006. Liveris became CEO in 2004 after holding the position of chief operating officer (COO). Afterwards he served as executive chairman of DowDuPont. He is chairman of the board of Lucid Motors.
David Isaac Adelman is an American businessman,lawyer and diplomat. He was the United States Ambassador to the Republic of Singapore from April 2010 to September 2013. Adelman is the Managing Director and General Counsel of asset manager Krane Funds Advisors in New York. He is a Trustee of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. For more than a decade he has taught international relations as an adjunct professor at New York University.Adelman's official papers are part of the collection at the Richard B. Russell Library at the University of Georgia. In 2016,in recognition of his public service the State of Georgia dedicated a bridge as the Ambassador David Adelman Bridge on State Highway 42. Adelman is a member of the Advisory Council of the Israel-Asia Center.
Kenneth Ian Juster is a veteran American diplomat,who served as the United States Ambassador to India from 2017 to 2021. He is currently senior counselor at the global law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer,senior adviser at the institutional investor CDPQ,strategic adviser at the software company Salesforce,and distinguished fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Richard Rahul Verma is an American diplomat,who served as the deputy secretary of state for management and resources,a position he held from April 5,2023 to January 20,2025. He served as the assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs from 2009 to 2011,and as the U.S. ambassador to India from 2014 to 2017. He served as the chief legal officer and head of global public policy at Mastercard,from 2020 to 2023,and as the vice chair of the Asia Group from 2017 to 2020,where he oversaw the firm's South Asia practice. He also practiced law for many years at Steptoe &Johnson LLP in Washington DC,and served as a Senior Counselor and Lead of the India and South Asia practice at Albright Stonebridge Group.
Anju Bhargava is a retired federal executive,a former senior banker and a pioneering community builder who served as a founding member of the New Jersey Corporate Diversity Network under Governor Christy Whitman,community builder fellow in the Clinton administration and a member of President Barack Obama's inaugural Advisory Council on Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnership. She has provided thought leadership in the public and private sectors,locally and nationally,published papers and received many awards.
Brian H. Hook is an American diplomat,lawyer and government official. In 2021,he joined Cerberus Capital Management as vice chairman for global investments. He is an adjunct professor at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy.
The White House Initiative on Asian Americans,Native Hawaiians,and Pacific Islanders (WHIAANHPI) is a United States governmental office that coordinates an ambitious whole-of-government approach to advance equity,justice,and opportunity for Asian Americans,Native Hawaiians,and Pacific Islanders. The Initiative collaborates with the Deputy Assistant to the President and AA and NHPI Senior Liaison,White House Office of Public Engagement and designated federal departments and agencies to advance equity,justice,and opportunity for AA and NHPIs in the areas of economic development,education,health and human services,housing,environment,arts,agriculture,labor and employment,transportation,justice,veterans affairs,and community development.
Kiran Arjandas Ahuja is an American attorney and activist who served as the director of the United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM). She served as the chief of staff to the OPM director from 2015 to 2017. She assumed that position after serving for six years as the director of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. An Indian-born American,she has also been a lawyer with the United States Department of Justice and a founding director of a non-profit,the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum. In 2017,she became the CEO of Philanthropy Northwest.
Martha Choe is an American banker,politician,and foundation executive. She was a two-term member of the Seattle City Council,elected to four-year terms in 1991 and 1995. Choe was the first Korean American elected to the city council and the first to serve in a public office in the United States. Choe succeeded retiring Filipino councilmember Dolores Sibonga and received her endorsement,which elicited controversy from Filipino community members.
Prem Parameswaran is the Chief Financial Officer and President of Triller.
Bo Thao-Urabe is a social entrepreneur who has founded numerous organizations and efforts to advance social justice. A sought after leader,Thao-Urabe has served the community in local,state and national settings. She was appointed as a Regent to the University of Minnesota by Governor Walz in 2021. President Obama appointed Thao-Urabe as a Commissioner to the President’s White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. She has also served as Senior Director at Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP). She has received numerous awards and recognitions,including the prestigious Bush Fellowship from the Bush Foundation in 2019.
Joel Szabat is a former American government official and military officer serving on the Amtrak Board of Directors since 2024. He previously served as Assistant Secretary of Transportation for Aviation and International Affairs.
Glenn Duque Magpantay is the former executive director of the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance,an instructor at Brooklyn Law School and Hunter College/CUNY,and a former civil rights attorney in the role of Democracy Program director for the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund. In 2023,Glenn D Magpantay was appointed as a Commissioner to the United States Commission on Civil Rights by Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer. He is chair of the LGBT Committee of the Asian American Bar Association of New York,former co-chair of the Gay Asian &Pacific Islander Men of New York,and recognized as an "authority on the federal Voting Rights Act and expert on Asian American political participation,including bilingual ballots,election reform,minority voter discrimination,multilingual exit polling,and census." He has served as a commissioner on the New York City Voter Assistance Commission. He is also a contributing writer for the Huffington Post. The Glenn Magpantay Leadership Award at his undergraduate alma mater,the State University of New York at Stony Brook,is named after him.
Chiling Tong is an Asian Pacific American activist and a public official. She has held various public offices under George W. Bush,Barack Obama,and Donald Trump. She is currently the president and chief executive officer of The National Asian Pacific Islander American Chamber of Commerce &Entrepreneurship and the Founding President of the International Leadership Foundation. She is one of the most prominent female Chinese American politicians since Elaine Chao.
Gene Rodrigues is an American lawyer who served as Assistant Secretary of Energy in the United States Department of Energy.
