General Asia

Michael Michalak, U.S. Senior Official for APEC
Remarks to the Asia Society Washington Corporate Series—
APEC Briefing 2006
Washington DC, December 7, 2006

Judith Mackay, Author, World Health Organization (WHO) Atlas of Heart Disease and Stroke
"The Heart of the Matter: Cardiovascular Disease and the New Health Crisis in Asia"
Hong Kong, November 28, 2006

Paul Volcker, Former Chairman, Federal Reserve System, Chair, United Nations Independent Inquiry Commission
Remarks to the Asia Society
"Can the United Nations Meet the Challenges Before It"
Hong Kong, November 19, 2006

Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack
Remarks to the Asia Society
"Sustaining Economic Growth While Combating Social Challenges in Asia"
New York, October 26, 2006

H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Republic of Korea
Remarks to the Asia Society
"Quest for Peace and Prosperity in the Asia-Pacific and Beyond"
New York, September 25, 2006

Professor Lawrence H. Summers, Harvard University and Former U.S. Secretary of Treasury
Speech to the Asia Society
"Asia and the Emerging Global Financial System"
Hong Kong, September 19, 2006

Sujatha Rao, National AIDS Control Organization, India (NACO)
"The Next Wave: New Strategies and Responses to HIV/AIDS in India, China, Russia"
New York, May 30, 2006

Timothy D. Adams
Remarks of Treasury Under Secretary for International Affairs Timothy D. Adams
Houston, April 7, 2006

Paula J. Dobriansky
Remarks by Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs
New York, April 6, 2006

Michael Eskew
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, United Parcel Service
"Education in an Age of Globalization"
Washington DC, December 8, 2005

Michael Michalak
U.S. Senior Official for APEC
"U.S. Accomplishments in APEC in 2005"
New York, December 1, 2005

Mark Warner
Governor of Virginia
"A Governor Looks at Asia"
New York, November 28, 2005

Timothy F. Geithner
President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Remarks at the Citigroup CEO Asian Forum
New York, October 19, 2005

Anwar Ibrahim
Distinguished Senior Visiting Fellow, Paul H. Nitze
School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
"The United States and the Muslim World"
Washington, D.C., April 18, 2005

Thomas L. Friedman
Columnist, The New York Times
New York Launch of The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
New York, April 4, 2005

Ambassador Marie T. Huhtala
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State
"U.S.-Asia Relations: The Next Four Years"
Texas, February 11, 2005

Ambassador Lauren Moriarty
U.S. Senior Official for APEC
"Advancing Prosperity and Security in the Asia-Pacific Region"
Washington, D.C., December 1, 2004

Mary Robinson
Executive Director, Ethical Globalization Initiative and Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and President of Ireland
"Mobilizing Women’s Leadership in the Fight Against AIDS"
New York, October 27, 2004

Shashi Tharoor
Under-Secretary-General, United Nations
"Is the United Nations Still Relevant?"
Hong Kong, June 14, 2004

Congressman Mike Honda (D-CA)
"The Importance of Protecting Civil Rights and Civil Liberties"
Washington, DC, May 12, 2004

Jeffrey D. Sachs
Columbia University
"Taking a Long-term View of Asia's Economy: Two Millennia Bank and a Century Forward"
Hong Kong, April 13, 2004

David Ho, CEO, Aaron Diamond Research Center (moderator)
Marina Mahathir, President, Malaysian AIDS Council
Mechai Viravaidya, Chairman, Population and Community Development Association
Wan Yan Hai, Director, Beijing AIZHIXING Institute of Health Education
"HIV/AIDS: The Challenge in Asia"
The Citigroup and Asia Society Global Issues Series
Hong Kong, March 24, 2004

Rupert Murdoch
Chairman & CEO, News Corporation
Keynote Address at the Asia Society Annual Dinner
New York, February 25, 2004

Ambassador Nicholas Platt
Asia Society President
"Why Are Current American Relations with Asia More Stable than with Europe?"
Yale University, February 9, 2004

Gareth Evans
President, International Crisis Group and Co-Chair, International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty
"Preventing and Responding to Internal Conflict: When is it Right for Others to Intervene?"
Citigroup-Asia Society Global Issues Series
Hong Kong, November 25, 2003

Anne O. Krueger
First Deputy Managing Director, IMF
"Maintaining the Momentum: Emerging Market Policy Reform in 2004"
New York, November 20, 2003

Vance D. Coffman
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Lockheed Martin Corporation
"Remarks upon Receiving the Asia Society Washington Center Leadership Award"
Washington, D.C., November 18, 2003

Claude Smadja
Smadja & Associates Strategic Advisory
"Business in a Hostile Environment: Confronting Global Volatility"
Hong Kong, July 25, 2003

Stanley Fischer
Vice Chairman, Citigroup
President, Citigroup International
"Microfinance"
New York, May 13, 2003

William J. Clinton
42nd President of the United States of America
Remarks at the Asia Society Annual Dinner
New York, May 12, 2003

New Directions in U.S. Foreign Policy?
From Regime Change to Nation Building (ASIP)
Rachel Bronson, Council on Foreign Relations
David Phillips, Council on Foreign Relations
Yoichi Funabashi, Asahi Shimbun
April 10, 2003, New York

Arts for Social Change:
Building Awareness for Action (ASIP)
Mallika Sarabhai, Classical dancer, stage and film actress, choreographer, writer, and social activist
Pamela Flaherty, Senior Vice President for Global Community Relations at Citicorp
Gowher Rizvi, Director, Institute for Government Innovations, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
February 19, 2003, New York

Charles R. Kaye
Co-President, Warburg Pincus LLC
"Myths & Realities of Investing in Asia"
January 22, 2003, New York

Ambassador Sichan Siv
"The United Nations Today: A Personal Perspective"
Washington D.C., January 10, 2003

Visible Work, Invisible Women:
A Panel Discussion with a Photo Display on Women and Work in Rural Asia (ASIP)
P. Sainath, veteran journalist, author and photographer
Smita Narula, Senior Researcher, Asia Division, Human Rights Watch
Adrienne Germain, President, International Women's Health Coalition
November 19, 2002, New York

New York Launch of the 2002 United Nations Development Program Human Development Report
Ms. Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Lead Author and Director of the Human Development Report
Dr. Gita Sen, Professor of Economics, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India
Princess Basma Bint Talal, Chair of the Jordan Hashemite Fund for Human Development
Dr Mahnaz Ispahani, Senior Fellow for South & West Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations
October 3, 2002, New York

The Honorable Richard C. Holbrooke
United States Ambassador to the United Nations
"President's Forum"
November 30, 2001, New York

The Honorable Jon M. Huntsman, Jr.
Deputy United States Trade Representative
"U.S.-Asia Trade After September 11"
November 29, 2001, Washington, D.C.

The Honorable Norman Y. Mineta
U.S. Secretary of Transportation
Remarks on Receiving the Asia Society Washington Center 2001 Leadership Award
November 14, 2001, Washington, D.C.

Professor Harry Harding
Dean, Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University
"The Bush Administration's Approach to Asia: Before and After September 11"
November 12, 2001, Hong Kong

Rebels and Mavericks: Social Change in Asia
Shanty Harmayn, Jakarta International Film Festival, Indonesia
Sheri Xiaoyi Liao, "Global Village of Beijing," China
Christine Loh, Civic Exchange, Hong Kong SAR
Sam Rainsy, Sam Rainsy Party, Cambodia
moderated by Brook Larmer, Hong Kong Bureau Chief, Newsweek August 14, 2001, Hong Kong

Joseph Nye
Dean, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
"Globalization and its Discontents"
July 10, 2001, Hong Kong

Colin L. Powell
U.S. Secretary of State
Remarks at Asia Society Annual Dinner
June 10, 2001, New York

Speeches from our 12th Annual Corporate Conference
Remarks by Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, S. Sadagopan, Srinivasan Ramani, and Yong Ying-I
Bangalore, March 11-13, 2001

Henry Hyde
Chairman, House Committee on International Relations
"A Congressional Perspective on Asia at the
Outset of the Bush Administration"
February 28, 2001, Washington, DC

Michael Klosson
U.S. Consul General
"A Tale of Two Cities: The Image and Reality of Hong Kong Today"
February 15, 2001, Texas

Stanley O. Roth
Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
"U.S. Policy Toward Asia: Where We've Been, Where We Need To Go"
January 11, 2001, Washington, D.C.

Dr. Alice Rivlin
Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
"The U.S. Economy: Prospects for a Soft Landing"
January 9, 2001, Hong Kong

The Honorable Dato' Seri Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad
Prime Minister of Malaysia
"Agenda for a New Asia"
October 28, 2000, Hong Kong

Douglas A. Warner III
Chairman & CEO of J.P. Morgan
"The Challenge For Intermediaries in the Digital Age"
August 28, 2000, Hong Kong

Global Financial Markets: Investing in Technology (Luncheon Panel Discussion)
Peter Churchouse, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Asia
Ken Ehrhart, Telecosm Holdings International
Michael De Lathauwer, Goldman Sachs (Asia) L.L.C.
moderated by Brian Lippey, Tokai Asia Limited
June 16, 2000, Hong Kong

Lubna Khalid
Founder of REAL COSMETICS, Color for Women of Color
"A Presentation at The Global Beauty Report: Focus on Asia"
June 14, 2000, New York

Robert J. Einhorn
Assistant Secretary for Nonproliferation, U.S. Department of State
"Nonproliferation Challenges in Asia"
June 7, 2000, Hong Kong

Speeches from our 11th Annual Corporate Conference
Remarks by Zhu Rongji, W. Wayne Booker, Lee Hun-Jai, Daniel S. Sanders, Haruhiko Kuroda, and Gary Coull
May 10-12, 2000, Shanghai

Mr. Arthur Levitt
Chairman, US Securities and Exchange Commission
"Progress Towards Better Markets"
May 19, 2000, Hong Kong

Admiral Thomas B. Fargo, USN
Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet
"A Naval Role in Asia Pacific Prosperity"
May 16, 2000, Hong Kong

Nobuyuki Idei
Chairman, Sony Corporation
"The Digital Divide: Winners and Losers in the Network Era"
May 12, 2000, Hong Kong

William B. Cohen
Secretary of Defense, U.S. Department of Defense
Remarks at the Asia in Washington Annual Dinner
May 10, 2000, Washington DC

William M. Daley
Secretary of Commerce, United States Department of Commerce
May 5, 2000, Houston

Micro Credit Gone Global: An ASIP Panel Discussion
Mohammad Yunus, Grameen Bank
Nancy Barry, Women's World Banking
M.S.H. Choudhury, Association for Social Advancement
Fabiola Santos-Gaerlan, Honeydew Drop Childcare
Frank Wisner, American International Group
May 2, 2000, New York

Globalization: The Promises and The Perils
Nafis Sadik, United Nations Population Fund
Ashok Khosla, Development Alternatives
Muzaffar Chishti, UNITE
Nang Lao Liang Won, Migrant Assistance Programme
Raymond Offenheiser, Oxfam America
March 30, 2000, New York

Marshall N. Carter
Chairman and CEO, State Street Corporation
"The Aging of the World's Population and Its Impact on Asia"
February 1, 2000, New York

Asia's Silicon Dreams
Panel Discussion with Reginald Chua, Daniel Mao, and Anna Lee Saxenian
January 24, 2000, Hong Kong

WTO and the Future of U.S.-Asia Trade
Panel discussion with Robert Thompson, Merit Janow, Richard Boucher, Mark Levinson, Ritu Sharma, and Edward Cloonan
December 10, 1999, New York

Vice Admiral Walter F. Doran
Commander, U.S. Seventh Fleet
December 7, 1999, Hong Kong

Global Financial Markets: Update & Outlook
Panel Discussion
Co-sponsored by Tokai Asia Limited
October 5, 1999, Hong Kong

Hubert Neiss
Director, Asia and Pacific Department, International Monetary Fund
"The Handling of the Asian Crisis"
October 1, 1999, New York

Jerome S. Fons
Moody's Investors Service
"Asia's Banking Systems Still At Risk"
October 1, 1999, New York

Gary Hufbauer
Institute for International Economics
"The Challenge to G-7 Regulators"
October 1, 1999, New York

Harrison Young
Vice Chairman of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Asia, Ltd.
"Promoting Banking System Reform"
October 1, 1999, New York

Christine Wallich
Director, Infrastructure, Energy and Financial Sectors Department and Head, Private Sector Group, Asian Development Bank
"Governance in the Banking Sector"
October 1, 1999, New York

Kofi Annan
Secretary-General of the United Nations
President's Forum
June 9, 1999, New York

Dominic Casserly and Gregg Gibbs
McKinsey & Company, Inc.
"Banking in Asia: The End of Entitlement"
May 11, 1999, Hong Kong

Speeches from our 10th Annual Corporate Conference
Remarks by Joseph E. Estrada, Fidel Valdez Ramos, Mei-Wei Cheng, Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala II, Linda Y.C. Lim, Jose Trinidad Pardo, Stanley Fischer, H.E. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Tadao Chino, and Jose L. Cuisia
February 24-26, 1999, Manila

Lee P. Brown
Mayor of Houston
"Asia and Houston"
February 22, 1999, Houston

Charlene Barshefsky
Trade Representative, United States
"Toward the Pacific Community: American Trade Policy in Asia"
January 21, 1999

Fidel Valdez Ramos
Former President, Republic of the Philippines
"The East Asian Crisis and its Social Implications"
December 2, 1998, Melbourne

Fidel Valdez Ramos
Former President, Republic of the Philippines
"The Asian Crisis and the Philippines: 'Likely the First Economy to Recover'"
November 4, 1998, Houston

Goh Chok Tong
"Managing the Challenges of a Global Economy"
Remarks at the Asia Society Annual Dinner
September 25, 1998, New York

Madeleine K. Albright
Remarks by the U.S. Secretary of State
July 30, 1998, Sydney, Australia

Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright
Asia Society Annual Dinner Address
June 17, 1998, New York

Moeen Qureshi
"Asia: Back to the Future: Creating Long Term Growth"
9th Annual Corporate Conference
May 8, 1998, Hong Kong

W. Wayne Booker
Vice Chairman of the Ford Motor Company
"Leadership" at the Capital Markets,
Regulations and Investment Roundtable
9th Annual Corporate Conference
May 8, 1998, Hong Kong

H. M. Morgan
"Back to the Future: Creating Long Term Growth Energy and Resources"
9th Annual Corporate Conference
May 8, 1998, Hong Kong

Carla A. Hills
Former United States Trade Representative
9th Annual Corporate Conference
Hong Kong, May 7, 1998

Tung Chee Hwa
Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the Peopleâs Republic of China
9th Annual Corporate Conference
Hong Kong, May 7, 1998

Mohammad Nawaz Sharif
Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan
Keynote Address, 9th Annual Corporate Conference
Hong Kong, May 6, 1998

William M. Daley
Secretary of Commerce
March 2, 1998, New York

Prof. Merton H. Miller
"Asia's Currency Crisis: Problems and Prescriptions"
January 19, 1998, Hong Kong