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East-West Center Board of Governors

Board Chair

Mr. Puongpun Sananikone
President
PacMar, Inc.
Honolulu, Hawaii

Appointed by the Governor of Hawaii

The Honorable George R. Ariyoshi
Former Governor of Hawaii
Of Counsel, Watanabe Ing, LLP 
Honolulu, Hawaii

Ms. Corianne W. Lau, Esq
Attorney, Director & Shareholder
Alston Hunt Floyd & Ing
Honolulu, Hawaii

Mr. R. Brian Tsujimura
Attorney
Imanaka, Kudo & Fujimoto
Honolulu, Hawaii

Mr. Richard Turbin
Founder and Senior Partner
Turbin Chu
Honolulu, Hawaii

Ms. Barbara J. Tanabe (Governor's Designee)
President, Managing Partner
Ho`okea Communications
Honolulu, Hawaii

Appointed by the Secretary of State

Ms. Kathy Bushkin Calvin
UN Foundation
Washington, DC

Ms. Margaret Carpenter
Former Senior Advisor to Secretary of State Clinton
Former Assistant Administrator for Asia & Near East Bureau, USAID
Washington, DC

Ms. Ginger Lew
CEO
Three Oaks Investment, LLC
Arlington, VA

Mr. Marc Nathanson
Chairman
Mapleton Investments and Falcom Waterfree Technologies
Los Angeles, CA

The Honorable Osman Siddique
Former Ambassador to Fiji, Naru, Tonga and Tuvalu
McLean, VA

Elected Members

Mr. Tarun Das
Former Chief Mentor
Confederation of Indian Industry
New Delhi, India

Mr. Daniel R. Fung, SBS,SC,QC,JP
Chairman
Des Voeux Chambers
Hong Kong

Dr. Il SaKong
Chairman & CEO
KITA
Seoul, Korea

Mr. Tadashi Yamamoto
President
Japan Center for International Exchange
Tokyo, Japan

The Honorable Tun Daim Zainuddin
Former Finance Minister
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Ex-Officio Members

The Honorable Neil Abercrombie 
Governor, State of Hawaii
Honolulu, Hawaii

The Honorable Ann Stock
Assistant Secretary of State
for Educational and Cultural Affairs
U.S. Department of State
Washington, D.C.

Dr. M.R.C. Greenwood, PhD
President
University of Hawaii
Honolulu, Hawaii

EWCA Representative

Dr. Ricardo D. Trimillos, Ph.D.
Graduate Chair, Asian Studies Program
University of Hawaii
Honolulu, Hawaii

East-West Center Officers

President
Dr. Charles E. Morrison

Treasurer
Mr. Ricky Kubota

Assistant Treasurer
Mr. Clinton Nonaka

Corporate Secretary
Ms. Carleen G. Gumapac

 

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