East-West Center Board of Governors
Board Chair
James K. Scott
President (ret.)
Punahou School
Honolulu, Hawaiʻi
Board Vice Chairs
Peter S. Ho
Chairman, President and CEO
Bank of Hawaiʻi
Honolulu, Hawaiʻi
Caroline Casagrande
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State For Academic Programs
Arlington, Virginia
Appointed by the Governor of Hawaiʻi
Ronald T.Y. Moon
Chief Justice of the Hawaiʻi State Supreme Court (ret.)
Honolulu, Hawaiʻi
Lynn K. Miyahira
Account Director
iQ 360 - An Integrated Communications Agency
Kaneohe, Hawaiʻi
John Waihee
Former Governor
State of Hawaiʻi
Honolulu, Hawaiʻi
Appointed by the Secretary of State
Kelley E. Currie
Former Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues
Washington, DC
Kenneth I. Juster
Former Ambassador to India
New York, New York
David R. Stilwell
Former Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Honolulu, Hawaiʻi
Gene Ward
Hawaii State Representative
Honolulu, Hawaiʻi
Elected Members
Daniel R. Fung, SBS,SC,QC,JP
Chairman
Des Voeux Chambers
Hong Kong
Hilda C. Heine, EdD
Member of Parliament
Former President of the Republic of the Marshall Islands (2016-2019)
Majuro, Marshall Islands
Chris Kanter
Founder of Sigma Sembada Group
Jakarta, Indonesia
Takeshi Niinami
President, Member of Board, Representative Director
Suntory Holdings, Ltd.
Tokyo, Japan
Ratan Tata
Chairman
Tata Trusts
Mumbai, India
Ex-Officio Members
David Y. Ige
Governor, State of Hawaiʻi
Honolulu, Hawaiʻi
Lee Satterfield
Assistant Secretary of State
Bureau for Educational and Cultural Affairs
U.S. Department of State
Washington, DC
David Lassner, PhD
President
University of Hawaiʻi
Honolulu, Hawaiʻi
By Invitation
Pacific Islands Conference of Leaders
David W. Panuelo, Chair, Pacific Islands Conference of Leaders
President
Federated States of Micronesia
East-West Center Association
Subir Kole, Chair, EWCA Executive Board
Lead - Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning
John Snow, Inc.
New Delhi, India
East-West Center Foundation
Gae Bergquist Trommald, Chair, East-West Center Foundation Board
Senior Financial Advisor, AVP, CRPC, Partner
The Hochuli Group of Merrill Lynch
Honolulu, Hawaiʻi
East-West Center Officers
President
Suzanne Puanani Vares-Lum
Vice President and Director of East-West Center in Washington
Satu Limaye
Treasurer/Chief Operating Officer
Robert A. Riley
Assistant Treasurer/Controller
Lesley Murashige
Corporate Secretary
Raquel Aki