Meet our Global Team

Mr. SyCip advises a variety of companies in their cross-border endeavors between the US/Europe and Asia. Mr. SyCip assumed the role of Board Chairman in August 2016 after having served as a Board Director since 2005.
Prior to setting up his own offices, Mr. SyCip had a career in banking, including serving as CFO of United Savings Bank, a leading provider of banking services to California’s Asian communities and a major originator of home mortgages in the State. He currently sits on the corporate boards for Bank of the Orient in San Francisco, Cityland Development Corporation, Paxys, Inc., Premiere Horizon Alliance Corporation, Sinag Global Energy Corp., and Spence & Co. Ltd.
Mr. SyCip currently serves on the board of several international and Asia-focused nonprofits, including the International Institute for Rural Reconstruction in New York, Global Heritage Fund in San Francisco, and the US-Philippines Society in Washington DC. He has also served as Commissioner for the City and County of San Francisco’s Social Services Department. He was Director and Treasurer of the San Francisco Education Fund and the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library and served on Stanford University’s Institute for International Studies Advisory Board, as well as Grameen Foundation USA's Philippine Advisory Council.

Dr. Agrawal is a professor in the Department of Operations and Management Information Systems, and has served on the faculty since 1992. Currently, he also serves as the Associate Dean of Faculty. He was a visiting professor at The Wharton School in 1999-2000 and 2000- 2001, and at Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, in 2004. He has also worked as a Systems Analyst with Tata Consultancy Services in Bombay, India.
He holds an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Institute of Technology, B.H.U., India; M.S. in Management Science from the University of Texas at Dallas; and an M.A. and Ph. D. in Operations and Information Management from The Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Agrawal’s expertise is in the areas of supply chain management, service supply chain management, and manufacturing competitiveness. He is a co-editor of a book titled Retail Supply Chain Management and has contributed chapters in a number of books. He has published his research in journals such as Harvard Business Review, Interfaces, Operations Research, Naval Research Logistics, IIE Transactions, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Journal of Retailing, and Production and Operations Management. He serves on the editorial review board of Production and Operations Management and is an Associate Editor for MSOM.
Naren teaches courses in supply chain management and operations management in MBA and executive MBA programs. He has conducted numerous management development seminars internationally and consulted with companies in the retail and high-technology industries.
Dr. Agrawal has received a number of teaching awards including the Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence (at Santa Clara University) every year since 1996, and the MBA Core Curriculum Teaching Award at The Wharton School. He is a twice recipient of the Breetwor Fellowship, which is awarded to tenured faculty members who have distinguished themselves as teaching scholars and are making notable service contributions to the School, the University, and the profession. He has also received numerous research grants from the Leavey School of Business and the Retail Management Institute.
He is a Research Faculty Associate of the Retail Workbench Research & Education Center, and a member of INFORMS.

Suzy Antounian has over 20 years of nonprofit management experience, with a focus on strategic planning, program design, institutional development, partnership building and operations. Prior to becoming World Affairs’ COO in 2014, she was Senior Vice President overseeing the Global Philanthropy Forum and its regional affiliates. She also held the position of Vice President for Public Programs at World Affairs for 3 years, overseeing the more than 150 annual programs, its annual conference and weekly NPR program.

Angeline brings 27 years of experience from the private sector, not-for-profit organizations and government. She has been a leader in the social impact space focused on solving problems with expertise in partnerships, fundraising and amplification in Asia.   Angeline started her career as a regulator with the Securities Commission Malaysia and has worked in the financial services sector for a big part of her career. She was also involved in setting up a Not-for-Profit organization and was the Chief Executive Officer of the Institute of Financial Planners of Hong Kong managing the Institute for 7 years. She then took a sabbatical to pursue her Masters degree in the US and joined Credit Suisse as their Head of Corporate Responsibility in Asia.   In 2017 she made a switch to the health sector joining Johnson and Johnson(J&J) as their regional head of Community Impact.   Her recent role is the Director for Sustainability for Asia Pacific for J&J.  In this new position that she started in July1 2024, she is part of the Enterprise Sustainability team responsible for stewarding our global environmental sustainability strategies and integrating them into our healthcare segment business priorities and goals.  

Outside of work, she is a mother of twin girls, loves to travel and most of her travels are related to Art.  She also volunteers her time as a committee member of the Singapore Garden City Young President Organization (YPO) and Board Member of AVPN.   

Sirkka Korpela, an engineer by training, is an accomplished diplomat, development professional and university lecturer. During her long career at the United Nations she achieved the rank of Ambassador. She also created and led the UN Development Programme’s Global Business Partnerships Program, which raises funds from corporations for local development projects throughout the world.

A Finnish national, Ms. Korpela has lived and worked in six Latin American countries (Mexico, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Peru, Bolivia and Chile), as well as the United States and China. These experiences have provided her with deep understanding of the different cultures and aspirations of peoples in all continents as well as the ability to provide a global perspective to local issues.

Passionate about helping build bridges across cultural differences and geopolitical viewpoints she has also shared her vast knowledge about development issues as a lecturer at Columbia University in New York, as well as at different Universities and Academia in Latin America, China and the Philippines.

She has also advised several global corporations on their community engagement and social programs. Ms. Korpela has served as Board Member of the International Institute for Rural Reconstruction.

Sirkka enjoys good food with diverse groups of friends, a good book by herself, or trekking on mountain trails in pure nature. Having lived in so many places has brought as many good memories and lasting friendships!

She was married to a Bolivian and has two daughters and four grandchildren. She graduated as Engineer from Technische Universitat Dresden (Germany) and is fluent in Finnish, Spanish and English, with good knowledge of German and basic Chinese. She loves travelling and putting her language abilities to test.

Dr. Raymond Leung serves as board member of Give2Asia U.S. and Chairman of Give2Asia Hong Kong which provides a broad platform for improving the quality of life of children in low-income areas in Asia. Dr. Leung has mentored more than 1,000 young graduate students over last 25 years; a number of whom have gone on to become leaders in their own right in advanced technology sectors in Hong Kong and China.

Dr. Raymond Leung received his engineering doctorate (EngD) from the City University of Hong Kong. He is the Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of Altai Technologies Limited, which is a privately held high technology company focused on the design, development, and marketing of innovative outdoor wireless broadband solutions. The company is headquartered in Hong Kong with branches in Shenzhen, and Malaysia.

Dr. Leung also served as the Executive Vice President of Japan’s TDK Corporation, the first non-Japanese officer appointed to the position in its 85-year history. With his innovative thinking and business acumen, Dr. Leung created the company’s 2 most profitable business units and helped TDK to become the world's largest independent supplier of magnetic recording heads for hard disk drives and the world’s leading lithium polymer battery solution provider.

Dr. Leung is a council member of the City University of Hong Kong and was a council member of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He was also an economic advisor for a number of cities in China and for the state of North Dakota in the United States. Dr. Leung served as a member of the 12th Dongguan Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. In the philanthropic arena, Raymond is the co-founder and Chairman of the One Laptop Per Child Asia Pacific Chapter.

Dr. Qinghong Wang is Executive President of the East-West Philanthropy Forum (EWPF) and Executive Director of China-Europe Philanthropy Innovation Research Center (CEPIRC) at Peking University. He is also a Member of the International Board of Advisors of the China-Italy Philanthropy Forum, Final Review Committee Member of the Compassion Award (Hong Kong & Macau and Taiwan Foundation), Member of Family Heritage and Charitable Trust Committee of China Charity Federation, and Vice Chairman of Beijing Urban and Rural Grassroots Community Governance Promotion Association. He has been dedicated to promote the innovative ideas and cross-cultural collaboration in climate change, rural revitalization, public health, education and other fields of sustainability among philanthropists and organizations between the East and the West. Dr. Wang earned his B.A. in Chinese Language and Literature from Peking University, M.A. and PhD in Political Science from University of Hawaii at Manoa. He was Young Leader and Vasey Fellow of the Pacific Forum CSIS and Post-Doctor in International Relations at Peking University. His research has been focusing on the history and power of international philanthropy as well as traditional and non-traditional security issues in the Asia Pacific. 

Dr. Mark Sidel is Doyle-Bascom Professor of Law and Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Chair in Global Justice (visiting) at the University of Liverpool School of Law and Social Justice. He has been active in philanthropy in China and Asia since the 1980s. Sidel served on the team that established the Ford Foundation’s office in China in the 1980s, then managed Ford’s programs in Vietnam based in Hanoi and Bangkok, and later a Ford Foundation program to support philanthropy and the voluntary sector in India and South Asia from the Foundation’s regional office in New Delhi. He has consulted widely with U.S. and international foundations and nongovernmental organizations on programs and operations in China, Vietnam, India and elsewhere in the region. Sidel serves as a member of the board of the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL), the China Medical Board and other organizations and is an elected member of the American Law Institute. He has written widely on philanthropy and civil society in China, India, Vietnam and the United States, and has served as visiting professor of law at Harvard, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), Melbourne and other institutions.  

Since May 1, 2022, Brieuc Van Damme is the Managing Director of the King Baudouin Foundation (KBF). He holds a Master's Degree in Economics (UNamur, KU Leuven and College of Europe) and teaches health economics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Previously, he taught at the École Nationale d’Administration de Kinshasa, DR Congo. He also is the author of the book "The Grey Gold" (2010) and various reports, opinions and articles in scientific papers. Brieuc Van Damme was co-founder and president of the Groupe du Vendredi, a think tank of talented young Belgians, supported by the KBF. From 2011 to 2020 working with the Beglian government, he was successively Health Advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister, Deputy Chief of Staff to the Minister for Social Affairs and Public Health, and COVID-19 Advisor to the Prime Minister. During a break from 2017 to 2020 while living in Norway, Brieuc Van Damme founded consultancy Bære Craft Consulting which manages a portfolio of international clients. From December 2020 to January 2022 during the COVID crisis, he was Director General for Healthcare at Belgium’s National Institute for Health and Disability Insurance (INAMI).

Mr. Warmoes is Executive Director of the King Baudouin Foundation United States (KBFUS), a U.S. public charity which facilitates thoughtful, effective giving to Europe and Africa. He joined KBFUS’ parent foundation—the King Baudouin Foundation—in 1994. Mr. Warmoes served as KBF’s Director for International Relations and as Secretary to its Africa Prize from 1996 to 2018.