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.

Elisabeth Kvitashvili is an accomplished development professional with global humanitarian and crisis response leadership and field operations expertise spanning more than 35 years. A career Senior Foreign Service Officer who served as USAID Mission Director for Sri Lanka and the Maldives as well as Russia, she also served in Pakistan, Honduras, Russia, Italy, and Afghanistan before retiring in October 2015. She also served as Deputy Assistant Administrator in USAID’s Bureau for Middle East with oversight of the Iraq, Jordan and Yemen portfolios, Humanitarian Affairs Counselor to the U.S. Ambassador, USUN-Rome and Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance.
While in Afghanistan, 2002-2003, she led USAID’s reconstruction program. In the mid-1980’s she was based in Peshawar, Pakistan where she designed the USAID Cross Border Humanitarian Assistance Program for Afghanistan. During 1997-1998, she traveled throughout Afghanistan undertaking humanitarian assessments with the UN. She has also spent significant field time in the North and South Caucasus, Iraq, Nepal, Bosnia, Rwanda, Burundi, the DRC, Ethiopia and Eritrea working primarily on humanitarian and conflict-related programs.
She has been an adjunct at Johns Hopkins University-SAIS and most recently Georgetown University where she taught a graduate-level course on conflict.
In retirement, Elisabeth advises a number of for-profit and non-profit organizations with development and humanitarian programs in the Middle East and volunteers at the International Rescue Committee on refugee resettlement.
She holds a master’s degree in Near East Studies from the University Of London School Of Oriental and African Studies and a diploma in international relations from Paris University School of Political Science.

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. 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.

Dien Yuen, JD/LLM, CAP®, AEP® is Executive Director, Center for Philanthropy and Social Impact at The American College of Financial Services and Blunt-Nickel Professor in Philanthropy. In this role, she works with practitioners in the field to create a shared space to develop multi-disciplinary ideas to advance social change. New initiatives include Purpose School, a program for those exploring the intersections of purpose and social impact, and the Advisors of Color Network, an initiative to increase diversity among philanthropic planning professionals and to support their work through research and content development.

Dien’s research and teaching focus on access and growth of philanthropic advising in the U.S. and Asia. Her latest project, Mapping the Future of Philanthropic Advising, gathers thought leaders to explore the competency needed for current and future advisors. In Asia, Dien serves as Lead Faculty for Philanthropy at WMI (Wealth Management Institute), teaching the Certificate for Philanthropy and Social Impact program, Singapore’s first certified philanthropic advising program for advisors.

Before joining the College, Dien served as Managing Director and Fiduciary Advisor for Evercore Wealth Management, Chief Philanthropy Officer at Give2Asia, Vice President and Senior Trust Officer at U.S. Trust, Executive Director of IIT Bombay Heritage Fund, Vice President of Asian Pacific Fund, and Planned Giving Director of the American Cancer Society.

Dien founded Kordant Advisors, a boutique social impact research and advisory firm serving clients in the U.S. and Asia. She created the Asian Philanthropy Forum, a site tracking the pulse of philanthropy in Asia.
Dien serves on the boards of The 1990 Institute, Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation, and American Council on Gift Annuities (ACGA). She is on the advisory boards of the Asia Society of Northern California (ASNC), GlobalSF, the Philanthropic Ventures Foundation, and the DEI Committee of NAEPC (National Association of Estate Planning Councils).

She holds the Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy® (CAP®) designation from The American College of Financial Services and the AEP ® designation from NAEPC. She received her LL.M. in International Law at Golden Gate University, her Juris Doctorate (JD) from the University of Toledo College of Law, and her Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Political Science from Adrian College.

Freda L. Zietlow, CFA, is an international investment and finance executive with over 20 years of institutional investment and private wealth management experience. She is currently Managing Director and Senior Portfolio Manager at Fiduciary Trust International. Prior to joining Fiduciary, Freda was Founder and Managing Principal of Peridot Capital Partners.

Freda earned her MBA in Finance and eCommerce from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and received her Master of Science in Real Estate from Columbia University. She graduated with high honors from the University of California-Berkeley with a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture. She has held the Charter Financial Analyst designation since 2002.

Freda serves and has served on many non-profit and corporate boards. She is currently a Trustee and Investment Committee Chair of Give2Asia, an Endowment Committee and Board Director of Piedmont Council BSA and an active member of the Women Corporate Directors (WCD) Foundation. Freda was until recently an independent Director at Bank of the Orient, an international bank with offices in California, Hawaii, and China.

Hanmin Liu is president of Wildflowers Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the sustainability of populations in the grassroots. From 1996 to 2016, he served on the Board of Trustees of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation and was chair of the board from 2003 to 2005.

Hanmin and his spouse, Jennifer Mei, started Wildflowers Institute in 1997. Since then, Wildflowers Institute has been called upon to run nineteen multiyear focus group sites in indigenous, ethnic, and racial communities in the United States, China, and Mexico. In these sites, Wildflowers identified the ways in which communities are working to solve their problems on their own and how best to support those efforts.

Key to this approach is the continual assessment of who in these communities are the trusted leaders apart from appointed or elected officials and nongovernmental organizations. The institute has selected more than 100 such local leaders from the nineteen communities to become Wildflowers fellows because they have proved to be reliable guides on how things work. Wildflowers also uses a patented process with blocks and figurines to help residents and leaders build and compare models of how they see their community. Ultimately, all these approaches together map the story and reality of how the community is organized and its hidden strengths, all from its own perspective.

In 2015, the national section of the New York Times featured the Wildflowers approach in a lead story about “hidden gem” artists in the San Francisco Tenderloin. Hanmin’s work has also earned him honors as a 2009 Distinguished Scholar in Residence, Clinton School of Public Service, Center on Community Philanthropy, University of Arkansas, and as a 2006 Purpose Prize Fellow. He received the 2006 Distinguished Professional Service Award from his undergraduate alma mater, the University of Pacific. He also has been a Gerbode Fellow since 2000. In addition to marginalized communities, Hanmin’s process has been implemented in consultant work with Apple Computer, IBM/Lotus Notes, the Kellogg Company, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, The Russell Family Foundation, and the Annie E. Casey Foundation.

During his tenure as chair and trustee of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, Hanmin oversaw more than US$4 billion of funding in Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States. Throughout his two decades as a trustee, he worked to balance the priorities of the staff with the founder’s and the board’s vision of a unique people-based approach to philanthropy. He worked on initiatives with Presidents Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, and Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. From 1992 to 1996, Hanmin was one of the lead evaluators for the W. K. Kellogg Foundation’s largest grant to date for the establishment of the International Youth Foundation.

Before the creation of Wildflowers Institute, Hanmin founded the U.S.–China Educational Institute in 1979, where he was the first to organize binational medical and health exchange programs. In all, 450 faculty and doctors and three Chinese ministers of health participated in these exchanges involving twenty-one US medical schools and centers and five of the most prominent Chinese medical schools and hospitals. He also served on the San Francisco–Shanghai Friendship Committee Board of Directors and managed the largest visits between health officials and experts in the sister cities.

Hanmin attended New York University College of Dentistry and developed an oral health prevention program in public schools in the Lower East Side of New York City that was featured in the New York Times. This oral health program grew to become the first national conference on preventive community dentistry that was supported by Procter & Gamble. Learning of Hanmin’s oral health programs, the US surgeon general asked him to establish a dental prevention center for enlisted personnel who were to be deployed to Vietnam, and he was given a commission as captain in the US Army.

In 2018, Hanmin was awarded the David Kriser Medallion, the highest honor bestowed by New York University College of Dentistry, for his national and international service. He gave the commencement speech to the NYU College of Dentistry graduation class of 2018 at Madison Square Garden.

After his military service, Hanmin earned a doctorate of philosophy at the Union for Experimenting Colleges and Universities, Cincinnati, Ohio. He returned to the upper Chinatown neighborhood in San Francisco, where he and Jennifer Mei established the Min An Health Center, which gave locals first-of-itskind access to well-known Chinese and Western doctors in languages and practices they were familiar with. The health center was featured in the San Francisco Chronicle.

Hanmin is a second-generation American, born in upper Chinatown, San Francisco. His grandfather Low Dot Chew worked for Sun Yat-sen and immigrated to San Francisco from China in the late 1800s to raise support for their cause. His father, Howard Y. Low, was a dentist in Chinatown, San Francisco, and community spokesperson to Presidents Harry S. Truman and John F. Kennedy.

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.

Jonathan has over 30 years’ leadership experience in the business, arts, community, international development and environment sectors including leadership positions in governance, strategy, business development, and capital fundraising. Jonathan is Director of Development at the Great Barrier Reef Foundation leading a global capital campaign and was previously CEO of Greening Australia in Tasmania and Victoria.

Jonathan is a non-Executive Director and Chair with Tasmanian Youth Orchestra and is a Winston Churchill Fellow and Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Jonathan holds a Degree in Engineering with Post Graduate qualifications in Development Studies and Environmental Studies.

Luc Tayart de Borms is Managing Director of the King Baudouin Foundation and Treasurer of the Network of European Foundations for Innovative Cooperation. He has vast experience in working within foundations environment. He also is a trustee of the European Venture Philanthropy Association (EVPA).

Nick Chan is a Partner at Squire Patton Boggs, a top ten most global law firm with 45 offices in 20 countries where he serves as Partner (since 2004) with practice group responsibility for Asia Pacific region. Mr. Chan served in-house at two Fortune 100 technology companies AT&T and Cisco Systems where he had regional responsibilities. He serves on the Council of FuHong Society, an NGO focused in helping intellectually disabled people to live with dignity and as an integral part of our community. He is the Honorary Legal Advisor of Origin Charity Foundation which has funded and supported the establishment of many schools in rural Mainland China. He is the Convenor of Tech Response to COVID-19, an NGO focused to use technology to empower ordinary people to control the spread of COVID-19, and to reduce the workload of healthcare workers. Mr. Chan serves on the Hospital Governing Committee of two hospitals in Hong Kong.

Mr. Chan also serves on the DIT committee, Belt and Road committee and as Vice Chairman of the Legal Committee of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Chan is the Chairman of eBRAM International Online Disputes Resolution Centre, a joint community LawTech effort to provide better and more cost-efficient access to justice by adopting and deploying the latest technology and solid legal knowledge. Mr. Chan devotes a lot of time to advance the Rule of Law, innovation, technology, education and the broader community, serving as Legal Aid Services Council member, previously as Law Society Council Member and still Vice Chairman of InnoTech Committee and Belt and Road Committee, as the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Council Member, Chairman of Knowledge Transfer Committee and IPO Industrial Fellowship Enrichment Program Fellow, and as Chairman and committee member for several Hong Kong Government appeal boards, as committee member serving on academic boards at CityU and HKU, and serves on the Entrepreneurship Programme Management Committee for PolyU. Nick also serves as advisory committee member of the Hong Kong Innovation and Technology Venture Fund. Nick publishes widely and is a columnist with a weekly column in a leading newspaper Headline News (頭條日報) to help share legally related information with the public.

Mr. Chan is an elected Hong Kong deputy to the 13th National People's Congress of the People’s Republic of China.

A seasoned public and private sector leader, Nair brings deep expertise and more than 25 years of experience building partnerships among government, corporate, philanthropic, and civil society partners in the Asia region.

In his recent role as Regional Director for South Asia at the Ford Foundation, Nair guided the Ford Foundation’s operations in New Delhi and the foundation’s programs across three countries.

Previous to that role, Pradeep served as India country director of the US-based Institute for Sustainable Communities, where he established the organization’s India office and was instrumental in forming strong relationships with the government of India, the private sector, and NGO communities.

Earlier, as director of President Bill Clinton’s Climate Initiative in India, Nair helped to grow the regional chapter of the global cities network, chaired by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. He also helped to foster the first investments in clean energy by India’s large state governments, and advised national government agencies on key health and environmental policies. The success of this work was highlighted by President Clinton at the United Nations.

Nair has taught development project financing at business schools in India and mentored entrepreneurs in engineering colleges. He most recently served as program director of the US-based Volcker Alliance, where he played a critical role in shaping the organization’s mission and drove partnerships with government to improve public sector effectiveness.

Nair holds an MBA in finance from Karnataka University, an engineering degree in electronics from Bharathiar University, and has also studied filmmaking. He began his career with the management consulting firm Deloitte in Silicon Valley.

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.

Yiwen Li has broad experience in healthcare investing and global commercialization. She is Director for Corporate Strategy and Business Development at Masimo (NASDAQ: MASI), a medical technology company servicing over 200 million patients worldwide. Previously, she was Director of Global Strategy and Business Development at NantHealth (NASDAQ: NH), where she led the expansion of healthcare technology and precision medicine solutions in Asia, Europe and Middle East. Yiwen started her career at Capital Group, one of the largest asset managers and thereafter, moving to venture investing at NantWorks, a global conglomerate.

Yiwen has over 13 years investment and operation, is well versed in the venture landscape in California and Asia. She is advisor at Ternary Fund Management, a multi strategy fund platform based in Singapore. She is also venture partner Cerracap Cares, a woman-led impact fund focus on education, environment and empowerment.

Yiwen is passionate in connecting East and West, social impact and women empowerment. She serves as a board of director at leading non-profit and foundations including Give2Asia, Asia Society, and C-Sweet. Yiwen received her master’s degree in Economics from the London School of Economics and a dual master’s degree in Global Studies from University of Vienna. She is fluent in Mandarin and German. Yiwen is the author of one of the best sellers in China “Make the World Your Playground”, inspiring Chinese women to follow their unique path.