The Hon. Ban Ki-moon, 2018 Chang-Lin Tien Distinguished Leadership Award Winner writes “To Honor the Victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 75 Years on, We Must Lay Down Our Nuclear Weapons" in TIME (August 2, 2020).

Published on October 14, 2020

He is former Secretary General of the United Nations and Deputy Chair of The Elders. (Photo: with Asia Foundation president David Arnold, accepting the 2018 Chang-Lin Tien Distinguished Leadership Award).

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Hugo Immanuel Garcia, 2019 Young Asian Diplomats Program (Timor-Leste) received his first diplomatic posting in January 2020 as third secretary in the Consulate General of Timor-Leste in Bali, Indonesia where he will serve until January 2023.

October 13, 2020
(Photo: touring a farm in Nebraska with the 2019 Young Asian Diplomats Program).

Ratan Tata and Eleni Kounalakis in Conversation: Changing the Idea of What a Leader Looks Like

October 14, 2020
With lives and livelihoods disrupted, 2020 has been a year of challenges and great uncertainty. In this short video, Ambassador Kathleen Stephens, vice chair of The Asia Foundation Board of Trustees, sits down with two powerhouse leaders to reflect on times when they have been tested before: prominent business and philanthropic leader Ratan Tata and Lieutenant Governor of California Eleni Kounalak