Preparing Asians and Americans for a Shared Future

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1 YOUR INVITATION TO

2 Preparing Asians and Americans for a Shared Future Asia Society is the leading global and pan-asian organization working to strengthen relationships and promote understanding among the people, leaders, and institutions of the United States and Asia. We seek to increase knowledge and enhance dialogue, encourage creative expression, and generate new ideas across the fields of arts and culture, policy and business, and education. Founded in 1956, Asia Society is a nonpartisan, nonprofit educational institution with offices in Hong Kong, Houston, Los Angeles, Manila, Melbourne, Mumbai, New York, San Francisco, Seoul, Shanghai, and Washington, DC.

3 Dinner Chairs Edward and Betsy Cohen Atlas Energy, Inc. Vikram S. Pandit CEO, Citigroup Inc. Charles R. Kaye Chairman, Asia Society Vishakha N. Desai president, Asia Society and the Trustees of Asia Society request the honor of your presence at asia society new york 2010 awards dinner Tuesday, November 16 Grand Ballroom, The Waldorf=Astoria 301 Park Avenue, New York City Reception: 6:30 pm Dinner: 7:30 pm Asian National Dress or Black Tie RSVP by November 9 th, 2010 Please respond by November 4 th to be included in the Awards Dinner Program. Visit for details Proceeds from the Annual Dinner Support Asia Society s Mission.

4 GLOBAL vision AWARD Mukesh D. Ambani Chairman, Reliance Industries Limited Mukesh D. Ambani is the Chairman and Managing Director of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL). He initiated Reliance s backward integration journey from textiles into polyester fibres and further into petrochemicals, petroleum refining, and oil and gas exploration and production. He led the creation of the world s largest grassroots petroleum refinery at Jamnagar, India. In 2009 Mr. Ambani was ranked the 5 th best performing CEO in the world by the Harvard Business Review and RIL was ranked the 15 th most innovative company in the world in a survey conducted by Business Week and the BCG.

5 GLOBAL Leadership AWARD Jeffrey R. Immelt Chairman and CEO, Ge Jeffrey R. Immelt is the ninth chairman of GE, a post he has held since Mr. Immelt has held several global leadership positions since coming to GE in 1982, including roles in GE s Plastics, Appliance, and Medical businesses. In 1989 he became an officer of GE, joined the GE Capital Board in 1997, and was appointed president and chief executive officer in Named one of the World s Best CEOs three times by Barron s, Mr. Immelt is also a member of The Business Council and is on the board of the New York Federal Reserve Bank.

6 Cultural Ambassador Award and Performance The New York Philharmonic Alan Gilbert became Music Director of the New York Philharmonic in September 2009, the first native New Yorker to hold the post, ushering in what New York magazine called a moment of metamorphosis and continuity. America s oldest symphony orchestra, and one of the oldest in the world, the New York Philharmonic has always championed the music of its time, giving world or US premieres of works from Beethoven to Tan Dun, and has released nearly 2,000 recordings since The Philharmonic is renowned around the globe, having toured since 1930, and enjoys a particularly rich relationship with Asia as both a destination and in the heritage of its Music Director and many current musicians. On February 26, 2008, the New York Philharmonic s historic concert in Pyongyang was broadcast live, internationally. In October 2009 the Orchestra made its debut in Vietnam, performing two concerts at the Hanoi Opera House as part of the Asian Horizons tour, Alan Gilbert s first as Music Director.

7 Dinner Leadership CHAIRS Edward and Betsy Cohen Atlas Energy, Inc. Vikram S. Pandit CEO, Citigroup Inc. VICE CHAIRS GE Chip and Sheryl Kaye/ Warburg Pincus LLC MasterCard Worldwide Ruth and Harold Newman and Miranda Wong Tang Lulu and Anthony Wang BENEFACTORS ConocoPhillips HSBC Bank USA, N.A. The McGraw-Hill Companies Tishman Speyer Properties, LP PATRONS Citi Private Bank General Atlantic LLC SUPPORTERS Dinny and Aashish Devitre Lisina M. Hoch Sonny Kalsi Saroj and Sreedhar Menon Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Sony Corporation of America Ambassador Carl Spielvogel and Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel Sullivan & Cromwell LLP Wolfensohn Family Foundation asia society trustees Jon A. Anda Hushang Ansary Ajay Banga Max N. Berry Hamid Biglari Ronnie C. Chan Purnendu Chatterjee Betsy Z. Cohen Leo A. Daly III Vishakha N. Desai Henrietta Holsman Fore Charles C. Foster Stephanie Foster Thomas E. Freston Toyoo Gyohten Wahid Hamid Doris Magsaysay Ho Lewis B. Kaden Sonny Kalsi Charles R. Kaye Chong-Moon Lee Lee Hong-Koo Anand G. Mahindra Rohana Mahmood Harold McGraw III Thomas E. McLain Thomas K. Montag Sid Myer John D. Negroponte Harold J. Newman Richard L. Plepler William R. Rhodes Charles Percy Rockefeller John D. Rockefeller IV Courtney Sale Ross David M. Rubenstein Stephen A. Schwarzman Miranda Wong Tang John S. Wadsworth, Jr. Lulu C. Wang James D. Wolfensohn Tracy R. Wolstencroft 2010 Awards Dinner Décor by *List in formation

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