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Annual Report 2009
EWC student fellows share cross-cultural culinary traditions in the Center’s Hale Manoa residence hall.
The East-West Center promotes better relations and understanding among the people and nationsof the United States, Asia, and the Pacific through cooperative study, research, and dialogue.Established by the U.S. Congress in 1960, the Center serves as a resource for information andanalysis on critical issues of common concern, bringing people together to exchange views, buildexpertise, and develop policy options.
Officially known as the Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange between East and West,the Center is a U.S.-based institution for public diplomacy with international governance, staffing,students, and participants.
The Center is an independent, public, nonprofit organization with funding from the U.S.government, and additional support provided by private agencies, individuals, foundations,corporations, and governments in the region.
The Center’s 21-acre Honolulu campus, adjacent to the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, islocated midway between Asia and the U.S. mainland and features research, residential, andinternational conference facilities. The Center’s Washington, D.C. office focuses on preparing theUnited States for an era of growing Asia Pacific prominence.
Front cover photo: The Japanese Garden at the EWC’s Hawai’i Imin International Conference Center – JeffersonHall designed by I.M. Pei.
Table of Contents
Message from EWC Presidentand Board of Governors Chairman 2
2009 Highlights
PECC Conference Gauges Outlookfor Asia Pacific Economic Recovery 4
EWC Coordinates Delegation to ObserveElections in Federated States of Micronesia 6
EWC Promotes Justice and Human RightsThroughout Southeast Asia 8
New Environmental Stewardship ProgramCultivates Action-oriented Leaders 10
Research 12
Education 14
EWC inWashington 16
Seminars 17
External Affairs 18
East-West Center Foundation 19
Supplemental Pages
2009 Gifts to EWC Foundation 20Gifts of $100 or more received betweenJanuary 1, 2009 and December 31, 2009
List of BoardsEWC Foundation Board of Directors 22Friends of the EWC Board 22EWCAssociation Executive Board 23EWCAssociation Chapter Leaders 23EWC Board of Governors 24EWC Program Directors and Corporation Officers 24International Advisory Panel 24
Financial Review 25
Mission
The East-West Center
contributes to a peaceful,
prosperous, and just
Asia Pacific community
by serving as a vigorous
hub for cooperative
research, education,
and dialogue on critical
issues of common concern
to the Asia Pacific region
and the United States.
Message from EWC Presidentand Board of Governors Chairman
For the East-West Center, 2009 was especially notable for the preparations that began for the
Center’s 50th anniversary the following year, and for the selection of Hawai‘i as the
primary venue for the U.S. year of hosting the 2011 Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation
(APEC) forum, the Asia Pacific’s region’s premier institution for multilateral cooperation.
As the Center prepared to mark the important milestone of its 50th year, it recommitted itself
to its core values of collaboration, expertise, and leadership. These values, and the ideals behind
them that gave birth to the Center half a century ago, are needed more than ever in the globalized
21st century world, and we intend to continue setting the pace.
Each year, the East-West Center creates new business. In fact, a very significant portion of the
Center’s current activities didn’t even exist a decade ago. These activities include, for example,
programs in Washington, D.C. such as the annual Asia policy meetings under the auspices of the
U.S. Asia Pacific Council, frequent topical seminars, and the Asia Matters for America project,
which provides data and graphic analysis of how Asia and the United States interact economically
and at the grassroots level.
Other recent East-West Center programs include the Asia Pacific Leadership Program, the
Senior Journalists Seminar focusing on exchange between Asian Muslim and American journalists,
the International Media Conference, the International Graduate Student Conference, the Changing
Faces exchange for women leaders, the Asian International Justice Initiative, and a variety of
programs in support of the ASEAN organization. Proven traditional programs, such as the Jefferson
Fellowships, the Summer Population Seminars, and the AsiaPacificEd for K-12 teachers and schools
have been transformed or reformatted to address new concerns and meet changing needs.
This year’s annual report features two examples of new business begun in 2009 — election
monitoring and an environmental leadership program. The monitoring of democratic elections in
the Pacific has grown out of the longstanding relationships built with the Pacific island nations
through the Pacific Islands Conference of Leaders and the Pacific Islands Development Program.
In 2009, under the auspices of the Asia Pacific Democracy Partnership, the EWC established an
election observation mission for federal and state elections in the Federated States of Micronesia,
and in 2010, it will be monitoring elections in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon
Islands. What is distinctive about the Center’s election monitoring teams is that they are particularly
diverse, composed of other islanders as well as Americans and Asians. Most of the observers are
drawn from the Center’s extended family of alumni, friends, and professional colleagues.
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The Asia Pacific Leadership Program
staff organized an environmental
leadership program for the Department
of State’s Bureau of Educational and
Cultural Affairs, drawing upon the
Center’s partnerships, networks and long
experience in leadership development
and environment issues. Developed
largely for undergraduate students from
Asia and the Pacific islands, the program
provided a rich introduction in how U.S.
society grapples at the national and local
level with the complex issues related to environmental stewardship.
Major funding for both programs came from competed contracts through the U.S. Department
of State, but neither would have been possible without the continuing investments in expertise
made to the East-West Center through the general appropriated funding from Congress. These
investments continue to bear fruit in a wide variety of activities that bring together Americans and
their counterparts from the Asia and Pacific region in cooperative and meaningful study, research,
exchange, and dialogue settings. Virtually all these activities are conducted through partnership
arrangements that pool expertise, earn goodwill and defray costs. In FY2009, the Center recorded
almost 4,000 participants in several hundred activities, its most active year ever.
Helping to open the Center’s 50th year in January 2010, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham
Clinton remarked in her policy speech at the Center on the dramatic developments in the Asia
Pacific. Secretary Clinton noted that “the East-West Center has been part of this sea change,
helping to shape ideas and train experts.”
Under-Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Judith McHale recently said
the Center “embodies the President’s vision of how in this new era we must interact with people
from other countries, on the basis of respect and dialogue, seeking to listen and understand before
we speak and would be understood. The rest of us have finally caught up to you, 50 years later.”
EWC PresidentCharles E. Morrison
EWC Board of Governors ChairmanPuongpun Sananikone
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PECC Conference Gauges Outlookfor Asia Pacific Economic Recovery
Above: Indonesian Trade MinisterMari Pangestu
Left: Panelists discuss challengesfacing the Obama Administrationin U.S.-Asia relations featuring(L – R): Charles E. Morrison, PECCCo-Chair and East-West CenterPresident; Hon. Cheng Siwei, formerVice Chairman, Standing Committeeof the National People’s Congress,China; Jusuf Wanandi, PECC Co-Chair; Amb. Yoshiji Nogami, President,Japan Institute for InternationalAffairs; and Prof. Joseph Nye,Harvard University.
The survey of opinion leaders from 25 AsiaPacific economies was conducted in April 2009and is part of PECC’s State of the Region Report.Respondents overwhelmingly agreed that slowergrowth in Western industrialized countries forthe foreseeable future would encourage a shift todomestic demand growth in Asian economies.
“Opinion leaders in the region believe thata structural shift in the Asia Pacific economy isunderway as a result of the crisis,” said Yuen PauWoo, coordinator of PECC’s State of the Regionproject and president and CEO of the Asia PacificFoundation of Canada. “Fifty percent ofrespondents agree that the Chinese economyhas begun a transition away from export-ledgrowth to domestic demand-driven growth.”
The economists were pleased with the wayAsia Pacific policy makers tackled the crisis.“Generally, policymakers responded aggressively,”said Takatoshi Kato, the IMF’s Deputy ManagingDirector. Respondents gave overwhelming approvalof China’s stimulus package with a satisfaction ratingof more than 60%. “China’s stimulus packageprevented a free fall of their economy,” stated Amb.Yung Chul Park, former Korean Ambassador forInternational Economy and Trade and past chairmanof the Korea Exchange Bank. “South Korea alsoseems to be on the right track toward recovery.”
The United States membership in PECC isadministered through the U.S. Asia Pacific Council(USAPC), a program of the East-West Center.For more about the conference and remarksexpressed at the event, visit the meetingwebsite at: http://www.pecc18.org �
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As the Asia Pacific region begins to see theeffects of various stimulus packages, expertsat the 18th General Meeting of the PacificEconomic Cooperation Council (PECC)discussed the global challenges still looming
on the long path to recovery. Business leaders,government officials, policymakers, and other AsiaPacific experts gathered in Washington D.C. at thePECC meeting hosted by the East-West Center inMay to identify regional responses for Asia Pacificeconomies to the global economic crises.
“We need to use this existing crisis as anopportunity to forge new kinds of partnership andcooperation, just as we learned from the Asianfinancial crises in the 1990s,” stated Deputy Secretaryof State James Steinberg in his address at the meeting.“…Now more than ever, guaranteeing our individualeconomic prosperity depends on promoting thecommon prosperity.”
A survey of more than 400 regional opinionleaders released during the two-day PECC conferencerevealed that, while a substantial number ofrespondents expected much weaker economic growthin 2010, the degree of pessimism had declinedcompared to a survey conducted in October 2008.“While it is too early to declare that a turnaround isunderway, the PECC survey nevertheless suggests thatopinion leaders are less pessimistic about the U.S.economy today than they were six months ago,” saidEWC President Charles E. Morrison, who is alsoInternational Chair of the Pacific EconomicCooperationCouncil. “Forty-five percent of survey respondentsexpect much weaker growth in the U.S. economycompared to 80 percent in the previous survey.”
Deputy Secretary of State James B. Steinberg
Charles E. Morrison, PECC Co-Chair and President, East-WestCenter, presents Peter Geithner a special PECC awardacknowledging his efforts to foster Asia Pacific dialogue andinstitution-building.
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Olympia Morei, member of theElection Observation Mission fromthe Republic of Palau, watches asballots are being prepared for tallyingonWeno Island, Chuuk, FSM.
EWC Coordinates Delegation to ObserveElections in Federated States of Micronesia
The Pacific Islands Development Program is
the research arm and secretariat to the Pacific
Islands Conference of Leaders, an organization
founded at the Center in 1980 composed of all
22 island governments in Oceania. PIDP also
publishes aWeb-based daily news service and
engages in conflict management in the region.
“This was an invaluable opportunity to observethe democratic process of a developing nation,”remarked delegation member Robert Sullivan, aUniversity of Hawai‘i professor from New Zealand.There is no formal political party system in the FSMor Chuuk State. However, there are no constraintsfrom the government to establish a party. “It seemsthat people in FSM and Chuuk State don’t considerpolitical parties as a prerequisite for democracy,”noted Teguh Santosa, an EWC degree fellow fromIndonesia. “The Chuukese and Micronesians tendto cast their political preferences based on personalrelationships, clanship, and family-ties with thecandidates… Nevertheless, the records show that theelection turnout in the FSM and Chuuk State isquite high, around 80 percent.”
The Election Observation Mission wasconducted under the auspices of the Asia PacificDemocracy Partnership, a multilateral collaborationof Asia Pacific countries to promote and strengthendemocratic processes in the region. The East-WestCenter coordinated the project through a grant fromthe U.S. Department of State’s Bureau ofDemocracy, Human Rights and Labor. �
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The East-West Center’s Pacific IslandsDevelopment Program (PIDP) coordinatedan international delegation to observe thenational congressional and Chuuk stateelections in the Federated States of
Micronesia in March. “Despite the sensitive natureof having outside observers present for what in somecases were highly contested races, there was aremarkable air of openness and impressivehospitality extended to the groups visiting pollingstations on Election Day,” said Gerard Finin, PIDP’sdeputy director and the delegation project director.
An 18-member delegation of governmentofficials, academics, and civil society representativesobserved the elections at the invitation of the FSMnational and Chuuk state governments. Headed byCongressman Eni F.H. Faleomavaega of AmericanSamoa and chairman of the U.S. House ForeignAffairs Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, and theGlobal Environment, the Election ObservationMission included representatives from 10 countries,including Aotearoa (New Zealand), Australia, India,Indonesia, Japan, Palau, Philippines, South Korea,Thailand and the United States.
After the election, the delegation issued astatement congratulating the people of the widelydispersed Pacific island nation “for an open andspirited electoral process, and for conducting anelection that generated high voter interest and wasfree of violence within the FSM.”
On Election Day, observers traveled to pollingsites in three states: Chuuk, Pohnpei and Yap. Teamsobserved more than 50 polling stations in remotelocations. Additionally, members of the missionobserved the chain of transmission of the ballot boxesto centralized tabulation centers and witnessed theearly tabulation process at various sites.
The election observation teammembers and institutional collaborators.
Election observer and EWC PhD student from Gujarat, India,Sakilahmed Makarani (left) interviews poll workers on Tol Island,Chuuk State, Federated States of Micronesia.
EWC Promotes Justice and Human RightsThroughout Southeast Asia
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Above: The international panel of judges of the ExtraordinaryChambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), many of whomreceived pre-trial training through AIJI’s programs.
Left: AIJI’s trial monitors observed and reported on the firsttrial of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal at the ECCC.Photos above and left:Courtesy of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
AIJI Director David Cohen (back row, right) and DeputyDirector Michelle Staggs Kelsall (left) with the trial monitoringteam upon completion of their pre-trial training at the Officeof the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Cambodia.
AIJI has also undertaken justice and capacity-building initiatives in other parts of Southeast Asia.Working in cooperation with the Supreme Court ofIndonesia, AIJI has established an on-going judicialand legal training project for judges, prosecutors,and investigators of the National Human RightsCommission, and non-governmental organizationsinvolved in human rights cases.
In 2009, a new partnership betweenAIJI, theAttorneyGeneral’s office of Indonesia, and the U.S. Departmentof Justice, resulted in a customized human rights train-ing program for prosecutors. AIJI also partnered withIndonesia’s newly created National Commission onWitness and Victim Protection to provide vital trainingand support as Indonesia begins to offer these protectionservices for the first time. AIJI’s initial training, held inNovember, helped prepare the commissioners and abroad representation of the judicial system staff, rangingfrom police to judges, prosecutors, and other staff.
Building on AIJI’s past work in Timor-Leste,having produced reports on the Special Panel forSerious Crimes in Dili, AIJI is currently developinga training program, at the request of the government,for Timorese police investigators and an archivalpreservation project related to the 1999 violence.
All of AIJI’s initiatives over the years have helpedbuild greater capacity at the national level in severalSoutheast Asian countries, which strengthened thefoundation for the establishment of the ASEANIntergovernmental Human Rights Commission(AICHR) in 2009. To support the work of thecommission, AIJI has been actively involved withthe creation of The Human Rights Resource Center forASEAN hosted by the University of Indonesia, whichwill undertake independent research, networking, andcapacity-building initiatives.
“The resource center serves as a uniqueplatform to use models based on AIJI’s Indonesiaand Cambodia training programs,” noted Cohen.“As a result, AIJI’s impact continues to expand inSoutheast Asia as we adapt these vital nationalprograms for implementation at the regional level.” �
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The East-West Center’s Asian InternationalJustice Initiative (AIJI) has been laying thefoundation for human rights work at theregional level within ASEAN since 2003.AIJI is a collaborative project between the
East-West Center and the University of California -Berkeley War Crimes Studies Center.
AIJI’s project on the Khmer Rouge Tribunal inCambodia involves a series of monitoring, outreach,and legacy initiatives. The first trial at the ExtraordinaryChambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC),that of Kaing Guek Eav (Duch), officially closedin November 2009. AIJI recruited and trained aninternational cadre of trial monitors consisting ofyoung lawyers and human rights professionals,who produced weekly summary reports (KRTTrial Monitor) culminating in a final 60-pagereport detailing the ‘lessons learned’ from this trial(available online at: EastWestCenter.org/aiji).
The ‘Duch on Trial’ series —a weekly television broadcastproduced by AIJI in conjunctionwith Khmer Mekong Films(KMF), was aired on Cambodianprimetime TV, generating aweekly audience of between800,000 and 3 million viewers (20%of the country’s population). TimeMagazine described the series as a“sleeper hit” and noted that thisshow became the main way manyyoung Cambodians, who were nottaught about the Khmer Rouge inschool, “heard about this dark chapterof their country’s history for the first time.”
In the years leading up to this landmark trial,AIJI conducted trainings for the defense counsel,co-prosecutors, and judges, and worked directlywith grassroots NGOs in Phnom Penh to developoutreach programs designed to increase thedissemination of locally-produced informationand analysis about the tribunal process.
“The basis for healing is an awareness of thepast,” stated AIJI Director David Cohen. “AIJI’soutreach programs helped people understand thehuman dimension of what really happened inCambodia during the Khmer Rouge period.”AIJI is set to continue with a combination oftraining, monitoring, and outreach for the durationof the ECCC’s next trial of four senior KhmerRouge leaders slated to begin in early-mid 2011.
AIJI’s 2009 Summer Institute on International Humanitarian Law,held in Bali, attracted lawyers, government officials, journalists,and NGO workers from 15 countries. AIJI’s Director David Cohenand Deputy Director Michelle Staggs Kelsall (both in front row,center) coordinated the program.
New Environmental Stewardship ProgramCultivates Action-oriented Leaders
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USIE participants with Hawai‘i Congressional Representative Mazie Hirono on Capitol Hill.
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It takes a calamity for people to learn and change,but we cannot wait for an environmentalcatastrophe, the time for change is now,” statedCai Dingyan from Singapore, one of the 20 youngscholars who participated in an innovative
East-West Center environmental leadershipprogram. For six weeks these emerging leaders fromMalaysia, Singapore, Fiji and Papua New Guineawere immersed in a transformative and action-oriented program— The United States Institute onthe Environment (USIE) — designed to foster anunderstanding of the U.S. environmental movementand aid in the development of sustainable pathwaysto environmental stewardship.
“USIE empowered me to act; inspired me tolead; showed me I can if I want to,” declaredSubhashni Raj, a student from Fiji researching coralreef conservation and serving as a consultant for theSouth Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission.
During the first four weeks of the program,participants met with leaders in Hawai‘i’senvironmental movement including representativesfrom Hawaiian Electric Company; WasteManagement, Inc.; Ma‘o Farm; and Hawai‘iDepartment of Business, Economic Development& Tourism’s Clean Energy Initiative.
“I learned from USIE that environmentalstewardship is not a matter of a single generation,but rather how this generation relates to the futuregenerations,” stated Lin Wai Hwa, a student fromMalaysia working on a sediment core researchproject studying heavy metal pollution in the SuluSea. “Every action our ancestors made in the pastaffects all of us today,” said Lin.
During the field study in Washington D.C.,following a week meeting with scientists andenvironmental leaders in the San Francisco area,participants examined how effective policies testedby individual states are then adopted at the nationallevel. While in the capital, participants met withmembers of U.S. Congress leading environmentalcommittees that create policies, officials whoenforce the policies at the U.S. EnvironmentalProtection Agency, and professionals who defend orchallenge policies at the Natural Resources DefenseCouncil.
“We saw the importance of finding a balancebetween all stakeholder groups,” said Mou HuitingClara, an analytical chemistry student fromSingapore. “Success will not happen overnight andit will definitely not happen with singular andcompetitive leadership. This is why we have acollective responsibility for the environment, bothas individual nations and as international partners.”
According to EWC’s USIE coordinatorChristina Monroe, “Participants wanted to knowwhy the U.S. does things a certain way and how theycan build upon and improve the model in theirrespective home countries.” At the completion ofthe program, participants presented one-year actionplans to take their USIE experience to the nextlevel. In her action plan, Mou addressed the “needto balance livelihood and conservation, create publicawareness, and build strong conservation-orientedinstitutions.”
Funded by the U.S. State Department’s Bureauof Educational and Cultural Affairs, USIE wasorganized and administered by the East-West Centerin collaboration with more than twenty organizationsincluding the University of Hawai‘i’s EnvironmentalCenter, Stanford University’s Woods Institute forthe Environment, and the Nature Conservancy. �
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USIE participants help offset the carbon footprint of theirinternational flights by planting trees at the University of Hawai’iEnvironmental Center.
USIE participants look at Hawai‘i’s marine ecology issues first-hand during a deep sea dive.
The EconomyThe joint East-West Center/National Bureauof Asian Research conference in Beijing on“Standards and Innovation Policy in theGlobal Knowledge Economy— Core Issuesfor China and the U.S.,” organized by SeniorFellow Dieter Ernst, attracted key govern-ment officials, corporate executives andacademics from the U.S., China, and Europeincluding participation fromMicrosoft, Intel,and Motorola.
The Realizing the ASEAN EconomicCommunity (AEC) study, lead by Non-Resident Senior FellowMichael Plummer,assessed the feasibility and impact of thecreation a single market and production basein Southeast Asia. The findings project a5.3% increase in regional welfare and that allASEAN states will gain from the AEC initiative.
The National Transfer Account project,co-directed by Senior Fellow AndrewMason, examines saving and sharing amonggenerations in more than twenty countriesin Asia, North and South America, Europe,Africa, and the Pacific. As part of thelong-term study, the research team isanalyzing data from previous financial crises(e.g., “the lost generation” in Japan, theAsian financial crisis, and the Swedishbanking crisis), to get hints of what thecurrent financial crisis might mean in termsof public and private transfers of wealth.
The Center’s ResearchProgram addresses issues
of policy significance to theU.S. and the Asia Pacific region.The Program is organized intofour broad areas: 1) Politics,Governance and Security;2) Economics; 3) EnvironmentalChange, Vulnerability, andGovernance; and 4) Populationand Health.
Governance andHuman RightsUnder the auspices of the Asia PacificGovernance and Democracy Initiative(AGDI), Senior Fellow Shabbir Cheemaorganized the “Stakeholders Conferenceon Cross-Border Governance in Asiaand the Pacific” held in Bangkok.The meeting examined cross-bordergovernance issues related to migrationand refugees, trade and povertyreduction, water management, humantrafficking and human rights, andemerging infectious disease surveillanceand response. Cheema also launched
a project on electoral andparliamentary processes inPakistan with support fromthe U.N. Democracy Fund.The Asian International
Justice Initiative (AIJI)monitored the first trial of theExtraordinary Chamber in theCourts of Cambodia (ECCC)and engaged in a series of outreachand legacy initiatives (see p.8).
Research Program
Research teammembers Melissa Finucane (left) and Jefferson Fox (right) visit live poultry market inVietnam as part of their study on “Anthropogenic Environmental Change and Avian Influenza in Vietnam.”
The USAID-sponsored report,“Realizing the ASEAN EconomicCommunity: A ComprehensiveAssessment,” co-editedby Senior Fellow MichaelPlummer, was presented toPresident Barack Obama byASEAN Secretary-GeneralSurin Pitsuwan at the ASEAN-U.S. Leaders Meeting in Singapore.
Information about EWC publications is available at:EastWestCenter.org/pubs
Senior Fellow Shabbir Cheema (left) at the Cross-Border Governance in Asia and the Pacific conference.
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Environmental ChangeUnder the leadership of Senior FellowRoland Fuchs, the inaugural conferencefor “Cities at Risk: Building AdaptiveCapacity for Managing ClimateChange in Asia’s Coastal Megacities,”held in Bangkok, brought togetherscientists, urban planners, disastermanagers and policy makers to reviewscientific findings on climate relatedrisks and assess the gaps in both thescience and policy responses.
Senior Fellow Jefferson Fox receiveda grant ($302,017) from InternationalResources Group to study IntegratedProtected Area-Co-Management(IPAC) in Bangladesh.
Senior FellowMelissa Finucanesecured a $3.4 million grant from theNational Oceanic and AtmosphericAssociation (NOAA) in support of thePacific Regional Integrated Sciencesand Assessment (Pacific RISA) programfor the next five years. The PacificRISA supports stakeholders in Pacificisland and coastal communities(Hawai‘i and U.S.-affiliated Pacificislands) in mitigating and adapting tothe impacts of climate variability andchange. As one of nine U.S. RISAprograms, the Pacific RISA emphasizesthe engagement of communities,governments, and businesses indeveloping effective policies to build re-silience in key sectors such as water re-source management, coastal and marineresources, fisheries, agriculture,tourism, disaster management, andpublic health.
Regional Healthand PopulationThe National Science Foundationawarded the Center $1.4 million to studydevelopment’s role in the emergence ofavian flu in Vietnam. Led by EWCresearchers Jefferson Fox, MelissaFinucane, Sumeet Saksena, and NancyLewis, the inaugural project meeting,held at Hanoi University of Agriculture,included field visits to poultry producersand Vietnam's largest wholesale poultrymarket.
Senior Fellow Tim Brown andcolleagues launched theGuidelines fortheir Analysis and Advocacy (A2)project at the International AIDSconference in Bali. A2 improvesresponses to HIV in Asia by helping tobuild in-country capacity to develop aclear understanding of the localHIV/AIDS epidemic and to translatethat understanding into effectivenational policies and appropriatelytargeted programs. Initiated in 2004with USAID funding, the projectrapidly expanded to five sites and hasproduced real world policy and programchange. TheGuidelines detail thatprocess with the goal of helping othercountries carry out similar initiatives.
Approximately 40 participantsfrom 12 countries gathered at theCenter for The 40th Summer Seminaron Population. The 30-day intensiveprogram comprised workshops onHIV/AIDS modeling, fertility change inAsia, and communicating with policymakers.
EWC International Conferences
EWC researchers were involved with theorganization of a number of internationalconferences and workshops including:
Standards and Innovation Policy in theGlobal Knowledge Economy – Core Issuesfor China and the U.S. held in Beijing,co-sponsored by the National Bureauof Asian Research
Pacific Island Man and the BiosphereProject meeting, in collaboration withUNESCO and the Pacific Science Association,focusing on biodiversity conservation andsustainable socio-economic development
Toward a Sustainable Transport Systemfor Green Growth in the North Pacificco-sponsored by the Korea TransportationInstitute
Fossil Fuels to Green Energy: Policy SchemesinTransition in the North Pacific co-sponsoredby the Korea Energy Economics Institute
Institutions for Regionalism: GovernanceIssues for Regional Comparisons co-sponsored by the Asian Development Bank
Rural Livelihoods and ProtectedLandscapes: Co-management in theWetlands and Forests of Bangladesh, as anIntegrated Protected Area Co-managementProject (IPAC) Small Grants ProgramResearch Design Workshop
Governance for Sustainable Development:Global Practices and the ChineseExperience held in Beijing as part of AGDI,co-sponsored by the China Center forComparative Politics and Economics
Sea level rise will exacerbate erosion and other coastal hazards, threaten vital infrastructure, and thus compromise the well-being of island communities. ThePacific RISA program provides critical support to Pacific island communities in mitigating and adapting to the effects of climate change. (Photo: Cdr. JohnBortniak, NOAA's America's Coastlines Collection)
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More than twenty EWC alumnifrom the U.S.-South Pacific ScholarshipProgram (USSP) gathered at the Center inJune for a special workshop on “Leadershipand Social Networking: Strengthening theTies that Bind our Pacific Islands AlumniCommunity.” This landmark meetinghelped to build and strengthen the EWCalumni network in the region around anew generation of emerging Pacific islandsleaders. Participants discussed theirpriorities for an action agenda for thePacific future. Priorities for their islandnations addressed the need for greaterleadership training, literacy and education,capacity building at all levels, and the needto cultivate a culture of transparency.
International Forumfor Education 2020Mid-career leaders drawn from leadinguniversities and ministries of education in10 Asian countries participated in the 4thIFE 2020 Educational Leadership Institutefocused on access, equity, and capacityissues in Asia Pacific higher education.They gained a regional perspective andset of concepts through which to bettercompare and evaluate how these issuesare impacting their own societies. Thisinstitute also cultivated an internationalnetwork for on-going consultation.
In partnership with the nationalaccreditation body in Malaysia (MQA),the 7th IFE 2020 Senior Seminar, heldin Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, addressed“Quality Issues for Higher Educationin an Emerging Knowledge Society.”The insights from these Northeast, South,and Southeast Asian contributors will bepublished as an edited volume in late 2010.
their own participation in East-WestCenter programs as affiliated studentsand scholars, to access the richintellectual and cultural environmentat the Center. The chart below depictsstudent diversity by region.
The Education Program
EWC educational opportunitiesprepare current and future
leaders from the Asia Pacificregion and the U.S. for a new eraof increased social, economic, andtechnological interdependence.Through degree and certificateprograms, students develop afoundation to address criticalregional and global issues.Programs for educators strengthentheir capacity to cultivate in theirstudents an understanding of thehistories, cultures, and contem-porary issues of the region. Aninternational forum explores neweducational paradigms for theAsia Pacific region. Both publicand private sources support theCenter’s education programs.
Student ProgramsIn FY2009 the number of EWC studentsrose to 540, the highest since 1974. Thiswas driven by a growing variety ofpublic and private scholarship fundingstreams, with total of 14 at present,including the first from the NorwayResearch Council, supporting Pacificislands students, and the Ministry ofEducation and Training in Vietnam. Anincreasing number of students also fund
The International Graduate Student Conference,an annual student-led initiative and the largestof its kind worldwide, attracted 140 studentsfrom 54 universities in 25 nations.
U.S.-South Pacific Scholarship Program alumni helped restore a Native Hawaiian fishpond during theirweek-long leadership and social networking workshop in Honolulu.
FY 2009 Students(by region)
� Southeast Asia 178 | 33%
� East Asia 138 | 25%
� South Asia 68 | 13%
� Pacific 38 | 7%
� United States 95 | 18%
� Other 23 | 4%(beyond mandated region)
Total 540 students
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APearl Harbor survivor exchanges perceptionsof history with a Japanese teacher during theAsiaPacificEd Pearl Harbor workshop.
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Asian StudiesDevelopment ProgramIn 2009, the Asian Studies DevelopmentProgram (ASDP) conducted facultydevelopment workshops on the U.S.mainland, a field seminar in China, aresidential institute in Hawai‘i, anational symposium, and the 15thnational ASDP conference.
ASDP workshops ranged from“Asian Perspectives on Democracy andGlobal Justice;” to “Asia’s Ecologiesof Development: China and India.”
In collaboration with the ASEANUniversity Network (AUN) andhosted by University Malaya, ASDPsponsored an ASEAN StudiesCurriculum Design Workshop inSeptember for AUN senior facultyfrom 8 of the 10 ASEAN memberstates. This is the first of series ofworkshops and institutes envisionedto create and disseminate a coreundergraduate curriculum on ASEAN,addressing a goal of ASEAN and themandated role of AUN to strengthenregional awareness and identity amongstudents.
Asia PacificLeadership ProgramThe annually conducted Asia PacificLeadership Program (APLP) linksanalysis of regional issues withexperiential leadership learning in a nine-month program of study. The programhas alumni in 50 countries supporting anetwork of action across the region.
The Ninth Generation (G9) ofparticipants this year comprised 40fellows from 22 countries. Theirleadership experience and professionalbackgrounds ranged from internationaldevelopment, business, and economicsto journalism, women studies, andenvironmental science.
G9 conducted field studies inChina and Washington, D.C. , includingmeetings with Supreme Court Justices,U.S. Senators, and U.S. Federal Reservemembers. In Beijing they participated ina joint workshop on “China and theFuture” with 40 graduate students fromChina’s top universities including Beida,Tsinghua, China Foreign Affairs, BeijingForeign Studies and Renmin. In smallgroups they traveled to 13 urban andrural localities in southwestern China,documenting observations on present-day realities and cross-generationalexpectations for the future.
AsiaPacificEd ProgramAmerican and Japanese teachersparticipated in an NEH-funded livinghistory workshop on the Pearl HarborHistory, Memory, and Memorial.
Through the Partnership for Youthand Travel and Teach programs inCambodia, U.S. students and teachersobserved the Khmer Rouge tribunaland explored human rights issues.
In the Partnership for Schoolsproject, U.S. teachers experiencedIndonesia’s diversity throughhomestays and Islamic boarding schoolvisits. These teachers also participatedin a post-conflict dialogue in Ambonbetween local Christian and Muslimteachers and students in the Seeds ofFriendship project.
In support of a USAID initiative,the ASEAN Curriculum AssessmentProject evaluated school textbooks usedby member states and recommendedmaterials to advance ASEAN awarenessand identity-building goals.
An elder of the Naxi minority in Yunnan Province demonstrating a traditional pictographic script toASDP’s China field seminar co-leader, Fred Lau, Director, U.H. Center for Chinese Studies, andprogram participants.
APLP teammembers collaborating with leaders fromthe Vietnam Institute of Tropical Biology on a culturaland ecotourism development project involving theRaglay Minority Peoples in Nui Chua National Park.
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Established in 2001 to expand the Center’s outreach in the U.S. capital, East-West Center in Washingtonworks to strengthen relations and understanding among the governments and peoples of the Asia
Pacific region and the United States through research, publications, and substantive programs. Numerouspublic forums featuring key government officials and scholars, as well as military, business, and NGOleaders, generated discussion on critical issues in U.S.-Asia Pacific relations.
Promoting AmericanEngagement inAsia Pacific Affairs
Asia Pacific Seminar SeriesThe Asia Pacific seminar series continuedto provide an important venue for thedissemination of new research anddiscussion in Washington D.C. In 2009,38 seminars were held in the areas ofAsia Pacific security, democracy andhuman rights, and political economy.Featured speakers included TheHonorable Meera Shankar, IndianAmbassador to the United States, andThe Honorable James R. Keith, U.S.Ambassador to Malaysia.
U.S.-China South Asia DialogueThe East-West Center, in collaborationwith the China Institute of InternationalStudies and Yunnan University,sponsored a dialogue in Kunming, Chinafeaturing U.S., P.R.C., and Indianparticipants focusing on South Asiasecurity issues, policy on Afghanistanand Pakistan (AfPak), and prospects forfuture regional cooperation. This wasthe first in a projected series ofdiscussions about AfPak.
Research Projects
Asia Matters for AmericaAsiaMattersforAmerica.org, an on-lineresource for information, data, andanalysis of U.S.-Asia interactions,has drawn over 15,000 page views from97 countries. In November, the AsiaMatters for America brochure wasdistributed to each office in the U.S.House of Representatives.
Global Asia Special EditionThe East-West Center in Washingtonand the journalGlobal Asia cooperatedto publish the November 2009 editionfeaturing the multi-article cover story“In the National Interest: Economics,Security, and Foreign Affairs inSoutheast Asia.” The publication is theculmination of a collaborative researchproject that explored the relationshipbetween economics, security, andmultilateralism in the foreign policyof five Southeast Asian nations.
United States Asia PacificCouncil (USAPC)Formed in 2003 with the support ofthe U.S. Department of State, USAPCpromotes and facilitates greater U.S.engagement with the Asia Pacificregion through personal networksand institutional partnerships.
In conjunction with its annualWashington Conference in May,USAPC hosted the 18th GeneralMeeting of the Pacific EconomicCooperation Council (PECC) focusingon “Economic Crisis and Recovery:Roles for Asia-Pacific Economies”(see conference highlights on p. 4).
USAPC also hosted an APECBusiness Coalitionmeeting in December,which featured a briefing by U.S.Senior Official for APEC Kurt Tong andAssistant U.S. Trade RepresentativeWendy Cutler on the November 2009APEC Leaders’ meeting in Singapore.
East-West Center in Washington
In an Asia Pacific Political Economy Seminar,(L-R) EWC inWashington Director Satu Limaye;IndianAmbassadorMeeraShankar; andPresidentandSecretary General of the Federation of IndianChambers of Commerce and Industry, Harsh PatiSinghania and Amit Mitra, discuss U.S.-Indianrelations.
Derek Mitchell, Principal U.S. Deputy AssistantSecretary of Defense for Asian and PacificSecurity Affairs speaking at “The Malaysia –United States Strategic PartnershipConference,” co-hosted by EWC inWashington.
Connie Rahakundini Bakrie, Executive Director ofthe Institute of Defense and Security Studies(IODAS), Jakarta; and Sidratahta Mukhtar, IODASSenior Researcher, discuss Indonesian militaryand defense challenges in anAsia Pacific SecuritySeminar.
“The Long Shadow: NuclearWeaponsand Security in 21st Century Asia,”edited by EWC Distinguished SeniorFellow Muthiah Alagappa, receivedthe 2009 Outstanding AcademicTitle Award from Choicemagazine.
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The East-West Seminars program offers short-term dialogue and international study tours that addresscritical issues affecting the region. Designed for government and business leaders, journalists and
other professionals, and scholars from the U.S. and Asia Pacific, these seminars engage colleagues indiscussion and analysis and serve as a catalyst for regional cooperation.
Media ProgramsThe Japan-United States JournalistsExchange focused on “New Leadershipand the Global Economic Crisis.”
The Korea-United States JournalistsExchange examined the impact of theglobal economic crisis in the U.S. andKorea.
The Hong Kong Journalism FellowshipsProgram explored “Chinese Develop-ment Policies: Facing Economic Crisisand Environmental Sustainability.”
The new Southeast Asia JournalismFellowships Program covered initiativesshaping ASEAN’s future role in theregion.
The Spring Jefferson FellowshipsProgram focused on the social, political,and economic impacts of the globalfinancial crisis on Japan and China.
The Fall Jefferson Fellowships Programexamined the ability of U.S. domesticand foreign policy to confront theeconomic challenges and opportunitiesinvolved in addressing climate change.
The Health Journalism FellowshipsProgram covered infectious diseases inAsia and included journalism trainingfor 10 junior Chinese health reporters.
The Senior Journalists Seminar“Bridging Gaps between the UnitedStates and the MuslimWorld” includedthe first EWCmedia program participantfrom Iran.
International Dialogueon Critical IssuesDuring the Senior Policy Seminar,high-level officials, business leaders,and experts analyzed the globaleconomic crisis.
The Australian American LeadershipDialogue brought Australian and U.S.political and business leaders, journalists,and policy experts together in Honolulu.
The Asia Pacific Executive Forum inRochester, NY focused on “U.S. –China Relations” and “Asia and theEconomic Crisis.”
Urban Asia:Challenges of Transition andGovernance Seminar Series
In the first in-country workshopGovernance and InfrastructureDevelopment Challenges in theKathmandu Valley, Nepalese officialsdiscussed the creation of a KathmanduValley Authority and developed anaction plan.
In the second in-country workshop,71 U.S. and Vietnamese officials focusedon Key Challenges in the Process ofUrbanization in Ho Chi Minh City:Governance, Socio-Economic, andEnvironmental Issues.
Leadership andProfessional DevelopmentThe New Generation Seminar broughtyoung leaders to Seoul and Hanoi toexplore the impacts of the globaleconomic crisis.
In the China Protected AreasLeadership Alliance Project 25 Chineseconservation managers and governmentleaders learned innovative conservationmanagement strategies through visits toU.S. National parks.
The Building the Foundation Program:Leadership Training Seminar forPacific Island Resource Managersassisted the Federated States ofMicronesia, Palau, and the MarshallIslands in integrated water resourcesmanagement planning.
In the Changing Faces seminar,women leaders discussed “Women asEntrepreneurs: Fostering EconomicGrowth and StrengtheningCommunities.”
East-West Seminars
Seminars Director Ray Burghardt (2nd from left)with New Generation Seminar participantsexploring Asia’s economic challenges throughfactory visits in Vietnam.
Participants in the China Protected AreasLeadership Alliance Project discuss conservationstrategies with a U.S. park ranger.
Senior Policy Seminar participants (L-R): MarkThirlwell, Director of the International EconomyProgram at the Lowy Institute, Sydney; SarasinViraphol, Executive VP of Charoen PokphandGroup, Bangkok; and BarbaraWeisel, AssistantU.S. Trade Representative for SE Asia.
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East-West Center AlumniTheEast-WestCenterAssociation (EWCA)is an international network of more than55,000 professionals who have participatedin East-West Center programs. EWCAprovides many programs and services forits members designed to support theCenter’s mission to help build an AsiaPacific community and to extend theoutreach of the East-West Center.
In 2009, the 48 alumni chapterscarried out a broad range of activities tostrengthen the alumni network includinglectures, seminars, welcoming new andreturning students, raising funds, andproviding hospitality to travelingparticipants. Web communication wasincreased including alumni groups onFacebook and LinkedIn and improvementsto the EWCA on-line community. Over3,000 new alumni email addresses wereadded to the database. Additionally,EWCA provided 4 student scholarshipsand 10 travel grants for field research orparticipation in professional conferences.The alumni mentoring program alsomatched 35 EWC students withprofessionals in the local community.
The Office of External Affairs connects theresources and research of the East-West Center
with the local, national, and international communitythrough news media and public information services;briefings for visiting officials; and public affairs,community relations, and public programs. In 2009,External Affairs cosponsored 20 public programs forHawai‘i audiences and also organized two eventswelcoming U.S. Ambassadors and Public AffairsOfficers to the Center. This office also comprises theArts Program, the EWC Alumni Office, and EWCprogram representatives in the Asia Pacific region.
Arts ProgramThe East-West Center Arts Programincreases understanding of culturesand ethnic groups from the AsiaPacific region through exhibitions,performances, lecture-demonstrations,and hands-on workshops. In 2009,more than 20,000 adults and youthexperienced EWC’s arts programs.Outreach initiatives targeted “at-risk”youth by conducting school programsin economically disadvantagedneighborhoods.
Gallery exhibitions for 2009incorporated public performances andlecture demonstrations on: “Mirror &Mirage: Japanese Noh and KyogenTheatre;” “Drums & Drama: MaskDance from Sri Lanka;” “CosmicCreatures: Textiles from Northeast LaoCommunities;” and “‘Dance Machines’from the Torres Strait Islands.”
Additional performances featuredmaster Kathak dancer Chitresh Dasand expert musicians from India, andtraditional Chinese musicians fromXiamen University.
External Affairs
Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou was greeted byEWC President Charles E. Morrison during avisit to the Center.
News and InformationThe News and Information sectionserves as a liaison between the Centerand journalists worldwide. Mediacoverage of the East-West Centercontinued to reach new audiences in2009, enhancing the Center’s capacityto inform policymakers and the generalpublic. The Center and its staff werecited by national and internationalmedia sources in more than 2,100reports and op-eds.
Member of the Ariw Poenipan Cultural Groupfrom the Torres Strait Islands,Australia,demonstrating the use of a traditional
percussion instrument to Hawai‘i students.
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The success of the East-WestCenter is built on effective
public-private partnerships.Funding from the U.S. govern-ment covers most of the Center’sbasic operating expenses, whileprivate funding by individuals,private agencies, foundations,corporations and governmentsthroughout the region sustainsthe Center’s high qualityresearch, education, training,scholarship, and exchangeprograms. Increasing privatesupport means the Center is ableto continue its best programsand create new initiatives thatare making a difference.
programs, regardless of need. The EWCAssociation Alumni Scholarship Fund isa pooled fund for smaller gifts that hasdistributed more than $150,000 since itscreation in 2005, making it possible for47 students from 16 countries toparticipate in EWC education programs.
After months of preparation, theBoard and more than 700 generousdonors and friends launched theCenter’s 50th Anniversary celebrationsat a kick-off dinner on January 9, 2010raising some $200,000 for EWCscholarships and education programs.Highlights included moving testimonialsby Lynda Bird Johnson Robb, SenatorDaniel K. Inouye, former Governor andChairman of the Board of GovernorsGeorge Ariyoshi, and presidential sisterMaya Soetoro-Ng, and a video createdespecially for the Anniversary titled“Priceless Legacy.”
Produced in 2009, The East-WestCenter at 50: The Case for Supportdescribes the impact of private givingand outlines the Center’s fundingpriorities — opportunities to help theCenter meet the increasing demands ofthe next 50 years. Naming opportunitiesand permanent recognition for alldonors of $50,000 or more are amongthe incentives for strengthening privatephilanthropy as the Center’s mission ofbuilding a peaceful, prosperous and justAsia Pacific region becomes moreessential than ever.
In 2009, the East-West CenterFoundation sharpened the case forprivate support, strengthened volunteersupport, and prepared for the Center’s50th Anniversary Celebration. Twoespecially generous major gifts launchedthe 50th Anniversary Campaign — a$100,000 gift for special projects, and amillion dollar matching challenge froman anonymous friend of the Center.
The EWC Foundation Board ofDirectors actively engaged in solicitinggifts, managing investments, recruitingeffective Board members, strengtheningthe Center’s brand identity, and buildingand supporting effective programs,such as the EWC Arts ‘Ohana. Thanksto the generosity of alumni donors,several named scholarships at $25,000,$50,000 and up are making it possiblefor students to benefit from EWC
Sumi Makey AwardsMing Yang (2009 Recipient) and Sumi Makey
East-West Center FoundationHonoring the Past, Looking to the Future
2009 EWCAssociation Alumni Scholarship RecipientsAileen Pascual Maypa, Huy Quang Pham, Dean of Education Mary Hammond,Malini Paramaguru andAsami Nago
Buddy & Melga Gendrano FellowshipsMelga Gendrano,Aileen Pascual Maypa (2009 Recipient) and Buddy Gendrano
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2009 Gifts to East-West Center FoundationThe East-West Center’ssuccess is built on effectivepublic-private partnerships.While initial funding camealmost exclusively from theU.S. government, todayessential support is providedby individuals, private agencies,foundations, corporations, andgovernments throughout theregion. It is a true partnership:funding from the U.S.government covers most ofthe Center’s basic operatingexpenses, while private fundingsustains the Center’s highquality research, education,training, scholarship andexchange programs.We aregrateful to our many partnersand supporters throughoutthe world.
Listed are gifts of $100 or morereceived between January 1,2009 and December 31, 2009and donors to the 50thAnniversary Dinner.
The East-West Center Foundationhas made every effort to presentan accurate listing of donors.If your name has been omittedor erroneously listed, please callthe EWC Foundation at808-944-7105.
President’s Council($25,000 and above)Anonymous (2)Ted & Doris LeeDr. Edison H.MiyawakiJean E. RollesThe Hawaii Pacific Rim SocietyDr. Lawrence K.W. Tseu
President($10,000 to $24,999)Alexander & Baldwin/Alexander & BaldwinFoundation
Atherton Family FoundationFriends of Hawaii Charities, Inc.Honda Foundation, Paul HondaJhamandasWatumull FundMcInerny FoundationKenneth & Shaunagh RobbinsPuongpun & Thanh-LoSananikone
Anh, Aimee, Alex & AndreaZvinakis
Statesman($5,000 to $9,999)Bank of HawaiiFarmers Insurance Hawaii, Inc.First Hawaiian BankBuddy &Melga T. Gendrano
Stephen C. HausWilliam P. HausNeal & Lynette KandaLee George LamPatricia M. Loui &Michael L. Schmicker
Sumi Y. MakeyMr. &Mrs. Watters O. Martin,Jr.
Charles & ChiekoMorrisonAmbassador Charles B. Salmon,Jr.
Marilyn Serlin &George Zannos
Sony Hawai‘i CompanyUrasenke Foundation of HawaiiHank C.K.Wuh, M.D./Cellular Bioengineering Inc.
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ASDP (Asian StudiesDevelopment Program)
Association of Chinese fromVietnam, Cambodia & Laos
Richard &Margaret BakerBecker Communications, Inc.Daniel & Elizabeth BermanJoanM. BicksonTerance & Jan BigalkeMark & Carolyn BlackburnFrank BoasAri & Dolly BraraDrs. Roger & Felice BraultDr. Frances M. BrookeyElizabeth BuckRaymond & Susan BurghardtG. Shabbir CheemaPaul M. ChengChristopher, Smith &Associates, LLC
Associate Professor DusdepornChumnirokasant
Communications PacificConvergence CTJack CormanJean F. CornuelleRichard H. CoxBob &Hiroko DewitzDaisy P. DungKarl &Megumi EssigFinance Factors FoundationFirst Insurance Company ofHawaii, Ltd.
Lyn FlaniganEddie & Elaine FloresLori A. FormanLarry & Brenda FosterCarol M. FoxDaniel R. FungMr. &Mrs. DonaldW.Y. GooMary Hammond &Kevin Kuroda
Hawaii Government EmployeesAssociation
Hawaii National BankHawaii Prince Hotel Waikiki &Golf Club
John N. HawkinsMiriamHellreich &Dr. Philip Hellreich
HGEA/AFSCMEChancellor Virginia HinshawHilton Hawaiian VillageBeach Resort & Spa
The Honolulu AdvertiserWill HughesImanaka, Kudo and FujimotoTheodore N. KaplanDr. Daniel H. & Jane H.Katayama
Don & Carolyn KimRoland & Kitty LagaretaGary Shun-Ho LinPhilip H. Loughlin, IIIShyue-Ching LuBetsy VolkmannMarshall &LeighMarshall
Dr. David S. McCauley &Georgia McCauley
Rose NakamuraRobert T. &Wakako NakasoneAnita NordbrockSteve & Gigi OliveMichael & Trish O’NeillAlfred & Ruth OnoRobert M. “Skipp” OrrGerald A. & Tsue A. OstermannMr. &Mrs. James J. PappasStephanie M. RefordRho Psi Society Eta Chapter -Honolulu
Gordon &Milly RingThe Honorable Patricia F. SaikiDr. Alice Seok Hoon SengToufiq & Ulrike SiddiqiThe Rev. Abraham Kahu AkakaMinistries Foundation
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University of Hawai‘i SystemSarah K. VannWatanabe Ing LLPIndru & GulabWatumullGordon H.WestS. LinnWilliamsThe HonorableTun Daim Zainuddin
Counselor($500 to $999)AnonymousAMKORA& E, Inc. /Donald C.W. Kim
The Honorable &Mrs.George Ariyoshi
Carl B. BeckerChaminade Universityof Honolulu
Allen L. ClarkScott ClarkeBrian & Linda DonahueDr. Krish DubeyTom&Kay DuntonAdmiral &Mrs. Thomas B. FargoGerard & Dawn FininMary Jo FreshleyM.R.C. Greenwood
Dr. &Mrs. Paul R. GregoryMichael P. HamnettYutaka HaradaMr. &Mrs. Peter S. HoStanley & Karen HoHongNancy G. HumeAlan & Diane ItoDavid KaeuperHong Nack KimMary R. KingGreg & Karen KnudsenAkemi &Misako KurokawaStephen LaneJames R. Langworthy, M.D.Nancy Lewis &Michael D. HerbDr. &Mrs. Kem LowryYokoMatsuzakiDavid P. McCauleySharonMcPheeRichard J. MeyerDavid A. Miller &Brigitte Hahn-Miller
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Chuck BollerEWCChennai Chapter, IndiaRoy N. BohlanderJames L. Brewbaker &Nora C. Quebral
Alex BrillantesLulu J. BrillantesBrisbane Chapter EWCALou &Mary CannonRalph R. CarvalhoCharlotte CascioBenny O. CespedesDavida ChangBoonthai & Saichay ChantavyKaren Hubenthal Chappell &Wallace Chappell
Dr. &Mrs. Donald F.B. CharMr. Herng Chen &Mrs. Leticia G. Chen
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Gaye GlaserDr. Gloria GolecH. Gary GreeneMs. Gulbadan S. HabibiStephen HadleyFrank S. HainesDavid & Annie HallsteinLinda E. HamadaKiyoshi HamanoThomas HammondDaris K. HaoKaren T. HaradaAnn Hartman & DavidMesserYoichi HasegawaIwao HayakawaLinda Heaivilin
Carl J. HefnerMichael HembreeCherylene E. HidanoHoang-Tam (Tammy) NguyenHilton
Ron HimesBradley HiranoJohnnie C. HoTetsuko S. HoCarol J. HolversonDr. Ahmad R. Hoshmand &Dr. Lisa L. Hoshmand
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Carolyn & Charles KadelEdward L. KamaeAnnie KaneshiroSoon Hock KangJanet M. KanjaAhsan KareemMitsuo KatoClare C. KawadaLysia KeeJames A. KellyWilliam E. KellyKennedy & PreissGraphic Design
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Karen LamClaire Langham &Dennis Richmond
Maude O. LauMerton S. LauM. D. LauterbachErnest & Letah LeeHarlan LeeJae-Kyoung LeeJae-Won LeeJeong T. LeeSang-Chul Lee, Ph.D.Peter C. LewisViolet LooRobin U. LoomisChi-Lin LuhJohn B. Lum, Ph.D.IainMacfarlaneScott MacLeodParashar &Mohini Malla
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East-West Center Foundation Board of DirectorsCo-Chairs
Paul M.F. ChengDeputy ChairmanEsprit Holdings Ltd.Hong Kong
Neal K. KandaExecutive Vice President & CFOFinance Factors, Ltd.Honolulu, Hawai‘i
Directors
Jean M. AriyoshiHonolulu, Hawai‘i
Robin K. CampanianoGeneral PartnerUlupono InitiativeHonolulu, Hawai‘i
Bruce A. CoppaChief Operating OfficerCommunications PacificHonolulu, Hawai‘i
Karl EssigPrincipalTrinity Investments LLCHonolulu, Hawai‘i
Anthony R. Guerrero, Jr.Vice Chairman (Retired)First Hawaiian BankHonolulu, Hawai‘i
Miriam HellreichPresidentSpeech & Pathology AssociatesKailua, Hawai‘i
Peter S. HoPresident, Bank of HawaiiHonolulu, Hawai‘i
Paul S. HondaHonda FoundationHonolulu, Hawai‘i
Stanley W. Hong, EsqChairman, Board of TrusteesKing William Lunalilo Trust EstateHonolulu, Hawai‘i
Don K. KimPresident (Retired)Sony Hawaii CompanyHonolulu, Hawai‘i
Bert “BJ” A. Kobayashi, Jr.President and CEOKobayashi Group LLCHonolulu, Hawai‘i
Christopher T. KobayashiAttorney at LawKobayashi Sugita & GodaHonolulu, Hawai‘i
Benjamin A. KudoAttorney at LawImanaka Kudo & Fujimoto LLCHonolulu, Hawai‘i
Stanley M. KuriyamaPresident & Chief Executive OfficerAlexander & Baldwin, Inc.Honolulu, Hawai‘i
Roland LagaretaHonolulu, Hawai‘i
Lee George LamSenior Advisor-AsiaMacquarie Capital (Hong Kong)
LimitedHong Kong
Theodore B. LeePresidentUrban Land & of NevadaLas Vegas, Nevada
Watters O. Martin, Jr.Honolulu, Hawai‘i
David A. MillerChairman of the BoardArchitects Hawaii Ltd.Honolulu, Hawai‘i
Edison MiyawakiChairman, President and CEOFamily Health, Inc.Honolulu, Hawai‘i
Robert “Skipp” OrrChairman of the BoardThe Panasonic FoundationJapan/France
Shaunagh G. RobbinsChief Financial OfficerRobbins & AssociatesAttorneys at LawHonolulu, Hawai‘i
AmbassadorCharles B. Salmon, Jr.Foreign Policy AdvisorAsia Pacific Center for Security StudiesHonolulu, Hawai‘i
Lawrence K.W. Tseu, DDSHonolulu, Hawai‘i
Blossom Y. TyauHonolulu, Hawai‘i
Gulab WatumullPresidentWatumull Brothers, Ltd.Honolulu, Hawai‘i
Shelley WilsonPresidentWilson HomecareHonolulu, Hawai‘i
The HonorableTun Daim ZainuddinFormer Finance MinisterKuala Lumpur, Malaysia
EWCA RepresentativeThanh-Lo SananikoneManaging DirectorPACMAR, Inc.Honolulu, Hawai‘i
Friends of the East-West Center BoardPresidentKenji SumidaPresident (Retired)East-West CenterHonolulu, Hawai‘i
1st Vice PresidentCharles B. Salmon, Jr.Foreign Policy AdvisorAsia-Pacific Center
for Security StudiesHonolulu, Hawai‘i
2nd Vice PresidentTrudy Schandler-WongCommunity VolunteerHonolulu, Hawai‘i
TreasurerChhany Sak-HumphryAssociate Professor &
Coordinator of theKhmer Language program
University of Hawai‘iHonolulu, Hawai‘i
SecretaryLinda AdamsonLifestyle DirectorKahala NuiHonolulu, Hawai‘i
Board of DirectorsAmy BlagriffExecutive Vice PresidentThe American Institute of
Architects Honolulu ChapterHonolulu, Hawai‘i
Pat BuckmanIsland Properties Sales Development
Management Corp.Honolulu, Hawai‘i
Lishan ChongPresident & CEOEdutainment Resources, Inc.Honolulu, Hawai‘i
Fumiko Mori HalloranWriterHonolulu, Hawai‘i
Jill Hasegawa, Esq.AssociateAshford & Wriston LLPHonolulu, Hawai‘i
John LewisAccount SupervisorCommunications PacificHonolulu, Hawai‘i
Kem LowryProfessor of Urban &
Regional PlanningUniversity of Hawai‘iHonolulu, Hawai‘i
The HonorableMarie N. MilksJudge (retired)First Circuit Court of Hawai‘iHonolulu, Hawai‘i
Diane Peters-NguyenVice President for
Institutional AdvancementChaminade UniversityHonolulu, Hawai‘i
Siegfried RamlerAdjunct FellowEast-West CenterHonolulu, Hawai‘i
Robert RamseyKamehameha SchoolsHonolulu, Hawai‘i
Thanh-Lo SananikoneManaging DirectorPacMar, Inc.Pacific Management ResourcesHonolulu, Hawai‘i
John SimondsHonolulu, Hawai‘i
Larry E. SmithPresidentChristopher, Smith & Associates,
LLCKaneohe, Hawai‘i
Edward ShultzInterim DeanSchool of Pacific and Asian StudiesUniversity of Hawai‘iHonolulu, Hawai‘i
Vivien StackpoleHonolulu, Hawai‘i
Andrea SnyderCommunity VolunteerHonolulu, Hawai‘i
Sarah VannProfessor EmeritaUniversity of Hawai‘iHonolulu, Hawai‘i
Terrina WongWo International CenterPunahou SchoolHonolulu, Hawai‘i
Ex-OfficioKaren KnudsenDirector of External AffairsEast-West CenterHonolulu, Hawai‘i
EWCPA RepresentativeDavid Nguyen
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2009 East-West Center Association Executive BoardChairKhaleda RashidDean, Faculty of Architecture
and Planning andProfessor of ArchitectureBangladesh
PresidentLyn Flanigan, Esq.Executive DirectorHawai‘i State Bar Assoc.
Vice President forDevelopmentThanh-Lo SananikoneManaging DirectorPacMar Inc.Honolulu, Hawai‘i
Vice President forParticipant AffairsAlapaki LukeGraduate Teacher AssistantHawaiian StudiesUniversity of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
Vice President forProgramsRicardo TrimillosChair, Asian Studies ProgramUniversity of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
Vice President for ChaptersDavid E. JonesAssoc. Professor of PhilosophyKennesaw State CollegeKennesaw, Georgia
Secretary/TreasurerAnny WongPolitical Scientist, RANDArlington, Virginia
Board MembersReynaldo GarayRancho Palos Verdes, California
Jenny GarmendiaDirectorProject AWARE FoundationRancho Santa Margarita, California
Eric HansonGrand Valley State UniversityGrand Rapids, Michigan
Carl HefnerAssoc. Professor of Arts & SciencesKapi‘olani Community CollegeHonolulu, Hawai‘i
Solomon KanthaProject AssistantInternational Organization for
MigrationPort Moresby, Papua New Guinea
David H. KaeuperFormer Ambassador to CongoCongo Basin Forest PartnershipTimberville, Virginia
Kaoru MatsudaManagerEOS, Inc.Tokyo, Japan
Sarlito SarwonoProfessor of PsychologyUniversity of IndonesiaWest Java, Indonesia
Augustina S. TakashyCEO/Principal ConsultantKolonia, PohnpeiFederated States of Micronesia
“Jad” Nopamat VeohongAssoc. Professor of Dramatic ArtsChulalongkorn UniversityBangkok, Thailand
Richard VuylstekePresidentAmerican Chamber of Commerce
in Hong Kong
Arfa ZehraChairpersonNational Commission on the
Status of WomenIslamabad, Pakistan
Ex-Officio MembersKok Kian PohImmediate Past ChairDirectorMaxa Technology S/BPuchong, Malaysia
Lawrence C. FosterImmediate Past PresidentProfessor & Former DeanRichardson School of LawUniversity of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
EWCA Hawai‘i ChapterRepresentativeCarl HefnerEWCA Hawai‘i Chapter
PresidentAssoc. Professor of Arts & SciencesKapi‘olani Community CollegeHonolulu, Hawai‘i
EWCPA RepresentativePadmendra ShresthaDegree Fellow 2008-2009
East-West Center Association Chapter LeadersEAST ASIABeijingXu ShiHong KongGlenn ShiveKansai (Osaka/Kyoto)Kiyoshi HamanoNagoyaYasuo HoshimoOkinawaChoko TakayamaSeoulHo-Jin KimShanghaiCommunication Liaison:Kun ChenTokyoTakashi “Taka” Tsuchiya
SOUTHEAST ASIAAcehAnton WidyantoBaliAnak Agung GdeMuninjayaBangkokNaris Chaiyasoot
DiliCarlos Peloi dos ReisHanoiHoe HoangJakartaPurnawan JunadiKuala LumpurDatuk Mohamad SalehGhazaliManilaAlex B. Brillantes, Jr.Phnom PenhSovath BongSingaporeSeok-Hoon SengVientianeChanthavong SaignasithYangonUMaung Maung
SOUTH ASIAChandigarhRajesh Kumar AggarwalChennaiPemandaMonappa BelliappaColomboG.B.A. FernandoDhakaEkramul Ahsan
FaisalabadMuhammad IbrahimHyderabad, IndiaNageswara RaoHyderabad, PakistanKazi Suleman MemonIslamabadArjumand FaiselKarachiMehtab S. KarimKathmanduShankar SharmaLahoreArfa Syed ZehraMumbaiSarosh BanaNew DelhiMala Kapur Shankardass
PACIFICBrisbaneIraphne ChildsPort MoresbySolomon KanthaSydneyLaura Ramos
UNITED STATESArizona (Phoenix)Michelle MarionChicago, IllinoisPamela DrymillerHawai‘iCarl HefnerNew York (Greater Area)Manuel F. MontesAnthony PenningsNorthern CaliforniaBarbara StumphSouthern CaliforniaJenny Miller GarmendiaWashington, D.C.Anny Wong
OTHER AREASOntarioJonathan Jacobs
CONSTITUENT CHAPTERSAPLP (Asia PacificLeadership Program)Justin LiangASDP (Asian StudiesDevelopment Program)David E. JonesJefferson Fellows/Media ChapterSusan Kreifels
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East-West CenterBoard of GovernorsBoard ChairPuongpun SananikonePresidentPACMAR, Inc.Honolulu, Hawai‘i
Board Vice-ChairRoland LagaretaHonolulu, Hawai‘i
MembersTarun DasFormer Chief MentorConfederation of
Indian IndustryNew Delhi, India
Eddie Flores, Jr.PresidentL&L Drive-InnHonolulu, Hawai‘i
Lori A. FormanSpecial Visiting ProfessorGraduate School of LawKeio UniversityTokyo, Japan
Daniel R.Fung,SBS,SC,QC, JP
ChairmanDes Voeux ChambersHong Kong
Miriam HellreichPresidentSpeech & Pathology AssociatesKailua, Hawai‘i
Il SaKongChairman & CEOKITASeoul, Korea
Theodore B. LeePresidentUrban Land of NevadaLas Vegas, Nevada
Jean E. RollesVice President/
Community RelationsOutrigger Enterprises, Inc.Honolulu, Hawai‘i
Theodore Em-Po Liu(Governor's Designee)DirectorDept. of Business, Economic
Development and TourismState of Hawai‘i
The HonorablePatricia F. SaikiFormer MemberU.S. House of RepresentativesHonolulu, Hawai‘i
S. Linn WilliamsMcLean, Virginia
Tadashi YamamotoPresidentJapan Center for
International ExchangeTokyo, Japan
Michael K. YoungPresidentUniversity of UtahSalt Lake City, Utah
The HonorableTun Daim ZainuddinFormer Finance MinisterKuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Ex-Officio MembersThe HonorableLinda LingleGovernor, State of Hawai‘iHonolulu, Hawai‘i
Maura PallyActing Assistant
Secretary of Statefor Educational andCultural Affairs
U.S. Department of StateWashington, D.C.
M.R.C. Greenwood, PhDPresidentUniversity of Hawai‘iHonolulu, Hawai‘i
EWCA RepresentativeLyn Flanigan, Esq.Executive DirectorHawai‘i State Bar AssociationHonolulu, Hawai‘i
EWC Program Directorsand Corporation OfficersCharles E. MorrisonPresident
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Terance W. BigalkeDirector of Education
Raymond BurghardtDirector of Seminars
Carol FoxDirector of Strategic Planning
and Partnerships
Sitiveni HalapuaDirector of the Pacific Islands
Development Program
Karen KnudsenDirector of External Affairs
Ricky KubotaDirector of Administration
Nancy Davis LewisDirector of Research
Satu LimayeDirector of East-West Center
in Washington
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Mark BorthwickDirector of the United States
Asia Pacific CouncilWashington, D.C.
CorporationOfficers
PresidentCharles E. Morrison
TreasurerRicky Kubota
Assistant TreasurerClinton Nonaka
Corporate SecretaryCarleen Gumapac
International Advisory PanelIsher AhluwaliaInternational EconomistNew Delhi, India
EdgarW.K. Cheng, GBS, JPChairman, The World-Wide
Investment Co., Ltd.Hong Kong
Professor Stephanie FaheyDeputy Vice-Chancellor (Inter-
national), Monash UniversityVictoria, Australia
Tan Sri Mohamed JawharHassanChairman and
Chief Executive OfficerInstitute of Strategic and
International StudiesKuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Nancy Jane KnightAdjunct Professor, Comparative
International Education CenterOntario Institute for Studies in
Education, University of TorontoToronto, Ontario, Canada
David KohProfessor and Head, Department
of Community, Occupationaland Family Medicine
National University of SingaporeSingapore
The Honorable Jim KolbeSenior Transatlantic FellowThe German Marshall Fund of
the United StatesWashington, D.C.
Kyung Tae LeePresident, Institute for International
Trade KITASeoul, Korea
Kenneth (Ken) G. LieberthalStephen M. Ross School of BusinessUniversity of MichiganAnn Arbor, Michigan
Dr. Susan PharrProfessor of Japanese PoliticsDirector of the
Edwin O. ReischauerInstitute of Japanese Studies
Director of the WCFIA Program onU.S.-Japan Relations
Harvard UniversityCambridge, Massachusetts
Hadi SoesastroExecutive DirectorIndonesian National Committee for
Pacific Economic CooperationCentre for Strategic and
International StudiesJakarta, Indonesia
Akihiko TanakaProfessor and DirectorInstitute of Oriental CultureUniversity of TokyoTokyo, Japan
Ambassador Sarasin VirapholExecutive Vice PresidentCharoen Pokphand GroupBangkok, Thailand
Ambassador Wu JianminHonorary PresidentInternational Bureau of ExhibitionsMinistry of Foreign Affairs of ChinaBeijing, China
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Financial ReviewEast-West CenterFor the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, the Center had total assets of $37,705,106, total liabilities of$3,204,120 and total net assets of $34,500,986. Net assets comprised unrestricted net assets of $27,714,781,temporarily restricted net assets of $3,793,766 and permanently restricted net assets of $2,992,439.
East-West Center FoundationFor the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, the Foundation had total assets of $3,278,614, no liabilitiesand total net assets of $3,278,614. Net assets comprised unrestricted net assets of $172,530, temporarilyrestricted net assets of $1,518,733 and permanently restricted net assets of $1,587,351.
Funding for the East-West Center comes from the U.S. government, with additional support provided byprivate agencies, individuals, foundations, corporations, and the governments of the region.
An on-line supplement to this report contains additional information on East-West Center participantsand finances. To download the supplement, visit EastWestCenter.org and click on “About EWC,” then“Annual Report.”
Email: EWCInfo@EastWestCenter.org
American high school students in AsiaPacificEd’s Partnership for Youth (P4Y) program experience daily life in rural Cambodia.
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At the International Graduate Student Conference, EWC student fellows from Fiji, Indonesia, Mongolia, and the U.S. discussregional issues in front of the newly restored “Wisdom of the East”mural by Javanese master painter Affandi, part of theEast-West Center’s Permanent Collection. (Photo by EWC Graduate Degree Fellow Tammy Summers)