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YOUR INVITATION TO

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.

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 www.asiasociety.org/annual_dinner for details
Proceeds from the Annual Dinner Support Asia Society’s Mission.

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.

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 2001. 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 2000.
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.

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 1917.
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.

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
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