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AUW 7th Commencement Ceremony, May 11, 2019 1

Chattogram, Bangladesh

Saturday, May 11, 2019

Asian University for Women7th Commencement

Ceremony

AUW 7th Commencement Ceremony, May 11, 20192

COMMENCEMENT PROTOCOL

Please remain seated during the ceremony. Professional photographers will capture portraits of each graduate receiving her diploma from the Vice Chancellor. Photographs from the side and front areas of the stage are not permitted, as this interferes with the safe procession of the graduates. If you wish to take pictures from the perimeter of the ceremony site, please be considerate of those who are seated around you and comply with instructions from our ushers, volunteers, and security staff.

Ceremony Traditions

Today marks the commencement of AUW’s seventh graduating class. It is a day that reaffirms ancient and lasting academic traditions seen in the academic dress, procession, and awarding of degrees. Graduating students, faculty, the Chancellor and the Vice Chancellor, the Board of Trustees, and distinguished guests form a ceremonial procession which marks the opening and closing of the event. Please stand for the processions.

Guide to Academic Dress and Regalia

Dress: Graduates receiving their Bachelor’s degree wear simple black robes, caps, and tassels, along with a scarf in the AUW colors of red and yellow. AUW faculty wear black robes, accompanied by a hood with the colors of their home institution.

Mace: The mace symbolizes the authority of the University. The mace used in the AUW Commencement Ceremony was designed by AUW alumna, Aniqua Suhala, a graduate of AUW’s inaugural class. The circular top of the mace displays the AUW logo, along with a map displaying the regions from which AUW’s first class hailed. Connecting the circular top of the mace shaft are the names of the seven residential houses. On the shaft of the mace are listed the countries from which AUW students come.


Commencement Program 4

Commencement Speakers and Honorary Degree Recipients 5

Andy Matsui Awards for Outstanding Academic Achievement 7

Message from the Vice Chancellor to the Class of 2019 8

Lisianthus Manifesto 9

Student Speakers 10

Message from the AUW Alumnae Association to the Class of 2019 11

Graduates 12

Governance 14

CONTENTS


Commencement ProgramMay 11, 2019

Academic ProcessionAnondoloke Mongolaloke, composed by Rabindranath Tagore,

Nobel Laureate in Literature, 1913

Graduating Students, Faculty, Stage Participants

Ceremony Opening by Master of CeremonyUniversity Registrar Dr. David Dowland

Address by the Chancellor Cherie Blair, CBE QC

Address by the Vice Chancellor Professor Nirmala Rao, OBE, FAcSS

Conferral of Bachelor’s Degrees

Andy Matsui Awards for Outstanding Academic Achievement

Conferral of Honorary DegreesProfessor Rezwana Choudhury Bannya

The Honorable Dr. Mohammad Humayon Qayoumi

Commencement AddressesProfessor Rezwana Choudhury Bannya

The Honorable Dr Mohammad Humayon Qayoumi

Ceremony Closing and RecessionalAguner Poroshmoni, Composed by Rabindranath Tagore


Dr. Mohammad Humayon Qayoumi is the Minister of Finance of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and Chief Adviser to President Ghani in the areas of infrastructure, human capital, and technology.

Prior to his appointment in the Government of Afghanistan, he served as the 28th President and Professor of Electrical Engineering at San José State University in the heart of Silicon Valley in California. Before that he was the President of California State University East Bay.

He holds a bachelor’s in electrical engineering from the American University of Beirut and four graduate degrees from the University of Cincinnati: a master’s in nuclear engineering, a master’s in electrical and computer engineering, an MBA in finance, and a doctorate in electrical engineering. He has also published eight books and more than 100 articles, as well as several chapters in various books.

Commencement Speaker and Honorary Degree Recipient

Dr. Mohammad Humayon Qayoumi

Honorable Minister of Finance and Chief Advisorto the President of Afghanistan

Doctorate of Laws, honoris causa


Professor Rezwana Choudhury Bannya is a nationally recognized singer of Rabindra Sangeet (songs written and composed by Rabindranath Tagore) and Professor and Founding Chair of the Department of Dance at the University of Dhaka in Bangladesh. In 2016, Professor Bannya was awarded the Independence Day Award, the highest civilian award in Bangladesh.

She was previously Associate Professor in the University of Dhaka Department of Music. She is the founder of Shurer Dhara, a music school in Dhaka. She studied under Sanjita Khatun and Atiqul Islam of the Chhayanat and Bulbul Academy of Fine Arts in Dhaka. She received a scholarship from the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) to study at Santiniketan, a university that was founded by Tagore. It is there that she began her study of Rabindra Sangeet under the tutelage of Kanika Bandyopadhyay, Nilima Sen, Shoilajaranjan Mazumdar, Santidev Ghosh, Gora Sarbadhikary, Manju Bandyopadhyay, and Asesh Bandyopadhyay.

Commencement Speaker and Honorary Degree Recipient

Professor Rezwana Choudhury BannyaDoctorate of Arts, honoris causa


Andy Matsui Award For OutstandingAcademic Achievement

The Andy Matsui Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement is granted to three graduating seniors who, through academic achievement as measured by their cumulative grade point average, exemplify Andy Matsui’s life and myriad achievements. Like Andy, the recipients of this award also demonstrate that just one courageous and hardworking individual can take charge of his or her fate and ultimately transform the lives of thousands of people, their families, and their communities.

About Andy Matsui:Like many AUW students, Andy Matsui grew up in a rural village. He was not encouraged to pursue a university education. Instead, he was expected to remain on the family farm to care for his parents and siblings. However, Andy also fought to defy cultural conventions and succeed on his own terms. He sailed from Japan to America with $28 in his pocket in 1961, and eventually became the founder, owner, and president of Matsui Nursery, America’s largest orchid nursery. Through the Matsui Foundation, Andy donates millions to the children of immigrants so that they may pursue a university education. In January 2016, Andy made a $1 million gift to AUW’s endowment, so that more deserving women will be able to access the liberal arts and sciences education offered at AUW.


Dear Class of 2019,

It gives me great pleasure to welcome you into the company of scholars, a community of educated women and men that spans the globe and millennia. You have worked diligently to reach this point, and I am pleased to offer my personal congratulations to you on this memorable and special occasion.

As you accept your diplomas and go on to innovate the political, social, and economic landscapes of your communities, I hope that you will take a moment to cherish the community that surrounds you today. No one graduates alone. All along the way there have been teachers, classmates, family members, friends, mentors, and other supporters who have worked tirelessly with you to help bring you to this point. They did it because they believe in you; they believe in your courage, your empathy for others, and your commitment to live and work in the service of something greater than yourselves. They believe that you, together with other cohorts of AUW graduates spanning industries and countries, will change the world for the better.

I, too, am moved by all that you have accomplished and by all that you are on the cusp of achieving. It has been a pleasure witnessing you grow into the leaders you have and will continue to become. Wherever you go, all of us in the AUW community will follow your paths with interest, cheering for you every step of the way.

Warmly,

PROFESSOR NIRMALA RAO, OBE, FAcSS

Vice Chancellor, Asian University for Women

A Message from the Vice Chancellorto the Class of 2019


Each year, the graduating class selects a metaphor to represent their community. This year, the AUW Class of 2019 voted to call themselves Lisianthus, after a flower that requires specific conditions to first germinate, but then grows into a resilient and bloomful plant. The Lisianthus symbolizes perseverance, overcoming, gratitude, and enduring bonds.

The Lisianthus Manifesto is a reflective, inspired, and public declaration of the beliefs and intentions of the Class of 2019. It reflects what students have learned and become as students of AUW. It expresses what they believe in and what they will achieve as graduates, both in terms of service to AUW and the world at large.

Manifesto of the AUW Class of 2019

We are Lisianthus—100 petals of a versatile flower, sown together with the seed of unity, breaking the wall of stereotypes with our growth. Though we may have different roots, when we emerge from the dirt, we rise above all towards the sun.

We are shards of a fragment, hues of a colour, an assembly of the languages, dress, food and representations of our cultures. Different, yet so similar. One heart in different bodies; open hearts and fresh minds. We are sisters and daughters of the forgotten souls of an unjust world. Rising above all towards a new beginning like a wind that knows no border.

We are women. Fearless. Strong. Empowered. Liberated. Resilient. Rebellious and never settling for the ordinary. The innovatively creative. The changemakers. Those who are ready to fight injustice and be the voice of the unheard.

We believe in standing up against discrimination; in pioneering a real Utopia, a world where gender, race, religion, and social issues are no longer barriers for who we truly are. We believe in disagreements; in voicing our true opinions to perfect the imperfect world.

We believe in justly ruling, not being unjustly ruled—shining like the brightest star, guiding the wandering humanity while sailing through the sea, to ultimately rise above all odds.

We believe our strong friendships ingrained the roles we will play on our lone journey— towards self-awareness, justice, compassion and love— that has just begun.

We believe that we have saved the best for last.

We will be the guiding star: paving the way for a better world, setting ideals, and being the change we wish to see. One day, we will be in a position where people will look up to us as individuals who will be remembered by her name and work rather than someone’s shadow. With our entrepreneurial spirit, we will take initiative for the unheard voices.

We will break the glass ceiling. Using the tools and skills gained at AUW and beyond, we will tackle whatever comes our way. We will be bold, ambitious, and independent women.

We will never stop asking questions like the way we do in our classes. We cannot change the whole world at once, but we will do our bits. We will take good care of our home—the Earth. We will stand up against the stigmatization of womanhood. We will stay true to our roots and never back away from challenges in the future to come.

We will always shine in dust and rust.

Lisianthus Manifesto

ROBERT COLESPulitzer Prize Winning Psychologist and Author, Professor of Medical Humanities, Emeritus, Harvard University

“In this life we prepare for things, for moments and events and situations… We worry about wrongs, think about injustices, read what Tolstoy or Ruskin… has to say… Then, all of a sudden, the issue is not whether we agree with what we have heard and read and studied… The issue is us, and what we have become.”


Committed to serving her classmates, Montaha has held the role of Student Government President throughout the 2018-2019 Academic Year after holding prior leadership positions as a Teaching Assistant and Student Lab Assistant in the Science Department. Montaha took this passion for the sciences with her into her presidency, where she was actively involved in organizing events such as the International Conference on Natural Sciences and Technology hosted at AUW.

Montaha is currently working as a Research Assistant at Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University in Chittagong, where she was selected as the only undergraduate female intern to participate in Bangladesh’s first Whole Genome Sequencing project for Black Bengal Goats. She has also recently presented a poster on her research project in China at the “2nd World Conference on Sheep” and visited the Northwest A&F University to train on Genomic Analysis and NGS sequencing. She has previously interned in International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDRB).

Following graduation, Montaha plans to pursue further studies in the fields of bio-entrepreneurship and biotechnology management.

Student SpeakerMontaha Choudhury

Bachelor of Science in BioinformaticsChittagong, Bangladesh

Montaha Choudhury was selected by her fellow graduates to speak on their behalf during 7th Commencement events.


A Message from the AUW Alumnae Association to the Class of 2019

Dear Class of 2019,

As a graduate, you are now part of an invaluable network of female leaders. With the education, leadership experiences, and unique perspectives that you have gained at AUW, we look forward to witnessing all that you will accomplish in the future.

Throughout your journey, the University would like to remain in touch with you through the alumnae network. We seek to foster lifelong intellectual, professional, and collegial connections among current students, graduates, and the wider AUW support network. It aims to encourage continuous personal and professional development for all who have passed through the AUW lane.

Moving forward, we encourage you to stay in touch. A well-connected, engaged alumnae network is an asset for you and future AUW graduates. Congratulations on reaching this important milestone.

Please keep in touch!

Contact us at [email protected]


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Pratikshya AdhikariPolitics Philosophy & EconomicsNepal

Haneen Wael AfanaPolitics, Philosophy & EconomicsPalestine

Tajkiya AhmadPolitics, Philosophy & EconomicsBangladesh

Shamael AhmedPolitics, Philosophy & EconomicsBangladesh

Nishat Tasnim AkhiEconomicsBangladesh

Nusrat AmanEconomicsBangladesh Maria Qazi AzmiPublic HealthBangladesh

Zainab BakhshiPublic HealthAfghanistan

Yalda BattoriPublic HealthAfghanistan

Batool BehnamEnvironmental SciencesAfghanistan

Kinley BidhaPublic HealthBhutan

Meera BishtPolitics, Philosophy & EconomicsIndia Dipasa BistaPublic HealthNepal

Alisha BohoraPublic HealthNepal

Duong Bao ChauPolitics, Philosophy & EconomicsVietnam

Phan Thi Minh ChauPolitics, Philosophy & EconomicsVietnam

Class of 2019Sonam ChodenPublic HealthBhutan

Montaha ChowdhuryBioinformaticsBangladesh

Sadia Momtaj ChowdhuryEconomicsBangladesh

Sidratun Nur ChowdhuryEnvironmental SciencesBangladesh

Esha DasPolitics, Philosophy & EconomicsBangladesh Naw Gee DarPolitics, Philosophy & EconomicsMyanmar

Sonam DekiPublic HealthBhutan

Passang DemaPublic HealthBhutan Choki DolkarPublic HealthBhutan

H. M. D. W. U. W. A. K. DoradeniyaEnvironmental SciencesSri Lanka

Mahim Rokeya EatyPublic HealthBangladesh

Warna Fonsekage Vishmi Dilshika FonsekaPolitics, Philosophy & EconomicsSri Lanka Sanam GulPolitics, Philosophy & EconomicsPakistan

Bijayata GurungEconomicsNepal Shagufa HabibiEconomicsAfghanistan

Nguyen Hoang Hanh EconomicsVietnam

Israth JahanPublic HealthBangladesh

Nujhat JahanEconomicsBangladesh

Anita JaiswalEconomicsNepal

Sarah JanPolitics, Philosophy & EconomicsPakistan Delufa Tuz JerinPublic HealthBangladesh

Friba KaiwanPolitics, Philosophy & EconomicsAfghanistan

Neetu KanwalEconomicsIndia Insiya KhanEnvironmental SciencesBangladesh

Karima KhanPolitics, Philosophy & EconomicsPakistan

Asia KhanamPublic HealthBangladesh Khin May KyawEconomicsMyanmar

RethChoronai LeangEconomicsCambodia

Pema LhamoEnvironmental SciencesBhutan Ugyen Samdrup LhamoPolitics, Philosophy & EconomicsBhutan

Nasrin Sultana LipiPolitics, Philosophy & EconomicsBangladesh

Ashmita Thapa MagarPublic HealthNepal Kariyawasam Majuwana Gamage Ayodhya MadhurangikaEconomicsSri Lanka

Mushairat MamunPublic HealthUSA


Palanisamy MangaleshwaryEconomicsSri Lanka Tasfia MehzabinEconomicsBangladesh

Tasnia MostafaEconomicsBangladesh

Sirajum MuniraEconomicsBangladesh Zannatul Ferdous MunmunPublic HealthBangladesh

Mahreen MustafaEconomicsBangladesh

Muntasha NahrinEnvironmental SciencesBangladesh Neealana NaushinPolitics, Philosophy & EconomicsBangladesh

Shayan NazaryPublic HealthAfghanistan

Stuti NepalPolitics, Philosophy & EconomicsNepal Nhu Thi Huynh NguyenEconomicsVietnam

Bui Tuyet NhungEconomicsVietnam

Tran Thi Hoai NhungEconomicsVietnam Abreshmi NowarPolitics, Philosophy & EconomicsBangladesh

Israt Jahan OeeshiEconomicsBangladesh

Shafiqua Nawrin OishiPublic HealthBangladesh Poe Ei PhyuEconomicsMyanmar

Pratika PradhanPolitics, Philosophy & EconomicsBhutan

Sarala PradhanPolitics, Philosophy & EconomicsBhutan Athulya PurushothamanEnvironmental SciencesIndia

Bedana RaiPublic HealthNepal

Natha Sherinthaj RameesEnvironmental SciencesSri Lanka

Arshia Zaima RashidEconomicsBangladesh Aziza RoshaniPolitics, Philosophy & EconomicsAfghanistan

Elham E SabahPolitics, Philosophy & EconomicsBangladesh

Tasmia SabbirEconomicsBangladesh

Aurona SarkerPolitics, Philosophy & EconomicsBangladesh

Sreymom SenEnvironmental SciencesCambodia Nazahat ShakirPolitics, Philosophy & EconomicsPakistan

Maliha ShamsunPolitics, Philosophy & EconomicsBangladesh

Taahiya ShaorinEconomicsBangladesh Mashiat Moomtahin SharifEconomicsBangladesh Usra ShaukatPolitics, Philosophy & EconomicsPakistan

Sanjida Siddiqua ShumaPublic HealthBangladesh

May Khine Phyo ShwePublic HealthMyanmar

SidrahPolitics, Philosophy & EconomicsPakistan

Nusrat SumiyaPolitics, Philosophy & EconomicsBangladesh

Ferowza SwapnilEconomicsBangladesh

Tabassum TahaminaEconomicsBangladesh

Sharaban TahuraPublic HealthBangladesh

Tansum TanhaEconomicsBangladesh

Zarin TasnimEconomicsBangladesh

Thao Thi Thu TranEconomicsVietnam

Nafisa TunazzinEconomicsBangladesh

Pallewatte Gedara Tharuka Nilakshi Kumari WijetungaPolitics, Philosophy & EconomicsSri Lanka

Kinzang YangdenPublic HealthBhutan Tshering YangdonPublic HealthBhutan

Dawa ZamPublic HealthBhutan

Kinley ZamEnvironmental SciencesBhutan


COUNCIL OF PATRONS Chief Patron: Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of BangladeshEmma Bonino, Former Foreign Affairs Minister of ItalyLaura Bush, Former First Lady of the United StatesAnson Chan, Former Chief Secretary of Hong KongLone Dybkjaer, Former Danish Minister of Environment; Former Member of the European Parliament

Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, Former President of Sri LankaHer Royal Highness the Grand Duchess Maria Teresa, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg

BOARD OF TRUSTEES Chair: Dipu Moni (Bangladesh), Physician, Human Rights Lawyer, and Minister of Education, Government of Bangladesh; Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Government of BangladeshVice Chair: Shiv Shankar Mukherjee (India), Former High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Government of IndiaSecretary: Young Joon “YJ” Kim (South Korea/USA), Former Partner (Retired), Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLPTreasurer: Kapil Jain (USA),Partner, Global Professional Practice, Ernst & Young (New York)Kamal Ahmad (Bangladesh/USA), President & CEO, AUW Support FoundationSheikha Abdulla Al-Misnad (Qatar), Former President, Qatar UniversityLynne Anne Davis (Hong Kong/USA), President & Senior Partner, FleishmanHillard Asia PacificMeenakshi Gopinath (India), Former Principal, Lady Shri Ram College, New Delhi

Rubana Huq (Bangladesh), Managing Director, Mohammadi Group and President, Bangladesh Manufacturers and Exporters AssociationLăle Kesebi (Hong Kong/Canada), Founder & CEO, human-at.workLaura Deal Lacey (Brazil/Singapore/USA), Executive Director, Milken Institute Asia CenterMarina Mahathir (Malaysia), Writer & ActivistSharmeen Obaid-Chinoy (Pakistan), Filmmaker & JournalistMaryam Qudrat (Afghanistan/USA), Adviser to the Ministry of Higher Education in Afghanistan*Nirmala Rao, OBE, FAcSS (India/UK), Vice Chancellor, AUWMeredith Woo (South Korea/USA), President, Sweet Briar CollegeShelly Maneth (USA), Director, Finance & Administration Southeast Asia, McKinsey & Company*Secretary of Education, Government of Bangladesh*Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Government of Bangladesh*ex-officio

BANGLADESH BOARD OF ADVISORSChair: E. Mr. Abul Hasan Mahmood Ali, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Government of BangladeshKamal Ahmad, Founder, Asian University for WomenDr. Begum Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, MP, Honorable Speaker, Government of BangladeshKazi M. Aminul Islam, Executive Chairman, Bangladesh Investment Development Authority, Government of BangladeshHumayun Kabir, Former Ambassador of Bangladesh to U.S.Sultana Kamal, Human Rights Advocate and former Executive Director of Ain o Salish Kendra, TIB

Asian University for Women is governed by its Board of Trustees in accordance with the Charter of the University. The Board of Trustees bears the ultimate responsibility, fiduciary and otherwise, for the University’s policies, programs and other activities. AUW is supported by a Council of Patrons who serve as public advocates for the institution. The University relies on a number of independently constituted but affiliated support foundations or groups incorporated in different jurisdictions to mobilize financial resources for it. An International Council of Advisors, chaired by the Nobel Physics Laureate Professor Jerome Friedman, provides counsel to the university on a variety of matters important in the life of the University. A Bangladesh Board of Advisors chaired by the Foreign Minister and composed of other senior Government representatives and civic and academic leaders help support the Vice Chancellor’s agenda for institutional development.

Md. Abdul Karim, Former Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of Bangladesh and Managing Director, Palli Karma – Sahayak FoundationRokia Afzal Rahman, Chairman, The Daily StarNirmala Rao, Vice Chancellor, Asian University for WomenGowher Rizvi, Advisor to the Prime Minister of Bangladesh for International Affairs, Government of BangladeshAbdus Salam, Chairman, Chittagong Development AuthoritySecretary: Dave Dowland, University Registrar, Asian University for Women

INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF ADVISORS Dr. Jerome Friedman (Chairman), Nobel Laureate; Institute Professor and Professor of Physics, Emeritus, MITAndrea Gavosto, Director, Fondazione Giovanni Agnelli Wendi Goldsmith, CEO, Bioengineering GroupKerry Healey, President, Babson College

Michael (“Mickey”) Kantor, Partner, Mayer Brown LLP.; Former U.S. Secretary of Commerce and U.S. Trade RepresentativeJenny Kim Eldon, Program Manager, UdacityKin-Chung Lam, Managing Director, Ebizanywhere Technologies Ltd

Governance


Chair: Nirmala Rao, OBE, FAcSSLady Judy Moody StuartStephen Barr

AUW SUPPORT FOUNDATION (UK) BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Chair: Alice LinDeborah Chen

AUW SUPPORT FOUNDATION (SINGAPORE) BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Shelly Maneth Julia Raiskin

Co-Chairs: Kathy Matsui, Catherine Watters-Sasanuma, Miwa SekiLauren Bliss-KawasakiAnnie ChangRoxana DaverAlison EatonMartha GomezMaryam HaqAlyson JenkinsMayumi JonesD’Anna Keinan

AUW JAPAN SUPPORT GROUPRitsuko KitaharaPreeti KothariKathy KruauthMichaela KusterCecilia MelinKnako MiyakoshiYumiko MurakamiUtae NakanishiNuzhat Nazmul NishiHiroko Nishikawa FuEvelyn Poh

Debbie ReillyErin RubeshUsitha SivaparagasamAngela SlapeJill SolomonKaren ThomasStephanie ToppinoNobuko TsutsuiMaggie Yamasaki

Serra Kirdar Meliti, Founder and Director, Muthabara Foundation Sally Jutabha Michaels, Former Advisor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of the Kingdom of Thailand Lulwa S. Al-Mulla, Chair of AUW Kuwait Support Committee; Secretary-General of Women Cultural Social Society Lauren Kahea Moriarty, Former Dean of the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies; Former U.S. Ambassador and Diplomat

INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF ADVISORS, continued

Chairman Emeritus: Jack R. Meyer, Senior Managing Partner & CEO, Convexity Capital ManagementChairman: YJ KimTreasurer: Kapil JainKamal Ahmad

AUW SUPPORT FOUNDATION BOARD OF DIRECTORSBetty Y. Chen, Principal, BYC Projects LLCLynne Anne DavisSheena S. Iyengar, S.T. Lee Professor of Business, Columbia Business SchoolKathy M. Matsui, Vice Chairman, Co-head of Macro Research in Asia, and Chief Japan Equity Strategist, Goldman Sachs

Catherine Watters-Sasanuma, EntrepreneurMiwa Seki, Entrepreneur

Chair: Lynne Anne Davis, President & Senior Partner, FleishmanHillard Asia PacificNatalie Ackerman, EVP Greater China, Jack Morton WorldwideMia Bourgeois, Co-Founder, Altitude22 Ltd.Jennifer Carver, Chief Investment Officer, NEST InvestmentsAnne Charron, Lawyer & CounsellorAnne Chen, Director of Projects, Hutch Telecoms

AUW SUPPORT FOUNDATION (HONG KONG) LTD. BOARD OF DIRECTORSCaroline Chiu, Partner, EYCraig Dana, Senior Vice President, Global Sourcing, Ralph LaurenAbbi DeLessio, Former Chairwoman, Hong Kong International SchoolMarc Desmidt, CEO, International, Point72Richard Lee Folsom, Representative Partner, Advantage PartnersRebecca Ip, Founder & Director, Luxury Partners Ltd.

Yan-Yan Li, Lawyer & Director Mallika Kapur, Senior Editor APAC, Bloomberg LivePeggy Roe, Chief Sales & Marketing Officer, Marriott International-Asia PacificMark Uhrynuk, Partner, Mayer Brown JSMFerheen Mahomed, Chief Legal Counsel, Hong Kong Stock Exchange

Dinusha Panditaratne, Former Director, Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute (LKI), Sri LankaDee Poon, Chief Executive Officer, China Retail, Esquel GroupClare Rosenfield, President, Global Healing Foundation Sawako Takeuchi, Former President, Japan House, ParisDiana Taylor, Former Superintendent of Banks, State of New York

Seinenu Thein-Lemelson, Founder and President, Institute for Democratic Education and LeadershipM. Osman Yousuf, President and CEO, SYF GroupDiane Whitty, Executive Director at J.P. Morgan Chase; Global Head of Philanthropy


Founded in 2008 and located in Chittagong, Bangladesh, Asian University for Women is the first of its kind: a regional institution dedicated to women’s education and leadership development – international in outlook but rooted in the contexts and aspirations of the people of Asia. Chartered by the Parliament of Bangladesh, AUW exists solely to support a rising network of women leaders, entrepreneurs, and change makers from across the region. It seeks out women who have significant academic potential and demonstrate courage and a sense of outrage at injustice and are empathic to the woes of other people.

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