Citi Invests $1 Million in New Asia Society Policy Institute

Funding to support institute that will connect business and policy leaders to forge a new U.S.-Asia future
 
NEW YORK - Oct. 18, 2013 - PRLog -- Asia Society is pleased to announce a $1 million donation from Citigroup for its newly created Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI), the only institute dedicated to bringing policy and business together on equal footing to seek common solutions to challenges facing the United States and Asia.

Citi made the announcement of the funding at Asia Society’s Annual Awards Dinner Thursday  in New York, where Unilever, MTV World, and TPG founder David Bonderman were honored for working to help improve lives and strengthen relations between the United States and Asia.

“Citi is pleased to partner with Asia Society and support its groundbreaking new Policy Institute,” said Stephen Bird, Chief Executive Officer of Citi Asia Pacific. “We believe the Institute will foster dialogue, understanding and progress on Asia’s most pressing issues and have a lasting impact on U.S.-Asia relations.”

The donation will go toward funding the first stages of the Institute's work, which involve the study and pursuit of  solutions in areas of vital importance for the future of the Asia-Pacific region, including global business and trade, sustainability challenges, and regional security.

“We thank Citi for its generous donation to broaden Asia Society’s policy work to improve ties between the U.S. and Asia,” said Asia Society President Josette Sheeran. “The Asia Society Policy Institute will have the unparalleled ability to look at issues not from just one nation’s perspective, but rather from multiple national perspectives."

The Asia Society Policy Institute will build upon Asia Society’s trusted brand and neutral platform to bring together multi-sector stakeholders in the fields of policy, business, and civil society. This work will include creating a network of experts on key issues to seek consensus among stakeholders in the U.S. and Asia, building partnerships for prosperity to help create sustainable investment and growth in Asian nations, and holding high-level forums and public events with the goal of identifying best practices in the region.

Asia Society has a long history of bringing Asian and American leaders and thinkers together to share ideas in an unbiased setting geared toward finding solutions. In recent years the organization has issued important reports on topics including Myanmar’s reform process, the U.S.’s policy in South Asia, and police reform in Pakistan. It has held public forums with major world leaders including Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, Myanmar’s Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi and President Thein Sein, and U.S. National Security Advisor Tom Donilon.

Asia Society is also a recognized leader in Track II policy dialogue, tripartite, and regional dialogues, particularly in cases where official relations are inadequate or not possible. This includes current initiatives focused on U.S.-Iran relations, U.S.-Myanmar relations, and U.S.-Myanmar-China relations.

To learn more about ASPI and Asia Society’s policy work visit AsiaSociety.org/policy or contact Asia Society at pr@asiasociety.org and 212-327-9271.

About the Asia Society Policy Institute

Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI), an independent, non-partisan, and global institute created to address the critical political and economic issues facing Asia and the United States in the 21st Century. The Institute will study, on a long-term basis, several areas of vital importance to the future of the Asia-Pacific region, including global business and trade, sustainability challenges, and regional security.

The new policy Institute will expand on policy work Asia Society has done on some of Asia and the U.S.'s most important issues since its founding in 1956, including giving public forum to world leaders to make major policy addresses, issuing reports on pressing issues for U.S.-Asia relations and the Asian region, and quietly bringing together key players to difficult, but important questions about a shared future.

About the Asia Society

Asia Society is the leading educational organization dedicated to promoting mutual understanding and strengthening partnerships among peoples, leaders and institutions of Asia and the United States in a global context. Across the fields of arts, business, culture, education, and policy, the Society provides insight, generates ideas, and promotes collaboration to address present challenges and create a shared future.

Founded in 1956 by John D. Rockefeller 3rd, Asia Society is a nonpartisan, nonprofit institution with headquarters in New York, major centers in Hong Kong and Houston, and offices in Los Angeles, Manila, Mumbai, San Francisco, Seoul, Shanghai, Sydney, and Washington, DC.
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