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On September 10 in San Francisco, The Asia Foundation will present Dr. Oyun Sanjaasuren, former President of the United Nations Environment Assembly, with the Chang-Lin Tien Distinguished Leadership Award in recognition of her extraordinary leadership and advocacy for civil and social rights, including water security. The Honorable George P. Shultz… Read more

4:30 pm – 6:00 pm  U.C. Berkeley Campus, Doe Library, Room 180 Han Sung-Joo, former Asia Foundation grantee, ambassador to the United States and Korean foreign minister will speak at The University of California, Berkeley’s Institute of East Asia Studies on September 12. After the failure of Hanoi U.S.-North Korea summit held in February this… Read more

The Asia Foundation is now accepting applications for the 2020 Asia Foundation Development Fellows: Emerging Leadership for Asia’s Future program. The 2020 fellowship class will be the seventh cohort of this prestigious program, launched in 2014 to engage and empower a dynamic community of emerging leaders from across Asia. Applications will be acc… Read more

Asia Foundation Trustee Emeritus Theodore L. Eliot, Jr. passed away on August 8 at the age of 91. Theodore Lyman Eliot Jr. was born Jan. 24, 1928, part of the prominent Boston Eliot family, which included several college presidents and one Nobel Prize winner. He graduated from Harvard University in 1948 and married Pat Peters in 1951, in Sri Lanka,… Read more

The Asia Foundation, in partnership with RTI International, SIL LEAD, and Florida State University, is implementing the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Advancing Basic Education in the Philippines project (ABC+). The ABC+ project is designed to improve education outcomes and access to quality education for children in B… Read more

Leaders on the Frontlines: Mobilizing Changemakers for our Sustainable Future 6:00 pm I Reception 7:00 pm I Dinner Julia Morgan Ballroom | Merchants Exchange Building 465 California Street, 15th Floor, San Francisco A special dinner honoring Dr. Oyun Sanjaasuren First President, UN Environment Assembly With the Chang-Lin Tien Distinguished Lea… Read more

South China Morning Post spotlights the Foundation’s partnership with MasterCard and the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies to develop a mobile banking service that provides low-income populations in Vietnam access to financial services. Within Vietnam, the practice of sharing airtime credit via mobile phone transfers is beginning to emerge, and ther… Read more

Al Jazeera cites the 2018 Survey of the Afghan People in an analysis of security and environmental challenges in the city of Kabul. According to the Asia Foundation’s 2018 survey of the Afghan People, 55.4 percent of residents in the province of Kabul said their access to clean drinking water was worsening. A further 47.1 percent of respondents sai… Read more

11:30 am – 1:30 pm Embassy of Australia 1602 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC 2020 will mark the 20th anniversary of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325, which calls for women’s full and equal participation in peace and security processes and incorporation of gender perspectives in all peacekeeping initiatives and post-conflict… Read more

The Irrawaddy features key findings of The Asia Foundation’s 2019 Myanmar Business Environment Index. The Irrawaddy spoke with Jon Keesecker, Myanmar Business Environment Index project manager, about the report’s key findings, the effects of favoritism on Myanmar’s economy, transparency, the significant obstacles to doing business in Myanmar and po… Read more