News

InSyle Magazine features 2016 Asia Foundation Development Fellow Kotchakorn Voraakhom in their list of “The Badass 50 2020: Meet the Women Who are Changing the World.” The list includes House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Congresswomen Katie Porter, Nobel Prize winner Esther Duflo, and Actor Sharon Stone.  KOTCHAKORN VORAAKHOM: The founder and CEO of… Read more

The Asia Foundation today announced the 2020 class of Asia Foundation Development Fellows: Emerging Leadership for Asia’s Future following a highly competitive selection process. Representing 11 Asian countries and a wide range of disciplines, the 2020 Development Fellows—seven women and five men—are emerging leaders in their fields, bringing bold,… Read more

Teen Vogue names The Asia Foundation in a feature interview with actor and 2019 Lotus Circle honoree Lana Condor.  Lana’s passion for empowering education for young people has led her to organize a scholarship through the Asia Foundation, where girls from Cần Thơ, Vietnam, are sponsored for necessities such as books, uniforms, and transportati… Read more

Stronger cooperation is essential for APEC as economies address inequality, environmental health, and the digital economy—the region’s critical challenges—said APEC Secretariat Executive Director Rebecca Sta Maria during a visit to the United States to bolster collaboration with The Asia Foundation, and the tech community. “The biggest challenges o… Read more

Former Asia Foundation Chang-Lin Tien Distinguished Visiting Fellow, friend to The Asia Foundation, and founder of BRAC, Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, passed away on December 20, 2019. He was 83 years old. Sir Abed devoted his life to standing up for social justice. He started BRAC in 1972 as a small relief and rehabilitation project in north-eastern Bangl… Read more

The New York Times and Time Magazine highlight the 2019 Survey of the Afghan People in a profile of a female tattoo artist in Kabul. The piece was originally featured by the Associated Press and was picked up by over 260 international news outlets. Women like Shaheedi have carved out a space for themselves in a society where custom heavily restrict… Read more

Shiseido Asia Pacific and The Asia Foundation have successfully concluded the inaugural Girls Learning & Leading (GLL) program, a scholarship program empowering marginalized young women at a critical time when many drop out of school to find paying jobs. The first cohort of 102 female scholars in Cambodia completed the eight-month program with… Read more

The Asia Foundation, in partnership with the Development Policy Centre at Australian National University, will host the 2020 Australasian Aid Conference on February 17-19 at ANU’s Crawford School of Public Policy in Canberra. With over 600 people registered last year, the annual event is Australia’s premier aid and development conference. The keyno… Read more

9:30 am EST: Arrivals10:00 am–11:00 am EST: DiscussionChristie’s New York, 20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NYIn September 2019, The Asia Foundation launched its regional Let’s Read initiative in Myanmar where only four percent of the nation’s 53 million children have books at home. To overcome book scarcity across Asia, Let’s Read brings together t… Read more

In partnership with the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, The Asia Foundation implemented a one-week U.S. Indo-Pacific Strategy study tour to Vietnam, Singapore, and the Philippines for 8 Korean broadcast journalists, accompanied by The Asia Foundation Korea and U.S. Embassy Seoul staff. Photo: U.S. Embassy, Philippines Catalyzed by recent South Korean govern… Read more