Thursday, October 17 2013
The Pierre, A Taj Hotel
2 E 61st St, New York, NY 10065
Asia Society salutes exceptional business and cultural individuals and companies whose leadership and commitment have helped to improve lives and strengthen relations between the United States and Asia.
HONOREES:
Global Citizenship Award, Unilever
Accepted by Kees Kruythoff (President, North America)
Global Leadership Award
David Bonderman (Founder, TPG)
Cultural Achievement Award
MTV World
Accepted by Nusrat Durrani (General Manager and Senior Vice President))
The Awards Dinner provides an opportunity to network among an audience of 400-500 notables from the business, arts, diplomatic and cultural communities and is well-covered by major US and Asian press. It has been supported by leading global and national corporations including American Express, Blackstone, Bloomberg, Chevron, Citi, Dow Chemical, General Atlantic, Goldman Sachs, Honeywell, Merrill Lynch, The McGraw-Hill Companies, PepsiCo, The Coca-Cola Company, and Warburg Pincus.
Our outstanding list of past dinner honorees includes Presidents George H. W. Bush and William J. Clinton, Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, Aung San Suu Kyi, business leaders Mukesh Ambani, David Cote, Maurice Greenberg, Lakshmi Mittal, Peter G. Peterson, David Rockefeller, John Whitehead, and James Wolfensohn, and cultural luminaries Tan Dun, Yoshio Taniguchi, and The New York Philharmonic.
For more information: http://asiasociety.org/new-york/asia-society-2013-awards-dinner