The Board of Directors oversees and directs the business and affairs of Pacific Forum. A list of current members can be found below.
Chairman
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James A. Kelly
PRESIDENT EMERITUS, PACIFIC FORUM; FORMER ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE FOR EAST ASIAN AND PACIFIC AFFAIRS (HONOLULU)
Vice-Chairwoman
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Brenda Lei Foster
FORMER PRESIDENT, AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IN SHANGHAI (HOUSTON, TX)
Members
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Steven Xavier Chan
GLOBAL HEAD OF GOVERNMENT RELATIONS AND PUBLIC POLICY, PRUDENTIAL PLC (SINGAPORE)
Ralph A. Cossa
PRESIDENT EMERITUS AND WSD-HANDA CHAIR IN PEACE STUDIES, PACIFIC FORUM (HONOLULU)
Robert P. Girrier
REAR ADMIRAL, USN (RET.); PRESIDENT EMERITUS, PACIFIC FORUM (MARYLAND)
Warren K. K. Luke
CHAIRMAN & CEO, HAWAII NATIONAL BANK (HONOLULU)
Lauren Kahea Moriarty
PRINCIPAL, ALOHA VISIONS; FORMER US AMBASSADOR TO ASIA-PACIFIC ECONOMIC COOPERATION (APEC) (HONOLULU)
David L. Mulliken
PARTNER AND OF COUNSEL (RETIRED), LATHAM & WATKINS LLP; MEMBER, US SUPREME COURT BAR; INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATOR (HONOLULU)
Torkel Patterson
VICE CHAIRMAN, INTERNATIONAL HIGH-SPEED RAIL ASSOCIATION; DIRECTOR, CENTRAL JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY (TOKYO)
Jean E. Rolles
COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER; VICE PRESIDENT (RETIRED), COMMUNITY RELATIONS, OUTRIGGER ENTERPRISES, INC. (HONOLULU)
Charles B. Salmon, Jr.
ADJUNCT SENIOR FELLOW, OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT, EAST-WEST CENTER; FORMER US AMBASSADOR TO LAOS (HONOLULU)
David Santoro
PRESIDENT, PACIFIC FORUM (HONOLULU)
Eric Sayers
MANAGING DIRECTOR, BEACON GLOBAL STRATEGIES (WASHINGTON, DC)
Gerald Sumida
PARTNER, CARLSMITH BALL LLP (HONOLULU)
Barbara Tanabe
PARTNER, HO’AKEA COMMUNICATIONS (HONOLULU)
International Advisory Board
Co-Chairmen
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Richard L. Armitage
President, Armitage International; former US Deputy Secretary of State (Washington, DC)
Joseph S. Nye, Jr.
Distinguished Service Professor, John F. Kennedy School of Government; former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs (Boston, MA)
Members
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Mary G. F. Bitterman
President, The Bernard Osher Foundation; former President, James Irvine Foundation (Honolulu and San Francisco)
Brunhilde K. “Bruni” Bradley
Commander, USN (Ret.); Board Vice-Chairman, Military Child Education Coalition; Board Member, Center for Tomorrow’s Leaders Hawaii (Honolulu)
Karl W. Eikenberry
LTG, USA (Ret.); Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University; former US Ambassador to Afghanistan (Stanford, CA)
Haruhisa Handa
Chairman, Worldwide Support for Development (Tokyo)
Spencer Kim
Chairman, CBOL Corporation; former Chairman, Pioneer Aluminum (Chatsworth, CA)
Karen Knudsen
Senior Adjunct Fellow, East-West Center (Honolulu)
Charles D. Lake, II
President, Aflac International
Chairman and Representative Director
Aflac Life Insurance Japan Ltd
Hon Sir Jim McLay, KNZM QSO
former Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand and New Zealand’s Consul General in Honolulu (Honolulu)
former Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asia (Princeton, NJ)
Kazuyoshi Umemoto
President, Japan Foundation (Tokyo)
Sarasin Viraphol
Executive Vice President, Charoen Pokphand Group; former Thai Ambassador to the Philippines; former Director-General, Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Bangkok)
Jusuf Wanandi
Chairman, Supervisory Board, Centre for Strategic and International Studies (Jakarta)