Pacific Forum

Board of Directors

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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Ralph A. Cossa

Ralph A. Cossa - Pacific Forum

PRESIDENT EMERITUS AND WSD-HANDA CHAIR IN PEACE STUDIES, PACIFIC FORUM (HONOLULU)

Vice-Chairwoman

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Brenda Lei Foster

FORMER PRESIDENT, AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IN SHANGHAI (HOUSTON)

Members

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Steven Xavier Chan

GLOBAL HEAD OF GOVERNMENT RELATIONS AND PUBLIC POLICY, PRUDENTIAL PLC (SINGAPORE)

Abraham M. Denmark

Partner, Defense and National Security Practice & Australia Practice, The Asia Group

Robert P. Girrier

REAR ADMIRAL, USN (RET.); PRESIDENT EMERITUS, PACIFIC FORUM (MARYLAND)

James A. Kelly

PRESIDENT EMERITUS, PACIFIC FORUM; FORMER ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE FOR EAST ASIAN AND PACIFIC AFFAIRS (HONOLULU)

Alex Kimura

Partner, Singapore, McKinsey & Company

Warren K. K. Luke

CHAIRMAN & CEO, HAWAII NATIONAL BANK (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)

David Santoro

PRESIDENT, PACIFIC FORUM (HONOLULU)

Eric Sayers

Managing Director and Indo-Pacific Practice Lead, 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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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)

Yoshihiko Miyauchi

Senior Chairman, ORIX Corporation

Rex C.A. Reyes

Chairman and CEO, Galaxy Group

James J. Shinn

former Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asia (Princeton, NJ);

Advisor, Conversion Capital

Kazuyoshi Umemoto

Former 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

Senior Fellow and Co-founder, Centre for Strategic and International Studies

In Memoriam