YOUR INVITATION TO

HONOREESGlobal Citizenship Award

UnileverKees Kruythoff

President, Unilever North America

Global Leadership AwardDavid Bonderman

Founding Partner, TPG

Cultural Achievement AwardMTV World

Nusrat DurraniGeneral Manager and Senior Vice President

Special Address byStephen A. Schwarzman

Co-Founder, Chairman, and CEO, BlackstoneTrustee, Asia Society

on the landmark Schwarzman Scholars program at China’s Tsinghua University

Asia Society Policy Institute Announcement byStephen Bird

Chief Executive Officer, Citi Asia PacificTrustee, Asia Society

Asia Society is the leading educational organization dedicated to promoting mutual understanding and strengthening partnerships among peoples, leaders, and institutions of Asia and the United States in a global context. Across the fields of arts, business, culture, education, and policy, the Society provides insight, generates ideas, and promotes collaboration to address present challenges and create a shared future.

Asia Society is headquartered in New York, with cultural centers in Hong Kong and Houston, and offices in Los Angeles, Manila, Mumbai, San Francisco, Seoul, Shanghai, Sydney, and Washington, D.C.

Henrietta H. Fore and Ronnie C. ChanCo-Chairs, Asia Society

Josette SheeranPresident and CEO, Asia Society

and the Trustees of Asia Society

Thursday, October 17, 2013

The Pierre, A Taj Hotel2 East 61st Street | New York City

Reception 6:00 pm | Dinner 6:45 pmBusiness Attire

The dinner will conclude by 9:15.

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UnileverAccepted by Kees KruythoffPresident, Unilever North America

Asia Society’s Global Citizenship Award will be presented to Unilever for its ambitious and pioneering Sustainable Living Plan, which sets out, by 2020, to improve the health and well-being of 1 billion people, halve the environmental footprint of their products and source 100% of their agricultural raw materials sustainably while enhancing the livelihoods across their operations.

The Unilever Foundation is partnering with five leading global organizations—Oxfam, UNICEF, Population Services International, Save the Children, and the World Food Programme. The Foundation’s mission is to improve quality of life through the provision of hygiene, sanitation, access to clean drinking water, and basic nutrition and enhancing self-esteem.

In addition to its leadership contributions to this global coordinated effort, Unilever addresses social issues in individual countries. One example is the implementation of the rural selling operation, Shakti. This program provides employment to almost 80,000 entrepreneurs, including 48,000 women, in over 135,000 villages across India. Unilever is rolling out similar initiatives in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Africa.

Kees Kruythoff will accept the award on behalf of Unilever. He was appointed President of Unilever North America in September 2011, and has enjoyed a long career with Unilever, working in senior roles for the company since the 1990s, in Europe, Africa, Latin America and Asia. In 2002, he joined the Board of Unilever Bestfoods in Asia.

Under Kruythoff’s leadership, Unilever factories have made great strides in reducing its energy, water, and waste footprint. In North America, Unilever is making significant progress on its goal to achieve 90% sustainably sourced agricultural materials by 2015.

Global Citizenship AwardHONOREE

Asia Society recognizes David Bonderman with its Global Leadership Award for his humanitarian and business accomplishments in Asia. Through his work as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Himalayan Foundation, he has helped build schools, medical centers, and other much needed facilities in Nepal and Tibet. As a business leader, David Bonderman has helped strengthen and secure financial institutions throughout Asia, and has been an early advocate for supporting economic growth in Myanmar.

We also wish to salute his commitment to sustainability practices for all TPG portfolio companies. These include reducing greenhouse gases, diminishing landfill waste, increasing recycling, and resourcing clean energy sources globally. These companies operate in more than 100 countries and employ approximately 600,000 people. TPG’s investments have included American Tire Distributors, Burger King, China Grand Auto, Continental Airlines, IMS Health, J. Crew, Lenovo, Neiman Marcus, Petco, Shriram Capital, and Univision.

Prior to forming TPG in 1992, David Bonderman was Chief Operating Officer of the Robert M. Bass Group Inc. During his career, he was a partner in the law firm of Arnold & Porter, a Fellow in Foreign and Comparative Law in conjunction with Harvard University, Special Assistant to the U.S. Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division, and Assistant Professor at Tulane University School of Law. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard Law School in 1966, and was a member of the Harvard Law Review and a Sheldon Fellow. He is a 1963 graduate of the University of Washington in Seattle.

David Bonderman serves on the boards of Caesar’s Entertainment Corporation, CoStar Group, Inc., General Motors Company, Ryanair Holdings, PLC, of which he is Chairman, the Supervisory Board for VTB Bank, The Wilderness Society, the Grand Canyon Trust, and the American Himalayan Foundation.

David BondermanFounding Partner TPG

Global Leadership AwardHONOREE

MTV World, a division of Viacom Media Networks, will receive Asia Society’s Cultural Achievement Award as a pioneer in bringing Asian pop music and culture to the United States. MTV World has championed hundreds of Asian artists, ideas, and causes to audiences around the world, creating a sense of global connection and empathy. The division was conceived by Nusrat Durrani, General Manager and Senior Vice President.

MTV WORLD was created in 2005 to launch new programming geared toward Asian-Americans, and to provide a platform for Asian pop culture and talent in the U.S. The innovative channels MTV Desi, MTV K and MTV Chi were created for South Asian, Chinese, and Korean-Americans to serve the needs of emerging hybrid audiences. MTV World and its brands have played a critical role in the dissemination of Asian culture, and they have been a champion—often the first—for numerous Asian artists, issues, and genres of music.

MTV World’s programs include The Music Experiment and the forthcoming Rebel Music documentary series. MTV World programming is featured on multiple MTV platforms and has won many awards and accolades.

Nusrat Durrani grew up in Lucknow, India, where he attended La Martiniere College. Before moving to the United States, he worked in New Delhi and Dubai, where he was the head of marketing for Honda motor cars. He has said he was inspired by a David Bowie video to change careers. He has held leadership positions at MTV for the past 17 years, and was part of the team that launched and developed MTV.COM and VH1.COM. Durrani received the Pinnacle Achievement Award from the Asian-American Business Development Corporation and the Trailblazer Award from the South Asians in the Media and Marketing Association.

MTV WorldAccepted by Nusrat DurraniGeneral Manager and Senior Vice President

Cultural Achievement AwardHONOREE

Schwarzman ScholarsDesigned to inspire the next generation of global leaders, Schwarzman Scholars is the most significant program of its kind since the Rhodes Trust was founded in 1902. With a $300 million endowment, it will also be the single largest philanthropic effort ever undertaken in China by largely international donors.

The 200 scholars chosen annually for this highly selective program will work towards a one-year Master’s Degree at Tsinghua University in Beijing—one of China’s most prestigious universities. Schwarzman Scholars will be selected based on their academic credentials, extracurricular interests and leadership potential.

Past Honorees 1979–2012

2012 David M. Cote Washington SyCip Patricia  A. Woertz2011 David Henry Hwang Aung San Suu Kyi John C. Whitehead2010 Mukesh D. Ambani Jeffrey R. Immelt New York Philharmonic2009 Joan Ganz Cooney Richard C. Holbrooke Nicholas D. Kristof Kronos Quartet Kati Marton Deepak S. Parekh Smita Parekh Peter G. Peterson Sheryl WuDunn2008 Alain J.P. Belda Shirin Neshat Rajendra Kumar Pachauri Shi Zhengrong2007 Ban Ki-moon Neville Isdell Shahram Nazeri Yoshio Taniguchi2006 Tan Dun Lakshmi N. Mittal Charles Prince David Rockefeller John D. Rockefeller IV2005 David Chu Vinod Khosla Chong-Moon Lee Lulu C. Wang Jerry Yang2004 Ronnie C. Chan Maurice R. Greenberg Douglas Tong Hsu Rupert Murdoch

2003 William J. Clinton2002 Colin Powell2000 Ela R. Bhatt Ali Akbar Khan Gopal Raju Atal Bihara Vajpayee Frank J. Wisner1999 Lawrence H. Summers1998 Madeleine K. Albright Peter R. Kann Pyong-Hwoi Koo Jonathan D. Spence Goh Chok Tong1997 Inder K. Gujral1996 Henry A. Kissinger1995 Fidel V. Ramos1993 Chuan Leekpai1992 Roh Tae Woo1991 George H. W. Bush1990 Sir David Wilson1989 James A. Baker Benazir Bhutto1988 Alan Bond Robert J. L. Hawke1988 William F. Ray James D. Wolfensohn1987 Mochtar Kusumaatmadja1985 Nihachiro Hanamura Tommy T.B. Koh Porter A. McCray Soedjatmoko1984 Robert O. Anderson John King Fairbank Saburo Okita I.M. Pei1982 A.W. Clausen1980 George W. Ball1979 Leonard Woodcock

ASIA SOCIETY TRUSTEESEdward R. Allen IIIMax BerryHamid BiglariStephen BirdJ. Frank BrownRonnie C. Chan Chan Heng-CheeAlbert ChaoPurnendu Chatterjee Betsy Z. CohenHenry CornellJ. Michael EvansHenrietta H. ForeCharles C. Foster Stephanie FosterThomas E. FrestonJamshyd N. GodrejToyoo GyohtenWahid HamidDoris Magsaysay HoOmar IshrakMitchell R. JulisLewis B. KadenSonny KalsiWillem KooykerChong-Moon LeeLee Hong-KooRohana MahmoodClaudine B. MaloneHarold McGraw IIIThomas E. McLainJohn D. NegroponteRobert NiehausHarold J. NewmanFrank Gaoning NingRichard PleplerWilliam R. RhodesCharles RockefellerJohn D. Rockefeller IVJames E. RogersNicolas RohatynCourtney S. RossDenise SaulStephen SchwarzmanJosette SheeranShin Dong-BinWarwick L. SmithJerry I. SpeyerMiranda Wong TangZubin TaraporevalaSandiaga S. UnoJohn S. Wadsworth, Jr.Lulu C. Wang

DINNER LEADERSHIP(list in formation)

CO-CHAIRSMorningside Group/Ronnie C. ChanBetsy and Ed Cohen/AreteHenrietta and Richard ForeCourtney Sale RossLulu and Anthony WangWarburg Pincus

VICE-CHAIRSGeneral AtlanticJohn D. Rockefeller IVChristine and Stephen A. Schwarzman

BENEFACTORSMaurice R. GreenbergChairman, The Starr FoundationVictor and Tara Menezes

PATRONSEddie & Chinhui Allen/Eagle Global

AdvisorsThe Cornell Family FoundationKohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF)

SUPPORTERSLeon BlackSusan E. LynchAmbassador Paul W. Speltz

FRIENDSCarol GluckThomas S. JohnsonMegha and Sumeer LalAmbassador John NegroponteClaudine MaloneAngela Self

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