Program

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

The Waldorf=Astoria
301 Park Avenue
New York City

Reception • 6:30 PM • Jade Room
Dinner • 7:30 PM • Grand Ballroom

black tie/traditional attire

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Speaker & Honorees

Keynote Speaker

Stephen W. Bosworth 
Special Representative for North Korea Policy

Stephen W. Bosworth became the special representative for North Korea policy in February 2009, reporting to the secretary of state and the president. Ambassador Bosworth continues to serve as dean of The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Prior to his appointment at The Fletcher School in February 2001, he served as the United States ambassador to the Republic of Korea from November 1997 to February 2001. From 1995 through 1997, Ambassador Bosworth was the executive director of the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO). Before joining KEDO, he served seven years as president of the United States–Japan Foundation, a private American grant-making institution. He also taught international relations as an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs from 1990 to 1994. In 1993, he was the Sol Linowitz Visiting Professor at Hamilton College. He has co-authored several studies on public policy issues for the Carnegie Endowment and the Century Fund, and in 2006 he co-authored Chasing the Sun, Rethinking East Asian Policy.

Ambassador Bosworth has had an extensive career in the United States Foreign Service, including service as ambassador to Tunisia from 1979 to 1981 and ambassador to the Philippines from 1984 to 1987. He also served in a number of senior positions in the Department of State, including director of policy planning, principal deputy assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs, and deputy assistant secretary for economic affairs. Ambassador Bosworth is the recipient of several awards, including the American Academy of Diplomacy’s Diplomat of the Year Award in 1987, the Department of State’s Distinguished Service Award in 1976 and 1986, and the Department of Energy’s Distinguished Service Award in 1979. In 2005, the government of Japan presented him with the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star.

Ambassador Bosworth is a graduate of Dartmouth College.

Van Fleet Award Honoree

Chung Mong-Koo
Chairman
Hyundai–Kia Automotive Group

As the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Hyundai-Kia Automotive Group, the world’s fifth-largest automaker, Chung Mong-Koo has demonstrated extraordinary leadership and vision which have put the Group firmly on track for growth in the 21st century. Since taking the helm of Hyundai-Kia Automotive Group in 1999, Mr. Chung has propelled the automaker to the top ranks of the industry by instituting on-site management, quality management, and global management, the three core principles of his management philosophy. From the margins of the industry, Hyundai has emerged among the Top 100 Global Brands for the past four years, according to InterBrand, the UK brand consultancy and Business Week.

His major strategic decisions include the 1998 rescue from bankruptcy of Kia Motors, instituting the Six Sigma quality revolution, and the aggressive push to globalize R&D and manufacturing operations starting with the 2002 decision to invest in a Beijing China manufacturing subsidiary. To get a closer feel of the pulse of the American car buyer, nearly US$2.5 billion has been invested to construct new assembly plants in Montgomery, Alabama, in West Point, Georgia, as well research and development centers in Irvine, California, and Superior Township, Michigan, leading to the direct creation of some 8,000 new jobs for Americans and thereby strengthening the Korean-American partnership.

Mr. Chung is continuously striving to achieve his vision for the 21st century. By building two new manufacturing plants in Europe, expanding production capacities in both China and India and integrating a newly established steel company into the company’s production system, he is leading the Hyundai-Kia Automotive Group in becoming a more competitive player in the auto industry.

Outside the company, Mr. Chung has maintained a high profile in the business community, most recently securing Korea’s right to host the 2012 Expo in his role as Honorary Chairman of the Bidding Committee for the Expo 2012 Yeosu. Mr. Chung is also contributing to the economic cooperation and peace policies in North-East Asia as Chairman of the Board for the East Asia Forum, which established and implemented the Jeju Peace Forum.

His philanthropic activities are led by the Haevichi Foundation which supports the performing arts and environmental protection causes. In the U.S., Hyundai Motor’s subsidiaries contribute to the local communities through various corporate social responsibility activities. A key initiative in the North American region is the `Hope on Wheels’ program, which supports the fight against pediatric cancer. More than $10 million have been donated to the cause since the program’s inception in 1998. Other activities include building and preserving homes for the less fortunate by working with `Habitat for Humanity and Rebuilding Together,’ as well as supporting the American Cancer Society and the American Red Cross. In addition to blood donations and fund-raising activities worth of 1$ million during the 2005 Hurricane Katrina relief effort, every year the employees at Hyundai’s Alabama plant volunteer over 1,000 hours to help make the community a better place.

Mr. Chung holds a bachelor’s degree in Industry Business Administration from Hanyang University. On February 4, 2001, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Citation from the Automotive Hall of Fame, making him the first Korean and second Asian to receive this award. In 2004, he was named by Business Week magazine as one of the year’s “Best Managers.” In 1986, Central Connecticut State University bestowed upon him an Honorary Professorship, and in 1989, an Honorary Ph.D. in Human Science. China’s Tsinghua University awarded Chairman Chung an Honorary Professorship of Business Administration in 1996.

Van Fleet Award Honoree

Henry A. Kissinger
56th Secretary of State
United States of America

Henry Alfred Kissinger was sworn in on September 22, 1973, as the 56th Secretary of State, a position he held until January 20, 1977. He also served as Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs from January 20, 1969, until November 3, 1975. In July 1983 he was appointed by President Reagan to chair the National Bipartisan Commission on Central America until it ceased operation in January 1985, and from 1984-1990 he served as a member of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. From 1986-1988 he was a member of the Commission on Integrated Long-Term Strategy of the National Security Council and Defense Department. He served as a member of the Defense Policy Board from 2001 to 2008.

At present, Dr. Kissinger is Chairman of Kissinger Associates, Inc., an international consulting firm. He is also a member of the International Council of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.; chairman of the International Advisory Board of American International Group, Inc.; a counselor to and trustee of the Center for Strategic and International Studies; an honorary governor of the Foreign Policy Association; and an honor member of the International Olympic Committee. Among his other activities, Dr. Kissinger is a member of the board of directors of ContiGroup Companies, Inc. and an advisor to the Board of Directors of American Express Company. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of Forstmann Little and Co.; a trustee emeritus of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; a director emeritus of Freeport-McMoRan Copper and Gold Inc.; and a director of the International Rescue Committee.

Among the awards Dr. Kissinger has received have been the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973; the Presidential Medal of Freedom (the nation’s highest civilian award) in 1977; and the Medal of Liberty (given one time to ten foreign-born American leaders) in 1986.

Dr. Kissinger was born in Fuerth, Germany, came to the United States in 1938, and was naturalized a United States citizen in 1943. He served in the Army from 1943 to 1946. He graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College in 1950 and received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University in 1952 and 1954.

From 1954 until 1969 he was a member of the faculty of Harvard University, in both the Department of Government and the Center for International Affairs. He was Director of the Harvard International Seminar from 1952 to 1969.

Dr. Kissinger is the author of:

A World Restored: Castlereagh, Metternich and the Restoration of Peace, 1812-1822 (1957)
Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy (1957)
The Necessity for Choice: Prospects of American Foreign Policy (1961)
The Troubled Partnership: A Reappraisal of the Atlantic Alliance (1965)
Problems of National Strategy: A Book of Readings (ed.) (1965)
American Foreign Policy, Three Essays (1969)
White House Years (1979)
For the Record: Selected Statements, 1977-1980 (1981)
Years of Upheaval (1982)
Observations: Selected Speeches and Essays, 1982-1984 (1985)
Diplomacy (1994)
Years of Renewal (1999)
Does America Need a Foreign Policy?: Toward a Diplomacy for the 21st Century (2001)
Ending the Vietnam War: A History of America’s Involvement in and Extrication from the Vietnam War (2003)
Crisis: The Anatomy of Two Major Foreign Policy Crises (2003)

He has also published numerous articles on United States foreign policy, international affairs and diplomatic history. His column, syndicated by Tribune Media Services International, appears in leading U.S. newspapers and in over 40 foreign countries.

Dinner Committee

DINNER CHAIR
AHN Byung Mo
Group President and CEO
KIA Motors America and KIA Motors Manufacturing Georgia

BENEFACTOR
Spencer H. KIM
Chairman
CBOL/Celltron

Michael AHN
President and CEO
LG Electronics North America

CHOI Changsoo
President and CEO
Samsung Electronics America, INC.
North America Region

Bill HWANG
Founder and CEO
Tiger Asia Management LLC

PATRON
HUR Dong-Soo
Chairman and CEO
GS Caltex Corporation

MIN Keh-Sik
Vice Chairman and
Co-Chief Executive Officer
Hyundai Heavy Industries

SPONSOR
Nicholas C. WALSH
Vice Chairman
AIU Holding, INC.

Larry A. KLANE
President and CEO
Korea Exchange Bank

Dinner Supporters

Benefactor
CBOL/Celltron
Hyundai-Kia Automotive Group
LG Electronics USA, Inc.
Samsung Electronics America, Inc.
Tiger Asia Management L.L.C.

Patron
GS Caltex Corporation
Hyundai Heavy Industries
Hyundai-Kia Automotive Group

Sponsor
AIU Holdings
Hyundai-Kia Automotive Group
Korea Exchange Bank

Donor
KPMG LLP
Lazard Asset Management LLC
MetLife
Morgan Stanley & One Equity Partners
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Robert E. Fallon

Contributor
Asiana Airlines, Inc.
Belstar Group
Korean Consulate General
McLarty Associates
PGP Capital Advisors, LLC
POSCO
SK USA

Special Acknowledgement
Additional support was provided by Mark Gaston, Gaston Capital Management Inc.; Alexandra Munroe, Guggenheim Museum; Mark A. Smith, Mark Smith Law Office; Richard T. McCormack, Merrill Lynch.