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A total of thirteen honorees were awarded, including Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai and internet entrepreneur Jack Ma, who was honoured as the first ever Game Changer of the Year. [1] Nominees are selected from individuals and institutions nominated from the Asia Society's global network, [ 1 ] which then embarks on a three-month long process ...
In 2016 the Asia Society honored Shahnaz with the Asia Game Changer Award for changing the lives of millions through impact investing. [ 16 ] In 2017 Shahnaz received The Oslo Business for Peace Award for her work in transforming financial and capital markets into mechanisms for social good as well as profit.
First Lady Barbara Bush and former Ambassador Roy M. Huffington established Texas Asia Society in 1979. They recognized the need to educate Americans about Asia and to make stronger connections between Houston and the peoples and institutions of Asia. In 1995 the Texas Center’s board of directors voted to build a home for its programs and ...
The Asian Cultural Council (ACC) is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing international cultural exchange between Asia and the U.S. and between the countries of Asia through the arts. Founded by John D. Rockefeller III in 1963, ACC has invested over $100 million in grants to artists and arts professionals representing 16 fields and ...
After a strategic launch in Japan in September and an end-of October debut in the much smaller New Zealand market, Warner Bros, Discovery’s Max streaming platform gets a much bigger rollout in ...
The history of APN dates back to the 1990 White House Conference on Science and Economics Research Related to Global Change, 17–18 April 1990, at which then US President George Bush invited countries of the world to join the United States in creating regional networks for North-South scientific cooperation at the intergovernmental level to deal with global environmental change research. [3]
Pages in category "Asia Game Changer Award winners" The following 56 pages are in this category, out of 56 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
Dec. 21—When Morgantown businessman Joe Boczek founded GameChanger in 2017, he wasn't thinking about film critics. He was focused more on the scourge of drug abuse in West Virginia — which by ...