regional support Committees

 

Bangladesh Advisory Board

Rokia Afzal Rahman, President, Women Entrepreneurs Association, Bangladesh; Board Chair

Fazle Hasan Abed, Founder and Chairman, BRAC, the world’s largest non-governmental organization

Kamal Ahmad, President and CEO of the Asian University for Women Support Foundation

Fakhruddin Ahmed, Chief Adviser, Interim Caretaker Government, Bangladesh; Former Chairman, PKSF (Rural Employment Support Foundation); Former Governor, Bangladesh Bank

Monowara Hakim Ali, President, Chittagong Women Chamber of Commerce & Industry

Angela Gomez, Founder and Executive Director, Banchte Shekha (Learning to Live), a non-governmental organization for women’s empowerment based in Jessore, Bangladesh

Monjulika Chakma, notable entrepreneur; Proprietor of Bain Textile Company, Bangladesh

Geetara Safiya Choudhury, Adviser, Interim Caretaker Government, Bangladesh; Chairperson and Managing Director, Adcomm Ltd, a leading advertising firm; Former President, Dhaka Club

Jamal Nazrul Islam, Professor and Director, Research Centre for Mathematical & Physical Sciences, University of Chittagong

Mamun Rashid, CEO, Citibank (Bangladesh) Ltd. and Citigroup Country Officer

A.S.M. Shahjahan, Former Inspector General of Police, Bangladesh

Farooq Sobhan, President, Bangladesh Enterprise Institute; Former Foreign Secretary, Bangladesh; Former Deputy Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations

Muhammad Yunus, Founder and Managing Director, Grameen Bank; Nobel Peace Laureate 2006

Friends of AUW Japan

Joanne Butterfield : Member, Friends of AUW Japan.

Robert Feldman : Managing Director and Chief Economist, Morgan Stanley (Japan) Ltd.

M. James Kondo : Associate Professor, University of Tokyo; Co-Founder and Vice Chairman of Healthcare Policy Institue Japan.

Kathy M. Matsui : Managing Director and Chief Japan Strategist, Goldman Sachs (Japan)

Rurika "Rickie" Naito-Cutis : Member, Friends of AUW Japan

Kathleen M. Pike: Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University; Visiting Professor, Temple University - Japan Campus, Tokyo

Ken Shibusawa : Chief Executive Officer, Shibusawa & Company

Yasko Tashiro : Member, Friends of AUW Japan

Australian Friends of AUW

Joan Lefroy, co-founder of the Bruce Lefroy Centre for Genetic Health Research at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute

Meredith Doig, Principal of Midlothian Consulting; Councillor of the University of Melbourne; moderator with the Cranlana Programme, an initiative of the Myer Foundation

Campbell Bairstow, general manager, alumni relations at the University of Melbourne, Australia

Mary Hawkins, Vice President, International Women’s Development Agency; Head of Technology, Sustainablity and Community Programs at ANZ