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