Brief: Introduction to the Asian University for Women
Biography: Jack Meyer, Chairman, AUWSF
Biography: Kamal Ahmad, President/CEO, AUWSF
Biography: Hoon Eng Khoo, Provost & Acting Vice Chancellor, AUW
Brief: Introduction to the Asian University for Women
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Biography: Jack Meyer, Chairman, AUWSF
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Jack R. Meyer, Chair of the Asian University for Women Support Foundation, is Senior Managing Partner at Convexity Capital Management L.P. located in Boston.
He co-founded the firm with managing partners, Dave Mittelman and Maurice Samuels in July 2005. Before Convexity, Jack was President and CEO of Harvard Management Company, which manages the University's endowment assets, pension funds, charitable trusts and pooled income funds totaling in excess of $31 billion by the end of his term.
Prior to HMC, Jack was Treasurer and Chief Investment Officer of the Rockefeller Foundation where he managed the Foundation's endowment, valued at $2 billion. Before the Foundation, he was Deputy Controller of New York City, where he managed $20 billion in total assets, including the City's pension funds, sinking funds, and treasury funds. He also held various investment management positions with Lionel D. Edie, a New York City investment firm, and at Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.
Jack currently serves on the Board of Directors as well as the Investment Committee of The Boston Foundation. Previously, he served as a Director of the Investment Responsibility Research Council, and on the investment committees of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Massachusetts State Pension Fund, and the Atlantic Foundation.
He received a Bachelor of Science degree from Denison University. In 2004 Dennison awarded him an honorary doctorate degree. He received his Masters in Business Administration from Harvard Business School.
Biography: Kamal Ahmad, President & CEO, Asian University for Women Support Foundation [PDF version]
Kamal Ahmad currently serves as the President and CEO of the Asian University for Women Support Foundation. Educated at the Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard College, and the University of Michigan Law School, Mr. Ahmad has combined a career in private transactional law practice and international development. He focused on corporate mergers and acquisitions as well as US federal securities laws while at the New York offices of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson (1996-2000) and the London office of Mayer, Brown, Rowe and Maw (2001-2002). Immediately prior to joining the Asian University for Women Support Foundation, he was on the staff of the General Counsel of the Asian Development Bank based in Manila, Philippines. He has also worked with the World Bank, the Rockefeller Foundation and UNICEF.
In 1998 he helped launch the World Bank/UNESCO Task Force on Higher Education and Society and co-directed it with Professor David Bloom of Harvard University. As a freshman at Harvard College, he founded and directed the Overseas Development Network—a consortium of campus organizations devoted to international development. As a teenager growing up in Bangladesh, he founded a series of primary schools for working children in Dhaka.
Mr. Ahmad was named as “one of the 20 outstanding undergraduates in the nation” by Time magazine in 1987. The Paul G. Hoffman Awards Fund, created to honor the first Administrator of the United Nations Development Program, gave him a UN Gold Peace Medal and Citation Scroll for his “outstanding contribution to national and international development.” In 2002, the World Economic Forum based in Davos, Switzerland elected him as a “Global Leader for Tomorrow.” Over the years Mr. Ahmad’s work has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Christian Science Monitor and other major publications.
Mr. Ahmad currently also serves on the Board of Trustees, BRAC USA, and as a member of the Jury for Asia, Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards.
Biography: Hoon Eng Khoo, Provost and Acting Vice-Chancellor, Asian University for Women [PDF version]
Dr. Hoon Eng Khoo is the academic leader of the University. As Provost and Acting Vice-Chancellor of the Asian University for Women, she is responsible for the recruitment of students, faculty, and staff; the establishment of the universities undergraduate curriculum and overall pedagogy; and ensuring that the above reflect the mission and educational philosophy of the Asian University for Women.
Prior to her joining AUW, Dr. Khoo worked as Deputy Head of the Medical Education Unit, Associate Director of the Centre for Development of Teaching and Learning, and Associate Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the National University of Singapore.
Dr. Khoo received her BA from Smith College (a renowned liberal arts-women’s college), her Postgraduate Diploma in Medical Education from the University of Dundee in the UK, and her PhD from St. Mary’s Medical School, at the University of London. Dr. Khoo has an extremely well rounded resume with extensive teaching, research and administrative experience in biomedical sciences, pedagogy, student admissions, student counseling, curricula reform and faculty professional development, making her the perfect addition to the Asian University for Women team.
Often referred to as a visionary by colleagues and friends Dr. Hoon Eng Khoo was one of the movers credited with the National University of Singapore’s pedagogical switch in the late 90’s to problem based learning (PBL) which emphasizes classroom work in addition to research- a system attributed with producing stronger graduates “with breadth as well as depth of knowledge.”
Dr. Khoo is also noted for her teaching and dedication to students and was awarded the NUS Annual Excellent Teacher Award for the 2004-2005 Academic Year.
In addition to her work within the academic arena, Dr. Khoo is very involved in women’s rights advocacy and is a founding member of AWAM: All-Women’s Action Society Malaysia, and is currently an activist and leader in AWARE: Association of Women for Action and Research, a women’s advocacy group in Singapore. She is also very active in environmental protection groups, an important aspect of the AUW, and was one of the founding members of the Friends of the Earth (Sahabat Alam Malaysia) Society in Malaysia.
Dr. Hoon Eng Khoo is author and co-other of several significant books and publications, ranging from education to biotechnology. She has undertaken numerous original and collaborative research projects and has planned, led, and presented at several high-level lectures, conferences, and symposiums around the world.
