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| Ronald ARCULLI, CVO,
GBS, OBE, JP |
Mr Ronald Arculli is currently a Non-Official Member of the Executive Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government and Chairman of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited. He is the senior partner of Arculli Fong & Ng, which has a strategic alliance with King & Wood, the largest law firm in Mainland China.
He became an international trustee of The International Foundation (The Duke of Edinburgh's Award) in 1991 and in 2000 he succeeded HRH the Duke of Edinburgh as Chairman of The International Award Association, a youth development program active in some 100 countries. He serves on the global advisory boards of the University of Colorado Denver's Institute of International Business and Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He also serves on the boards of several major listed companies in Hong Kong. In November 2005, the City University of Hong Kong conferred on Mr Arculli an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Social Sciences.
Mr Arculli has a long and distinguished record of public service as a former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong from 1988 to 2000 and has served on many commissions and boards, including the board of the Hong Kong Jockey Club from 1992 and as its Chairman between 2002 and August 2006, and the Board of Governors of the London Business School. |
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| Joseph Y. BAE |
Joseph Bae is a partner at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co and is the Managing Partner of KKR Asia, responsible for the firm’s investment activities across the Asia-Pacific region; he also serves on KKR’s global management committee. Since joining KKR in 1996, Bae has overseen many of the firm’s investments in the media, retail and consumer industries. In 2005, he moved from his native New York to Hong Kong to lead KKR’s expansion in Asia; he currently manages a US$4 billion Asia-focused private equity fund with offices in Hong Kong, Tokyo, Beijing, Sydney and Mumbai.
Bae is a Director of the Hong Kong Ballet where he serves as Chairman of their Finance Committee; he also sits on the advisory board of Yaddo, the oldest North American non-profit organization serving the artistic community. He graduated from Harvard College, magna cum laude, in 1994.
Bae lives in Hong Kong with his wife, writer Janice Lee, and their four children.
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| Monique BURGER |
Monique Burger is a collector of contemporary art. Since the early 1990’s she has been building a collection of international artists from Europe, the United States and Asia. Her key concerns for the collection are to cultivate artistic dialogue, assume responsibility for the works of the collection, conserve the collection and to promote a vision for the future of the collection.
The Burger Collection is going public for the first time in 2009 with a group show in Berlin which is the first chapter of a multipart project involving four shows in four different cities. With these exhibitions, the collection will be made available to a wider public, probing issues of subjectivity, narration, history and language as they play out in the collection.
Monique Burger was born and raised in Switzerland. Having graduating from KV Business School in Zurich, she spent two years in the US. Moving back to Switzerland she started a successful career in Private Banking after which she progressed into Headhunting. She is married and has a son. In 2005 she moved to Hong Kong with her husband.
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| Benjamin CHA, B.A., M.B.A. |
| Mr Benjamin Cha is one of the principals of the Cha Group, a diversified conglomerate based in Hong Kong with interests in property development, direct investment, media, and manufacturing. Mr Cha is Director of various Cha Group subsidiaries, including Hanison Construction Holdings and HKR Asia Pacific, both members of the group's publicly listed property development company HKR International Ltd. Mr Cha has a long-standing interest in contemporary art. Mr Cha earned his B.A. in International Politics & Economics from Middlebury College and M.B.A. from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Mr Cha is a member of the Urban Land Institute and the Shanghai Youth Federation. |
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| CHANG Tsong-zung, B.A.
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| Since the late 1980s, curator and art critic Chang Tsong-zung has played an important role in promoting contemporary Chinese art. Co-curator of the seminal exhibition 'China New Art, Post-89' in 1993, Mr Chang has curated numerous shows, including 'Reckoning with the Past', at the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh (1996), 'Faces and Bodies of the Middle Kingdom' at the Rudolfinum, Prague (1997), 'Owner of the Word' at the Taiwan Art Museum and various venues in the U.S (1999), and 'Magic at Street Level', the Hong Kong Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2001). He has written numerous essays for exhibition catalogues.
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| Jane DEBEVOISE, B.A, M.A, Ph.D. (Current Chair)
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Jane DeBevoise is an independent advisor and art historian, based in Hong Kong and New York. Prior to moving to Hong Kong in 2002, Ms. DeBevoise was Deputy Director of the Guggenheim Museum, responsible for museum operations and exhibitions globally. She joined the Museum in 1996 as Project Director of China: 5000 Years, a blockbuster exhibition of traditional and modern Chinese art that was presented in 1998 at the Guggenheim museums in New York and Bilbao. Prior to 1996, Ms. DeBevoise was Managing Director at Bankers Trust Company where she worked for 14 years in New York, Hong Kong, Tokyo and London. Ms. DeBevoise has a BA degree from Tufts University, an MA degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and a PhD from The University of Hong Kong. Ms. DeBevoise was appointed by the Home Affairs Bureau of the Hong Kong Government to the Committee for Museums 2004-2007 and to the Museums Advisory Group for the development of the West Kowloon Cultural District 2006 - 2007. She is Chair of the Board of Directors of Asia Art Archive in Hong Kong, and a Trustee of Asian Cultural Council and The China Institute in New York. |
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| HO Hing-kay Oscar, B.A, M.F.A
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| An Artist and curator, Oscar Ho Hing-kay
was the exhibition director of the Hong Kong Arts Centre from
1988 to 2001. In addition to his curatorial work in Hong Kong,
he has also been engaged with international curatorial programs
to include the 2nd and 3rd Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary
Art in Brisbane, the '96 Containers' exhibition in Copenhagen,
and was guest curator for the first HX Art Festival in Halifax.
In 1996, he founded the Hong Kong chapter of the International
Art Critics Association and is a member of the Founding Editorial
Board of British art journal AFTERALL. He writes regularly
for local and international newspaper, art journals and exhibition
catalogues. He was an advisor for documenta 12, and a member
of the Museum Advisory Group for the Hong Kong Government in
planning a new museum at the West Kowloon Cultural District.
He is currently the Director of the MA Program in Cultural Management
at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. |
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Pamela KEMBER, B.A, B.Lib
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Pamela Kember is an Independent curator and art historian. She is currently based in London and a PhD Candidate at University of the Arts London, writing on transnational identity and Hong Kong artists of the diaspora. She was a former lecturer in Art History & Theory and Art Writing at The Academy of Visual Arts, Baptist University, Hong Kong. She also taught at the Hong Kong Art School as a lecturer in Art History &Theory, and Curatorial Studies. She was Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Department of Architecture, Chinese University, and their guest curator of artists’ talk programmes. Ms Kember, has a background in Art Librarianship and Information Studies and worked at the Western Art Library of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, and the Library of the History of Art Department, Oxford University, as a cataloguer of early art historical source manuals, before joining the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford. She has contributed to a host of publications and catalogues, on contemporary art including, Asian Art News, World Sculpture News, and Art Asia Pacific. She continues to write on artists from Asia and Europe.
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| Anupam PODDAR |
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Anupam Poddar took over the reigns of his mother's collection of modern art in 2000 when he began adding to the collection works by India's younger generation of artists. In 2008, he set up the not-for-profit Devi Art Foundation, committed to providing a space for young artists experimenting with new ideas, without the imposition of commercial limitations.
Poddar also heads the Business Development unit for Devi Garh in New Delhi. He established The Devi Design Studio which specialises in designing metal tableware that reflects the craft traditions of India and their application in our modern day lifestyles. After obtaining a Bachelor's Degree in Business Management from the European Business School in London, Poddar completed a Professional Development Programme for hotel management at Cornell University. |
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David PONG Chun-Yee, B.Sc
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Mr David Pong Chun-Yee is a Director of his family business, Shiu Wing Steel Ltd. Mr Pong collects contemporary Chinese ink paintings. He actively participates in a number of community activities. He is a trustee of the Friends of the Hong Kong Museum of Art Endowment Trust, council member of the Academy for Performing Arts, board member of the Hong Kong Arts Centre, and executive committee member the Asian Cultural Council's Hong Kong chapter. In 2003 he joined the Board of Trustees of the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. He is also the Vice Chairman of the Ink Society in Hong Kong. He earned a BSc degree in Economics from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1991. |
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| Sir David TANG, K.B.E
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| Founder and Chairman of The China Club in Hong Kong, Singapore and Beijing, and founder of the Shanghai Tang Stores in Hong Kong, New York and London, David Tang is a leading figure in the business community. Mr Tang has a long history of community service and serves on the board of a number of charities worldwide. Entrepreneur, designer and philosopher, David Tang is a passionate collector of contemporary Chinese art. He has been a trustee of the Royal Academy of Arts for over 10 years and recently became Chairman of the Asia-Pacific Acquisition Committee of the Tate Modern. |
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| John (Jack) S. WADSWORTH, Jr
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Mr Wadsworth is the Honorary Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia and an Advisory Director of Morgan Stanley globally, and is based in San Francisco. Mr Wadsworth joined Morgan Stanley as a managing director in 1978 before moving to Japan in 1987 as president of Morgan Stanley Japan. In 1992, Mr Wadsworth moved to Hong Kong as chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia. In 2001 he moved from Hong Kong to San Francisco. He is a General Partner of Manitou Ventures. Mr Wadsworth sits on numerous boards, including Pixar Animation Studios; The Asia Society's Board of Trustees (Vice Chairman); the Pacific Basin Economic Council (PBEC) United States Member Committee (Vice Chairman), Williams College Trustees, and the Guggenheim Museum of New York. Mr Wadsworth earned a B.A. From Williams College in 1961 and a M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business in 1963. |
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