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Patricia Gallardo, CSR officer of Ayala Land, is one
of 23 new fellows identified by Asia Society as the most promising
trendsetters and emerging leaders in the Asia Pacific region.
As a member of the 2008 Class of
Asia 21 Fellows, Gallardo will participate in the society’s Asia
21 Young Leaders Initiative, the leading cross-sectoral leadership
development program in the Asia Pacific region established by Asia
Society with support from founding international sponsor Merrill
Lynch.
She currently heads the Corporate
Social Responsibility unit at Ayala Land, the Philippines’ biggest
real estate company. She handles the company’s Campaign for
Sustainability; committing its business lines to building model
communities and pursuing sustainable land use and development.
Gallardo has over five years of
NGO experience, having been with The Asia Foundation, Figaro
Foundation, UNDP Special Projects and the Office of the President of
the Philippines. She has set up the Birmingham (UK) Chapter of the
United Nations Association and continues to work with the Asia
Europe Young Leaders and ASEF University program of which she is an
alumnus. She speaks Italian, German and Spanish, is vegetarian and a
yoga practitioner/teacher. She holds an MA in Globalization and
Governance on scholarship from the University of Birmingham where
she graduated with Distinction.
“At a time when the world’s
center of gravity is shifting towards the Asia-Pacific region, we
need new types of leaders from every country who can both understand
the transnational nature of the challenges we face and work together
to address them,” said Asia Society Executive Vice President Jamie
Metzl, who spearheads the program. “We are extremely proud to have
an incredible young leader like Pat Gallardo as part of our 2008 to
2009 Fellows class.”
The Asia 21 Young Leaders program
brings together the most dynamic emerging leaders under the age of
forty from across the Asia Pacific region to develop shared,
innovative approaches to the region’s greatest challenges.
The Fellows represent a broad
range of disciplines—business, politics, civil society, media,
arts and culture, and academia. They participate in a series of
meetings and conferences designed to generate creative, shared
approaches to leadership and problem solving and develop
collaborative public service projects. Fellows serve a two-year term
and come together twice per year in different cities in Asia to
address topics relating to environmental degradation, economic
development, poverty eradication, universal education, conflict
resolution, HIV/AIDS and public health crises, human rights, and
other issues.
“As we continue to build our
presence in this important region, we seek to align ourselves with
the next generation of leadership and we could not be happier with
the caliber of young leaders that will make up the 2008 class,”
said Greg Fleming, president and chief operating officer, Merrill
Lynch and Asia Society Trustee. “I look forward to seeing the
contributions made by this vital and growing network of leaders.”
The 23 young leaders chosen for
this year’s class of Asia 21 Fellows are Kamiar Alaei (Iran),
Faiysal Alikhan (Pakistan), Sutapa Amorn-vivat (Thailand), Wen Bo
(China), Chul Won Chey (Korea), Patricia Isabel Gallardo
(Philippines), Dang Huong Giang (Vietnam), Menaka Guruswamy (India),
Sara Hossain (Bangladesh), Vivian Lau (Hong Kong), Aaron Maniam
(Singapore), Nami Matsuko (Japan), Mee Moua (USA), The Maw Naing
(Myanmar), Mitchell Pham (New Zealand), Jia Ping (China), Anita
Ramasastry (USA), Robert Reffkin (USA), Malik Imtiaz Sarwar
(Malaysia), Seagull Song (China), Sandiaga Uno (Indonesia), Dash-dorj
Zorigt (Mongolia) and Soofian Zuberi (Pakistan).
Asia Society is the leading
global organization working to strengthen relationships and promote
understanding among the people, leaders, and institutions of Asia
and the United States. Founded in 1956, Asia Society is a
nonpartisan, nonprofit educational institution with offices in Hong
Kong, Houston, Los Angeles, Manila, Melbourne, Mumbai, New York, San
Francisco, Shanghai and Washington, DC. It seeks to enhance
dialogue, encourage creative expression, and generate new ideas
across the fields of policy, business, education, arts and culture.
(For more information, contact the Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue,
New York, NY 10021.)
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