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The 2008 Building Bridges Gala was attended by corporate honoree Y.S. Chi, Vice Chairman of Elsevier; community honoree Ambassador Wonil Cho, Former Korean Consul General to New York; and emcee Juju Chang of ABC News.
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Jim Yong Kim is the 17th president of Dartmouth College. The first physician to serve as Dartmouth’s president, he also is an anthropologist. President Kim is a co-founder of Partners in Health (PIH) and a former director of the Department of HIV/AIDS at the World Health Organization. Before assuming the Dartmouth presidency, President Kim held professorships at Harvard Medical School and at the Harvard School of Public Health. He also served as chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and director of the François Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health. President Kim was awarded a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship (2003); was named one of America’s “25 Best Leaders” by US News & World Report (2005); and was selected as one of TIME magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World” (2006). He has authored or co-authored articles for the New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, and Science, among others. He also has edited and contributed to books on topics such as the inequality of medical access for the world’s poor, and co-authored with PIH co-founder Dr. Paul Farmer, “Global Considerations in Medicine,” for Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine, 17th edition (McGraw Hill, 2008). Born in 1959 in Seoul, South Korea, President Kim moved with his family to the United States at the age of five and grew up in Muscatine, Iowa. He is married to Dr. Younsook Lim, a pediatrician. The couple has two young sons.
Juju Chang is a New York-based Emmy Award-winning correspondent for ABC News' "20/20 and "Good Morning America," occasionally anchoring for "ABC News Now" and "Good Morning America's" Weekend Edition.
Ms. Chang's recent "20/20" stories include a multipart examination of gender based on Norah Vincent's book, Self Made Man, a profile of rock legend Jon Bon Jovi and a look at "toxic neighbors" -- with former battling neighbors Jim Belushi and Julie Newmar. Her "20/20" stories also include a look at the somewhat obscure asexuality movement, at the well-established pitfalls of mother-daughter relationships and at marriage.
Ms Chang won a Gracie Award for a PBS "Now" story about judicial activism and a Freddie Award for a another series that she hosted for PBS, "The Art of Women's Health."
From 1999-2000 she anchored the early morning newscasts of "World News Now" and "World News This Morning." From 1998 to 1999 she reported primarily for "World News Tonight," covering such stories as the U.S. Embassy bombings in Kenya, Hurricane George and the anniversary of the nuclear accident in Chernobyl.
Ms. Chang was based in Washington, DC from 1996 to 1997, where she covered the White House, Capitol Hill and the 1996 presidential election for NewsOne, ABC's affiliate news service. Prior to her NewsOne assignment, she was a reporter for KGO-TV in San Francisco, from 1995 to 1996, where she covered a variety of state and local issues.
Between 1991 and 1995 Ms. Chang served as a producer and off-air reporter for "World News Tonight." She was a producer of a "World News Tonight" series on women's health which won a duPont-Columbia Award. Her off-air reporting assignments included the 1992 presidential campaign. During the Gulf War in 1991, she was based in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
Born in Seoul, South Korea, Ms. Chang graduated with honors from Stanford University with a BA in political science and communications. At Stanford she was awarded the Edwin Cotrell Political Science Prize. She is married to Neal Shapiro and has two sons.
SuChin Pak joined the MTV News Team as a correspondent in May of 2001. SuChin delivered the news for the network’s flagship, live show, “Total Request Live.” Over the years, she’s interviewed some of Pop Culture’s biggest names, co-hosted the MTV Video Music Awards, the Movie Awards and Grammy Pre-shows. SuChin has been on the red carpet for the Oscars, Golden Globes and the Sundance Film Festival. Most recently, she’s reported for MTV’s Choose or Lose campaign, traveling the country to cover the presidential election, youth voting issues and political activism. SuChin also traveled to Thailand for the “MTV News Special: After the Tsunami” and co-hosted a special edition of TRL dedicated to raising donations for the victims of the tragedy. SuChin has extensively covered Hurricane Katrina and the aftermath, both in the field and in the studio. She anchored the MTV special, “Voices From Virginia,” on the Virginia Tech tragedy. SuChin hosted the first MySpace-MTV Presidential Dialogues, a live web and television special, covering the Presidential candidates.
SuChin is most proud of her work as the host and co-producer of the documentary series, “My Life Translated.” A personal, narrative doc series for MTV, the show follows the lives of young people, struggling with two different cultures, as they deal with immigrant identity in America. The series was recently highlighted on the “Oprah Winfrey Show.”
Most recently, SuChin has signed on to Planet Green, Discovery Channel’s new television network about the environment. She will be hosting G Word, a daily, hour-long news program for Planet Green.
Born in Korea, SuChin and her family moved to the Bay Area when she was five years old. She graduated with a degree in political science from the University of California at Berkeley.
Andrew B. Kim's career spanned over 40 years in finance and investment management in the United States. Kim is the first Korea-born Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA 1969) and member of Council on Foreign Relations in New York (1993). On Wall Street he initially worked at F. I. DuPont & Co. (1963) as research analyst and joined F. Eberstadt & Co. in 1965, working as industry analyst specializing in air transportation and pollution control. He was elected to the All America Research Team at its inception in 1973 until 1984.
Kim became a partner of F. Eberstadt in 1972, mutual fund management, investment banking, and brokerage firm based in New York. He served as Executive V.P. and Director of Research when the firm merged with Robert Fleming of London in 1985. He was appointed chairman of investment policy committee of Eberstadt Fleming, Inc., now part of JP Morgan Chase.
In 1989, Kim co-founded Sit/Kim International Investment, a joint venture with Sit Investment Associates in Minneapolis and Bechtel's Fremont Group in San Francisco. Following his retirement as President in 2000, he manages the Asian private equity investment portfolio as Advisory Director.
In the U.S., Kim served as Director of Airborne Express in Seattle until its merger with DHL in 2003. In Asia he served as director of Ilshin Investment in Seoul and continues as director of Inter-Asia Capital Trust and Institute of Asian Private Equity Investment in Hong Kong. He was also former director of NYSE-listed Korea Investment Fund and Dublin-listed Hyundai Dragon Korea Fund. Kim actively participated in programs of CFA Institute and UN Institute of Training and Research, publishing articles in such trade journals as Asia Finance, Financial Analyst Journal, and Portfolio Management.
He currently serves on the Cornell University Council and Johnson Museum's Advisory Council. He is a member of the Advisory Council of Korea Economic Institute of America in Washington, D.C. Kim is a former trustee of the Asia Society and served on the Advisory Board of Rand Corporation's Center for Asia Pacific Policy. He recently joined the Board of Trustees of Phoenix Art Museum in Arizona.
Kim was born in Seoul, Korea and studied at the Seoul National University, College of Commerce, prior to coming to the U.S. He attended Adelphi University and Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. He received an MBA from Johnson School of Management at Cornell in 1963 and Honorary Doctor of Law from Seton Hall University in 1998. Kim and his wife Wan Kyun Rha(Smith College class of 1960) have two sons: Gene Yong (Dartmouth Class of 1985), Ty Yong (Stanford class of 1986, Harvard MBA class of 2000). The Kim Family Foundations made gifts to the Asia Gallery at Dartmouth College's Hood Museum in 1985 and the Korean Gallery at Cornell's Johnson Museum in 2007.
Mr. Hildesley joined Sotheby’s in 1964 and played an integral role in Sotheby’s formative years in New York. From 1964-70 he was the first Head of the Old Master Paintings Department in New York, going on to form Sotheby’s Appraisal Company in 1970. Educated at Sherborne School, Dorset, and Brasenose College, Oxford. Mr. Hildesley studied Dutch and Flemish Old Master paintings at the Rijksbureau Voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie in the Hague. From 1973-1976, Mr. Hildesley was responsible for the Jack R. Dick Sale of Sporting Paintings in London, a record-breaking sale that sparked a renewal of interest in this area of collecting. As Senior Auctioneer, he has conducted some of Sotheby’s most prestigious sales, including the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Sale, the sale of the Property of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and The Barry Halper Sale of Baseball Memorabilia. Mr. Hildesley holds the record for any Canadian painting, having sold Paul Kane’s Captain Lefroy in 2002 for $5.2 million. Recently, he was the auctioneer responsible for the sale of the Guennol Lioness, of 3000 B.C., which sold for $57 million, a record for any sculpture sold at auction. Mr. Hildesley trains Sotheby’s new auctioneers, and conducted 62 benefit auctions in 2007, raising over $17 million for charitable purposes. He has lectured widely on the art market and is author of The Complete Guide to Buying and Selling at Auction. Mr. Hildesley is Chairman of the Executive Committee of the American Associates of the Royal Academy Trust and a Fellow of the Society of the Arts (F.S.A.).