The President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH) is an advisory committee to the President of the United States on cultural issues. It works directly with the White House and the three primary cultural agencies:the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA),National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH),and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS),as well as other federal partners and the private sector,to advance wide-ranging policy objectives in the arts and humanities. These include considerations for how the arts and humanities sectors can positively impact community well-being,economic development,public health,education,civic engagement,and climate change across the United States.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP),or Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA),was a proposed trade agreement between 12 Pacific Rim economies:Australia,Brunei,Canada,Chile,Japan,Malaysia,Mexico,New Zealand,Peru,Singapore,Vietnam,and the United States. In the United States,the proposal was signed on 4 February 2016 but not ratified as a result of significant domestic political opposition. After taking office,the newly elected President Donald Trump formally withdrew the United States from TPP in January 2017,therefore ensuring the TPP could not be ratified as required and did not enter into force. The remaining countries negotiated a new trade agreement called Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership,which incorporated most of the provisions of the TPP and which entered into force on 30 December 2018.
Joe Kaeser is a German manager who served as CEO of Siemens AG from 2013 to 2021.
Mina Nguyen is an American executive at Jane Street Capital. In October 2017,she was appointed as a member of the SEC's Investor Advisory Committee. Prior to Jane Street,she was a Managing Director at AQR Capital Management and senior adviser to its founder Cliff Asness. Nguyen was deputy assistant secretary of Business Affairs at the US Treasury Department from 2006 to 2007,appointed by then-Secretary Hank Paulson. Her career in business and government has revolved around regulations for private pools of capital,retirement security,leverage and derivative use at investment funds and ESG investing. In the 2004 US Presidential Campaign she served as National Business Director for the Bush-Cheney ticket.
Kien Pham is a private equity investor and philanthropist living and traveling between the U.S. and Vietnam. As an investor,he collaborates with TPG Capital (www.TPG.com),a leading U.S. firm with nearly US$100 billion under management and also with Red Square Vietnam,a boutique investment and advisory firm based in Ho Chi Minh city. As a philanthropist,Mr. Pham founded The Vietnam Foundation (www.vnfoundation.org),where he serves as its President,to provide scholarships,healthcare and other social assistance to the poor and handicapped people in Vietnam. Mr. Pham serves as a board member and strategic advisor to multiple companies and organizations in the U.S. and Vietnam.
David Isaac Adelman is an American businessman,lawyer and diplomat. He was the United States Ambassador to the Republic of Singapore from April 2010 to September 2013. Adelman is the Managing Director and General Counsel of asset manager Krane Funds Advisors in New York. He is a Trustee of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. For more than a decade he has taught international relations as an adjunct professor at New York University.Adelman's official papers are part of the collection at the Richard B. Russell Library at the University of Georgia. In 2016,in recognition of his public service the State of Georgia dedicated a bridge as the Ambassador David Adelman Bridge on State Highway 42. Adelman is a member of the Advisory Council of the Israel-Asia Center.
Anju Bhargava is a retired federal executive,a former senior banker and a pioneering community builder who served as a founding member of the New Jersey Corporate Diversity Network under Governor Christy Whitman,community builder fellow in the Clinton administration and a member of President Barack Obama's inaugural Advisory Council on Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnership. She has provided thought leadership in the public and private sectors,locally and nationally,published papers and received many awards.
Brian H. Hook is an American diplomat,lawyer and government official. In 2021,he joined Cerberus Capital Management as vice chairman for global investments. He is an adjunct professor at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy.
Paul Thomas Haenle is an American analyst and China specialist currently serving as Maurice R. Greenberg Director’s Chair at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
The White House Initiative on Asian Americans,Native Hawaiians,and Pacific Islanders (WHIAANHPI) is a United States governmental office that coordinates an ambitious whole-of-government approach to advance equity,justice,and opportunity for Asian Americans,Native Hawaiians,and Pacific Islanders. The Initiative collaborates with the Deputy Assistant to the President and AA and NHPI Senior Liaison,White House Office of Public Engagement and designated federal departments and agencies to advance equity,justice,and opportunity for AA and NHPIs in the areas of economic development,education,health and human services,housing,environment,arts,agriculture,labor and employment,transportation,justice,veterans affairs,and community development.
Kiran Arjandas Ahuja is an American attorney and activist who served as the director of the United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM). She served as the chief of staff to the OPM director from 2015 to 2017. She assumed that position after serving for six years as the director of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. An Indian-born American,she has also been a lawyer with the United States Department of Justice and a founding director of a non-profit,the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum. In 2017,she became the CEO of Philanthropy Northwest.
Martha Choe is an American banker,politician,and foundation executive. She was a two-term member of the Seattle City Council,elected to four-year terms in 1991 and 1995. Choe was the first Korean American elected to the city council and the first to serve in a public office in the United States. Choe succeeded retiring Filipino councilmember Dolores Sibonga and received her endorsement,which elicited controversy from Filipino community members.
Prem Parameswaran is the Chief Financial Officer and President of Triller.
Marie Royce,,is an American businesswoman,diplomat,and educator. She was the Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs from 2018-2021. She was nominated by President Donald Trump and was unanimously confirmed by the US Senate. Royce was succeeded by Lee Satterfield on November 23,2021.
Bo Thao-Urabe is a social entrepreneur who has founded numerous organizations and efforts to advance social justice. A sought after leader,Thao-Urabe has served the community in local,state and national settings. She was appointed as a Regent to the University of Minnesota by Governor Walz in 2021. President Obama appointed Thao-Urabe as a Commissioner to the President’s White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. She has also served as Senior Director at Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP). She has received numerous awards and recognitions,including the prestigious Bush Fellowship from the Bush Foundation in 2019.
Joel Szabat is a former American government official and military officer serving on the Amtrak Board of Directors since 2024. He previously served as Assistant Secretary of Transportation for Aviation and International Affairs.
Glenn Duque Magpantay is the former executive director of the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance,an instructor at Brooklyn Law School and Hunter College/CUNY,and a former civil rights attorney in the role of Democracy Program director for the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund. In 2023,Glenn D Magpantay was appointed as a Commissioner to the United States Commission on Civil Rights by Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer. He is chair of the LGBT Committee of the Asian American Bar Association of New York,former co-chair of the Gay Asian &Pacific Islander Men of New York,and recognized as an "authority on the federal Voting Rights Act and expert on Asian American political participation,including bilingual ballots,election reform,minority voter discrimination,multilingual exit polling,and census." He has served as a commissioner on the New York City Voter Assistance Commission. He is also a contributing writer for the Huffington Post. The Glenn Magpantay Leadership Award at his undergraduate alma mater,the State University of New York at Stony Brook,is named after him.
Chiling Tong is an Asian Pacific American activist and a public official. She has held various public offices under George W. Bush,Barack Obama,and Donald Trump. She is currently the president and chief executive officer of The National Asian Pacific Islander American Chamber of Commerce &Entrepreneurship and the Founding President of the International Leadership Foundation. She is one of the most prominent female Chinese American politicians since Elaine Chao.
