ICAS Annual Liberty Award Dinner
December 21, 2000, 7: 00 PM - 9: 30 PM
Sheraton University City Hotel Palmaire Room
36th & Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia 19104
Guest of Honour
The Hon Harold Hongju Koh
Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labour
U S Department of State
Alfred P West, Jr
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
SEI Investments
| moderator | Sang Joo Kim (ICAS Senior Fellow) |
| 7: 00 | PM | Reception (music ensemble by ICAS String Quartet) |
| 8: 00 | PM | Dinner |
| 8: 45 | PM | Welcome and Remarks
Synja P Kim (ICAS Fellow, President) |
| 8: 50 | PM | ICAS Liberty Award
The Hon Harold Hongju Koh
Alfred P West, Jr |
| 9: 30 | PM | Hesung Chun Koh
Martin Meyerson
Harry Carl Schaub |
| 9: 40 | PM | Announcement of Youth Excellence Program |
| 9: 45 | PM | Adjourn |
| Acknowledgement: |
Council for America My Country
Courtesy Travel, Inc.
Friendship Tennis Club
Optical Cable Corporation
Philadelphia Bar Association
International Human Rights Committee
International Law Committee
SEI Investments |
November 7, 2000
Dear Friend:
We are pleased to share with you that The Hon HAROLD HONGJU KOH,
Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labour,
U S Department of State and ALFRED P WEST, JR., Chairman and
Chief Executive Officer, SEI Investments, will be honoured as
Guest of Honour at the ICAS Annual Liberty Award Dinner on December
21, 2000 for their "brilliant diplomatic achievement and outstanding
public service" and "brilliant achievement as a leading global
provider of asset management products and investment technologies",
respectively.
HAROLD HONGJU KOH was sworn in as Assistant Secretary of State for
Democracy, Human Rights and Labor on November 13, 1998. A Korean-
American, he was nominated by President Clinton on September 10, 1998
and confirmed by the Senate on October 21, 1998.
As Assistant Secretary, Koh advises Secretary Albright on U.S. policy
on democracy, human rights, labor, the rule of law, and religious
freedom. Assistant Secretary Koh formerly served as the Gerard C. and
Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law and Director of
the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights at
Yale Law School. Before beginning his professorship at Yale in 1985,
Harold clerked for both Judge Malcolm Richard Wilkey of the U.S. Court
of Appeals for the DC Circuit and Justice Harry A. Blackmun of the
United States Supreme Court. He worked in private practice in
Washington, DC and as an attorney at the Office of Legal Counsel at
the U.S. Department of Justice.
Assistant Secretary Koh has authored more than 70 articles on
international law, human rights, constitutional law, and international
business transactions and trade, and is author or editor of several
books on international relations, law and human rights. He is the
winner of the 1991 Richard E. Neustadt Award from the American Political
Science Association for the best book on the American Presidency and a
1996 Guggenheim Fellowship. Harold has received numerous honors for his
human rights work, including an Honorary Doctor of Laws from City
University of New York Law School, the Asian American Bar Association
of New York's 1997 Outstanding Lawyer of the Year Award and recognition
by American Lawyer magazine in 1997 as one of the country's 45 leading
public sector lawyers under the age of 45.
Assistant Secretary Koh earned a B.A. from Harvard University in 1975,
an Honours B.A. from Magdalen College, Oxford University in 1977, and
a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1980. He has been a Visiting Fellow
and Lecturer at Magdalen and All Souls Colleges, Oxford University, and
has taught at The Hague Academy of International Law, the University of
Toronto, and the George Washington University National Law Center.
He is married to Mary-Christy Fisher, an attorney, and has two children,
Emily and William.
ALFRED P WEST, JR is founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of
SEI Investments, a global asset management company dedicated to helping
institutions and individuals more effectively manage their investable
assets.
West, who is a native Floridian, received his B.S. in Aerospace
Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and an M.B.A.
from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1966.
He also served as a teaching fellow while working toward a Ph.D. at
the University of Pennsylvania.
In addition to his business responsibilities, Mr. West is an active
member of the Graduate Executive Board of Wharton; the Chairman of the
Board of the SEI Center for Advanced Studies in Management at Wharton;
past Chairman of the National Advisory Board of Georgia Institute of
Technology; a member of the Georgia Tech Foundation Board; a member of
the Chairman's Advisory Committee and the Executive Committee of the
World Affairs Council of Philadelphia; and chairman of the board of the
Washington-based American Business Conference.
Of particular note is that it is his leadership which inaugurated the
first annual SEI Pennsylvania Classic 2000 marking the return of the
PGA TOUR to Philadelphia region after 20 years and starting a new
tradition of the excellence for many years to come.
West is a recipient of the Joseph P. Wharton Award, and was named Legend
CEO by the Technology Council of Philadelphia in 1995.
SEI helps, using innovative solutions, corporations, financial
institutions, financial advisors, and affluent families create and
manage wealth.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Sang Joo Kim / signed
Sr. Fellow & Executive Vice President ICAS
N.B.
previous ICAS LIBERTY AWARD honouree:
Tony P Hall (U S Congressman, D-3rd Ohio), ICAS Fellow
Charles Kartman (Ambassador & Special Envoy to the Korean Peace Talks
U S Department of State)
Jeong H Kim (President, Carrier Networks, Lucent Technologies)
Lawrence R Klein (Benjamin Franklin Professor of Economics Emeritus,
University of Pennsylvania; Nobel Laureate)
Jerome J Shestack(Sr Partner, Wolf Block Schorr and Solis-Cohen LLP;
former President, American Bar Association), ICAS Distinguished Fellow
Richard L Walker (James F Byrnes Professor Emeritus, University of
South Carolina; former Ambassador to South Korea)
Curt Weldon# (U S Congressman, R-7th Pennsylvania)
#1998 Annual Dinner speaker
ICAS Annual Liberty Award Dinner 2000 Committee:
Chair:
Synja P Kim
Honourary Chair:
Britton Chance
Lawrence R Klein
Martin Meyerson
Jerome J Shestack
Co-Chair:
Ronald B Abrams
Enid H Adler
Young Wha Baek
Joon J Bang
Jerry Boucher
Soo Young Chang
Shaun Cho
Steve C Choi
Carl Guarino
Julia Han
Sandra Han
Yong Chon Hong
Chung Wha Iyengar
Tara Iyengar
Bang Nam Jeon
Young H Jeon
C K Kang
Michael M Kang
Chong Sang Kim
David H Kim
Il Hwan Kim
Il Yong Kim
Joung In Kim
Sang Joo Kim
Suk Young Kim
Yoo S Kim
Hyeon Yeong Kwak
John Lee
Young Bin Lee
Young Kwon Lee
James Moon
Mee Ok Moon
Dennis M O'Dowd
Paul S Oh
Sung Won Paek
In Ja Park
Steve Park
Xingyi Que
Choon Ki Yoo
Moon Kyung Yoo
Tae Hee Yoon
Grace Yun
(list in progress)
Collaborator:
Council for America My Country
Courtesy Travel, Inc.
Friendship Tennis Club
Philadelphia Bar Association
International Human Rights Committee
International Law Committee
SEI Investments
(list in progress)
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prosperity. Further information about ICAS and some examples of the
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