With more than 8,500 alumni living and working outside the United States, GW’s international network continues to grow. But for alumni living abroad, a connection to life in the U.S. can be difficult to find. GW is proud to offer an exciting new program for these alumni. With a desire to strengthen the international alumni […]
Tag: Asia
US – China Relations: View from Washington
GW alumni, parents, students and friends joined Michael E. Brown, dean of the Elliott School, and Doug Guthrie, dean of the School of Business, as they visited Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong in late November and early December as part of their US – China Relations: The View from Washington tour. View all 250 snapshots from the tour on the GW Alumni Flickr photo […]
Korean 2011 Year End Party
On Dec. 1, GW’s Korean Alumni Association gathered at the Riverside Hotel in Seoul for their 2011 Year End Party. See all 200 photos on GW Alumni’s Flickr photostream.
Bernard J. Pankowski, GWBS MS ’65
Bernard J. Pankowski, GWBS MS ’65, an Army colonel who retired in 1975 from the office of the assistant secretary of defense for telecommunications, died Nov. 11. He was a Springfield resident. Col. Pankowski served nearly 30 years in the Army. His assignments included command of a signal battalion in South Korea from 1965 to […]
Prominent Alumni Headline GW Global Forum
University’s Premier International Event to Be Held March 16-17 in Republic of Korea The George Washington University recently announced that two distinguished alumni will serve as keynote speakers at the next GW Global Forum. Gen. Colin Powell, GWSB MBA ’71, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Secretary of State, and Chris Anderson, CCAS […]
Zeb Eckert, CCAS BA ’03
Zeb Eckert, CCAS BA ’03, is a Hong Kong-based reporter for Bloomberg Television. He covers Asia Pacific business news for Bloomberg’s global broadcasts and frequently travels throughout the region to cover breaking news. In 2011, he covered Thailand’s election, Japan’s tsunami recovery and China’s National People’s Congress.
Victor Chen, LAW JD ’00
Victor Chen, LAW JD ’00, has become a partner at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP. Mr. Chen has a long track record of representing private equity sponsors, multinational corporations and global investment banking firms in Greater China and other Asian markets in sophisticated public and private cross-border transactions across a wide range of […]
Fifteen Alumni Traveling Abroad with Fulbright Scholarships
Fifteen undergraduate alumni were awarded prestigious Fulbright Scholarships for the 2011-2012 academic year and are traveling abroad through the U.S. Student Program: Julie Bailey, ESIA BA ’11, is teaching English at Kendriya Vidyalya, a government school in Kolkata, India, until early April. Rupita Chakraborty, ESIA BA ’11, is teaching at Samarinda Seberang, a private boarding […]