PublicAffairsAsia: Gold Standard Awards 2010

JUDGES

The 2011 Gold Standard Awards are judged by a panel of senior government affairs practitioners, corporate communications professionals, business leaders
and governmental figures.

Confirmed judges for the 2011 awards programme include:

	Steven R. Okun Gold Standard Awards Chairman 2011 and Director of Public Affairs at KKR Asia Pacific Steven R. Okun joined KKR in February 2011 as Director of Asia Pacific Public Affairs. Mr. Okun oversees public affairs, corporate citizenship and external communications and assists in those efforts for KKR's portfolio companies in the region. In addition, he serves as the Chairman of the Chairman of the Asia-Pacific Council of American Chambers of Commerce, which comprises 25 member Chambers from across the entire Asia Pacific region. Mr. Okun served as Chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in Singapore from 2008-2011, a position for which he won three consecutive elections. From 2003 - 2010, he was Vice President for Public Affairs for UPS in Asia Pacific. Mr. Okun served in the Administration of President Bill Clinton as Deputy General Counsel at the Department of Transportation. In 2002, the National Committee on US-China Relations selected him as one of the 24 inaugural delegates to Committee's Young Leaders' Forum. In 2006, the Boao Forum for Asia chose him as the inaugural Co-Chair of the 21st Century Leaders. Mr. Okun received his B.A. from the University of Virginia and his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law.

	Dato Dr. Michael O.K. Yeoh is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Asian Strategy & Leadership Institute (ASLI) and Secretary-General of the Malaysia-China Business Council and the ASEAN Business Forum. He is Co-Chairman of the ASEAN Leadership Forum. He was recently appointed by the Prime Minister and Government of Malaysia to be Malaysia’s Representative on the new ASEAN High Level Task Force which was announced by the ASEAN Heads of States and Governments to develop ASEAN Connectivity focusing on ICT, Education, Human Capital Development, Transport, Power and Energy.

	Julia Ahmad is President of PRCA Malaysia and the Managing Director of Hill & Knowlton (SEA) Sdn Bhd in Kuala Lumpur. She specialises in corporate and financial communications, public affairs and also provides counsel on issues and crisis management for both local and multinational clients. She has worked in the United States, Malaysia and Singapore.

	Agnes Hui Agnes Hui is Group Corporate Communciations Manager for Wharf Limited. She has over 16 years of experience in corporate communications dealing with public affairs, media relations, corporate social responsibility, event management and crisis communications. She previously ran her own consulting firm the ARCH Communications and held senior positions at The Nielsen Company spearheading brand management and B2B communications. Before that she was with American Express responsible for public affairs, sponsorships and CSR programmes. She is voluntary treasurer of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) and the Membership in-charge for the Public Relation Professional Association (PRPA) in Hong Kong.

	Owen Ma is the Government Affairs Director at PepsiCo in China. He is also chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in Beijing’s Food Forum. He previously worked with Eastman Kodak Company and started his career All China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives. He has a Bachelor in Economics Degree from the Beijing Second Foreign Language Institute.

	Dr. Thavirap Tantiwongse is Public Affairs Director at GlaxoSmithKline, the global pharmaceutical company. He is based in Bangkok, Thailand and is responsible for all areas of public affairs including government affairs, corporate and internal communications, media and external relations, community partnership, and health economics. He is a graduate of London and Cambridge Universities in physiology and medicine.

	Sukanti Ghosh is managing director of APCO Worldwide in India. He previously served as the head of corporate affairs at Barclays Bank Plc and is based in Mumbai, India. He was previously head of corporate communications at BankMuscat SAOG and was Vice President of Public Relations at TBWA India. He also served as a partner at Sparsh PR and was associate director of Public Relations at Contract Advertising India Limited. He was educated at the Università della Svizzera Italiana and Jadavpur University.

	Junie Del Mundo is the CEO of EON The Stakeholder Relations Firm. Under his leadership, EON is regarded as the pioneering stakeholder relations firm that puts TRUST at the heart of its collaborations and dialogues with different stakeholders of its clients. He is a prolific speaker in business discussions hosted by various business chambers and clubs, such as the ECCP, ANZCHAM, AMCHAM, MBC, and MAP where he shares insights on reputation management, CSR Communications and other vital topics. In 2010, he was a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of Year Awards. For 2011, he chairs the MAP CSR Committee; he is also the chairperson of the 18th National PR Congress of the Public Relations Society of the Philippines. Prior to establishing EON, Junie was a career diplomat for 13 years and served at the Philippine Embassies in Paris, France; Dakar, Senegal; and at the Philippine Mission for UNESCO in Paris. He represented the Philippines in multinational fora such as UNESCO, ASEAN, APEC, and Asia-Europe Business Forum.

	Elizabeth Hernandez is Vice President, Government Affairs, Asia Pacific & Japan at Hewlett-Packard . Until 2010 she was the Director, Government and Public Affairs, Asia Pacific at GSK where she was responsible for developing and managing government and public affairs. Prior to joining GSK, she was Regional Director of the US-ASEAN Business Council, a Washington, DC based trade association, from 2002 to 2005.

	Paul Mottram is Executive Vice President, Asia Pacific, at Bite Communications, which was formerly Upstream Asia. Based in Hong Kong. was previously Chief Executive Officer of Gorilla Asia, which merged with Upstream Asia in June 2001. At Gorilla, Paul oversaw all aspects of its business, including conferences, special events and online content.

	Lynne Anne S. Davis is Regional President and Senior Partner of Fleishman-Hillard, overseeing its Asia Pacific operations, including 16 wholly owned offices in nine countries. Fifteen of her over 20 years consulting with Fleishman-Hillard have been spent in Asia Pacific, where she has helped build the fastest-growing region in the firm. Public affairs is its fastest growing practice in Asia Pacific. Davis holds a journalism degree, cum laude, from the University of Missouri.

	Derek M. LaVallee is Director or Public Affairs & Public Relations at KG Partners. A former staffer at White House and the U.S. Department of Defense in the Clinton/Gore Administration, LaVallee counsels Fortune 500 companies, national trade associations and international diplomats.

	Jean Liu is a marketing and strategy executive with IBM in China. Previously she was government affairs director with EDS in China and prior to that was with Burson Marsteller in Hong Kong.

	Jitender Bhargava is a senior Indian corporate communicator who recently served as executive director, corporate communications of Air India. One of the country’s most prominent communicators, he joined Air India in 1989 after 12 years as head of corporate communications at Coal India Ltd.

	Yuan Haiying is president of Yuan Associates, the Beijing-based government affairs consultancy. He has over 30 years experience in the Chinese government, including senior positions in Washington DC., as China’s Agriculture Attaché, and in Rome, as the Alternate Representative to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (UNFAO). Following his government service, Mr. Yuan served as vice president of APCO (China) and senior vice president of Edelman (China) before founding Yuan Associates in 2004.

	Scott Kronick is President, Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, China. An 18-year Ogilvy veteran with nine of those years spent in Beijing, Kronick was previously Managing Director, Ogilvy PR, China. In this role, he was responsible for the leadership and management of staff in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, offices he founded for Ogilvy PR .

	Asif Uddin Ahmed is Program Director of Economic Empowerment at Care Bangladesh. He is a business development specialist with nearly a decade of enterprise development experience in Bangladesh and abroad. He specializes in business development services for micro, small and medium enterprises and corporate social responsibility.

	Joe Welch is senior vice president of government relations, Asia at News Corporation and previously held a similar role at Star TV. He was previously regional director of regulatory affairs (Asia) at MCI. He is based in Hong Kong was educated at Santa Clara University School of Law and Amherst College.

	Rakesh Thukral is Director - Public Affairs and Advocacy at Edelman in India. He has over 20 years of experience in public relations, public affairs and strategic communications. At Edelman, he provides senior counsel to the corporate practice team in Delhi and leads the firm’s Public Affairs practice in India.

	Carolyn Brehm is Vice President for Global Government Relations for Procter & Gamble. She leads P&G’s team of government relations practitioners who support key markets in the U.S., Asia, Europe, Middle East & Africa and Latin America. Prior to joining P&G over a decade ago, she worked in Washington, Shanghai and Hong Kong in a variety of government relations and public policy positions representing private sector, trade association and NGO interests.

	Francis Ingham is director general and CEO of Public Relations Consultants Association in London. Ingham is a former official at the CBI in the United Kingdom and provides a high level European insight to the Gold Standard Awards panel.

	Dr. Simeon Mellalieu is General Manager, Ketchum Hong Kong. A corporate communications specialist, his expertise lies in corporate positioning and reputation management, brand building, issues and crisis management, corporate social responsibility, broadcast media relations and sponsorship. Simeon is currently the Chairman of the Council of PR Firms of Hong Kong.

	Andy Roby is a former UK government official who was CSR adviser to the Timber Trade Federation in London. He now acts as an EU adviser promoting sustainable forestry in Indonesia.

	Miles Celic is Director of Group Public Affairs and Policy at Prudential Plc. He is based in London, but takes overall responsibility for the group’s global public affairs. He was formerly with HSBC and commenced his career in the PA consultancy arena.

	Craig Hoy is the executive director and editor of PublicAffairsAsia and the chairman of the judging panel. A former Downing Street lobby correspondent, he was managing director of Europe’s leading political publisher Dods until 2007 and previously worked with the BBC. An inaugural member of the Young Leaders Group which met in Washington DC in the wake of 9:11, he was educated at Edinburgh University and The City University in London.

	Stephen Crisp is the Global Head of Policy and Public Affairs at Nokia Siemens Networks. With teams in Nokia Siemens Networks’ key geographic markets, he is responsible for leading on the company’s political, policy and regulatory issues at a global level. Before Nokia Siemens Networks, Stephen worked with British Telecom and was appointed BT’s Director External Affairs Asia Pacific in November 2008. He established the role, leading on BT’s political and regulatory issues. From January 2005, he was Director European Affairs for BT. Based in Brussels, he led the political and regulatory team that has responsibility for representing BT in and to the EU institutions.

	Stephen Frost is one of the co-founders and an executive director of CSR Asia. He is also an assistant professor at the Department of Asian and International Studies at the City University of Hong Kong.

	Mark O'Brien is the vice president of PublicAffairsAsia with responsibility for the Asia Pacific region. He previously held senior public affairs roles in the forest products and express delivery sector. He is a graduate of the University of St. Andrews.

	Jumaatun Azmi is the founder and managing director of KasehDia Sdn Bhd, a niche communication and consultancy firm and the founder of the The World Halal Forum. She is a member of the Asia Society's Young Leaders Group and has advised Malaysia's prime minister on Halal issues.

	Karen Paxton is chief executive of The Public Affairs Recruitment Company. She provides recruitment advice and training for public affairs officers in public sector and private sector roles in Australia.

	Lionel Zetter is an author on lobbying and public affairs. He is a vice president of PublicAffairsAsia, a director of the Enterprise Forum, and a member of the Executive Board of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations. Based in London, he is former president of the CIPR, a former Chairman of the Government Affairs Group, and is currently a consultant to a wide variety of PA and PR related bodies.

	Maher Ghanma is the Director of DLA Piper's Global Government Relations (GGR) practice in the Middle East. An accomplished public affairs and political practitioner, Maher previously advised the Royal Court of His Majesty King Abdullah II and Her Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdullah acting as Middle East & Africa Policy Analyst. A Jordanian he is based in Dubai.

	Mark Michelson is senior counselor at APCO Worldwide and chairman of IMA Asia's CEO Forum in Hong Kong. He also is an adjunct associate professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and a member of the Fulbright Advisory Committee. Dr. Michelson has worked on government relations and communication projects involving most governments in the Asia-Pacific region and the United States for over 35 years. From 2004 through 2008, he was Associate Director-General for Investment Promotion at Invest Hong Kong, the investment promotion department of the Hong Kong Government. Dr. Michelson earned his Bachelor of Arts from Carleton College and his doctorate from the University of Illinois in Japanese studies.

	Mark Runacres is former UK Deputy High Commissioner to India and an independent public affairs consultant. He served for 25 years in the British Diplomatic Service where he gained experience in international trade and investment, international security, development and political analysis.

	Nigel Allmond was a leading figure in TV advertising. He founded the Allmond partnership which won the largest ever account win for a start up in the 20th century. A serial entrepreneur he has recently established Global Green Future, a renewable energy business with operations starting across SE Asia, the Middle East, India and Africa.

	Richard Barton is Managing Partner Asia (ex Japan) at Kreab Gavin Anderson. Based in Hong Kong he has spent nearly a decade in Asia and specialises in corporate, crisis and financial communications - advising corporations on media and reputation management issues, mergers and acquisitions and government relations. He spent his early career in investment banking.

	Stephen Forshaw holds one the the leading regional communications positions as managing director of corporate affairs at Singapore state-owned investment company, Temasek. He was previously the corporate communications director for Microsoft in Asia and worked as VP of public affairs for Singapore Airlines. Prior to moving to Asia he was a senior adviser to a Minister in the Australian Capital Territory Government.

	Alistair Nicholas is Executive Vice President of Public Affairs at Weber Shandwick in Asia Pacific. He is responsible for Weber Shandwick's reputation management and public affairs business in China and also leads the firm's regional Public Affairs practice across Asia Pacific. He previously served as president and CEO of AC Capital Strategic Consulting, which he founded in 2003. Prior to that he headed up Edelman’s Beijing office. Immediately before moving to China he was Australia’s Trade Commissioner to Washington D.C. Earlier in his career Alistair worked in journalism, public relations and political advisory roles in Australia.

	Steven Atack is founding publisher of Public Affairs News and a specialist in international executive search and acquisition advisory in public Affairs & government relations. He is vice president (Europe and the Russian Federation) of PublicAffairsAsia and proprietor of publicaffairsjobs.com.

	Donough Foley is Head of Government and Regulatory Affairs, Asia Pacific, at Philips Electronics. Donough has been a resident in Asia for over 20 years and has been vice president of corporate communications & Brand at Lucent Technologies and managing director, corporate practice at Burson-Marsteller. He is a graduate of the National University of Ireland.

	John Russell is founder and managing director of North Head, a Beijing-based public affairs and communications consultancy. He was previously executive vice president of Weber Shandwick and is responsible for the corporate communications and public affairs practices in the Asia Pacific region. He has extensive experience gained in Europe and Asia Pacific. He spent 10 years as the executive director of the American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union before moving to Weber Shandwick in 1999 to head up its Brussels office.

	Alvin C. Lee was until recently Director of International Relations and Public Policy, Asia Pacific at Time Warner. He joined Time Warner Inc. in July 2001 based in Hong Kong. Mr. Lee’s appointment to Time Warner came after an assignment as Consultant, Asia Marketing for FORTUNE Conferences, organizing the 2001 FORTUNE Global Forum in Hong Kong. He has been resident in Hong Kong for the past 15 years where he was Executive Director of The Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong, then General Manager, Communications of The Better Hong Kong Foundation.

	Terence Lyons is Managing Director of The Stakeholder Company. Based in Singapore he oversees the company’s regional and global work assisting the Fortune 500, governments and NGOs with better stakeholder solutions to connect with government and other key influencers. Terence previously headed Microsoft’s global stakeholder engagement strategy. He holds a Bachelor of Laws from Murdoch University and is a graduate of various professional programs at the Kellogg School of Management and University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business. He is admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales.

	Bev Postma is originally from the UK and has been Executive Director of Food Industry Asia since July 2010. A seasoned corporate affairs specialist with more than 15 years in the agri-food sector, she has worked with the food industry across Europe and Asia. Before joining FIA, Bev held corporate affairs roles at Syngenta in Asia, Kellogg’s in Europe and the UK National Farmers’ Union in London and Brussels. She has been at the forefront of many noteworthy projects, including the launch of the ‘Red Tractor’ quality mark on British Food, the promotion of self-regulatory codes on food labelling in Europe, and the introduction of anti-counterfeiting campaigns in various ASEAN countries.

	Christian Schubert is vice president of corporate communications with Asia Pacific at BASF. He was previously director of corporate communicatons with the BASF Group. He was head of media relations at DaimlerChrysler Financial Services AG and manager of corporate strategy at Daimler-Benz InterServices (debis) AG. He was a desk officer at the economics department at the German Foreign Office and is a graduate of the Technische Universität Berlin.

	Thanh Vu joined the US-ASEAN Business Council as its first Vietnam Representative in late 2007 when the Council opened its Hanoi office. In this capacity, he advises the world’s leading multinational companies on business strategies in Vietnam and helps them engage directly with leaders of the government of Vietnam and its ruling party. Prior to this, Thanh had worked in various capacities in Vietnam’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs including Information and Outreach Manager for APEC 2006 Vietnam, as a member of the National APEC Organizing Committee, and Research Fellow and Teaching Staff at the Institute for International Relations in Hanoi.

	Diana Lin (林達瑩) is a prominent network news journalist in Hong Kong. She is a former presenter of the news at 7.30 on TVB Pearl, and is currently host and senior executive producer of The Pearl Report, Money Magazine and Pearl Finance. Born in Hong Kong, Diana attended Diocesan Girls' School for her primary and secondary education, before going to university in the USA, majoring in English Literature then Fine Arts. Diana has worked as a journalist in radio, magazines, newspapers and TV for more than 25 years variously based in San Francisco, Tokyo, Beijing and Hong Kong. She is a contributor and editor of the book Third World Women (San Francisco, 1972).