that the Asia Foundation should be preserved and overtly funded by the US government. Following this change, The Asia Foundation was classified as a private, nonprofit, nongovernmental organization under the section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. The foundation began to restructure its programming, shifting away from its earlier goals of "building democratic institutions and encouraging the development of democratic leadership" toward an emphasis on Asian development as a whole (CRS 1983). Board of Trustees Officers of the Board of Trustees Sunder Ramaswamy, Chair of the Board and Executive Committee S. Timothy Kochis, Vice Chair of the Board and Executive Committee Kathleen Stephens, Vice Chair of the Board and Executive Committee Daniel F. Feldman, Treasurer of the Board and Executive Committee Teresita C. Schaffer, Secretary of the Board and Executive Committee David D. Arnold, President and Chief Executive Officer Suzanne E. Siskel, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Gordon Hein, Senior Vice President, Programs Nancy Yuan, Senior Vice President and Director, Washington, D.C. Ken Krug, Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer Amy Ovalle, Vice President, Global Communications Mandy Au Yeung, Assistant Secretary to the Board of Trustees Members of the Board of Trustees Terrence B. Adamson William L. Ball Howard L. Berman Robert O. Blake Jr. Jerome L. Dodson Elizabeth Economy Karl Eikenberry Ted Eliot III Daniel F. Feldman Winnie C. Feng Jared Frost Michael J. Green Noeleen Heyzer Karl F. Inderfurth Stephen Kahng Markos Kounalakis Mark W. Lippert Clare Lockhart Patricia M. Loui Meredith Ludlow James D. McCool Janet Montag Moon Kook-Hyun Lauren Kahea Moriarty Adil Najam William H. Neukom Dustin Palmer Iromi Perera Ruby Shang Masako H. Shinn Deanne Weir Philanthropy In 2006, the Asia Foundation provided more than $53 million in program support and distributed 920,000 books and educational materials valued at $30 million throughout Asia. References External links Official website of the Asia Foundation Asia Foundation Records at the Hoover Institution Archives Asian studies Central Intelligence Agency front organizations Charities based in California Development charities based in the United States