First Asia Leadership Conference in Kyrgyzstan

June 7, 2016

The Center for Asia Leadership (CAL) today announced that registration is open for the 2016 Asia Leadership Conference, organized and designed for high school and university students by teaching fellows from Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard Business School, the Tufts Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Columbia School of Business, and other top global universities.

The conference, titled “Kyrgyzstan Twenty Five Years Since Gaining Independence: New Perspectives on Leadership and Practice”, will be held June 7, from 9 am to 5 pm, at the American University of Central Asia (AUCA), in Bishkek. The Asia Leadership Conference is free-of-charge and open to the public. Seats are limited to 300 guests and will be distributed on a first-come-first-serve basis. Attendees can register at http://goo.gl/forms/M9j0eK7tmc

The conference is organized under the Center’s flagship initiative, the Asia Leadership Trek, in conjunction with the Trek’s inaugural visit to Central Asia. In addition to their visits to Bishkek and Osh in Kyrgyzstan, the Trek will also visit Dushanbe, Tajikistan; Almaty and Astana, Kazakhstan; and Tashkent and Samarkand, Uzbekistan.

Samuel Kim, the President of the Center for Asia Leadership, is excited to be organizing the inaugural Asia Leadership Conference to provide participants with the extraordinary opportunity to learn from workshop with fellows from Harvard and other top-tier universities as well as from esteemed local leaders.

“Since gaining independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, Kyrgyzstan has been on the fast track towards becoming one of Central Asia’s fastest growing economies. Since 2012, we have organized over 50 conferences, attended by over 12,300 participants. This will be our first visit to Kyrgyzstan and to Central Asia, and we look forward to engaging with Kyrgyzstan’s young men and women and helping them build upon their leadership aspirations to make the country an even better place.”

Andrew Wachtel, President of American University of Central Asia, encourages Kyrgyzstan’s youth to take advantage of the opportunity to gain firsthand exposure to the qualities that make great leaders.

“We are excited to partner with the Center for Asia Leadership to organize the inaugural Asia Leadership Conference in Kyrgyzstan for the benefit of our young emerging leaders. Both AUCA and CAL shares the passion and common goal of developing young men and women and equipping them with a real-world perspective required of the next generation of future leaders.”

For more information on the Centre for Asia Leadership as well as its activities, please visit http://asialeadership.org/ or contact Ms. Nurzhan Kadyrkulova from the American University of Central Asia via email kadyrkulova_n@auca.kg or call +996 312 915 000 (+243)

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The Center for Asia Leadership (CAL) is a group of non-profit international organizations intentionally addressing public needs and problems in Asia through research, development, training, and publication initiatives in the areas of public service, political and social leadership, and education in Asia. For more information on the Centre for Asia Leadership as well as its activities, log on to http://asialeadership.org/ or call 03-7491 8622.

The Asia Leadership Trek is a unique, overseas learning experience devoted to exploring the most important issues and cutting-edge ideas through engagement with political and business leaders, educational figures, entrepreneurs, and students. These one-of-a-kind study tours travel all across Asia and expose individuals to the region through active engagement and sharing of best practices.

Established July 1, 1997, the Harvard University Asia Center is a university-wide inter-faculty initiative with an underlying mission to project Harvard in Asia and Asia at Harvard.  With this dynamic in mind, the Asia Center engages in a variety of scholarly and practical activities both at Harvard and in Asia to help strengthen the significance and understanding of East, Southeast, and South Asia. These activities include research and teaching, public seminars and conferences, focused workshops, publishing journals and monographs, internships, travel fellowships, film series, art exhibits, and more.

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