Our People

Professor Gil Alterovitz is a faculty at the Harvard Medical School and Director of the School’s Biomedical Cybernetics Laboratory. A founder of several biotech companies, Professor Alterovitz is a pioneer in the research of interdisciplinary approaches that bridge engineering and medicine. His work has led him to advisory roles in the White House Precision Medicine Task Force and Global Alliance for Genomics and Health, as well as faculty roles in such institutions as MIT, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Boston’s Children’s Hospital. Professor Alterovitz shares his expertise on international and cross-cultural collaboration, leadership, creativity, and digital trends.

Dr Lee Weng Keng graduated with a Bachelor of Economics (Honours) Degree from University of Malaya in 1974. He obtained his Masters in Business Administration from Cranfield University, United Kingdom in 1990.

In 1974, he started his career as a secondary school teacher in Sekolah Tunku Abdul Rahman, Ipoh, and subsequently gained experience in material and logistic management in UMW Corporation Sdn Bhd in 1975 before joining Texas Instruments (M) Sdn Bhd in 1977 to 1994 where he further enhanced his experience and management skills in logistic, production, operations and general business administration. He was the General Manager (M&C Operations) in Texas Instruments (M) Sdn Bhd prior to joining Sunway Group.

He joined Sunway Group as General Manager (Operations) in 1994 and was appointed Senior General Manager in 1997. He successfully achieved the turnaround of Sunway Keramo Sdn Bhd, a vitrified clay pipes business subsidiary of Sunway Berhad and built it into a high quality and profitable company.

Over the years as director, he has provided the leadership for developing the business of Sunway Education Group Sdn Bhd. He was appointed Head of Sunway Group Education and Healthcare Division in 2005 and joined the Board of Directors of Sunway Medical Centre Berhad the same year.

Martin Attiq is a former Director at Blackrock, Senior Advisor to the Federal Reserve of New York, Senior Advisor to the Dutch National Bank, and Senior Advisor to the Bank of Greece. A former Sloan Fellow at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Mr. Attiq is an expert in entrepreneurship and intrapraneurship, as well as crisis management, having co-founded BlackRock’s Valuation and Risk Assessment business, proving itself as a successful initiative during the Financial Crisis. Mr. Attiq provides insight on entrepreneurship, innovation, strategy, and social impact.

Onyeka Obasi is the CEO of Hemisphere Frontier Consultancy and the Founder and President of Friends of Africa International. Ms Obasi is a security specialist whose expertise range from Climate Justice, Economic Development, Energy Security and Energy Economics to more traditional security concepts of Peace and Security such as Conflict Resolution, civil military relations and Human Rights. Ms Obasi is a foremost scholar and sought-after consultant, playing advisory roles in such institutions ranging from NGOs such as the International League for Human Rights to Fortune 500 companies. Ms. Obasi provides insight on social impact building, scalability, and operations.

Aaron J. Kleiman is a HillVets Congressional Fellow and a United States Air Force Veteran serving in the U.S. Capitol working to empower, educate, and train America’s Veterans to work in government and run for public office. Prior to working in Congress, Aaron served as an Air Force Officer for twelve years, with six as a Special Operations Aviator. He has deployed to Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, including over 1000 combat flight hours in Afghanistan and Africa. Aaron is also a member of the Board of Directors for Project Citizenship, a Boston based non-profit focused on educating immigrants about the benefits of US citizenship, and to help eligible, legal permanent residents overcome barriers to naturalization by providing free assistance and support to those seeking U.S. citizenship. Additionally, he is an entrepreneur and the founder of Lunar Eagle Real Estate, a multi-state real estate and property management company.

Aaron holds a bachelor degree in Aviation Business Administration from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, a master degree in Military Studies from American Military University, and a Master of Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He is married to Annie Kleiman and has a two-year-old daughter, Aurora.

Samuel Hungsoo Kim, a Korean national, is the Co-founder and President of the Center for Asia Leadership Initiatives (CALI). He is passionate about nurturing and empowering talent in Asia and runs over 35 programs annually, in more than 27 Asian countries, to help the region’s emerging leaders explore ways of being socially responsible as they face today’s complex challenges.

CALI comprises four main initiatives: the Asia Leadership Trek, a public-service program that offers study trips throughout Asia to scholars at Harvard, Stanford, MIT, and Tufts; the Asia Leadership Institute, a program for building leadership capacity in thought-leaders and aspiring talents of Asia; the Acumen Case Center, focusing on research and content development; and Acumen Publishing, which produces the Center’s various books and essay series. Samuel oversees both these initiatives and CALI’s 40-member team, including faculty and teaching fellows from Harvard and Stanford Universities and the Center’s administrators, at the main office in Boston and at the Asian regional hubs in Kuala Lumpur, Seoul, Manila, and Tokyo. His endeavor to create positive social change through teaching bold and effective leadership practices accompanies his deep aspiration to reach all 48 countries in Asia and the Caucasus.

Samuel’s research and training focus on building social capital and trustworthy institutions; the effective use of power, authority, and influence; and negotiations, mediation, and confidence-building. To date, some 36,000 burgeoning and established leaders from the governmental, political, non-profit, and corporate spheres in Asia have benefited from his programs. Prior to establishing CALI, Samuel worked for 14 years in a wide range of sectors, from strategy consulting and social entrepreneurship to international development, politics, and government. He has worked for and with over 30 renowned organizations, including the United Nations, UNESCO, Samsung, and Toyota. He currently sits on the boards of three social-profit organizations and has served as a visiting fellow at the Asia Center at Harvard University and the Kellogg School of Management in Northwestern University.

Samuel holds a Master’s in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government; a Master’s in International Cooperation from Seoul National University; and an LLB in Law, International Politics, and Economics from Handong University. He is the editor of nine books: the 4-volume Rethinking Asia series; Finding the Leaders in Us: New Goals for the Future; Redefining Success: Learning to Lead for Change; Next Generation Leadership: Empower Youth to Shape the Future of Asia; Leaders in Development: Enhancing Your Leadership Effectiveness in a Changing World; and Leadership That Triumphs: Moments of Greatness in the Work of Leadership. He regularly writes opinion pieces and editorials.

Mathias Risse is Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy. He works mostly in social and political philosophy and in ethics. His primary research areas are contemporary political philosophy (in particular questions of international justice, distributive justice, and property) and decision theory (in particular, rationality and fairness in group decision-making, an area sometimes called analytical social philosophy.) His articles have appeared in journals such as Ethics; Philosophy and Public Affairs; Nous; the Journal of Political Philosophy; and Social Choice and Welfare. He received his BA, BS and MS in mathematics from Bielefeld, and his MA and PhD in philosophy from Princeton. Before coming to Harvard he taught in the Department of Philosophy and the Program in Ethics, Politics and Economics at Yale. His books On Global Justice and Global Political Philosophy were both published in 2012.