International Women’s Day Breakfast Event “Stargazing in Iloilo, Dodging Bullets in Moscow: My Adventure as a Woman in Global Leadership” 8:30 – 10:00 a.m., 6 March 2015 ADB Executive Dining Room

Dr. Astrid S. Tuminez Regional Director (Legal and Corporate Affairs, Southeast Asia) Microsoft Corporation

Dr. Astrid S. Tuminez joined Microsoft in October 2012 as the Regional Director of Legal and Corporate Affairs (LCA) in Southeast Asia (SEA), responsible for driving government relations, corporate citizenship, and business and regulatory initiatives in that region.

She is also an Adjunct Professor, the former Vice-Dean (Research) and Assistant Dean (Executive Education) of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (National University of ). Previously, at the U.S. Institute of Peace, she assisted in advancing peace negotiations between the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. Astrid was also a Senior Advisor to the Salzburg Global Seminar, Director of Research for alternative investments at AIG Global Investment, a consultant to The World Bank and an institutional sales/research professional at Brunswick Warburg.

In the 1990's, she ran the Moscow office of the Harvard Project on Strengthening Democratic Institutions, where she worked with leading reformers. She was also a program officer at the Carnegie Corporation of New York, focusing on grant-making in democratization, conflict prevention, and non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. She is a member and former Adjunct Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, and is the author of the book, Russian Nationalism Since 1856. Ideology and the Making of Foreign Policy and other publications on a range of subjects.

In 2012, Astrid authored “Rising to the Top? A Report on Women’s Leadership in Asia”, a project supported by the Asia Society and The Rockefeller Foundation. She has been a U.S. Institute of Peace Scholar, a Freeman Fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar, a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, a Distinguished Alumna of Brigham Young University, a fellowship recipient of the Social Science Research Council and the MacArthur Foundation, and a member of the International Advisory Board of the Asian Women Leadership University project and the ASEAN Institute on Disability and Public Policy (IDPP). She serves on the boards of the Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI); Singapore American School; and ASKI Global, an NGO focused on training and financing entrepreneurship among Asian women migrant laborers.

Astrid was selected in 2013 as a “Top 100 Global Influencer” by the Filipina Women’s Network of the U.S. She holds a Master’s in Soviet Studies from and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is based in Singapore, and is the proud mother of three children, aged 17, 12 and 4.

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Why Men and Masculinities? Addressing the Final Frontiers for Gender Equality (talk show discussion) 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m., 20 March 2015 ADB Multi-Function Hall 3

James Lang United Nations Development Programme

James Lang is the UNDP Regional Advisor on Ending Violence against Women and Girls in the Asia and Pacific region. He has nearly 20 years of professional experience working with international organizations on the issues of gender justice, violence prevention and engaging boys and men in gender equality. James brings a wealth of prevention programming, policy advocacy and capacity development skills. Previous to his role with UNDP, James was the Coordinator of Partners for Prevention, a UN joint programme focused on violence prevention. James has also worked with various NGOs and UN agencies including Futures Without Violence and Oxfam Great Britain.

Rahul Roy Filmmaker, Aakar India

Rahul Roy graduated from the Mass Communication Research Centre at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi in 1987 with a post graduate degree in film making. His films have travelled across the globe to various documentary film festivals and have won several prestigious awards. Rahul Roy’s films explore the themes of masculinity and gender relations against the larger background of communalism, labour, class identities and urban spaces. His work has focused primarily on masculinities. Besides film making he has been researching and writing on masculinities. His graphic book on masculinities titled ‘A Little Book on Men’ was recently published by Yoda Press.

Roy is the Director of Aakar, a Delhi based trust that works in the area of media, culture and research. Aakar has been engaged in several interventions on masculinities across the South Asian region for more than a decade now. Rahul Roy is the coordinator of the Let's Talk Men 2.0 regional film project. He is currently leading a multi country research and film project on justice and conflict.

Perfecto S. Uysingco TRIDEV Specialists Foundation Inc. Perfecto S. Uysingco is a Behavioral Specialist with extensive years of experience in sustainable development particularly on primary health care in the 80's, HIV & AIDS in the 90's, and reproductive health and gender equity in the 20’s. He was a member of the interim Steering Committee that developed the learning curriculum “ Regional Learning Community: Transforming Masculinities to Promote Gender Justice in ESEA.” He was a founding member and officer of Men Opposed to Violence Against Women Everywhere (MOVE) and a contributor in the development of Men’s Health Guidelines of the Department of Health (DOH). He developed the initial HIV behavior surveillance system of DOH that set into motion the implementation of the National

Integrated HIV Behavior and Serologic Surveillance (IHBSS). He developed the Health Welfare and Care Policy for Truck Crews of the Confederation of Truckers Association of the Philippines (CTAP), a policy promulgating the measures in the delivery of comprehensive health care services for truck crews. He continues his male participation advocacy to promulgate legislations, policies and support mechanisms to safeguard the rights of women and girls, people living with HIV, and other at-risk groups to attain genuine, sustainable and people-centered development. He is currently the Executive Director of TRIDEV Specialists Foundation, Inc., a national NGO of the Philippines.

Sr. Mary John Mananzan, OSB Founder and Executive Director, Institute of Women Studies, St. Scholastica’s College

Sr. Mary John Mananzan is a Missionary Benedictine sister. She obtained her doctorate degree in Philosophy major in Linguistic Philosophy at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Italy (Summa Cum Laude) and a degree in Missiology at the Wilhelmsuniversitaet in Munster, Germany (Magna Cum Laude). Her involvement includes charting new paths in the academe and being with the masses especially the women. As a feminist-activist she has given birth to a lot of women-centered programs among them are the Institute of Women’s Studies, Women Ecology and Wholeness Farm, and the Women Crisis Center. She was the National Chairperson of GABRIELA, a broad alliance of women’s organization for 18years. She served two terms as President of St. Scholastica’s College. She has just finished her second term as Prioress of the Missionary Benedictine Sisters of the Manila Priory. She was a member of the Administrative Council of the Communio Internationalis Benedictinarum (CIB)

She is actively involved in developing a distinct Third World Theology and was the Executive Secretary and Treasurer of the Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians (EATWOT) until September 2001. She served as the International Coordinator of the Women’s Commission of EATWOT for five years. She has written several books and contributed numerous articles in international journals and reviews. She is Section Editor on Women and Spirituality in a four-volume Encyclopedia of Women’s Studies by Routledge and Co. Among her books are: The Language Game of Confessing One’s Belief , Challenges to the Inner Room , and Women, Religion and Spirituality in Asia . Her latest book is NunSense-The Spiritual Journey of a Feminist Activist Nun published in March 2012. She gives lectures and seminars on Eco-Feminist-Creation- Centered Spirituality, Women’s Issues, Globalization and Transformational Education in more than 50 countries.

She was awarded the Dorothy Cadbury Fellowship in 1994 in Birmingham and Henry Luce Fellowship at the Union Theological Seminary in New York in 1995.

She was granted a Fellowship as an Asian Public Intellectual of 2002 by the Nippon Foundation. She has recently (April 2009) been awarded Outstanding Woman Leader in Manila by the Mayor of Manila. She was cited by Women Deliver as one of the 100 inspiring persons in the world on the occasion of the 100 years of the International Women’s day celebration in March 2011. She was given the Benigno Aquino Jr. Award for Nationalism by the Federation of Catholic Schools’ Alumnae Association on 25 November 2011. In April 2013, she received the Balitok Award as an outstanding daughter of the province of Pangasinan.

------Distinguished Gender Month Speaker: Gender Equality and : What are the Final Frontiers in the Muslim World? 2:00 – 3:30 p.m., 25 March 2015 Multi-Function Hall 3

Zainah Anwar Director, Founding Member and Former Executive Director of

Zainah Anwar is a founding member and former Executive Director of Sisters in Islam (SIS), a non-governmental organisation working on the rights of Muslim women within the framework of Islam. She is now the Director of Musawah, the SIS-initiated Global Movement for Equality and Justice in the Muslim Family. She also writes a monthly column, Sharing the Nation, for the Star, the largest English- language daily in .

Sisters in Islam is at the forefront of the women’s movement which seeks to end discrimination against women in the name of religion. It has successfully created a public voice and a public space for ordinary women to claim their right to speak out on Islam and the impact of Islamic laws on women’s rights and status. The group's activities in research, advocacy and public education help to promote the development and understanding of an Islam that upholds the principles of equality, justice, freedom and dignity within a democratic state.

Musawah today spearheads ground breaking activities at the international level, bringing scholars and activists together to produce new feminist scholarship in Islam, training activists on women’s rights in Islam, and engaging with the CEDAW processes to challenge the ways governments use Islam to justify reservations and evade compliance with human rights treaty obligations.

Her past work experience includes: Chief Programme Officer, Political Affairs Division, Commonwealth Secretariat, London; Freelance Writer; Senior Analyst, Institute of Strategic and International Studies, Kuala Lumpur; Political and Diplomatic Writer, The New Straits Times, Kuala Lumpur. She was also a member of the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia from 2000 – 2004. Her book, Islamic Revivalism in Malaysia: Dakwah Among the Students has become a standard reference in the study of Islam in Malaysia. She was educated at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, , and the MARA Institute of Technology, Malaysia, in the fields of international relations and journalism.