1918 - Kiwanis Club of - 2016 Volume 95 ’S FIRST KIWANIS CLUB Number 8 JANUARY 19, 2016 JANUARY 26, 2016

JOHN W. GARVER, PROFESSOR Virginia Hepner, President & CEO Georgia Tech Woodruff Arts Center “China and the Iran nuclear negotiations: convergent interests and parallel diplomacy with the US” Virginia Hepner became President and CEO of the Woodruff Arts Center on July 1, 2012. Previously, she John Garver is Professor in the Sam Nunn School was with Wachovia bank for 25 years serving in leader- of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of ship roles such as Executive Vice President and Head of Technology. US Corporate Finance. She also has served in interim He is the author of nine books and over 100 articles director positions for a variety of non-profit organiza- and monographs dealing with China’s foreign rela- tions including The Atlanta Ballet, Brand Atlanta, Inc., tions. His books include: China and Iran: Ancient and Young Audiences. She has also been a business Partners in a Post-Imperial World, The Protracted consultant and partner in a private real estate investment Contest, China-Indian Rivalry in the Twentieth Centu- entity and a Director of State Bank & Trust Company ry and ; China, the , and Tai- and State Bank Financial Corporation.

wan's Democratization, (2006, 2000, 1997), Nation- Hepner has been active in community service for many alist China and U.S. Cold War Strategy in Asia, and years, and currently serves on several boards including more. He has served on the editorial boards of jour- the Metro Atlanta Chamber, Midtown Alliance, The nals such as China Quarterly and Journal of Contem- Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Endowment porary China, and is a member of the National Com- Board and the Scheller College of Business Advisory mittee on U.S.-China Relations. Board at Georgia Tech. She is a member of the Interna- Dr. Garver directed a university study program in Chi- tional Women’s Forum and Rotary International.

na in 1983, then went on to set up and direct the first Hepner is the recipient of the 2015 Lettie Pate White- China-based summer study program in the University head Evans Award honoring exemplary for-profit cor- System of Georgia as well as a multipolity (Japan, porate board service by a female director. Past honors South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China) summer include the City of Atlanta Phoenix Award, Image Film study program. He has lived in various parts of China, Festival Community Award and the Outstanding Part- has traveled widely throughout Eurasia, has conducted ner Award from The Home Depot. formal research in a number of Asian countries, is flu- ent in Chinese and taught that language to his two Hepner has a BS in Finance from The Wharton School children. and attended the JL Kellogg School of Northwestern. She is a graduate of Leadership Atlanta, the Georgia Dr. Garver has received numerous prestigious grants Regional Leadership Institute, and the MAACC Arts such as the Fulbright Foundation and the Chiang Leadership Program. She and her husband have two Ching-kuo Foundation. children.

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