May 2008 | By Jane Leung Larson
Five new board members will serve three year terms on the Committee of 100 Board of Directors. They replace five directors who are rotating off the Board—Nelson Dong, Robert Gee, David Ho, Dominic Ng, and Linda Tsao Yang.
The new directors are: 
Anla Cheng, CEO of Centenium Capital Partners (New York);
Leroy Chiao, retired NASA Astronaut and an entrepreneur, consultant, professor and public speaker (Texas);
Clarence Kwan, National Managing Partner, Chinese Services Group, Deloitte LLP (New York);
Cheng Li, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, John L. Thornton China Center, Brookings Institution (Washington, D.C.); and
Brian Sun, Partner, Jones Day (Los Angeles).
In June, the Board will elect its officers, replacing General Counsel Nelson Dong who will retire from two terms of board service.
The Committee now has 152 members, of whom 20% are women. Professionally, members come from business (55%); humanities and the arts (13%), academia (11%), law (9%), government (5%), non-profit organizations (5%), medicine (3%). Geographically, the New York area (22%), San Francisco area (22%), and Los Angeles area (20%) represent two-thirds of the membership, with 8% in Washington, D.C., 14% in other parts of the U.S. and 13% in Asia.
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