{"id":86266,"date":"2018-10-18T13:02:53","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T23:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=86266"},"modified":"2019-04-12T10:35:14","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T20:35:14","slug":"ewc-board-reappoints-turbin-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/10\/18\/ewc-board-reappoints-turbin-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"East-West Center board reappoints Richard Turbin chair"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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Richard Turbin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The East-West Center\u2019s<\/a> Board of Governors have reappointed Honolulu attorney Richard Turbin as the board\u2019s chair for another one-year term. Turbin, a member of the board since 2011, has served as its chair since February 2016. At a meeting on October 16, the board also reappointed former U.S.<\/abbr> Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific Kurt Campbell and Punahou School President James Kapaeʻalii<\/span> Scott as vice-chairs.<\/p>\n

Born in New York City, Turbin has been an attorney in Honolulu for close to 40 years and is a partner at the Turbin Chu Heidt law firm. He has served as president of the Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> State Bar Association, chair of the American Bar Association\u2019s Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section, and a member of the Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Civil Rights Commission. He currently serves as chair of the Waiʻalae<\/span>-Kahala Neighborhood Board.<\/p>\n

Campbell served as the assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from 2009 to 2013, and is widely credited as being a key architect of the “pivot to Asia.” He is currently chair and CEO<\/abbr> of The Asia Group strategic advisory and capital management firm, as well as chair of the Center for a New American Security and a non-resident fellow at Harvard\u2019s Belfer Center.<\/p>\n

Scott became Punahou School\u2019s 16th president in 1994, heading the largest coeducational, independent K<\/abbr>–12 school on a single campus in the U.S.<\/abbr>, with more than 3,700 students. He is also engaged in a variety of nonprofit and business leadership roles at the local and national levels.<\/p>\n

The East-West Center Board of Governors<\/a> consists of 18 members, including five appointed by the governor of Â鶹´«Ã½,<\/span> five appointed by the U.S. secretary of state, five members from Asia and the Pacific Islands who are elected by the full board and three ex-officio members who include the governor of Â鶹´«Ã½,<\/span> the assistant secretary of state for educational and cultural affairs and the president of the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>.<\/p>\n

—From an East-West Center news release<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The East-West Center\u2019s Board of Governors reappointed Richard Turbin as the board\u2019s chair for another one-year term and also reappointed Kurt Campbell and James Scott as vice-chairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-86266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-east-west-center","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86266"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86277,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86266\/revisions\/86277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}