NEW YORK: Priti Radhakrishnan, director of treatment access for the non-profit Initiative for Medicines, Access and Knowledge (I-MAK), has been selected as one of 160 emerging leaders from 30 countries in the Asia-Pacific region who will gather at the Four Seasons Hotel in Tokyo for the Asia Society's Third Annual Asia 21 Young Leaders Summit.
Chosen from among nearly a thousand nominees, Radhakrishnan will join leaders from diverse backgrounds and expertise such as business, government, academia, media, civil society and the arts to explore the most challenging issues facing the region and to develop new collaborative proposals for how these challenges can be addressed at a time both of global economic uncertainty and reorientation of the international political order toward the East.
The Summit is part of the larger Asia 21 Young Leaders Initiative - the pre-eminent gathering of Asia's most dynamic young leaders from the Asia-Pacific region. At the Summit, young leaders will explore possibilities for using values-based leadership to develop equitable and sustainable solutions to shared challenges posed to the Asia-Pacific community. Discussions will center on the global financial crisis and the increasing scarcity of vital resources. Delegates will also develop proposals for group public service projects.
In addition to a keynote speech, break-out sessions, group discussions, and a debate, the Summit will feature lively cultural performances. Radhakrishnan co-founded I-MAK in 2006. The non-profit organization's team of intellectual property lawyers and scientists work to strengthen patent systems, encourage innovation in new medicines and expand access to the best and latest treatments. She obtained her law degree from New York University School of Law and has worked as a health attorney in the US, Switzerland and India. She also served as the Senior Project Officer of the Lawyers Collective HIV/AIDS Unit in India.
In 2007 she coordinated the efforts of Team Vinay, a movement that registered 25,000 new bone marrow donors in the South Asian American community and received the National Marrow Donor Program's Lieutenant General Frank E. Peterson Jr. award for innovation and commitment to minority recruitment & retention of bone marrow donors. In 2008, she was awarded the Echoing Green Fellowship for social entrepreneurs and was named a 2008 Pop!Tech Social Innovation Fellow.
"The young leaders meeting in Tokyo this week represent the future of the Asia-Pacific community," says Asia Society Executive Vice President Jamie Metzl, who spearheads the Asia 21 Initiative. "These leaders will need to know each other, share ideas, and learn to work together to make this Asia-Pacific century as peaceful, prosperous, just, sustainable and secure as it can be. We at the Asia Society are proud to be working with our many partners around the region and the young leaders themselves to help collectively build a better future for the region."
The Summit aims to prepare tomorrow's leaders for the challenges and responsibilities of global citizenship, to generate creative, cross-sectoral approaches to leadership and problem solving, to build networks of trust across geographic boundaries, and to educate each other in the highest ideals of values-based leadership. The Summit participants will join Asia 21's network of 400 past delegates and fellows in 30 countries.
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