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Staying in Touch
FROM BANGKOK: Old friends in philanthropy gathered for a reunion at dinner in Bangkok recently. Seated, from right to left, are Rosalia (Lia) Sciortino, Ford program officer from 1993 to 2000 in the Indonesia and Philippines offices and a former regional representative for the Rockefeller Foundation and the International Development Research Center; Gordon Conway, a former Ford representative in India and Lia’s boss when he became president of the Rockefeller Foundation; Gary Suwannarat, former Ford representative in Thailand; and, at the far left, Susan Conway, wife of Gordon.
FROM BEIJING: Mark Sidel, now a law professor at the University of Wisconsin and a former Ford officer in the Bangkok, Beijing, Hanoi and New Delhi offices, visited old friends from the Foundation staff in Beijing when he visited there recently. Pictured, left to right, are the mother of staffer Fang Lin, Peng Xiaoqiao, Liang Bo, Fang Lin, who was administrative officer in Beijing in the 1980s and 1990s, Sidel, Yang Yiqi, Zhang Ye, Wang Yan and Niu Caixia. The picture was taken by Yimei Chen, who worked for Ford in China from 1997 to 2007 and now is executive director of China Development Brief.
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