Vice Chairman of the Board, Give2Asia
President Emeritus, The Asia Foundation

William P. Fuller is a Senior Advisor and former Vice Chairman of the ChinaVest Merchant Bank, a financial advisory firm, which has offices in Shanghai, Beijing and San Francisco. Prior to joining ChinaVest in 2004, he served as President of The Asia Foundation for 15 years. He was elected President Emeritus in May, 2004 by the Board of Trustees.

Mr. Fuller served as Deputy Assistant Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in Washington, D.C. from 1987 to 1989, responsible for foreign aid to 16 countries in the Near East and Europe. He joined USAID in 1981 as Director of the USAID mission in Indonesia.

From 1971 to 1981, Mr. Fuller served with the Ford Foundation in Asia, first as an advisor to the National Education Commission and Ministry of Education in Thailand, and later as head of the Foundation’s office in Bangladesh which supported programs to develop micro-finance, agriculture, and health.  In earlier years, he worked with the World Bank in Paris, and with UNICEF in Beirut, Cairo, and New York.

During his career, Mr. Fuller has served in leadership roles in business and community organizations. He is currently on the boards of Array Networks, Inc. in Milpitas, California and the Bank of the Orient in San Francisco. He has been a member of the Advisory Council of the Asian Development Bank Institute in Tokyo, and was until 2007 Chair of the Board of Directors of the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto. He is on the board of Winrock International, a global organization that provides technical assistance to agriculture, forestry and environmental/clean tech projects, and served as Board Chair from 1999 to 2001. In addtion to serving as Vice Chair of the board of Give2Asia, Mr. Fuller is a board member and treasurer of the World Affairs Council, a board member of the Japan Society, and  a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Mr. Fuller’s contributions to international development efforts have been recognized by a number of awards and honors.  He is a two-time recipient of the United States President’s Meritorious Service Award and USAID’s Distinguished Honor Prize. He received Korea’s Hueng-in Jang Medal for Diplomatic Service from Korea’s President in 1997, the Asia Pacific Leadership Award from the Center for the Pacific Rim, University of San Francisco in 2002, an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Dominican University in 2002, the annual Citizens Award from the World Affairs Council in 2004 for work in international development and philanthropy, and Mongolia’s highest civilian award, the Medal of Friendship, presented by Mongolia’s President in 2004.  

Mr. Fuller holds B.A., and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from Harvard University.