The A100
Every May, the A100 honors the 100 most impactful Asian Pacific leaders in culture and society over the past year, as well as special honors for unique contributions. Celebrate the honorees through this special film, produced in partnership with Google, and learn more about their achievements below.
Nominations are now open for the 2025 A100. Please submit your nomination by December 1, 2024.
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2024 A100 List
Asian Pacific leaders are redefining today and shaping tomorrow. Asian Pacific-led creativity continued to break records in entertainment, with the most-watched Netflix show of 2023 (The Night Agent), the most-watched Disney+ film premiere of 2023 (Elemental), the most-watched FX premiere ever on Hulu (Shōgun), the first Asian to win “Male Artist of the Year” at the People’s Choice Awards (Jungkook), the most-watched YouTube Shorts creator of 2023 (Alan Chikin Chow), and the first Asian-created and led television show to win an Emmy for Best Limited or Anthology Series (Beef). In sports, A100 and New Gold honorees represent the world’s highest-paid athlete (Shohei Ohtani), the first Asian player to score 100 Premier League goals (Heung-Min Son), the first high schooler drafted number one overall to the NWSL (Alyssa Thompson), and the most-viewed Super Bowl Halftime Show prior to 2024 (choreographed by Parris Goebel).
Asian Pacific leaders are also driving the most important technologies and policies that will determine the future, founding 42% of the IPO’d companies in the United States in the last two years. A100 honorees sit at the forefront of the AI revolution, including “Godmother of AI” Dr. Fei-Fei Li and executives at the most dominant AI players (e.g., AMD, Google Cloud, NVIDIA, Open AI, Salesforce AI, Scale AI). A100 honorees also lead the most crucial organizations ensuring that future technologies balance fundamental rights, including the Human Rights Watch, the National Resources Defense Council, and the White House Correspondents’ Association.
A1s & Legends
Gold Ally
Cynthia Erivo
Grammy, Emmy, Tony-winning, and Oscar-nominated Actress, Singer, Songwriter, and Producer
Honorees
- All
- Business & Technology
- Entertainment & Media
- Fashion & Lifestyle
- Gaming & Sports
- Social Impact
Ajay Banga
President, World Bank Group
Alan Chikin Chow
Content Creator
Albert Kim, Gordon Cormier, & Dallas Liu
Showrunner & Stars, Avatar: The Last Airbender
Alex Albon
Formula One Driver
Alex Norström
Co-President and Chief Business Officer, Spotify
Alexander Woo, Zine Tseng, Benedict Wong, Rosalind Chao & Jess Hong
Executive Producer, Co-Creator, & Stars, 3 Body Problem
Alexandr Wang
Founder and CEO, Scale AI
Alia Bhatt
Actor, Producer, Entrepreneur
Alok Vaid-Menon
Comedian, Author, and Public Speaker
Ambassador Katherine Tai
19th United States Trade Representative
Anand Kini
EVP of Corporate Strategy, Comcast and CFO, NBCUniversal
Anish Melwani
Chairman and CEO, LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton Inc.
Anita Lee
Chief Programming Officer, TIFF
Ann Young Lee
Co-Founder and CEO, CORE (Community Organized Relief Effort)
Anna Sawai, Mari Yamamoto & Ren Watabe
Stars, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
Anthony Volpe
Shortstop, NY Yankees
Arjun Pulijal
Artist Advocate, and Former President, Capitol Music Group
Arvind KC, Christina Wootton & Shobz Ahluwalia
Chief People and Systems Officer, Chief Partnerships Officer, & Chief Information Officer, Roblox
Asad Qizilbash
Head, PlayStation Productions and Head of Product, PlayStation Studios
Asmita Dubey & Han Wen
Chief Digital & Marketing Officer, L'Oreal Groupe & Chief Digital and Marketing Officer, L'Oreal USA
Bella Poarch
Musician
Calvin Yee
Partner, Egon Zehnder
Carissa Moore
Olympic Gold Medalist, Surfing
Carla Hassan & Sanoke Viswanathan
Chief Marketing Officer & Chief Strategy and Growth Officer and CEO of International Consumer Banking, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Carla Serrano & Susie Nam
Global Chief Strategy Officer, Publicis Groupe and CEO, Publicis New York; & CEO, Publicis Creative US
Celine Song, Greta Lee, & Teo Yoo
Writer and Director & Stars, Past Lives
Charli XCX
Music Artist
Christine Chen
Executive Director and Co-Founder, Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote
Clara Shih
CEO, Salesforce AI
Crystal Wang English Sacca
Founding Partner, Lowercarbon Capital
Daniel Martin
Makeup Artist, Beauty Authority, and Social Activist
David Park
Partner and Television Agent, UTA
Deborah Yeh & Zena Arnold
Global CMO & US CMO, Sephora
Dev Patel
Actor, Director, Producer, and Writer
Divia Thani
Global Editorial Director, Condé Nast Traveler
Don Liu & Prat Vemana
Chief Legal and Compliance Officer & Executive Vice President and Chief Digital and Product Officer, Target
Dylan Jadeja
CEO, Riot Games
Eiichiro Oda, Steven Maeda, & Mackenyu
Creator, Executive Producer, & Star, One Piece
Faye Iosotaluno
CEO, Tinder
Fei-Fei Li
Sequoia Professor of Computer Science & Co-Director of the Human-Centered AI Institute, Stanford University
Gabriel Whaley
Founder, MSCHF
Ginger Chan
CMO, WME
Grant Ogburn
Global Chief Growth Officer, UM
Hanya Yanagihara
Editor-in-Chief, T: The New York Times Style Magazine
Hayao Miyazaki
Director & Co-Founder, Studio Ghibli
Helen Chiang
COO of Game Content and Studios, Xbox
Hesam Hosseini
CEO, Evergreen & Emerging Brands, Match Group
Howard Lee
President, Discovery Channel Networks and TLC
Janet Yang
President, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Jason Kwon
CSO, OpenAI
Jay Shetty
Author, Podcast Host of On Purpose, and Chief Purpose Officer of Calm
Jazz Tangcay
Senior Artisans Editor, Variety
Jeff Wong
Global Chief Innovation Officer, EY
Jess Park
Chief of Brand and Fan Engagement, U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee
Julie Morita, MD & May Ng
MD, Executive VP & Chief Investment Officer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Jung Kook
Music Artist
Keanu Reeves
Actor
Kristen Kish
Chef, Author, and TV Host
Krystal Ka‘ai
Executive Director, White House Initiative on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders
Lee Jung-jae
Actor and Filmmaker
Luciane Buchanan
Actor
Lulu Wang, Sarayu Blue & Ji-young Yoo
Showrunner and Director & Stars, Expats
Manish Bapna
President and CEO, NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council)
Mark Fischbach
Creator and Filmmaker
Matt Ogawa, Naomi Gleit & Pratiti Raychoudhury
Vice President of Core Business Human Resources, Head of Product, & Vice President of New Monetization Experiences, Meta
Maya Erskine
Actor
Natalie Tran
Executive Director, CAA Foundation
Nilay Patel
Editor-in-Chief, The Verge
Nyjah Huston
Professional Skateboarder
Parris Goebel
Choreographer and Creative Director
Peter Do
Fashion Designer and Creative Director, Helmut Lang
Peter Sohn, Brenda Hsueh, & Leah Lewis
Writer, Director, & Star, Elemental
Rachel Kondo, Hiroyuki Sanada, & Anna Sawai
Executive Producer and Co-Creator, Producer & Stars, Shōgun
Rachell “Valkyrae” Hofstetter
Content Creator and Streamer
Raja Rajamannar & Sachin Mehra
Chief Marketing Officer & Chief Financial Officer, Mastercard
Rosemary Palacios, Yinan Shentu, TJ & Bobby Pontillas
Director of Talent Outreach, Inclusion, and Creative Development, Puppeteer, Muppet & Animation Director, Sesame Street
SAG-AFTRA
Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists
Sandra Douglass Morgan
President, Las Vegas Raiders
Scout Bassett
Paralympian, Author, and Advocate
Sehr Thadhani
Chief Digital Officer, Nasdaq
Shailesh Jejurikar
COO, Procter & Gamble
Shakir Moin
President of Marketing, Coca-Cola North America
Shou Chew
CEO, TikTok
Son Heung-min
Professional Soccer Player, Tottenham Hotspur F.C.
Steve Aoki
DJ, Producer, and Entrepreneur
Stray Kids
K-Pop Group
Suresh Kumar
Chief Technology Officer and Chief Development Officer, Walmart
Swati Sharma
Editor-in-Chief and Publisher, Vox
Takashi Yamazaki
Director, Writer, and VFX Supervisor
Takeshi Numoto
EVP and Chief Marketing Officer, Microsoft
Tarang Amin & Laurie Lam
Chairman and CEO & Chief Brand Officer, e.l.f. Beauty
Tariq Hassan
SVP, Chief Marketing and CXO, McDonald's USA
Terry Tang
Executive Editor, Los Angeles Times
Thomas Kurian
CEO, Google Cloud
Tim Flores & Genie Kwon
Chefs, Kasama
Tirana Hassan
Executive Director, Human Rights Watch