Singapore Prime Minister to Meet With American CEOs at G100 Dinner

NEW YORK, April 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will meet with a group of leading U.S. chief executives Thursday evening in New York City at a private dinner hosted by G100, the premier forum for global CEOs.  The Prime Minister is in the United States on a working visit, during which he met with President Obama and Vice President Biden in Washington, DC.  The Prime Minister is now in New York City, where he has been invited to share his views about global business, Asia, talent, and geopolitics with G100 members. 

"The CEOs of G100 have an enduring interest in Singapore as a hub of global business," said G100 President Daniel Casse.  "The importance of Southeast Asia has been a recurring topic at G100 meetings.  The chance to have a candid, off-the-record exchange with one of the most thoughtful observers of the Asian political and economic scene is exactly what we like to bring to G100."

"G100 has a distinguished record of being a place where CEOs can have serious discussion about global business," said Ashok Kumar Mirpuri, Singapore's Ambassador to the U.S.  "It is an excellent forum for Prime Minister Lee to speak to American business leaders."

G100 is a unique member organization of CEOs of more than 100 significant companies. Established twelve years ago, the group meets twice a year for two days of robust, off-the-record discussions.  A.G. Lafley, Senior Advisor to G100 and former CEO of Procter & Gamble, has said that G100 is "CEOs coming to grips with important issues, in real time, in a give-and-take setting, with CEO-to-CEO dialogue, no holds barred."  

G100 members include Bank of America's Brian Moynihan, Devon Energy's John Richels, Levi Strauss' Chip Bergh, and Henry Kravis.  G100 is part of G100 Network, which includes G100 Next Generation Leadership, a collaboration among CEOs for the development of companies' most senior executives, including CEO succession candidates, and G100 Talent Academy, an alliance of CEOs and CHROs focused on talent as the driver of growth and innovation. 

CEOs attending tonight's dinner include D&B's Sara Mathew, Lazard's Ken Jacobs, Schnitzer Steel's Tamara Lundgren, and Stephen Schwarzman.  As with all G100 meetings, the conversation will be off-the-record and closed to the press.

SOURCE G100