Dear Friends,

We are pleased to invite you to attend our 14th Committee of 100 Conversations – “Recollections, Pioneers and Heroes” event on June 10, 2026 that will feature Calvin Tsao, a leading architect, philanthropist, and educator.

Calvin Tsao, FAIA is a leading voice in contemporary architecture, whose work draws from a deep engagement with a variety of art forms and from an interdisciplinary approach encompassing urban planning, architecture, interior design, and product design. He has also been a major contributor to the arts, architecture and scholarship through his family foundation and his personal activities.

Chinese Americans have contributed greatly to advance the success of this country in many walks of life – science, the arts, agriculture, philanthropy, political leadership, architecture, business, and more.

The Committee of 100 Conversations Initiative features interviews of Chinese Americans who have contributed to the success of America through their pioneering efforts, heroic achievements, or recollections of important events. Each interview will start with a live broadcast, followed by video and podcast recordings that will be available as part of a library of the interviews.

Committee of 100’s purpose is to provide leadership and act as a constructive force in promoting the full participation of all Chinese Americans in American society and acting as a public policy resource for the Chinese-American community; and advancing constructive dialogue and relationships between the peoples and leaders of the United States and Greater China.

Peter Young, Chair of the Conversations Initiative and a Committee of 100 Member, will be the moderator. The fireside chat will be held on June 10, 2026 from 6:00 pm Eastern Time to 7:00 pm Eastern Time. There is no fee for the webcast. Please register at https://c100-6-11-2026.eventbrite.com. The video recording and podcast will be published thereafter and will be available on the Committee of 100 website.

We hope you will join us. Thank you!

Best regards,
Committee of 100

Committee of 100 Conversations
Recollections, Pioneers and Heroes

June 10, 2026 Webcast

▦ Speaker:

Calvin Tsao, Leading Architect, Philanthropist and Educator

▦ Moderator:

Peter Young, CEO, Young & Partners, Committee of 100

▦ Time:

6:00 pm Eastern Time

During this webcast, our speaker will talk about his groundbreaking career in architecture and his support of the arts, architecture and scholarship.

The interview will be moderated by Peter Young, Committee of 100 member and Chair of the Committee of 100 Conversations Program. The broadcast will be 45 minutes long.

There is no fee and you can register at: https://c100-6-10-2026.eventbrite.com

▦ Speaker Bio:

Calvin Tsao

Leading Architect, Philanthropist and Educator

Calvin Tsao, FAIA is a leading voice in contemporary architecture, whose work draws from a deep engagement with a variety of art forms and from an interdisciplinary approach encompassing urban planning, architecture, interior design, and product design.

As founding partners of Tsao & McKown Architects in New York City, he and Zack McKown have won a wide array of professional awards including: AIANY Medal of Honor (2022), AD100 (2016) · American Architecture Award/Chicago Athenaeum, William Beaver House (2010), Cooper HewiƩ Smithsonian NaƟonal Design Award for Interior Design (2009), PreservaƟon League of New York State Award for Excellence in Historic PreservaƟon, River LoŌs Condominium (2007), Interior Design Hall of Fame (2001).

Beyond his studio, he has taught at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD), which presented its Alumni Council Award to him in 2024 and where he has been a longtime member of the Dean’s Council. He has also taught at The Cooper Union, Syracuse University, and The New School/Parsons School of Design. He has been a lecturer, panelist, or guest critic at many U.S. and overseas institutions. He is Chair of the Board of the American Academy in Rome, where he was a resident in 2010, and is President Emeritus of the Architectural League of New York, where he continues to serve as a director.

Through the Tsao Family Foundation, Mr. Tsao has recently effected major endowments for both the Harvard GSD and the American Academy in Rome. For the GSD, he established the Real Estate Practicum as the new capstone requirement of the GSD’s Master in Real Estate (MRE) curriculum. The practicum, which each student fulfills with a private, public, or non-profit real estate organization, updates the paradigm for the MRE degree in that it advances a more holistic and contemporary approach to projects by which real estate development professionals can help to shape a more sustainable, inclusive, and vibrant future for their communities. For the American Academy in Rome, he established three new scholarly programs.

The Tsao Family Rome Prize supports scholarship that illuminates the philosophical and existential ideas and questions that link eastern and western cultures, drawing on the experience of Rome as a crossroads. These ideas and questions animate the world around us and are evident in art, architecture, design, literature, and even the writing and interpretation of history itself. Collectively, the work emanating from this fellowship aims to encourage our world’s many societies and cultures to develop cooperatively and to strengthen the foundation of a more humane and mutually supportive global community.

The Tsao Family Residency supports distinguished Asian artists in a two month stay to create art or conduct research in the Academy’s library and archives. Tsao Family and Harvard University Graduate School of Design Affiliated Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome servers as a bridge by bringing the finest architects and designers at the GSD to the Academy to promote a critical engagement between the two institutions in the areas of architecture, urban design, or landscape design.

▦ Moderator and Chair of the Committee of 100 Conversations Program
Peter Young

CEO, Young & Partners

Committee of 100 Member, New York Regional Chair and Board Member

Peter Young is CEO of Young & Partners, a boutique corporate strategy and investment banking firm focused on the life science and chemical industries. He manages the firm and is actively involved in client transactions and financings. Under his leadership, Young & Partners has established and maintained its position as a highly regarded firm serving the corporate strategy, M&A, restructuring and financing needs of clients worldwide. He was previously head of industry groups at Salomon Brothers, Schroders and Lehman Brothers, a senior private equity executive with J.H. Whitney & Co. and a senior member of Bain & Co., the corporate strategy firm.

Mr. Young received a BA in Economics from Yale, an MS in Accounting from NYU, and MBA from Harvard Business School where he graduated with Distinction as a Baker Scholar. He is a CPA and a Chartered Global Management Accountant. He serves on a number of boards of directors, both corporate and non-profit and is President of Société de Chimie Industrielle, the108 year old leading life science and chemical industry non-profit organization and on the Editorial Advisory Board of Pharmaceutical Executive.

The Committee of 100

The Committee of 100 (C100) is a non-profit, non-partisan leadership organization of prominent Chinese Americans in business, government, academia, and the arts founded 35 years ago.
The Committee’s purpose is to provide leadership and act as a constructive force in the dual mission of:

• Promoting the full participation of all Chinese Americans in American society and acting as a public policy resource for the Chinese-American community
• Advancing constructive dialogue and relationships between the peoples and leaders of the United States and Greater China

To learn more about the organization, please go to https://www.committee100.org.

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