National Advisory Board

Vivien Stewart

Ms. Stewart is Vice President for Education at Asia Society. She is responsible for Asia Society's programs to promote the study of Asia and other world regions, cultures, languages, and global issues in America's schools and for building connections between U.S. and Asian education leaders.

Vivien has had a long involvement with education and youth affairs. For ten years, she directed the children and youth programs at the Carnegie Corporation of New York, where she shaped reform agendas in early childhood education, urban school reform, science education, teaching as a profession, and healthy adolescent development. In addition to grantmaking, she was responsible for the management of a number of Carnegie task forces, which produced influential reports such as Turning Points and A Matter of Time. Vivien was also instrumental in the creation of the National Center for Children in Poverty and the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. She has also been Senior Policy Advisor to the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict and a Visiting Scholar at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York. She received her B.A. and M.Phil. degrees from Oxford University and is a trustee of a number of organizations concerned with education and international affairs. In 2007, Ms. Stewart was awarded the Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education.