Join Committee of 100’s Asian American Career Ceilings Initiative as it unveils key findings from the Asian American Career Ceilings Survey. Peter Young, Chair of the Asian American Career Ceilings Initiative and Committee of 100 Member, will lead a 30-minute presentation of the results, followed by a 15-minute audience Q&A.

Few professionally conducted surveys have examined the issue of Asian American career ceilings through the perspectives and experiences of Asian Americans. Although an informal survey was conducted more than a year ago, the decision was made to do a formal survey that was completed in November. The findings are thought-provoking and offer valuable insights for both individuals pursuing career advancement and policymakers addressing this issue.

The survey posed the following questions:

• Do you feel that your career success has been impeded in any way because of your ethnicity?
• If so, what form of career disadvantage do you feel you have been subjected to?
• What do you feel was the cause of the career disadvantage?
• Over the last five years, at what level of severity do you feel that you have been subject to Asian American Career Ceilings obstacles?
• Do you feel that the current tensions between the U.S. and China and the Asia hate incidences have had any impact on your career success?
• Share a specific incident that you experienced that you feel is an example of an Asian American Career obstacle.
• Share your view of what solution(s) you believe should be implemented by companies, government agencies, etc. to counter Asian American Career obstacles.

Special thanks to Dr. Jeremy Wu, a Committee of 100 Member, for his review of the methodologies we used and the technical validity of the results,

Dr. Wu was a senior executive and manager with the federal government, retiring from the Census Bureau after also serving at the Departments of Transportation, Energy, and Agriculture. His pioneering Big Data work at the Census Bureau included an online mapping and reporting application that was recognized as a major U.S. statistical innovation at the United Nations in 2009.

Peter Young
CEO and President of Young & Partners;
Committee of 100 New York Regional Chair and Board Member

Peter Young is CEO of Young & Partners, a boutique 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.

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 a board member of Société de Chimie Industrielle, a leading life science and chemical industry non-profit organization and on the Editorial Advisory Board of Pharmaceutical Executive.