Katherine Kwun McLane
Board Partner
Katherine Kwun McLane is an advocate for humanitarian causes with over 20 years of experience at the management, committee, and board levels. In 2024, Katherine was elected to be a member of the President’s Council for International Affairs for Yale University, responsible for advising the university President and Vice Provost in the development of the University’s international agenda and programs related to activities in China, admission of international students, the Yale World Fellows Program, and initiatives of the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. Katherine has also served since 2015, as an advisor and ambassador for Georgetown University’s Institute for Women in Peace & Security, of which she was an inaugural board member, and as well as Asia art acquisition committee member for the Musee du Centre Pompidou in Paris since its founding in 2016. She is a supporter of conservation efforts through the Whitley Fund for Nature in London where she now resides. Since 2012, Katherine has participated in diplomatic forums convened by UNSG Ban Ki-moon in NY, DC, Vienna, Geneva, Seoul, and London.
Previously Katherine served as Director of Membership for The Clinton Global Initiative in Asia responsible for outreach to Heads of State, leaders in humanitarian organizations, in business and academia. Katherine also served as Vice Chair of the Fund-raising committee for the Hong Kong Society for the Protection of Children, and as a member of the Advisory Board of the Chinese International School in Hong Kong. Some of the other charities and non-profits she has supported include Asian University for Women (AUW), Yellow Ribbon Fund, Lao Rehabilitation Foundation, the Aung San Suu Kyi (SUU) Foundation, Heartware Network, Creating Responsible Innovative Businesses (CRIB), Women Founders Network (WFN), and HK Youth Diabetes Action.
Katherine began her career in the Mergers & Acquisitions group of Morgan Stanley, and as a founding member of McKinsey & Co.’s Corporate Finance & Strategy Practice in Asia. Katherine was a Harriman Fellow at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs (MA, Economics & Finance) and a recipient of the Lannan Literary Grant for Poetics and Social Practice at Georgetown (BS, Foreign Service). She is a graduate of Stanford’s Senior Executive Leadership Program and l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris. Educated in Washington D.C., New York, and Paris, Katherine is fluent in Korean, French, and Mandarin Chinese. She is currently working on a book set in 19th century Korea and China.