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Ahmed Abukhater

Digital aviation, Boeing

Palestine powerlifting champ

Anshul Agarwal

User experience researcher

Google of India

Doyeol Ahn

Engineer holds 36 patents

Distinguished Alumni Award

Kanti Bajpai

Former headmaster

The Doon School, India

Bill Baker

Structural engineer

Alumni Achievement Award

Lon Ballard

China-based CEO

Spira4u Co.

Pam Lins

Director, accounting/reporting

McDonald’s

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Trendlife, Inc.

Steve Chen

YouTube co-founder

Class of 2022, Grainger College of Engineering Hall of Fame

Octavian Cheung

Hong Kong-based CEO

Immersive Education Academy

John Clark

Principal

Cordogan Clark & Associates

Erin Concors

Consular officer

U.S. State Department

Jason Cong

Distinguished chancellor’s professor

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Ali Darzi

Professor of linguistics

University of Tehran

Leslie ‘Cap’ Dean

Foreign-service worker

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Martin Fackler

Former assistant Asia editor

The New York Times

David Faiman

Israel-based director

Ben-Gurion National Solar Energy Center

Erdem Gezer

Country director, Turkey

Aston Martin Lagonda

Keitaro Harada

Opera and symphonic conductor

Savannah Philharmonic

Yoshi Hayasaki

USA Gymnastics HOF

Won ’89 NCAA title

Steve Huang

Senior counsel

Panasonic

Terence Hung

Computational engineering

Rolls-Royce Singapore

Peter Iversen

Marketing director

Nike

Farva Jafri

New York entrepreneur

PondHop CEO

Emil Javier

Former minister of science

The Philippines