Xiaoming Zhao Chairman
Zhao Xiaoming is the Chairman of the U.S. Asian Cultural Academy (UACA), an organization dedicated to fostering cultural exchange and the preservation of Asian artistic heritage. He is also the founder and president of the International Publishing House for China’s Culture (IPHCC), which focuses on publishing works related to Chinese culture and facilitating China-U.S. cultural exchanges. Through these initiatives, Zhao has helped to establish partnerships with prestigious institutions, including the Library of Congress, to donate books and other publications related to Chinese culture. These efforts aim to enhance cross-cultural understanding and contribute to the global appreciation of Asian heritage.
R. Mallory Starr, Jr. President
Mallory Starr has an interdisciplinary educational and experience background in Psychology, Sociology, and Business. His experience includes as part of group and individual psychological and management evaluations, management auditing, and qualitative marketing research and development with some large organizations, small family businesses, and start-ups. His experience includes 30 years as a clinical and consulting psychologist — part of that experience was as a part-time clinical and internal consulting psychologist at Group Health Association which was brought out by Humana in 1994. For the past 20 plus years he has been engaged in some consulting as a Director of two small consulting firms, a Director of Sequoia Presidential Yacht Group LLC and non-profit Board positions— President of US Asian Cultural Academy, Director, Library Of Congress Asian Division Friends Society, Director of Global Transcendence and one term President of two Washington, DC professional associations. He also has been an Interim President of Board of Directors of Somerset House Building 11 and one-term President of SHMA. He continues some executive consulting engagements, with capachina.org and as a volunteer English Conversation group facilitator at Potomac Library and Friendship Heights Village Center as well as being of major influence to the development of the SHMA Pool Room where as a volunteer he teaches Pool (the Pool Table donated by a SH Builder partner is in top condition with new green and great cue sticks as well as a Pool Clock).
Ralph E. Winnie, Jr. Vice President
Ralph E. Winnie, Jr. graduated magna cum laude from Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center in 1999 and earned an LL.M. in Taxation from Georgetown University in 2002. He is admitted to the District of Columbia and New York Bars, as well as the U.S. Supreme Court. He studied international law at Oxford University and Moscow State University. As a partner at Henson, Pang, and Winnie, an international law firm with offices in Washington, D.C., and Shanghai, he specializes in international business, tax, and trade, particularly between the U.S. and Eurasian countries. Mr. Winnie serves as Director of the China Program for the Eurasia Center and Eurasian Business Coalition, focusing on business development, tax policy, and trade. He has worked with members of Congress and foreign governments, organized official delegations, and represented North America for the Guangxi Investment Promotion Agency in China. Winnie has also published articles in prominent outlets like Tax Notes International and the Washington Post and has spoken at major institutions like The World Bank and Columbia University. His work often centers on U.S.-China trade, energy issues, and privatization in Russia. A former high school wrestler in Hawaii, he now serves on the Executive Board of the U.S. Wrestling Foundation and led the U.S. wrestling team at the Cerro Pelado tournament in Cuba.
Dr. Yugui Guo Director of CISE
Dr. Yugui Guo is an Assistant to the President and Director of the Center for International Studies in Education (CISE) at the U.S. Asian Cultural Academy (UACA). He currently serves as an Adjunct Professor at Zhejiang University. Previously, he was the Deputy Director of the Sino-U.S. Center for Social Governance Innovation at Zhejiang University, a Distinguished Professor at Beijing Normal University, and the Director of the Center for Global Studies in Education at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. Before moving to the United States in 1992, Dr. Guo worked as an Assistant Professor at Fudan University, one of China’s leading universities. Dr. Guo earned his Ph.D. from SUNY Buffalo in 1998. Trilingual in Chinese, English, and Russian, he has led numerous research projects on topics including education and S&T policy, as well as human development across the Asian and Pacific regions, North America, and Europe. He has published over 80 papers and 10 books both domestically and internationally. A frequent speaker at conferences and forums, he has presented at events hosted by organizations such as the U.S. Departments of State and Commerce, the National Science Board, the National Science Foundation, APEC, VOA, BEST, NAFSA, and various other academic institutions.