
	Joanne T. Chou is the Chief Financial Officer at Asian Art Museum.

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	A well-rounded leader with more than 20 years of experience in law, banking, international trade, corporate finance and nonprofit management, Chou has been serving since 2008 as chief financial officer for San Francisco-based Room to Read, an award-winning international nonprofit aimed at improving literacy and gender equality in Asia and Africa. While there, Chou oversaw the legal, finance and accounting departments for the rapidly expanding institution that grew its annual operating budget from $33 million (2009) to over $50 million (2013).

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	Before her work at Room to Read, Chou was managing director at real estate investment firm MacFarlane Partners in San Francisco, structuring nearly $6 billion in project and corporate debt financing. Chou also served as a principal at Barclays Global Investors in San Francisco, where she developed new portfolio management products for the firm&rsquo;s Cash Products, Global Index &amp; Markets Group.

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	Chou was also a principal of Structured Trade Finance at Bank of America, N.A. in Hong Kong; a vice president of U.S. Corporate Banking at the Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan, Ltd. in Los Angeles; and an attorney for Haight, Dickson, Brown &amp; Bonesteel in Santa Monica, Calif.

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	Chou earned a Masters of Business Administration from the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley; a Juris Doctor from the School of Law, University of California, Los Angeles; and a Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences, and Bachelor of Arts, with Distinction, in History, from Stanford University. She is a member of the State Bar of California.
