David is an international business executive, author, consultant and lawyer with broad experience, especially relating to the Asia-Pacific region. He is the author of three books about doing business in Asia and of various articles and reports on legal and business subjects. He was chairman of business programs at the East-West Center, a prominent research and education institution in Honolulu, and he headed a team of U.S. advisers to the Government of Indonesia on the revision of its commercial laws and its systems of legal education, legal information management, and government procurement. He was Honorary Consul of Malaysia in Hawaii and general counsel or assistant general counsel of three large multinational corporations, as well as a senior partner of a Chicago-based law firm. In addition, was the co-professor of a seminar on Asian law and society at Stanford Law School. David is currently engaged in business consulting in San Francisco where he is president-elect of the Harvard Club of San Francisco.