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Date: April 16, 1998
Alumnus to Speak on Prisoner Information Project with China
Princeton, N.J. -- John Kamm, chair of Market Access Ltd. (Hong Kong) and president of Asia Pacific Resources, Inc. (San Francisco), will give a lecture entitled "Counterrevolution in One Country: The Prisoner Information Project with China’s Ministry of Justice" at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Tuesday, April 28, at 4:30 p.m., in Robertson Hall, Bowl 1.
Kamm, a 1972 graduate of Princeton University, lived in Hong Kong for 22 years before moving to San Francisco in 1995. In 1975 he established his own firm, which specialized in China trading. The company was acquired in 1981 by the Diamond Shamrock Corporation of Dallas and then by the Occidental Chemical Corporation, for which Kamm served as vice president, Far East, from 1986 to 1991. In his current positions with Market Access and Asia Pacific Resources, Kamm focuses on trade and investment opportunities, government affairs, and U.S.-China relations.
Kamm also is a human rights monitor and has written and spoken widely on the possibilities of business activism in the area of human rights. Since 1991 he has made about 40 trips to Beijing in a private effort to engage the Chinese government in a dialogue on human rights. In 1997 Asia Pacific Resources received the Department of Commerce’s first Best Global Practices Award. Kamm and his company were praised by President Clinton, who wrote, "I applaud your efforts, both for the principles your work embodies and for the lives you have affected."
Kamm’s lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.