S Alice Mong became the executive director of Asia Society Hong Kong Center (ASHK) in August of 2012. Prior to ASHK, she worked in New York for almost a decade in the non-profit sector in senior management positions. She was the director of the Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) from 2009 till 2011. She left MOCA in July 2011 after successfully transforming it from a New York Chinatown institution into a leading national museum. She also served as the executive director for the Committee of 100, a non-profit Chinese-American membership organization founded by architect IM Pei and cellist Yo-Yo Ma. Prior to New York, she worked in Hong Kong from 1992 to 2002. Ms Mong is a graduate of The Ohio State University.