Ranked tops in equity strategy by Institutional Investor magazine in 2000, 2001 and 2006, Kathy Matsui has a new challenge: empowering Asia's women.

Matsui, managing director of Goldman Sachs Japan Co., has been helping educate Asian women by serving on the board of directors of Asian University for Women, which opened its doors last year in Chittagon, southeastern Bangladesh.

AUW is an internationally supported institution that offers liberal arts and science curricula to young women from across South and Southeast Asia and the Middle East.