David L. Kim

Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.

David L. Kim is Director of Corporate Relations at Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc., parent company of the world's largest brewer, Anheuser-Busch, Inc. He was named to this position in December, 1993.

Based in St. Louis at headquarters, Kim is one of the highest ranking Asian Pacific Americans at Anheuser-Busch. He is responsible for managing the department's national corporate and local community relations programs for the Asian Pacific and Asian Pacific American markets as well as work with other Anheuser-Busch departments and subsidiaries on legislative, labor, marketing and consumer awareness issues. He first joined Anheuser-Busch in 1992 as a regional Manager of Corporate Relations, based in New York City.

Kim graduated from Duke University with an A.B. in Political Science and attended Columbia University Graduate School of International and Public Affairs. In addition to working at the New York City Mayor's Commission for Protocol during the Koch administration and The New York Daily News, he has worked in Korea at The Korea Herald and the Kyungnam University Institute for Far Eastern Studies.

Kim is a member of several boards including, the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus Institute in Washington, DC; the Korean American Museum in Los Angeles, Pan Asian repertory Theatre in New York, the Institute for Asian American Studies at University of Massachusetts in Boston, and the National Advisory Council of the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium in Washington, DC. He resides in St. Louis, Missouri with his wife, Phyllis and son, Turner.