[1][2] The council has its headquarters in Tokyo and regional directorates in Doha, Chengdu and Bangkok.

[8] The Asia Council fellowship provides financial grant to students from Asian countries to study for a graduate degree in world's top universities.

The Asia Council Global Leaders Fellowship is an international graduate fellowship scheme which supports students with exceptional leadership qualities from 48 countries and 6 dependent territories of Asia to undertake graduate studies at some of world's top universities in United States and United Kingdom.

[10] The Asia Council Einstein Fellowship is an international fellowship scheme which supports students with exceptional leadership qualities from 48 countries and 6 dependent territories of Asia to undertake study for a degree at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Nanyang Technological University, KAIST, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and Tsinghua University.

The meeting discusses in detail a single issue that is geopolitically significant for the Asian region.