Stephen J. Hadley is a principal of RiceHadleyGates LLC, an international strategic consulting firm founded with Condoleezza Rice, Robert Gates and Anja Manuel. Hadley is also chair of the board of directors of the U.S. Institute of Peace and an executive vice chair of the board of directors of the Atlantic Council.

Hadley served as the national security adviser from 2005 to 2009. In that capacity, he was the principal White House foreign policy adviser to then-President George W. Bush, directed the National Security Council staff, and ran the interagency national security policy development and execution process. From 2001 to 2005, Hadley was the assistant to the president and deputy national security adviser, serving under then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice. In addition to covering the full range of national security issues, he had special responsibilities in several specific areas including U.S. relations with Russia, the Israeli disengagement from Gaza, developing a strategic relationship with India and ballistic missile defense. Hadley graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. He received his juris doctor degree from Yale Law School.

Susan Shirk is research professor and chair of the 21st Century China Center at the School. She is one of the most influential experts working on U.S.-China relations and Chinese politics.

Shirk’s book "China: Fragile Superpower" helped frame the policy debate on China in the U.S. and other countries. Her articles have appeared in leading academic publications in the fields of political science, international relations and China studies, and her views on a range of issues relating to modern Chinese politics are highly sought. Her most recent book is "Changing Media, Changing China."

She previously served as deputy assistant secretary of state from 1997 to 2000, responsible for U.S. policy toward China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mongolia and she founded and continues to lead the Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue, an unofficial forum for discussions of security issues.

As director emeritus and advisory board chair of the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, Shirk served as a member of the U.S. Defense Policy board, the board of governors for the East-West Center (Hawaii), the board of trustees of the U.S.-Japan Foundation and the board of directors of the National Committee on United States-China Relations.

Kurt M. Campbell is chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Asia Group, LLC, a strategic advisory and capital management group specializing in the dynamic Asia Pacific region.

From 2009 to 2013, Campbell served as the Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, where he is widely credited as being a key architect of the “pivot to Asia.” For advancing a comprehensive U.S. strategy that took him to every corner of the Asia-Pacific region, Secretary Hillary Clinton awarded him the Secretary of State’s Distinguished Service Award (2013) — the nation’s highest diplomatic honor.

Campbell was formerly the CEO and Co-Founder of the Center for a New American Security and concurrently served as the director of the Aspen Strategy Group and Chairman of the Editorial Board of the Washington Quarterly.

He is the author or editor of ten books including “Difficult Transitions: Why Presidents Fail in Foreign Policy at the Outset of Power” and “Hard Power: The New Politics of National Security.” He received his B.A. from the UC San Diego and his doctorate in international relations from Brasenose College at Oxford University.

Kurt Campbell is chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Asia Group, a strategic advisory and capital management group specializing in the dynamic Asia-Pacific region. He also serves as chairman of the Board of the Center for a New American Security, as a non-resident fellow at Harvard University’s Belfer Center and as vice chairman of the East-West Center in Hawaii. He was also appointed as the Henry A. Kissinger Fellow at the McCain Institute for 2018.

Campbell served as the Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (2009-2013), where he is widely credited as being a key architect of the “pivot to Asia.” For advancing a comprehensive U.S. strategy that took him to every corner of the Asia-Pacific region, Secretary Hillary Clinton awarded him the Secretary of State’s Distinguished Service Award (2013) — the nation’s highest diplomatic honor. Campbell was recognized in the Queen’s New Year’s list of honors in 2014 as an Honorary Officer of the Order of Australia and as an Honorary Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for his work in support of American relations with Australia and New Zealand respectively. He also received top national honors from Korea and Taiwan.

Peter Cowhey holds the Qualcomm Endowed Chair in Communications and Technology Policy and is dean of the school. He is an expert on the future of communications and information technology markets and policy, specializing in U.S. trade policy, foreign policy, the Internet and international corporate strategy.

His two most recent books are “Digital DNA: Disruption and the Challenges for Global Governance” and “Transforming Global Information and Communication Markets: The Political Economy of Innovation.”

In the Clinton Administration, Cowhey served as the chief of the International Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and negotiated many of the U.S. international agreements for telecommunications and satellite services. He had responsibility for antitrust decisions involving the communications and satellite industries. In 2009, he served as the senior counselor to Ambassador Ron Kirk in the Office of the United States Trade Representative, and on a bi-national experts group appointed by the U.S. and Chinese governments to research and advise on innovation policy.

Cowhey is currently the chair of the board of directors for both the California Council on Science and Technology and the Grameen Foundation USA, and a member of the Global Competitiveness Council and the Council on Foreign Relations.

Thomas Donilon is the chairman of the BlackRock Investment Institute. Previously, he served as National Security Advisor to President Barack Obama. In that capacity, he coordinated the administration’s foreign policy, intelligence and military efforts, and served as the President’s emissary to a number of world leaders. Donilon chaired the Obama-Biden transition at the U.S. State Department and National Security Council and headed President Obama’s debate preparation in the 2008 campaign. In 2016, he chaired the Presidential Commission to Enhance National Cybersecurity.

Donilon is a distinguished fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, a non-resident senior fellow at Harvard’s Belfer Center and a member of the Center on Global Energy Policy Advisory Board at Columbia University. He has been a member of the U.S. Defense Policy Board and the CIA’s External Advisory Board. Donilon has advised three U.S. presidents and received numerous awards for his distinguished public service.

Rush Doshi is fellow and director of the Brookings China Strategy Initiative and a fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center. He is also special advisor to the CEO of the Asia Group. Previously, he was a member of the Asia Policy Working Group for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, an analyst at the Long Term Strategy Group and Rock Creek Global Advisors, an Arthur Liman Fellow at the Department of State and a Fulbright Fellow in China.

His research has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, the Washington Post and the Washington Quarterly, among other publications. Doshi received his Ph.D. from Harvard University, where he wrote his dissertation on Chinese grand strategy, and his B.A. from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School with a minor in East Asian Studies. He is proficient in Mandarin and Hindi.

Michèle Flournoy is co-founder and managing partner of WestExec Advisors, and former co-founder and chief executive officer of the Center for a New American Security, where she currently serves on the board.

Flournoy served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (2009-2012). She was the principal advisor to the Secretary of Defense in the formulation of national security and defense policy, oversight of military plans and operations and in National Security Council deliberations.

Flournoy is a former member of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, the CIA Director’s External Advisory Board and the Defense Policy Board. She’s currently a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Aspen Strategy Group and is a senior fellow at Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Flournoy serves on the boards of Booz Allen Hamilton, Amida Technology Solutions, The Mission Continues, Spirit of America, CARE and the U.S. Naval Academy Foundation.

Kenneth Fong is the founder and chairman of Kenson Ventures, LLC, a company that specializes in crafting development strategy for biotech companies. Under his leadership, 13 companies were acquired or went public between 2004 and 2019. Prior to establishing Kenson, Fong founded and served as CEO of Clontech Laboratories (1984-1999), which was acquired by Becton Dickinson in 1999.

Currently, Fong sits on the board of five biotech companies, ranging from immunotherapy to medical tools. He was a member of the trustees of the California State University system (2006-2013), president of the Society of Chinese Bioscientists in North America (2006-2007) and president of the Bay Area AAMA (1987).

His philanthropic interests include the Fong-Hearst endowed scholarship to CSU, the Fong Optometry and Health Sciences Library at UC Berkeley, the Kenneth Fong endowed professorship at Stanford University and the technology endowment fund at San Francisco State University. Fong obtained his Ph.D from Indiana University and B.S. from San Francisco State.

Paul Gewirtz is the Potter Stewart Professor of Constitutional Law at Yale Law School, and the Director of Yale’s Paul Tsai China Center. He teaches and writes in various legal and policy fields, including constitutional law, U.S. judicial system, Chinese law and U.S. foreign policy. Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center, which Gewirtz founded in 1999 as The China Law Center, focuses on Chinese law and on U.S.-China relations, and is a leading institution in both fields.

On leave from Yale in 1997 and 1998, Gewirtz served as Special Representative for the Presidential Rule of Law Initiative in the Clinton Administration, where he developed and led the U.S.-China initiative to cooperate in the legal field that President Clinton and China's President Jiang Zemin launched at their 1997 Summit meeting. Before joining the Yale faculty, Gewirtz served as a Law Clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court. He received his B.A. degree summa cum laude from Columbia University and his law degree from Yale.

Bonnie Glaser is a senior adviser for Asia and the director of the China Power Project at CSIS, where she works on issues related to Asia-Pacific security with a focus on Chinese foreign and security policy. She is concomitantly a nonresident fellow with the Lowy Institute in Sydney, Australia, and a senior associate with the Pacific Forum.

Glaser has worked for more than three decades at the intersection of Asia-Pacific geopolitics and U.S. policy. She was a senior adviser with the CSIS Freeman Chair in China Studies (2008-2015) and was a senior associate in the CSIS International Security Program (2003-2008). Prior to joining CSIS, she served as a consultant for various U.S. government offices, including the Departments of Defense and State.

Glaser has published widely in academic and policy journals. She is currently a board member of the U.S. Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific and a member of both the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Glaser received her B.A. in political science from Boston University and her M.A. from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

Stephen Hadley is a principal of RiceHadleyGates, an international strategic consulting firm founded with Condoleezza Rice, Robert Gates and Anja Manuel. Hadley is also chair of the board of directors of the U.S. Institute of Peace and an executive vice chair of the board of directors of the Atlantic Council.

Hadley served for four years as the assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (2005-2009) and was the assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor, serving under then National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice (2001-2005). He had previously served on the National Security Council staff and in the Defense Department including as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy (1989-1993).

During his professional career, Hadley has served on a number of corporate and advisory boards, including the National Security Advisory Panel to the Director of Central Intelligence, the Department of Defense Policy Board and the State Department’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board. He is a member of the Aspen Strategy Group.

Avril Haines is a senior research scholar at Columbia University, where she works on Columbia World Projects, in addition to being a lecturer in Law at the law school.

Haines most recently served as the Principal Deputy National Security Advisor to President Obama. Just prior to that appointment, she was the Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and before that she served as the Legal Adviser to the National Security Council and as Deputy Counsel to the President for National Security Affairs at the White House.

Before joining the White House Counsel’s office, Haines was Assistant Legal Adviser for Treaty Affairs at the Department of State and previously worked in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the Department of State. She also worked for the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations as Deputy Chief Counsel for the Majority, served as a law clerk on U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and was a Legal Officer at The Hague.

Haines earned a bachelor’s in physics from the University of Chicago, founded and ran a bookstore café for five years while engaged in community service in Baltimore and earned a J.D. at Georgetown University Law Center.

Yasheng Huang is the Epoch Foundation Professor of International Management and faculty director of Action Learning at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He served as an associate dean in charge of MIT Sloan’s global partnership programs and its action learning initiatives (2013-2017). His previous appointments include faculty positions at the University of Michigan and Harvard Business School.

At MIT Sloan School, Huang founded and runs China Lab and India Lab, which have provided low-cost consulting services to over 360 small and medium enterprises. He ran a program in Yunnan province to train small and medium women entrepreneurs funded by Goldman Sachs Foundation (2015-2018).

He has held or received prestigious fellowships such as National Fellowship at Stanford University and Social Science Research Council-MacArthur Fellowship. He is or has been a fellow at the Center for China in the World Economy at Tsinghua University, a research fellow at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics and a World Economic Forum Fellow. He has served as a consultant at the World Bank, Asian Development Bank and OECD and is serving on a number of advisory and corporate boards of nonprofit and for-profit organizations.

Yiping Huang is Jin Guang Chair Professor of Economics and deputy dean of the National School of Development (NSD) and director of the Institute of Digital Finance (IDF) at Peking University. In October 2018, he was appointed by the International Monetary Fund’s Managing Director Lagarde as a member of the External Advisory Group on Surveillance. He served as a member of the Monetary Policy Committee at the People’s Bank of China during 2015‐2018. Currently, he is vice chairman of council at the Public Policy Research Center and research fellow at the Financial Research Center, both at the Counselors’ Office of the State Council. He also serves as chairman of the Academic Committee of China Finance 40 Forum, and a member of Chinese Economists 50 Forum. He is editor of China Economic Journal and an associate editor of Asian Economic Policy Review. His current research focuses on financial reform and fintech.

Previously, he was a policy analyst at the Research Center for Rural Development of the State Council, senior lecturer of economics at the Australian National University, General Mills International Visiting Professor of Economics and Finance at the Columbia Business School, managing director and Chief Asia Economist for Citigroup, and an independent director of China Life Insurance Ltd and Mybank.

Huang received his bachelor’s of agricultural economics from Zhejiang Agricultural University, M.A. in economics from Renmin University of China and Ph.D. in economics from Australian National University.

Evan Medeiros is the Penner Family Chair in Asia Studies in the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. His research and teaching focuses on the international politics of East Asia, U.S.-China relations and China’s foreign and national security policies. He has published several books and articles and regularly provides advice and commentary to global corporations and the international media.

Medeiros previously served for six years on the staff of the National Security Council as Director for China, Taiwan and Mongolia and then as special assistant to the President and senior director for Asia. In the latter role, Medeiros served as President Obama's top advisor on the Asia-Pacific and was responsible for coordinating U.S. policy toward the Asia-Pacific across the areas of diplomacy, defense policy, economic policy and intelligence. He was actively involved in all aspects U.S.-China relations for six years, including several U.S.-China summits.

In recent years, Medeiros has advised multinational companies on Asia in his role at Eurasia Group. Prior to joining the White House, he also worked for seven years as a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation. He also served as a policy advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson working on the U.S.-China Strategic Economic Dialogue (2007-2008).

Barry Naughton is the Sokwanlok Chair of Chinese International Affairs at the school. Naughton’s work on the Chinese economy focuses on market transition, industry and technology, foreign trade and political economy. His first book, “Growing Out of the Plan”, won the Ohira Prize in 1996, and a new edition of his popular survey and textbook, “The Chinese Economy: Adaptation and Growth”, appeared in 2018. Naughton did his dissertation research in China, and received his Ph.D. in economics from Yale University.

Naughton was a visiting scholar at Tsinghua University School of Public Policy and Management in the fall of 2012 and again in the fall of 2013. He is currently coordinator of the new Master’s in Chinese Economic and Political Affairs degree program at the school and working on a new book on China’s industrial policy.

Dominic Ng is chairman and chief executive officer of East West Bank. Headquartered in California, East West Bank is a top performing commercial bank with over $49 billion in assets today. East West Bank has been the top 20 largest banks in the U.S. by market capitalization, and has been selected in the top 15 of “America’s 100 Best Banks” by Forbes for the past ten years.

Ng was named by the Los Angeles Business Journal as Business Person of the Year, by Forbes as one of the 25 most notable Chinese Americans and by the Los Angeles Times as one of the 100 most influential people in L.A. American Banker also recognized him as Banker of the Year, for building East West into one of the nation’s most profitable regional banks.

Ng currently serves on the board of Mattel, Inc. As former chairman of the Committee of 100, he promoted mutual understanding between the U.S. and China and advocated a collaborative partnership between the two countries. Ng also received The Alexis de Tocqueville Award, United Way Worldwide’s highest honor, which recognized his exceptional and sustained engagement and philanthropic leadership.

Tom Nides is vice chairman of Morgan Stanley. Prior to rejoining the firm in 2013, he was Deputy Secretary of State and Chief Operating Officer of the Department. In 2013, he was awarded the Secretary of State’s Distinguished Service Award – the nation’s highest diplomatic honor – by Secretary Clinton. Prior to the State Department, Nides was the chief operating officer of Morgan Stanley. He previously served as worldwide president and chief executive officer of Burson-Marsteller and as chief administrative officer of Credit Suisse First Boston.

Nides began his career on Capitol Hill and has served in many roles, including for the House Majority Whip, for the Speaker of the House and as Chief of Staff to the U.S. Trade Representative. He serves on numerous nonprofit boards including the International Rescue Committee, the Partnership for Public Service, the Atlantic Council and the Urban Alliance Foundation. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is the former chairman of the board of the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C.

Yingyi Qian was born in Beijing and graduated from Tsinghua University with a degree in mathematics. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University after earning an M.Phil. in management science and operations research from Yale University and an M.A. in statistics from Columbia University.

He was on the economics faculties at Stanford University, the University of Maryland and UC Berkeley. He was the dean of the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University (2006-2018).

Qian was elected as a fellow of the Econometric Society in 2012 and as inaugural Distinguished Professor of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Tsinghua University in 2018. He was a recipient of the 2009 Sun Yefang Prize in Economic Sciences and the inaugural 2016 China Economics Prize. His main research areas include comparative economics, institutional economics, economics of transition and the Chinese economy.

He is the author of the book “How Reform Worked in China: The Transition from Plan to Market” and has published articles in international journals such as The American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, The Quarterly Journal of Economics and The Review of Economic Studies.

Margaret Roberts is an associate professor at the UC San Diego Department of Political Science. Her research interests lie in the intersection of political methodology and the politics of information, specifically focused on automated text analysis and understanding censorship and propaganda in China.

Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, Political Analysis and Science.

Her recent book is “Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China's Great Firewall.” She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University and M.S. in statistics from Stanford University.

Donald J. Rosenberg is executive vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary of Qualcomm Incorporated. As chief legal officer, he is responsible for overseeing Qualcomm's worldwide legal affairs including litigation, intellectual property and corporate matters. In addition, he leads Qualcomm's Global Government Affairs organization and Qualcomm’s Corporate Compliance department.

Prior to joining Qualcomm, Rosenberg served as senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary of Apple Inc. Prior to that, he was senior vice president and general counsel of IBM Corporation.

Rosenberg has had extensive experience in corporate governance, compliance, law department management, litigation, securities regulation, intellectual property and competition issues. He has regularly engaged with high ranking officials worldwide on significant policy issues, with a particular focus on Asia and the European Union and its member states.

Rosenberg is a board member of NuVasive, Inc. His non-profit board memberships include Corporate Directors Forum, Rady Children's Hospital San Diego, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute and La Jolla Playhouse. He is a past national co-chairman of the Board of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, where he continues to serve on the Board and the Executive Committee.

Rosenberg is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the International Advisory Board and the China Leadership Board for the 21st Century China Center at UC San Diego.

Jeffrey Bader is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He was special assistant to the President of the United States at the National Security Council covering Asia (2009-2011). Bader served as the first director of the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution (2005-2009). During his three-decade career in government Bader was principally involved in U.S.-China relations at the State Department and the National Security Council.

In 2001, as Assistant U.S. Trade Representative he led the U.S. delegation in completing negotiations on the accession of China and Taiwan into the World Trade Organization. Bader served as a foreign service officer in the People’s Republic of China and Hong Kong, among others. He was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia, and subsequently director of Asian Affairs at the National Security Council responsible for China (1997-1999). He was U.S. Ambassador to Namibia (1999-2001).

He is the author of “Obama and China’s Rise: An Insider’s Account of America’s Asia Strategy” and numerous articles on China and U.S.-China relations. Bader received a B.A. from Yale University and a Ph.D. in European History from Columbia University.

The Honorable Kevin Rudd served as Australia’s 26th Prime Minister (2007-2010, 2013) and as Foreign Minister (2010-2012). He led Australia’s response during the Global Financial Crisis—the only major developed economy not to go into recession—and helped found the G20.

Rudd joined the Asia Society Policy Institute in New York as its inaugural president in January 2015. He led a review of the UN system as chair of the Independent Commission on Multilateralism (2015-2016). In February 2014, Rudd was named a senior fellow with Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he completed a major policy paper, “U.S.-China 21: The Future of U.S.-China Relations Under Xi Jinping.”

Rudd is chair of the board of the International Peace Institute and chair of Sanitation and Water for All. He is a distinguished fellow at Chatham House in London, a distinguished statesman with the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington D.C., a distinguished fellow at the Paulson Institute in Chicago and a member of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Organization’s Group of Eminent Persons. Rudd is a member of the Concordia Leadership Council. He serves on the International Advisory Board of the Schwarzman Scholars program at Tsinghua University, and is an Honorary Professor at Peking University. Rudd is proficient in Mandarin Chinese. He also remains actively engaged in indigenous reconciliation.

Orville Schell is the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society in New York. He is a former professor and dean at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

Schell is the author of fifteen books, ten of them about China. His most recent book is “Wealth and Power: China’s Long March to the Twenty-first Century.”

Schell graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard University in Far Eastern History, was an exchange student at Taiwan University in the 1960s, and earned a Ph.D. (Abd) in Chinese History at UC Berkeley. He worked for the Ford Foundation in Indonesia, covered the war in Indochina as a journalist and has traveled widely in China since the mid-70s.

He is a fellow at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University, a senior fellow at the Annenberg School of Communications at USC and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Schell was a fellow at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and the recipient of many prizes and fellowships, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Overseas Press Club Award and the Harvard-Stanford Shorenstein Prize in Asian Journalism.

Susan Shirk is research professor and chair of the 21st Century China Center at the School. She is one of the most influential experts working on U.S.-China relations and Chinese politics.

Shirk’s book "China: Fragile Superpower" helped frame the policy debate on China in the U.S. and other countries. Her articles have appeared in leading academic publications in the fields of political science, international relations and China studies, and her views on a range of issues relating to modern Chinese politics are highly sought. Her most recent book is "Changing Media, Changing China."

She previously served as deputy assistant secretary of state (1997-2000), responsible for U.S. policy toward China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mongolia and she founded and continues to lead the Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue, an unofficial forum for discussions of security issues.

As director emeritus and advisory board chair of the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, Shirk served as a member of the U.S. Defense Policy board, the board of governors for the East-West Center (Hawaii), the board of trustees of the U.S.-Japan Foundation and the board of directors of the National Committee on United States-China Relations.

Jake Sullivan is Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College and a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is a partner with the consulting firm Macro Advisory Partners.

Sullivan served as deputy assistant to President Obama and National Security Advisor to Vice President Joe Biden (2013-2014). He was director of Policy Planning at the U.S. Department of State (2011-2013) and deputy chief of staff to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (2009-2011). He later was senior policy advisor on Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.

Sullivan also now serves as co-chair of National Security Action, a progressive national security advocacy organization, and a trustee of the International Crisis Group. He holds a law degree and B.A. in international relations from Yale and an M.Phil in international relations from Oxford.

Shuo Wang is the editor-in-chief of Caixin Media, China’s leading business and finance news organization. Wang won the Award for Outstanding Contribution to Institutional Journalism of the State Street Institutional Press Awards (Asia Pacific) in 2014. Other honors include Young Global Leader 2012 (Davos World Economic Forum), Young Leader 2008 (Boao Forum for Asia) and Yale World Fellow 2016 (Yale University).

Wang was educated in Renmin University of China and Peking University. He also holds a master’s degree from SAIS of Johns Hopkins University.

Victor Wang is the managing partner of AimTop Ventures based in Palo Alto, California. He holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University. He is the author of a best-selling book on AI in China "Dark Knowledge." Wang has 30 years of industrial and entrepreneur experience and holds 12 U.S. patents.

Wang was a leadership board member of 21st Century China Center at the school. He is a founding member of several entrepreneur nonprofit organizations in China.

Ken Wilcox currently serves as emeritus chairman of Silicon Valley Bank and was vice chairman of SPD Silicon Valley Bank.

Wilcox was previously the CEO of SVB Financial Group. In that role, he successfully pursued a strategy of expansion and diversification, while remaining focused on the group’s core niches of technology, life sciences, venture capital and premium wineries.

Wilcox is chairman of the Board of the Asia Society of Northern California, treasurer of the Asian Art Museum, and chairman of the Board of the 21st Century China Center Advisory Board at the school. He is also an adjunct professor and member of the International Advisory Board at Fudan University. Wilcox was a member of the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (2006-2012).

In 2008, Wilcox was named “Banker of the Year” by American Banker. In 2013, the Shanghai Municipal Government presented him with the “Magnolia Silver Award”, a municipal honor given to expatriates for their outstanding contribution to the city's economic, social or cultural development.

Wilcox earned a master’s degree in business administration from Harvard Business School, as well as a Ph.D. in German Studies from Ohio State University.

Yao Yunzhu is a retired major general of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China, senior advisor to the China Association of Military Sciences and director emeritus of the Center on China-American Defense Relations, the Academy of Military Sciences (AMS). She joined the PLA in 1970, served in the PLA as an Army soldier, a staff officer, an instructor, a researcher, deputy director and director of a research office and director of a research center.

She holds an M.A. degree from the PLA’s Foreign Languages Institute and a Ph.D. in military science from the Academy of Military Sciences. She had been a visiting scholar at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University (1995-1996), an Eisenhower Fellow (1999) and a visiting fellow at Harvard University (200902010). She has published books, translated books, articles and papers on international military and security issues, U.S. military affairs, nuclear weapon policy and arms control and Asia-Pacific security issues. Her works include “Post-war American Deterrence: Theories and Policies, On Asia-Pacific Security Strategy” and “20th Century Strategic Legacy and the World through Chinese Scholars.”

Richard Danzig’s primary activities in recent years have been as a consultant to U.S. Intelligence Agencies and the Department of Defense on national security issues. He is a senior advisor to the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, chair of the Advisory Panel for Idaho National Laboratories’ Innovation Center, a member of the Toyota Research Institute Advisory Board and a member of the Cyber Resilience Forum of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. He is also a trustee of Reed College and of the RAND Corporation, a director of the Center for a New American Security and a director of Saffron Hill Ventures.

In recent times, he has been a director of National Semiconductor Corporation (NYSE) and Human Genome Sciences Corporation (NASDAQ), and a member of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, the Secretary of Defense’s Defense Policy Board, the Homeland Security Secretary’s Advisory Council and the Aspen Strategy Group.

Danzig served as the 71st Secretary of the Navy (1998-2001) and the Under Secretary of the Navy (1993-1997). From the spring of 2007 through the Presidential election of 2008, Danzig was a senior advisor to Senator Obama on national security issues.

Ambassador Zhang Ping has served as the Consul General in Los Angeles since 2017. Before that, he has served as a senior diplomat with posts in the Chinese embassies in Washington D.C., Australia and Fiji. Altogether he has had more than ten years of diplomatic experience representing China in the U.S. He has also held important positions in the Chinese foreign ministry and the Chinese People’s Institute of Foreign Affairs.

Edmund Gerald “Jerry” Brown Jr. completed his fourth term as Governor of the State of California in 2019. He began his career in public service in 1969 as a trustee for the LA Community College District and became California Secretary of State in 1970 and Governor of California in 1974 and 1978.

After his governorship, Brown lectured and traveled widely, practiced law, served as chairman of the state Democratic Party and ran for president. Brown was elected Mayor of Oakland in 1998 and California Attorney General in 2006. He was elected to a third gubernatorial term in 2010 and a fourth term in 2014. During this time, Brown helped eliminate the state's multi-billion budget deficit, spearheaded successful campaigns to provide new funding for California's schools and established a robust Rainy Day Fund to prepare for the next economic downturn. His administration established nation-leading targets to protect the environment and fight climate change.

Brown is the principal organizer of the Global Climate Action Summit, a high-level gathering of lawmakers, executives and scientists working to beat back global warming. As the executive chairman of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Brown is also a leader in the global debate over nuclear disarmament. Brown attended UC Berkeley and earned a J.D. at Yale Law School.

Ambassador J. Stapleton (Stape) Roy is director emeritus of the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. and a distinguished scholar at the center. He was born in China and spent much of his youth there during the upheavals of World War II and the communist revolution. He joined the U.S. Foreign Service immediately after graduating from Princeton, retiring 45 years later with the rank of Career Ambassador, the highest in the service. During a career focused on East Asia and the Soviet Union, his ambassadorial assignments included Singapore, the People’s Republic of China and Indonesia. His final post with the State Department was as Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Research.

On retirement he joined Kissinger Associates, Inc., a strategic consulting firm, moving to the Wilson Center in 2008 to head the newly created Kissinger Institute. In 2001, he received Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson Award for Distinguished Public Service.

Maggie Goodlander is an attorney at Skadden and teaches administrative law at the University of New Hampshire School of Law. She previously served as a senior policy adviser to Senator John McCain of Arizona and to Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, covering a range of national security issues, including the Asia-Pacific region. Goodlander also served as a law clerk to Justice Stephen Breyer of the U.S. Supreme Court and Chief Judge Merrick Garland of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. She is an officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve.

James Kralik is the managing director of Linden Street Capital Ltd. and a director of Milestone Capital Investment Holdings Ltd. Over the last fifteen years, these investment vehicles have been involved with a number of leading Chinese businesses in the alternative energy, advertising media and consumer sectors. Based in Shanghai, Kralik began his career at McKinsey & Company and has lived and worked in China for nearly thirty years. In 1993, he founded a film and media business operating in Hong Kong, Wuhan, Chongqing and Shanghai. From 2001-2004, Kralik was the CEO of VTech Telecommunications Ltd. and led the business through a major financial turnaround.

In addition to various corporate boards, Kralik also serves on the board of trustees of the University School in Cleveland, Ohio, the Harvard Business School Global Leaders Circle and the Harvard University Global Advisory Council. He received his undergraduate degree in economics from Harvard College and a M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School.

Doug Beck is Vice President, Americas and Northeast Asia for Apple, Inc., and reports directly to CEO Tim Cook. From 2010 to 2014, he was based in Tokyo and led Apple’s businesses in Northeast Asia. Beck joined Apple in 2009 from The Charles Schwab Corporation, where he served as senior vice president and chief strategy officer. Prior to Schwab, he was a partner at McKinsey & Company, co-leader of McKinsey's global strategy practice, and a leader of other industry and functional practices in the U.S. and Asia.

Beck has more than fifteen years experience living and/or working throughout the Asia Pacific region, and has been based in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Jakarta, in addition to his time in Tokyo.

Beck is an officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve and served from 2006 through 2007 in Iraq and Afghanistan, where he was awarded the Bronze Star Medal, Combat Action Ribbon and Presidential Unit Citation. As a civilian, he serves as an appointed member of the nonpartisan Chief of Naval Operations Executive Panel, directly advising the uniformed head of the Navy on matters of policy. In addition to CNAS, Doug is a member of the Board of Directors of the Association of American Rhodes Scholars, as well as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and of Yale’s Jackson Institute Council on global affairs.

The Honorable James B. Steinberg is University Professor of Social Science, International Affairs and Law at Syracuse University, where he was dean of the Maxwell School from 2011 until 2016.

Prior to becoming dean he served as Deputy Secretary of State, the principal deputy to Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton, from 2009-2011. Steinberg was deputy national security advisor to President Clinton from 1996 to 2000. During that period he also served as the president’s personal representative to the 1998 and 1999 G-8 summits. Prior to becoming deputy national security advisor, Steinberg held positions as director of the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff, and as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Analysis in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research.

He is the recipient of the Joseph J. Kruzel Memorial Award, American Political Science Association (2014), the CIA Director’s Medal (2011) and the Secretary of State’s Distinguished Service Award (2011). His most recent books are “A Glass Half Full? Rebalance, Reassurance” and “Resolve and Strategic Reassurance and Resolve: US-China Relations in the 21st Century,” both with Michael O’Hanlon.

Tai Ming Cheung is a professor at the school and director of the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. He leads the institute’s Study of Innovation and Technology in China project that examines China’s efforts to become a world-class science and technology power. Cheung teaches courses on Chinese foreign and defense policy and Chinese security and technology policy at the school. He is a long-time analyst of Chinese and East Asian defense and national security affairs, especially defense economic, industrial and science and technological issues.

Recent publications include “The Gathering Pacific Storm: Emerging US-China Strategic Competition in Defense Technological and Industrial Development,” “China and Cybersecurity” and “Fortifying China: The Struggle to Build a Modern Defense Economy.” Cheung received his Ph.D. from the War Studies Department at King’s College, London University.

Cui Tiankai became ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to the United States in 2013, having previously served as vice minister at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2009-2013) and ambassador to Japan (2007-2009).

In addition, he has served various postings in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including: assistant minister (2006-07); director-general of the Department of Asian Affairs (2003-06); director-general (2001-03) and deputy director-general (1999-2001) of the Policy Research Office; deputy director-general and spokesman at the Information Department (1996-97); and deputy division director, director and then counselor at the Department of International Organizations and Conferences (1987-96). He was also minister counselor at the Chinese Permanent Mission to the United Nations (1997-99) and an interpreter for the Chinese Service in the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management at the U.N. Secretariat (1981-84).

Ambassador Cui was a teacher at Shanghai Normal University, where he completed his undergraduate and postgraduate studies. He was also did postgraduate work at Johns Hopkins University and with a U.N. Interpreter and Translator Training Course at the Beijing Institute of Foreign Languages.

Elizabeth Economy is the C.V. Starr senior fellow and director for Asia studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and a distinguished visiting fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. Her most recent book, “The Third Revolution: Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State,” was shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize, a prestigious literary award for foreign affairs books.

She is also the award-winning author of “The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China's Future,” and “By All Means Necessary: How China's Resource Quest is Changing the World,” co-authored with Michael Levi. Economy has published articles in policy and scholarly journals including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy and the Harvard Business Review; and op-eds in The New York Times and Washington Post, among others.

In June 2018, she was named one of the "10 Names That Matter on China Policy" by Politico Magazine. Economy serves on the board of managers of Swarthmore College and the board of trustees of the Asia Foundation.

Maggie Goodlander is an attorney at Skadden and teaches administrative law at the University of New Hampshire School of Law. She previously served as a senior policy adviser to Senator John McCain of Arizona and to Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, covering a range of national security issues, including the Asia-Pacific region. Goodlander also served as a law clerk to Justice Stephen Breyer of the U.S. Supreme Court and Chief Judge Merrick Garland of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. She is an officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve.

Melanie Hart serves as senior fellow and director for China policy at the Center for American Progress (CAP), a think tank based in Washington, D.C. She is responsible for formulating CAP policy proposals on China and U.S.-China relations and promoting those proposals in the U.S. and other nations. Her most recent work focuses on developing a comprehensive U.S. strategy on China, mapping China’s global governance ambitions, and tracking Chinese industrial policies in the energy and information and communication technology sectors.

She currently serves as senior advisor to The Scowcroft Group, a global business advisory firm. She also serves on the board of the American Mandarin Society, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting the professional development of current and future stewards of the U.S.-China relationship.

Before joining CAP, Hart worked as a China market and policy analyst for a leading U.S. telecommunications firm, for the Aspen Institute International Digital Economic Accords Project and for other business and policy institutions. Hart holds a Ph.D. in political science from UC San Diego and a B.A. from Texas A&M University. She studied Chinese at China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing and has worked as a Chinese-English translator for Caijing Magazine.

Thomas M. O’Gara is a co-founder of The O’Gara Group, which provides security, safety, and defense products and services to governments, militaries, corporations and individuals. He has been the O’Gara Group’s Chairman since its formation in August 2003. O’Gara previously served as Vice Chairman of the Board of The Kroll-O’Gara Company, a publicly traded provider of specialized products and services to the risk mitigation and security markets, from 1997 until 2001. He served as Chairman of the Board of The O’Gara Company from 1996 until the 1997 merger of Kroll Holdings, Inc. with The O’Gara Company. Mr. O’Gara also was Chairman of the Board of the O’Gara-Hess & Eisenhardt Armoring Company since 1990 and was its Chief Executive Officer from 1990 until 1995.

Robert Roche is a dynamic entrepreneur, civic leader and philanthropist. With more than three decades doing business and living in Asia and the U.S. he has founded, managed and invested in global companies that have generated more than $1 billion in enterprise value, including Acorn International (NYSE: ATV), a leading media company in China; Cachet Hotels & Resorts, a socially responsible hospitality company; and Oak Lawn Marketing, a omni-channel brand response company in Japan. Roche’s investment portfolio also includes TAG Capital, an Asia-Pacific investment bank, and KraneShares, a global asset management company.

Roche is involved extensively in nonprofit organizations focused on improving international relations. He has served as chairman of the Board of Governors of the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai, on the Board of Trustees for the Shanghai American School and as a board member at the USA National Pavilion at the Shanghai 2010 World Expo. He also supports the U.S.-China Strong Foundation and Americans Promoting Study Abroad.

Roche earned a degree in economics and Japanese Studies from Illinois State University-Normal, Illinois, and received his juris doctor from Denver University, Sturm College of Law. He is fluent in Japanese and proficient in Mandarin Chinese.

John Rogovin became executive vice president and general counsel of Warner Bros. Entertainment in 2009. As general counsel, Rogovin oversees a worldwide staff of 200 lawyers responsible for the company’s legal needs, including litigation, transactions, intellectual property, antitrust counseling, content protection and labor and employment law.

Prior to joining Warner Bros., Rogovin led a distinguished career in public service and private practice, where he specialized in federal court litigation, regulatory proceedings and mergers and acquisitions. He served four years at the FCC, including as General Counsel, providing guidance on key communications issues, including broadband Internet access, wireless spectrum and the digital transition.

Rogovin also served in the Clinton Administration as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Division of the Department of Justice, defending the U.S. against challenges to the legality of governmental policies, programs and actions. Before that, he was an Assistant to the Attorney General and Deputy Transition Counsel for President-elect Clinton. He started his legal career as a law clerk to The Honorable Laurence H. Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. In October 2017, Rogovin was honored with the Learned Hand Award by the Los Angeles Branch of the American Jewish Committee. Rogovin holds a B.A. from Columbia University and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law.

Ambassador Kurt Tong is a partner at The Asia Group. Prior to joining the firm, Tong served as Consul General in Hong Kong and Macau, leading U.S. political and economic engagement in the Special Administrative Region. Prior to that role, he served as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic and Business Affairs at the State Department (2014-2016). He was the Deputy Chief of Mission and Chargé d’Affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo (2011-2014), where he helped set the stage for Japan’s entry into the Trans-Pacific Partnership and supported Japan’s recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake. He was Ambassador for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) in 2011, leading the U.S. chairmanship of the organization during one of the most productive periods for APEC.

As director of Korean Affairs in the State Department, he played a leadership role in negotiations with North Korea. He was one of the original architects of the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement during the Bush and Obama administrations, including while serving as Director for Asian Economic Affairs at the National Security Council (2006-2008).

Joe Tsai joined Alibaba Group in 1999 as a member of the founding team and has served on the company’s board of directors since its inception. He was chief financial officer until 2013 and is currently executive vice chairman of the company. He serves on the investment committees of Alibaba Group and Ant Financial and is a founding member of Alibaba Partnership.

Tsai was a private equity investor based in Hong Kong with Investor AB , the main investment vehicle of Sweden’s Wallenberg family (1995-1999). Prior to that, he was general counsel of Rosecliff, Inc., a management buyout firm based in New York. Tsai was an associate attorney in the tax group of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, a New York-based international law firm (1990-1993).

Tsai is qualified to practice law in the State of New York. He received his bachelor’s degree in economics and East Asian Studies from Yale College and a juris doctor from Yale Law School.

Mike Froman serves as vice chairman and president, Strategic Growth for Mastercard. In that role he is responsible for growing strategic partnerships, scaling new business opportunities, and advancing the company’s efforts to partner with governments and other institutions to address major societal and economic issues.

Prior to joining Mastercard, Froman was affiliated with the Council on Foreign Relations and continues to serve as a distinguished fellow. From 2013 to 2017, Froman served as the U.S. Trade Representative, President Barack Obama’s principal advisor and negotiator on international trade and investment issues. From 2009-2013, he served at the White House as assistant to the President and deputy national security advisor for international economic affairs.

Prior to joining the Obama Administration, Froman held several executive positions at Citigroup, where he helped shape the company’s strategy in China and other emerging markets. Earlier in his career, during the Clinton Administration, he worked at the White House and the Treasury Department.

Wendy Cutler serves as vice president of the the Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI), as well as managing director of the Washington, DC institute office. In these roles, she focuses on building ASPI’s presence in Washington — strengthening its outreach as a think/do tank — and leading initiatives that address challenges related to trade and investment, as well as women’s empowerment in Asia.

Cutler joined ASPI in 2015 following an illustrious career of nearly three decades as a diplomat and negotiator in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR). Most recently she served as Acting Deputy U.S. Trade Representative, working on a range of U.S. trade negotiations and initiatives in the Asia-Pacific region. In that capacity, she was responsible for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, including bilateral negotiations with Japan. She also was the chief negotiator to the U.S.-Korea (Korus) Free Trade Agreement.

John Flower is director of the Sidwell Friends School Chinese Studies Program, a former associate professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and fellow at the East Asia Center at the University of Virginia. His scholarship includes publications on local history and folklife in China and Tibet.

At Sidwell Friends, Flower teaches courses on China and East Asian History, and he leads the “China Fieldwork” summer and semester experiential learning programs in Yunnan. His current project, the “China Folk House Retreat,” is rebuilding a Yunnan farmstead on a nature reserve in rural West Virginia to serve as a site for experiential learning, environmental sustainability and people-to-people cultural exchanges focusing on traditional agriculture, folkways and craft.

Michael Fullilove is the executive director of the Lowy Institute. He wrote its feasibility study in 2002, served as the director of its Global Issues Program from 2003 and was appointed as executive director in 2012. He has also worked as a lawyer, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, and an adviser to former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating.

Fullilove remains a Nonresident Senior Fellow at Brookings and serves on the Advisory Council of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London. Fullilove writes widely on Australian and U.S. foreign policy and global issues. He has been quoted in world-renowned publications and appears regularly on global broadcasters. He has authored, edited and co-edited several written works which have received critical acclaim. In 2019, Fullilove was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for significant service to international relations.

Robert Mandell was the U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg from 2011 to 2015. He currently serves on the boards of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Center for New American Security and Human Rights First. Prior to service as an ambassador, Mandell was the CEO of Greater Homes, which built 14,000 homes in the Central Florida area. He also served as chairman of the Florida Environmental Regulation Commission and the Orlando Expressway Authority.

Jason Matheny is founding director of Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET). Previously he was assistant director of national intelligence and director of IARPA, responsible for the development of breakthrough technologies for the U.S. intelligence community. He serves on boards and committees for the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, the National Academies, DOE, DARPA, AAAS, CSIS and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Julianne Smith is a senior advisor to the president and serves as the director of the Asia Program and the Geopolitics Program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. She is a contributing editor to Foreign Policy, where she co-edits “Shadow Government.” She is also a senior advisor at WestExec Advisors.

In 2018, Smith was awarded the Weizsäcker Fellowship from the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin where she spent a year focusing on German foreign policy and transatlantic cooperation in Asia. In 2016-2018, Smith directed the Transatlantic Security Program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). In 2012-2013, she served as the deputy national security advisor to the vice president of the United States. Before her post at the White House, she served for three years as the principal director for European and NATO policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense in the Pentagon. In 2012, she was awarded the Office of the Secretary of Defense Medal for Exceptional Public Service.

Smith has also worked at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Association of the U.S. Army on the Project on the Role of American Military Power and the British American Security Information Council. She also worked in Germany at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik as a Robert Bosch Foundation Fellow.

Philip Zelikow is the White Burkett Miller Professor of History and J. Wilson Newman Professor of Governance at the Miller Center of Public Affairs, both at the University of Virginia. His books and essays focus on critical episodes in American and world history. A former civil rights attorney and career diplomat, he has also served at all levels of American government, federal, state and local.

Zelikow’s federal service includes work on international policy in five administrations, from Reagan through Obama. He has also led bipartisan commissions, serving as the executive director of the 9/11 Commission and, before that, as executive director of the Carter-Ford commission on federal election reform.

Yichen Zhang is the chairman and CEO of CITIC Capital Holdings Limited. He founded CITIC Capital in 2002 and has led all phases of the firm’s development since then. Under his leadership, CITIC Capital has led a number of landmark deals, investing in some of China’s leading companies. He concurrently serves as the Board Chairman of McDonald's China, Harbin Pharmaceutical and Universal Medical, and he also sits on the boards of Sina Corporation, AsiaInfo, SF Express, the Russia-China Investment Fund and Cityneon.

Zhang is also a leader in political, economic and social communities. He is a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), a board member of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, executive committee member and former chairman of the China Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (CVCA), among other positions.

Yu (Ben) Meng rejoined CalPERS in January 2019 as chief investment officer (CIO). He oversees an Investment Office of nearly 400 employees and manages investment portfolios of roughly $400 billion, including the Public Employees’ Retirement Fund and affiliate funds. In 2014 Yu was the recipient of the Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching at the Haas School of Business.

He holds a master's degree in financial engineering from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, and a doctorate in civil engineering from the University of California, Davis.

Ana Swanson writes about trade and international economics for The New York Times. She previously covered the economy, trade and the Federal Reserve for The Washington Post. Before that, Ana was an editor of Foreign Policy’s South Asia Channel and the editor-in-chief of China Economic Review magazine in Shanghai.

She has a bachelor’s degree in cultural anthropology from Northwestern University, a certificate from The Hopkins-Nanjing Center and a master’s in international relations with a focus in China and international economics from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Before moving to Washington, D.C., she lived and worked in China for eight years.

Richard Verma is vice chairman and partner at The Asia Group, a leading strategic advisory firm in Washington, D.C. He previously served as the U.S. Ambassador to India from 2014 to 2017, where he led one of the largest U.S. diplomatic missions and championed historic progress in bilateral cooperation on defense, trade and clean energy.

Ambassador Verma was previously the Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs. He also served as Senior National Security Advisor to the Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and as a member of the WMD and Terrorism Commission. He is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force, and his military decorations include the Meritorious Service Medal and Air Force Commendation Medal.

Ambassador Verma is the recipient of the State Department’s Distinguished Service Award and the Chief Justice John Marshall Lifetime Achievement Award.

Meghan O’Sullivan is the Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. She is also the chair of the North American Group of the Trilateral Commission. She is an award-winning author and her third book, “Windfall: How the New Energy Abundance Upends Global Politics and Strengthens America’s Power,” was published in 2017.

O’Sullivan served as special assistant to President George W. Bush and Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan. She is on the board of United Technologies and the board of directors of the Council on Foreign Relations. She is also a member of the International Advisory Group for the British law firm, Linklaters, a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion and a senior advisor at WestExec Advisors. She is a trustee of the German Marshall Fund and the International Crisis Group, and serves on the board of The Mission Continues.

O’Sullivan was awarded the Defense Department's highest honor for civilians and, three times, the State Department's Superior Honor Award. She was a Luce Scholar in Indonesia, an Aspen Institute Fellow and a Henry Crown Fellow. She has a B.A. from Georgetown University and a masters and doctorate from Oxford University.

Renee Bowen in the Pastor Faculty Fellow and an associate professor of economics at the school and director of the Center for Commerce and Diplomacy. Her research focuses on political economy, microeconomic theory and international trade. Bowen applies dynamic game theory to study the behavior of individuals who are constrained by institutions and who have long-term strategic considerations. Her recent work examines legislative bargaining and policy experimentation.

Prior to joining UC San Diego, Bowen was an assistant professor of economics at Stanford Graduate School of Business. She has been a consultant at the World Bank, working on international trade policy for Sub-Saharan Africa, and was an investment banking analyst at J.P. Morgan Securities, working with emerging markets.

Nicholas R. Baldick is managing partner of Hilltop Public Solutions, focusing his efforts managing large-scale issue, coalition and organizing campaigns.

As a public affairs strategist, Baldick has successfully managed numerous campaigns on behalf of a number of Fortune 100 companies. These efforts have included nationwide campaigns on behalf of the country’s largest financial services firm, the world’s largest private healthcare provider and one of the world’s largest airlines. In 2010, Baldick managed the largest, most expensive issue campaign in history, when he helped a group of health care stakeholders build support for the passage of health care reform.

Baldick began his political career in 1992 on the presidential campaign of then Governor Bill Clinton. He went on to work in the Clinton White House, to run President Clinton’s Florida re-election campaign in 1996 and then serve as a strategist for Vice President Gore’s campaign in 2000. In 2003, Baldick served as the national campaign manager for Senator John Edwards’ 2004 presidential campaign. Other candidates that have relied on Baldick’s counsel include Bill de Blasio for Mayor (New York City), Steve Bullock for Governor of Montana and Chris Koster for Attorney General of Missouri.

Julian Gewirtz is an academy scholar at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Previously, he served as special advisor for international affairs at the U.S. Department of Energy, a lecturer in history at Harvard and a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is the author of a study of China’s economic reforms entitled, “Unlikely Partners: Chinese Reformers, Western Economists, and the Making of Global China,” and the forthcoming book, “A New History of the Tumult and Legacies of the 1980s in China.”

Gewirtz’s writing has appeared in Foreign Affairs, the Journal of Asian Studies, The New York Times, Politico and the Wall Street Journal, among other publications. He recently was guest editor of an issue of the magazine Logic on China and technology. Fluent in Mandarin Chinese, he graduated from Harvard College in 2013 and received his doctorate in 2018 from Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

Jerry Yang co-founded Yahoo! Inc., in 1995 and served on the board of directors until January 2012. While at Yahoo, he led several initiatives, including two of the biggest investments in the internet sector: Yahoo Japan and Alibaba Group.

Yang currently works with and invests in technology entrepreneurs through AME Cloud Ventures, his innovation investment firm. Yang serves as a director on the boards of Workday Inc., Lenovo Group and Alibaba Group, as well as on a number of his portfolio boards. He also serves on Stanford University’s board of trustees, and is a board member for the National Committee of U.S.-China Relations. Yang is a member of the Brookings China Advisory Council, the Committee of 100 and the Council on Foreign Relations.

He is widely recognized as a visionary and pioneer in the internet technology sector.

Lawrence H. Summers is the Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus of Harvard University. During the past two decades, he has served in a series of senior policy positions in Washington, DC, including the 71st Secretary of the Treasury for President Clinton, director of the National Economic Council for President Obama and Vice President of Development Economics and Chief Economist of the World Bank.

In 1983, Summers became one of the youngest individuals in recent history to be named as a tenured member of the Harvard University faculty. In 1987, Summers became the first social scientist ever to receive the annual Alan T. Waterman Award of the National Science Foundation (NSF), and in 1993 he was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal, given every two years to the outstanding American economist under the age of 40.

He is currently the Charles W. Eliot University Professor at Harvard University and the Weil Director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government at Harvard’s Kennedy School.

Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla is an internationally renowned electrical and computer engineer recognized for his seminal contributions in secure software and intelligent robot systems. As UC San Diego’s chief executive officer, Khosla has positioned the institution to define the future of the public research university by activating the institution’s first-ever strategic plan and launching the Campaign for UC San Diego, an ambitious 10-year, $2 billion endeavor aimed at transforming the university physically, intellectually and culturally. Under Khosla’s leadership, UC San Diego has expanded college access and affordability for underserved students, initiated campus-wide interdisciplinary research initiatives to foster collaboration and solve societal challenges, and strengthened university and community partnerships to drive regional impact.

Ely Ratner is the executive vice president and director of studies at CNAS, where he is a member of the executive team and responsible for managing the center’s research agenda, publications and research staff.

Ratner served as the deputy national security advisor to Vice President Joe Biden (2015-2017) and in the office of Chinese and Mongolian affairs at the U.S. Department of State (2011-2012). He previously worked in the U.S. Senate as a professional staff member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and in the office of Senator Joe Biden.

Outside of government, Ratner has worked as the Maurice R. Greenberg senior fellow for China studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, a senior fellow and deputy director of the Asia-Pacific security program at CNAS and as an associate political scientist at the RAND Corporation.

Ratner received his B.A. from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa. He earned his Ph.D. in political science from UC Berkeley.

Sharon Yuan is the managing partner and general counsel at The Asia Group, a strategic consulting and capital advisory firm in Washington, D.C., where she draws on almost 20 years of experience as a senior policymaker and private sector attorney to advise large corporate clients on China market access and expansion strategies.

Prior to joining the firm, Yuan was at the U.S. Department of the Treasury as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Trade and Investment Policy (2009-2015), and concurrently as the Executive Secretary and Senior Coordinator for China Affairs and the Strategic and Economic Dialogue (2012 to 2015). Additionally, she was an attorney in the International Trade & Dispute Resolution group at Sidley Austin (2003-2009) and on the National Economic Council in the White House (1998-2000).

Yuan is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, and one of four U.S. members on the roster of arbitrators for the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes. She received a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law and a B.A. in economics from UC Berkeley.

Mira Rapp-Hooper is the Stephen A. Schwarzman senior fellow for Asia studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. She is also a senior fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center. At CFR, Rapp-Hooper’s work explores national security and strategy issues in Asia, including great power competition, alliances, nuclear issues and territorial disputes; the implications of China’s rise for the international order; and the future of American strategy toward Asia and China.

Rapp-Hooper’s first book, “Shields of the Republic: The History and Hereafter of America’s Alliances,” is forthcoming with Harvard University Press. Her second, “The Day After Trump: The Future of American Strategy and the International Order,” co-authored with Rebecca Lissner, is forthcoming with Yale.

Graham Allison is the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at Harvard University where he has taught for five decades. Allison is a leading analyst of national security with special interests in nuclear weapons, Russia, China and decision-making. Allison was the founding dean of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and until 2017, served as director of its Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs which is ranked the “#1 University Affiliated Think Tank” in the world.

As Assistant Secretary of Defense in the first Clinton Administration, Allison received the Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service for “reshaping relations with Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan to reduce the former Soviet nuclear arsenal.”

Allison has authored multiple national and international bestseller books, including his latest: “Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?”

Max Baucus was nominated by President Barack Obama in 2014 to be ambassador of the U.S. to the People’s Republic of China. He served as ambassador from 2014 until 2017. Baucus served in the U.S. Senate from 1978 to 2014 and was Montana’s longest serving senator, with the third longest tenure in the U.S. Senate.

While in the senate, Baucus was chairman and ranking member of the Senate Committee on Finance. In that role, he served as the chief architect of the Affordable Health Care Act (ACA). He also led the passage and enactment of free trade agreements with 11 countries: Australia, Bahrain, Jordan, Chile, Colombia, Morocco, Oman, Panama, Peru, Singapore and South Korea. He also was deeply involved in orchestrating the congressional approval of permanent normal trade relations with China in 2000 and in facilitating China’s entrance into the World Trade Organization in 2001.

Baucus formed Baucus Group LLC, with his wife, Melodee Hanes, which provides consulting services to American and Chinese businesses.

Jessica Chen Weiss is an associate professor of government at Cornell University. She also serves as the China/Asia political science editor at the Washington Post Monkey Cage blog and as a nonresident senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Chen Weiss is the author of “Powerful Patriots: Nationalist Protest in China’s Foreign Relations.” Her research appears in International Organization, China Quarterly, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Security Studies, Journal of Contemporary China and Review of International Political Economy, as well as in The New York Times, Foreign Affairs and Washington Quarterly.

Chen Weiss was previously an assistant professor at Yale University. She received her Ph.D. from UC San Diego in 2008, where her dissertation won the 2009 American Political Science Association Award for best dissertation in international relations, law and politics. Weiss is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Li Lu is the founder and chairman of Himalaya Capital, a multi-billion-dollar investment firm that primarily focuses on long-term investment opportunities in Asia. He has run the firm’s principal fund, Himalaya Capital Investors, LP, continuously since 1998.

Li currently serves as a member of the board of trustees of Columbia University and a member of the board of trustees of California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and Committee 100. He is featured in the Family of Voices, a part of the ongoing 20-year exhibition “Many Voices, One Nation,” at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.

Xue Lan is the current dean of Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University. From 2008 to 2018, Xue served as dean of the School of Public Policy and Management at Tsinghua University.

Xue is also serves as the current executive vice president of the Development Research Academy for the 21st Century, director of the China Institute for Science and Technology Policy at Tsinghua University, an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University and a nonresident senior fellow of the Brookings Institution. He is noted for both his positions on many research and educational councils as well as his work in science, technology and innovation policy. Xue taught at George Washington University until 2006, when he started teaching at Tsinghua University.

Admiral Cecil D. Haney completed 38 years of distinguished service in the United States Navy before retiring in 2017. As a four-star Admiral, this career submariner commanded the U.S. Strategic Command responsible for strategic capabilities involving nuclear weapons, missile defense, space and cyberspace and the U.S. Pacific Fleet responsible for the manning, operations and maintenance of the U.S. Navy fleet located in the Pacific and Indian oceans.

Haney now serves on the John Hopkins University Applied Physics Board of Managers, the Naval Studies Board, the Center for a New American Security Board of Directors, the Senior Advisory Council for Aerospace’s Center for Space Policy and Strategy, the General Dynamics Board of Directors and the Systems Planning and Analysis Inc. Board of Directors. Working with the Institute for Defense Analysis, he also serves as a mentor for the Bush Fellows Research Study Team that includes distinguished university faculty and staff scientists in support of the Secretary of Defense’s Office of Basic Research.

Xiang Bing is the founding dean and professor of China business and globalization at Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB). Prior to joining CKGSB, Xiang was a professor at Peking University’s Guanghua School of Management, where he pioneered the school’s executive MBA program. He was also one of the seven founding faculty members of China Europe International Business School in Shanghai.

Xiang’s research interests include reform of state-owned enterprises, innovation and the role of the private sector in China. He is a leading authority on China business, innovations in China, globalization of Chinese companies, China’s development models and global implications of China’s transformation. His writings and cases on these subjects are considered among the most influential in China.

Xiang has served as a keynote speaker at many influential forums and conferences around the world, including the World Economic Forum. He has offered training to the global leadership team of companies such as China Mobile, China Telecom, Duty Free Shop, Electricite De France, Ernst & Young, Renault Nissan Group and Yokohama Tire. He has also trained senior executives of companies in China and globally.