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.

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.

Lael Brainard took office as a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in 2014. Prior to her appointment, she served as undersecretary of the U.S. Department of Treasury (2010-2013) and counselor to the Secretary of the Treasury (2009). During this time, she was the U.S. Representative to the G-20 Finance Deputies and G-7 Deputies and was a member of the Financial Stability Board. She received the Alexander Hamilton Award for her service.

Brainard was vice president and the founding director of the Global Economy and Development Program and held the Bernard L. Schwartz Chair at the Brookings Institution (2001-2008), where she built a new research program to address global economic challenges.

Brainard served as the deputy national economic adviser and deputy assistant to President Bill Clinton. She also served as President Clinton's personal representative to the G-7/G-8. Previously, she worked in management consulting at McKinsey & Company.

Brainard was a professor of applied economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management (1990-1996). She has published numerous articles on a variety of economic topics and is the editor or co-editor of several books. She received a B.A. with university honors from Wesleyan University. She received an M.S. and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University, where she was awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship. She is also the recipient of a White House Fellowship.

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.

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.

Chen Li is an associate professor and director of international security and strategy program at the School of International Studies at Renmin University of China, where he teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses on Asia-Pacific security, international history and strategic studies.

Chen's research interest includes modern military and strategic history, international history, contemporary military strategy, and China-U.S. military security relations, on which he has published scholarly articles in leading journals including the Journal of Strategic Studies as well as policy briefings. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and master degrees from the London School of Economics Department of International History and Peking University School of International Studies.

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.

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.

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 2019 Lionel Gelber Prize for the best non-fiction book in English on foreign affairs. She is also the author of the award-winning “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.”

She has published articles in policy and scholarly journals. 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 and the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. She received her B.A. with honors from Swarthmore College, her A.M. from Stanford University and her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. In 2008, she received an honorary doctor of laws degree from Vermont Law School.

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. He is also the director of the Paul Tsai China Center. Gewirtz teaches and writes in various legal and policy fields, including constitutional law, federal courts, antidiscrimination law, law and literature, Chinese law and American foreign policy.

Through the center, Gewirtz is currently co-leading a Track II Dialogue on U.S.-China Relations involving prominent former government officials from both countries.

In 2015, Gewirtz was named to Foreign Policy magazine’s Pacific Power Index, a list of “50 people shaping the future of the U.S.-China relationship.” Gewirtz was a part of President Bill Clinton's administration (1997–1998) and 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 October 1997 Summit.

Before joining the Yale Law School faculty, Gewirtz served as a law clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court and practiced law in Washington, D.C. at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering and the Center for Law and Social Policy. He received his B.A. degree summa cum laude from Columbia University and law degree from Yale University.

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.

Jimmy Goodrich is vice president for global policy at SIA. In this role, he works closely with SIA member companies, the Administration, Congress, domestic and international stakeholders and foreign government officials to advance all aspects of SIA’s international policy agenda. Goodrich is also an Executive Committee member of the United States Information Technology Office (USITO), representing SIA in his capacity.

Goodrich has more than a decade of experience working with Chinese and global stakeholders on technology policy issues. He most recently served as director of Global Policy at the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI), where he worked on a wide range of China and Asia-Pacific technology policy issues relating to cyber security, trade, standards and Internet governance. Before joining ITI, he was the director for Greater China Government Affairs at Cisco Systems in Beijing. He also has held positions at APCO Worldwide’s Beijing office, a public affairs consultancy, and USITO, which represents U.S. information technology firms in China.

Goodrich has a bachelor’s degree in comparative politics and East Asian studies from Ohio University. He lived in China for more than seven years and is fluent in Mandarin.

Michael Green is senior vice president for Asia and Japan Chair at CSIS and director of Asian Studies and Chair in Modern and Contemporary Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

He previously served in government as director for Asian Affairs and then special assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and senior director for Asian Affairs on the staff of the National Security Council during the George W. Bush administration.

He is the author of numerous books and articles on U.S.-Asia relations, including most recently “By More than Providence: Grand Strategy and American Power in the Asia Pacific since 1783.” He is a trustee of The Asia Foundation, a senior advisor to The Asia Group and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He holds a black belt in Iaido (sword) and has won world championship prizes on the highland bagpipes. He can be followed on the podcast The Asia Chessboard.

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.

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.

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.

David Ignatius writes a twice-a-week foreign affairs column. Ignatius has also written eight spy novels: “Bloodmoney” (2011), “The Increment” (2009), “Body of Lies ” (2007), “The Sun King” (1999), “A Firing Offense” (1997), “The Bank of Fear” (1994), “SIRO” (1991) and “Agents of Innocence” (1987). Body of Lies was made into a 2008 film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe.

Ignatius joined The Post in 1986 as editor of its Sunday Outlook section. In 1990, he became foreign editor, and in 1993, assistant managing editor for business news. He began writing his column in 1998 and continued even during a three-year stint as executive editor of the International Herald Tribune in Paris. Earlier in his career, Ignatius was a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, covering at various times the steel industry, the Justice Department, the CIA, the Senate, the Middle East and the State Department.

Ignatius grew up in Washington, D.C., and studied political theory at Harvard College and economics at Kings College, Cambridge.

Oriana Skylar Mastro is an assistant professor of security studies at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University where her research focuses on Chinese military and security policy, Asia-Pacific security issues, war termination and coercive diplomacy.

Mastro is also a 2017-2019 Jeane Kirkpatrick Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) where she is working on a book about China's challenge to U.S. primacy. Mastro continues to serve in the United States Air Force Reserve for which she works as a Senior China Analyst at the Pentagon. For her contributions to U.S. strategy in Asia, she won the Individual Reservist of the Year Award in 2016.

She has published widely, including in Foreign Affairs, International Security, International Studies Review, Journal of Strategic Studies, The Washington Quarterly, The National Interest, Survival and Asian Security, and is the author of “The Costs of Conversation: Obstacles to Peace Talks in Wartime.”

Mastro holds a B.A. in East Asian Studies from Stanford University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in politics from Princeton University. Her publications and other commentary can be found on twitter @osmastro and www.orianaskylarmastro.com.

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).

Yu (Ben) Meng is chief investment officer for CalPERS, overseeing an Investment Office of nearly 400 employees and is responsible for investment policies, risk management, corporate governance standards, and environmental, social, and governance strategies. He implements the asset allocation set by the CalPERS Board of Administration and manages a $360 billion investment portfolio comprised of public and private investments.

Meng returned to CalPERS after serving as the deputy CIO for over three years at the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE). Prior to his time at SAFE, he served at CalPERS for seven years with his last role as the investment director of Asset Allocation.

Before joining CalPERS in 2008, Meng worked at Barclays Global Investors, Lehman Brothers, and Morgan Stanley. He also serves as a member of the Future of Finance Advisory Council, and is an associate editor for the Journal of Investment Management. In 2014, Meng was the recipient of the Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching at the Haas School of Business.

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

Ellen Nakashima is a national security reporter for The Washington Post and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. Her beat has ranged across cyber, surveillance and intelligence issues as well as focused on the U.S.’ response to challenges from its strategic adversaries, China and Russia. She has most recently written about the Chinese tech giant Huawei, its efforts to dominate the 5G market, and related issues. In 2018, she and her colleagues won a Pulitzer for coverage of Russia’s efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, and of the investigation into potential coordination between Trump associates and Moscow. In 2014, she was part of a team awarded a Pulitzer for reporting on the hidden scope of National Security Agency surveillance and its policy implications.

Since joining The Post in 1995, Nakashima also has served as a Southeast Asia correspondent, covering Islamic militant networks, the Indian Ocean tsunami and the SARS outbreak. She has reported on technology and privacy, the White House and Virginia politics. She graduated from UC Berkeley and has a master’s degree in international journalism from The City University in London.

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 $42 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.

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.

Meghan O’Sullivan is an educator, a former policymaker and an award-winning author. She is the Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and the director of the Geopolitics of Energy Project there. She is also the chair of the North American Group of the Trilateral Commission.

O’Sullivan served as special assistant to the president and Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan under President George W. Bush; she spent two years in total living in Iraq. She also was the vice chair of the 2013 All Party Talks in Northern Ireland.

O’Sullivan serves on the board of United Technologies and is a board member/trustee of the Council on Foreign Relations, the German Marshall Fund and the International Crisis Group. She has been awarded the Defense Department's highest honor for civilians, the Distinguished Public Service Medal, and three times been awarded the State Department's Superior Honor Award. Her award-winning third book is “Windfall: How the New Energy Abundance Upends Global Politics and Strengthens America’s Power.” O’Sullivan earned a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University, a masters of science in economics and a doctorate in politics from Oxford University.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Donald Rosenberg is executive vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary of Qualcomm Incorporated and is a member of the company’s Executive Committee. As chief legal officer, he is responsible for overseeing Qualcomm’s worldwide legal affairs, including litigation, intellectual property and corporate matters.

Rosenberg previously served as senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary of Apple, Inc. Prior to that he was senior vice president and general counsel at IBM. He has regularly engaged with high ranking officials worldwide on significant policy issues, with a particular focus on Asia and the European Union.

Rosenberg is a board member of NuVasive, Inc. where he currently serves as lead director. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the International Advisory Board at the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy and the China Leadership Board for the 21st Century China Center. He has served as an adjunct professor of law at Pace University School of Law, where he taught courses in intellectual property and antitrust law.

Rosenberg received a B.S. in mathematics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and a J.D. from St. John’s University School of Law.

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.

Kori Schake is the deputy director-general of the International Institute for Strategic Studies. She is a contributing editor at The Atlantic, the author of “Safe Passage: The Transition from British to American Hegemony” and editor of “Warriors and Citizens: American Views of Our Military” with Jim Mattis.

She has worked as director for defense strategy and requirements on the National Security Council staff, as deputy director of policy planning in the State Department, and in both the military and civilian staff in the Pentagon. In 2008, she was a senior policy advisor on the McCain-Palin presidential campaign. Schake teaches in War Studies at King's College London and has previously taught at Stanford University, the United States Military Academy, the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and the University of Maryland.

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.

Michael Schiffer is senior advisor and counselor on the Democratic Staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. From 2009 to 2012, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asia in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs.

Before joining the Department of Defense he was a program officer at the Stanley Foundation, responsible for the Foundation`s Asia programs as well as a range of other U.S. national and global security issues and in 2004-2005 was a Council on Foreign Relations Hitachi International Affairs Fellow in Japan.

From 1995 to 2004, he worked on the staff of U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), including as her senior national security adviser and legislative director. Prior to that, he was director of international security programs at New York University's Center for War, Peace, and the News Media. Schiffer received his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University and graduate degrees from the London School of Economics and New York University.

Victor Shih is Ho Miu Lam Chair Professor in China and Pacific Relations at the School and specializes in China. His most recent book is “Factions and Finance in China: Elite Conflict and Inflation.” He is also editor to a forthcoming book “Economic Shocks and Authoritarian Stability: Duration, Institutions and Financial Conditions.”

He is the author of numerous articles appearing in academic and business journals, including The American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Politics and The Wall Street Journal. Shih served as principal in The Carlyle Group’s global market strategy group and continues to advise the financial community on China related issues. He is currently working on a book manuscript on elite coalition strategies under Mao and Xi, as well as several papers using quantitative data to analyze the Chinese political elite.

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.

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.

Jisi Wang is a professor in the School of International Studies and president of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies, Peking University. He is honorary president of the Chinese Association for American Studies, and was a member of the Foreign Policy Advisory Committee of China’s Foreign Ministry (2008-2016).

After working as a laborer in the Chinese countryside, Wang entered Peking University and obtained an M.A. degree. He taught in Peking University’s Department of International Politics (1983-91), and then served as director of the Institute of American Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences until 2005. Wang served as dean of the School of International Studies at Peking University (2005-2013). He was concurrently director of the Institute of International Strategic Studies of the Central Party School of the Communist Party of China (2001-2009).

Wang was a visiting fellow or professor at Oxford University, UC Berkeley, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and Claremont McKenna College. Wang’s scholarly interests cover U.S. foreign policy, China’s foreign relations, Asian security and global politics in general. He has published numerous works in these fields.

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.

Robert Work is president and owner of TeamWork, and was the thirty-second Deputy Secretary of Defense, serving for three Secretaries of Defense (2014-2017). He previously served as Under Secretary of the Navy (2009-2013). He spent 27 years on active duty in the United States Marine Corps, retiring as a Colonel in 2001.

He subsequently was a senior fellow and vice president and director of studies at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, and chief executive officer for the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). He is now back at CNAS as senior counselor for Defense.

Work is also a principal at WestExec Advisors, senior counselor at Telemus Group, LLC, a strategic consulting firm specializing in defense issues, and senior fellow at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. He is on several board of directors, including the Raytheon Corporation, and on the boards of advisors for several small technology firms. He holds a B.S. from the University of Illinois; an M.S. from the University of Southern California; an M.S. from the Naval Postgraduate School; and an M.I.P.P. from the Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies.

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.

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.”

Wenzhong Zhang is a leading Chinese entrepreneur and founding chairman of Wumart/Dmall. He has been dedicated to digital retail, online and offline integration and retail business cooperation and development.

Zhang founded Wumart, China’s first modern supermarket in Beijing and the largest supermarket chain in north China with over 1,300 stores and annual sales over RMB 50 billion ($7.5 billion). He also founded the e-commerce company Dmall, China’s largest O2O fresh grocery retail platform with 70 million registered users and 12 million monthly active users, collaborating with 60+ large retailers and 8,000+ brick-and-mortar stores in China.

Zhang is known for a rare full exoneration of wrongful conviction by China’s Supreme Court on May 31, 2018. His integrity has been proved and hailed nationwide. The Court’s ruling marked a significant milestone in the country’s rule of law.

Honors & Awards Since 2018: Chinese Retail Businessman of the Year (2017-2018), Top Ten Economic Persons of the Year 2018, Top Ten Persons of Private Sector Economic News of 2018, Top Ten Persons of Chinese Economic News of 2018 and Public Interest Person of the Year. He received his Ph.D. from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and is a postdoctoral alumnus of Stanford School of Engineering.

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.

Tantum Collins is principal for Research and Strategy at DeepMind and a research fellow at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET). In 2014, together with General (Ret.) Stanley McChrystal, he co-authored the New York Times bestseller “Team of Teams,” which examines the restructuring of the Joint Special Operations Command during the fight against Al Qaeda in Iraq.

He received a B.A. in global affairs from Yale University and, as a Marshall Scholar, earned an MPhil in international relations and politics from the University of Cambridge and an MSc in Philosophy of Science from the London School of Economics. He is proficient in Mandarin.

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.

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.

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).

James Adams is a globally recognized leader, entrepreneur and innovator in business, journalism and advisory services with over 40 years of experience. He was the managing editor at The London Sunday Times, where he led an innovative effort to streamline operations. He increased coverage and expertise in the paper on a range of international matters, including Asia where their reporting of the handover in Hong Kong and social unrest in China received numerous awards.

He then served as founder and CEO of iDEFENSE, the first cyber intelligence business that focused exclusively on emerging threats online. Adams then formed and led the Ashland Institute for Strategic Studies that pioneered understanding of new arenas of warfare in special operations and cyber. He served as the vice president for Intelligence at Applied Minds and as a senior advisor at the Center for a New American Security. He founded BeeAudio, a company that has revolutionized how books are transformed to audio.

In addition to his work in business and advisory services, he is the author of 18 bestselling books on intelligence, terrorism, cyber and new forms of modern warfare. His books have consistently made bestseller lists across the world. His latest book is "Artificial Intelligence - Confronting the Revolution."

Adams has served as a member of the CIA’s Strategic Advisory Group. He is a former board member of the National Security Agency and founding chairman of NSA’s Technology Oversight Panel. In these capacities, he has advised several critical government efforts to address emerging threats confronting America and the west.

Peter Martin covers Chinese politics and foreign policy for Bloomberg News in Beijing. He has written extensively on escalating tensions in the U.S.-China relationship and reported from China's border with North Korea and its far-western region of Xinjiang.

Martin previously worked for the consultancy APCO Worldwide in Beijing, New Delhi and Washington, where he analyzed politics for multinational companies. In Washington, he served as chief of staff to the company's global CEO.

Martin’s writing has been published by outlets including Foreign Affairs, the National Interest, the Guardian, the Jamestown China Brief, the Diplomat and the Christian Science Monitor. He has been quoted as a commentator by the New York Times, Bloomberg, Quartz and other publications.

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.

Piper Lounsbury Stover is CEO and co-founder of BINC Technologies, LLC, an early-stage technology company based in New York creating transformational advances for the biotechnology, pharmaceutical and new materials industries. She is also strategy advisor of Daptics.ai, an artificial intelligence/machine learning software company located in San Francisco.

Stover has delivered operational guidance and support to both early-stage and multinational companies in high tech sectors working for over 20 years. Previously, she was a corporate executive director for United Technologies (NYSE: UTX) and head of its parent operation in China, where she led teams to create and implement forward-looking strategies to capture large commercial and public infrastructure projects. She has also worked at The Boeing Company, China Greentech Initiative (an international clean technology start-up company acquired by The Paulson Institute) and the U.S.-China Business Council, where she served as vice president of China Operations.

After spending several years in China, Stover returned to the U.S. in 2017 where she advised technology start-ups in the Central New York area. She is a graduate of Middlebury College, received her MBA from Norwich University, attended INSEAD in France and is highly proficient in Mandarin. She serves on the board of the American Mandarin Society and is a member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations.