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Steve Yates is a former deputy national security advisor to the Vice President, The Honorable Steve Yates serves as Senior Research Fellow for China and National Security Policy at The Heritage Foundation after two decades as an analyst and practitioner … Continued

Steven Barnett is an experienced economist with over 25 years at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), specializing in macroeconomic analysis, international financial diplomacy, and China’s economy. Proven leader in managing high-profile teams, influencing policy discussions, and representing the IMF publicly. … Continued

• Bilingual writer with critically received books in both China and the West
• Producer of some of the most watched documentaries about China seen on mainstream Western televisions
• Communicator dedicated to making China more understandable to the world, and vice versa

Susan A. Thornton is a retired senior U.S. diplomat with almost three decades of experience with the U.S. State Department in Eurasia and East Asia.  She is currently a Senior Fellow and Visiting Lecturer in Law at the Yale University … Continued

• Economics Professor at Renmin University’s School of Economics in Beijing
• Senior Fellow of the Brooking Institution Foreign Policy program and Acting Director of Tsinghua-Brookings Center
• Expert in Chinese agricultural development and economics

• Associate Professor of Political Science and member of Security Studies Program at MIT
• An expert on Asian policy studies and international defense
• Rhodes Scholar

• A dynamic speaker with expertise in coaching, training and consulting multinational corporate clients on leadership, collaborative teamwork and cross cultural communication
• An experienced actor, director, playwright and media personality

• Founder & Principal of Philanthropic Impact (π)
• Author of “The End of CSR” due in Autumn 2018
• Former Head of Communications and Head of Corporate Social Responsibility, Christie’s, the world leading art business
• Former Executive Director of Public Relations, The New York Times Company
• Former Director of International Public Affairs, American Express

Tong Zhao is a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, working for both the Nuclear Policy Program and Carnegie China. Formerly based in Beijing, he now conducts research in Washington on strategic security issues, such as nuclear … Continued

• Founder and Chairman of the board of Horizon Research Consultancy Group, China’s leading public opinion and polling organization
• President of the Beijing Consulting Association
• Vice President for China Marketing Research Association
• Representative of the Association of Management Consulting Firms in China